Stories below the fold

Vaccine paranoia kills kids.
A couple days after I posted about the problem HERE, StrategyPage provides more details here.

related item: Is the internet fueling paranoia?
maybe, but we were pretty paranoid in the 1950's
and Professor Anderson in her course on Germany history does point out how the technology of the printing press fueled religious hatred: Printers found that the most radical pamphlets sold more so they made more money...some printers even published screeds from both sides. The result was the religious wars in Germany.

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Strategypage also has a summary of Philippine war news HERE.

but they have it wrong: it's BIFF, not BILF...as in the BIFF for the MILF.

and yes, you can buy it on a teeshirt HERE at Zazzle.

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Factoid of the day BIFF in the UK means a unix mail program... more HERE.

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Does eating low fat yogurt when pregnant increase your kid's chance of allergies?
Actually the study was trying to prove evil milk caused more allergies, but they only found an increase in yogurt eaters, making one think that maybe it was a selection error (yogurt eating is more common in health conscious and in those with lactase deficiency).

related item: Yuck. Yogurt Sodapop.
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autism and GI problems may be related...

uh, which autisitc kids? there were only 22 in the study, and they didn't say if it was fragile X or another genetic problem as the cause.
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