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    Why I've been Yelling about Yemen

    Why I've been Yelling about Yemen

    Two Numbers from Puerto Rico that We should All Note

    Two Numbers from Puerto Rico that We should All Note

    Two Anti-Vaccine Stories from Mainstream Sources have been Walked Back.  It’s Already too Late.

    Two Anti-Vaccine Stories from Mainstream Sources have been Walked Back. It’s Already too Late.

    The Illusion of Controversy

    The Illusion of Controversy

    Vaccines: How do We Really Know What Happens?

    Vaccines: How do We Really Know What Happens?

    “All of this has Happened Before; All of this will Happen Again”

    “All of this has Happened Before; All of this will Happen Again”

    Though I was never a “Matrix” fan, this line always stayed with me. A contemporary version of “those who don’t learn history are doomed to repeat it”, it strikes a chord of being universally true. It certainly is for emerging diseases anyway, as evidenced by this 17th century painting: "Plague of London", 1665 [Granger] This is “Plague of London”, and I first saw it when I was 20 years old. It hangs in my office to this day. The heading, “Lord Have mercy on London”, refle
    Foreshadows from the Science Fair

    Foreshadows from the Science Fair

    Two important things will happen this April (though I concede only one of them is important outside of our household): my eldest son will participate in his first science fair, and the anniversary of the Reagan Administration's first public acknowledgement of HIV and AIDSwill occur. Those two things seem completely unrelated, but in my world they are very tightly linked. My elementary school science fair project was originally titled "Germs", until my mother corrected me on