This blog will focus on political images I have found all around the Internet, though I will intersperse some commentary and quotes that I find interesting.
Sunday, December 31, 2017
Government overreach VIDEO link.
I am a strong supporter of a federal government to provide us with services and infrastructure that benefit us all and to protect our rights and freedoms. There are times, however, when government oversteps it's boundaries. This is one such case. The best part of it being government? We can hold them accountable.
Democracy Now highlights the abuse of facial recognition software.
https://www.facebook.com/democracynow/videos/10155971062813279/
Democracy Now highlights the abuse of facial recognition software.
https://www.facebook.com/democracynow/videos/10155971062813279/
Researchers have ditched the autism-vaccine hypothesis. Here’s what they think actually causes it.
Genes and the microbiome are some of the most promising leads.
By Julia Belluz@juliaoftorontojulia.belluz@voxmedia.com Updated Dec 28, 2017, 12:07pm EST
Of all the issues doctors have explored in children’s health, none has been more exhaustively researched than the question of whether vaccines are linked to autism. After hundreds and hundreds of studies in thousands of children, “We can say with almost as much certainty than anybody could ever say that vaccines don’t cause autism,” Mayo Clinic autism researcher Dr. Sunil Mehta told me.
And yet the fear that they do remains stubbornly persistent, as a recent measles outbreak in Minnesota shows. The virus spread among unvaccinated children — in this case, Somali-Americans in Minneapolis, after anti-vaccine advocates targeted their parents with a misinformation campaign. By the end of the outbreak in August, 79 people, most of them children, got the disease.
Today, about one in 68 US children has autism — a rate that’s remained unchanged since at least 1990, though there’s been a steady increase in awareness and diagnosis. And it’s the parents of some of these children who are among the most vocal proponents of the vaccine-autism link — in Minnesota and elsewhere. Many are frustrated, confused, and desperate for an explanation for why and how their children got the disorder.
It doesn’t help that doctors have long struggled to explain what exactly causes autism if vaccines don’t — many medical theories have been debunked and then replaced by new ones.
But the medical community is now getting closer and closer to zeroing in on the cause. I recently talked to half a dozen researchers on the cutting edge of this work to find out what they see as the latest and best evidence for what might trigger autism. They were excited about their new understandings of the genetic basis for autism — what they view as the most promising area of research on the disorder right now. They also talked about recent advances in grasping how particular genetic mutations change the biology of the brain in ways that cause autism symptoms.
Read more
https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2017/5/11/15508006/what-causes-autism-spectrum-disorder-vaccine-theory
Saturday, December 30, 2017
Our laws covering gun ownership are failing us - GunFail
| Chicago police watchdog rules 2015 shooting of Quintonio LeGrier and Bettie Jones was unjustified
Chicago police disciplinary officials have ruled an officer was unjustified in the 2015 shooting and killing of a 19-year-old carrying a baseball bat and an innocent bystander standing nearby. The Civilian Office of Police Accountability has ruled that Officer Robert Rialmo unjustifiably shot Quintonio ...
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