HPV is a terrible vaccine. There is no clear evidence it works and there are large numbers of reports coming in of tragic reactions. For a different perspective see what this former FDA doc has had to say on the same topic http://healthjournalclub.com/gardasil-is-a-bad-idea/ http://healthjournalclub.com/gardasil-is-a-bad-idea-part-ii/ http://healthjournalclub.com/don%E2%80%99t-vaccinated-pregnant/

HPV is a terrible vaccine. There is no clear evidence it works and there are large numbers of reports coming in of tragic reactions. For a different perspective see what this former FDA doc has had to say on the same topic http://healthjournalclub.com/gardasil-is-a-bad-id... http://healthjournalclub.com/gardasil-is-a-bad-id... http://healthjournalclub.com/don%E2%80%99t-vaccin...

HPV is a terrible vaccine. There is no clear evidence it works and there are large numbers of reports coming in of tragic reactions. For a different perspective see what this former FDA doc has had to say on the same topic http://healthjournalclub.com/gardasil-is-a-bad-id... http://healthjournalclub.com/gardasil-is-a-bad-id... http://healthjournalclub.com/don%E2%80%99t-vaccin...

Here is a former FDA doctor
http:healthjournalclub.com?p=987
saying pregnant women should NEVER get the flu shot

There’s an interesting post over at the Health Journal Club that makes the case that people should just not eat anything that wasn’t a food 100 years ago. Gets rid of the aspartame, bleached GM flour, high fructose corn syrup garbage they try to pass off as food these days. If interested you can read on it here,
http://healthjournalclub.blogspot.com/2010/01/100...

Another article I was reading on this estimates that privately held Magic Jack is already larger than Vonage. If this new thing works well and they can't find a handle to sue him back to the stone age I say this guy owns telephony in ten years time, alright I've given myself some wiggle room with "owns" -currently he has 3 million subscribers I'll say 300 million in ten years if he's not stopped. Phone service is moving to the internet and this guy is charging 20 bucks a year. One more caveat, I've never used it, so I really have no idea what I'm talking about, but I'll still rant. I just wish he would make a linux compatible device.

Paul
http://healthjournalclub.blogspot.com/

What is the definition of global temperature? If one postulates global warming one needs to know what global temperature is. I remember a couple years back when I became quite suspicious of Global warming when Al Gore wouldn’t shut his yap about it that I tried to ask this question on a different site and was referred to as a mass murderer for trying to define terms. I had hoped for a discussion of different temperature data sets, the understanding that these data sets are only a small sample of the Earth’s temperature at any one time, the limitations, precision and accuracy of the data, how the methodology for sampling temperature may have altered over years, decades, centuries.

Never got that far of course, but even saying one knows global temperature with any degree of accuracy needs to be demonstrated. From there can one determine with any confidence, given changes in methodology, past trends in temperature? From there can one make predictive models of temperature change (and have they been confirmed!!) especially on the scale of decades and centuries, as this seems to be the idea underlying much of “the sky is falling, the sky is falling … give us your money” political discourse of late. If one ever confirmed that future temperature trends were accurately being predicted, would one have any confidence that they understood the underlying causes and from there the necessary changes (ie the “give us your money” part). Funny that the solution proffered to a postulated future trend in global temperature is an attempt at man-made global cooling.

Finally, one should recognize when surrogates are being used in place of actual temperature readings, i.e. tree ring data might reflect not just temperature but for instance CO2 concentration, coral reefs, local predator populations, ice cover, ocean salinity and ice particulate content etc, etc.

I would think given the complexity of the climate the last thing anyone would want is some global treaty to attempt anthropogenic climate change.

http://healthjournalclub.blogspot.com/

What is the definition of global temperature? If one postulates global warming one needs to know what global temperature is. I remember a couple years back when I became quite suspicious of Global warming when Al Gore wouldn’t shut his yap about it that I tried to ask this question on a different site and was referred to as a mass murderer for trying to define terms. I had hoped for a discussion of different temperature data sets, the understanding that these data sets are only a small sample of the Earth’s temperature at any one time, the limitations, precision and accuracy of the data, how the methodology for sampling temperature may have altered over years, decades, centuries.

Never got that far of course, but even saying one knows global temperature with any degree of accuracy needs to be demonstrated. From there can one determine with any confidence, given changes in methodology, past trends in temperature? From there can one make predictive models of temperature change (and have they been confirmed!!) especially on the scale of decades and centuries, as this seems to be the idea underlying much of “the sky is falling, the sky is falling … give us your money” political discourse of late. If one ever confirmed that future temperature trends were accurately being predicted, would one have any confidence that they understood the underlying causes and from there the necessary changes (ie the “give us your money” part). Funny that the solution proffered to a postulated future trend in global temperature is an attempt at man-made global cooling.

Finally, one should recognize when surrogates are being used in place of actual temperature readings, i.e. tree ring data might reflect not just temperature but for instance CO2 concentration, coral reefs, local predator populations, ice cover, ocean salinity and ice particulate content etc, etc.

I would think given the complexity of the climate the last thing anyone would want is some global treaty to attempt anthropogenic climate change.

http://healthjournalclub.blogspot.com/

A wonderful Christmas classic with echoes of Dicken's "A Christmas Carol". Seems all the more timely and modern with all the Mister Potter bankers we've seen of late.

http://healthjournalclub.blogspot.com/