12 years later and some real progress is finally being made on this stupid crap.
A prominent British medical journal on Tuesday retracted a 1998 research paper that set off a sharp decline in vaccinations in Britain after the paper’s lead author suggested that vaccines could cause autism.
Why did he do it? Possibly to make himself [...]
Researcher Who Sparked the Vaccine/Autism Scare “Acted Unethically”
The MMR/autism hypothesis took off in 1998 with the publication of a study of 12 autistic children by Canadian gastroenterologist Andrew Wakefield. Wakefield’s study found traces of the measles virus in the guts of children he tested. He concluded that the virus derived from the MMR vaccination, and [...]
How could these guys release this information without providing a video of the mice floating around? Come on guys! Make with the video pronto! I want to see the dizzy mouse kicking the air and spinning around.
The researchers first levitated a young mouse, just three-week-old and weighing 10 grams. It appeared agitated and disoriented, seemingly [...]
The doctor that did the study that supposedly established a link between vaccinations and autism fudged the research data to make the link. So says The Sunday Times.
Some of the important bits:
In most of the 12 cases, the children’s ailments as described in The Lancet were different from their hospital and GP records. Although the [...]
That really bright thing at the top is the shuttle Endeavour after launch on the 14th. I wish I could be an astronaut, that would be the most seriously awesome job ever.
This and tons more cool astronomy pics at NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day
Some computer science nerds are all excited about some new supercomputers finally breaking 1 petaflop… The Folding@Home distributed supercomputer has been doing well over that for more than a year now. In fact, right now it’s achieving performance just over an unthinkable 4 petaflops. Thanks in no small part to the Playstation 3 and Nvidia [...]
(This is a repost from the archives, it’s still important and I will be reposting it from time to time.)
If you’re not, you should be. I am. On my quad core desktop, on my dual core laptop, and on my PS3. All of them run 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. All of [...]
A Stirling engine powered fan and heatsink for a motherboard chipset you say? Now that is hardcore nerd stuff right there.
The “Air Power Cooler” transfers the chipset heat into air momentum, when the air becomes hot, the air will expand then push the fan to rotate and In doing so cooling the heatsink immediately. After [...]
Umm. What?
And these are probably the same people that say religious people believe in some weird crap.