Symphony of Science - ‘We Are All Connected’ (ft. Sagan, Feynman, deGrasse Tyson & Bill Nye) (via melodysheep)
Another sciencey autotune… this time featuring 4 amazing thinkers (6 if you include the excerpts from the Eames’ Powers of Ten).
"An Epidemic of Fear." Wired takes on the anti-vax movement | MetaFilter
“Wired profiles pediatrician Paul Offit, co-creator of the RotaTeq rotavirus vaccine and a primary target of the anti-vaccination movement. Dr. Offit published a book,“Autism’s False Prophets” in 2008 but didn’t tour, because he had received too many death threats.”
I want you to really think about that last bit. Death threats. Think about what this guy has done for the world, and think about where we, as a society, have gotten to by allowing our strongly held beliefs to be so important that we believe the justify threats and even actions of death and violence.
I linked to the MeFi post rather than the wired article because there are a lot of good links showing how bad this shit has gotten.
MeFi: "An Epidemic of Fear." Wired takes on the anti-vax movement
Wired profiles pediatrician Paul Offit, co-creator of the RotaTeq rotavirus vaccine and a primary target of the anti-vaccination movement. Dr. Offit published a book,“Autism’s False…
