The Age-Old Struggle against the Antivaccinationists (NEJM)
“[A]ntivaccinationists have done significant harm to the public health. … [S]ociety must recognize that science is not a democracy in which the side with the most votes or the loudest voices gets to decide what is right.”
In Defense of the Guilty, Ambivalent, Preoccupied Western Mom (WSJ)
WSJ’s reply to this debate: “The difference between … proud Chinese mothers and ambivalent Western ones—is that I felt guilty about having berated my daughter for failing to deliver the report card I expected.”
Cancer: The new normal? (Guardian)
Is it time we stopped fighting cancer and learned to live with it? Edited extract from Siddhartha Mukherjee’s “The Emperor Of All Maladies: A Biography Of Cancer”
‘If only it could be this simple for the rest of us’ (Telegraph)
A stage four cancer patient on Michael Douglas: “Perhaps the movie industry requires over-confidence in stars who are about to become an insurance risk for their next film, but cancer is rarely so easily vanquished.”
Taking regular breaks from desk ‘good for the heart’ (BBC)
Even breaks as short as a minute. Effects waist size, too
As House Republicans begin health-care repeal effort, no clear plan has emerged (Wash Post)
Republicans’ previous proposals were going nowhere. “The challenge now is, what is the bill? What is the idea?”
Israel Tests on Worm Called Crucial in Iran Nuclear Delay (NYT)
Stuxnet. What’s new in this excellent job of reporting is more definitive links to the US and Israel. The potential of this type of cybercrime is both fascinating and frightening.
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