Archive for August 15th, 2009

Swine Flu Shots: Learning From History

Saturday, August 15th, 2009

I was in high school in 1976, during the last swine flu panic. The vaccination program was a fiasco. (President Ford at least practiced what he preached, taking a shot himself at a public ceremony.) The (London) Daily Mail reports that the British (whose health care system ...

Fascinating Brouhaha

Saturday, August 15th, 2009

Our recent post "Winds of controversy" has created and interesting stir.  It leads to some interesting observations.  People get in a tizzy over the authorship of a series of books and align themselves with great passion.  They passionately disagree with (some might say attack) those of opposing viewpoints.  They invest ...