Read This First 170423, Heuristics 170928, Glossary A-G, Mini Lessons 170827
1. Climate Literacy, 2. Fishy Projection, 3. Ebola Vaccine, 4. Media on Science, 5. BigPharma, 6. Leadership Relations, 7. Technology Default, 8. Health Election Issue, 9. Stephen Hawking, 10. Sanitation Commission, <ADDED> 1. Right to Try, 2. 7 Communications Tips, 3. Texas Vax, 4. Bogus Propagation, 5. Italian Vax, 6. Gun Identity, 7. Pre Zero Day, 8. Smaller Nicotine Dose, 9. Patient Banned Words, 10. Resistance Map, 11. Forensic Science.
Other Topics: BioTrumpism, BioPolitics, Vaccine, Biosphere, Disaster, Humor, Climate Change, Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, Communication, Food Security, Frankenstein, Ignoring Human Factors, Bioeconomics, Ethics, Moral Panic, Elections, Italy, Conspiracy Theory, FEMA, Eradication of Information, Food Security, Biodiversity, Extinction, Marine Health, Antibiotic, Dr. Peter Hotez, Natural,
-1. Climate Literacy: The Essential Principles of Climate Science presents information that is deemed important for individuals and communities to know and understand about Earth’s climate, impacts of climate change, and approaches to adaptation or mitigation. Principles in the guide can serve as discussion starters or launching points for scientific inquiry. The guide aims to promote greater climate science literacy by providing this educational framework of principles and concepts. The guide can also serve educators who teach climate science as a way to meet content standards in their science curricula. The Guiding Principle for Informed Climate Decisions: 1) The Sun is the Primary Source of Energy for Earth's Climate System. 2) Climate is regulated by complex interactions among components of the Earth system. 3) Life on Earth depends on, is shaped by, and affects climate. 4) Climate varies over space and time through both natural and man-made processes. 5) Our understanding of the climate system is improved through observations, theoretical studies, and modeling. 6) Human activities are impacting the climate system. 7) Climate change will have consequences for the Earth system and human lives. Resources for Educators.
1.1. #Document. Beyond the Data. This is worthwhile to review as it is an example of a science website that, at least up to now, has adapted to and survived biotrumpism purging of government websites of climate change. FEMA Drops 'Climate Change' from its Strategic Plan, FEMA Is Preparing for the Future. Climate Change Isn’t Part of it. -6↓. Not a problem. FEMA has never developed capabilities for slow catastrophic events (except in self promotion). Their focus has always been the fast disaster in areas with a supporting infrastructure. Cause is not an issue when one is directly coping with consequences, for example a building collapse on people needs to be addressed before the potential causes of earthquake, building codes, wind forces, explosions, lack of maintenance are focused on. Of course the disaster could have been avoided if one had addressed the causes beforehand. Maybe someday we can have crisis, consequence and cause management, rather than the archaic before, during, after response. FEMA Strategic Plan Centers on Community Resiliency, Catastrophe Prep, Less Red Tape, #Document. [Cartoon]. There were similar amusing situations when Florida made it “unofficial” policy that officials could not say Climate Change, Evidence of Gov. Rick Scott's Ban on Climate Change (Video, 2015), and not so funny Florida Has Seen Bad Effects from Trump like Climate Gag Orders. The Trump Administration's Solution to Climate Change: Ban the Term. This leaves DoD as the only agency that still uses the term, usually in the context of national security <ADDED 171022-170319-10>.
-1.2. Ancient Climate Swings Forced Early Humans to Get Their Shit Together and Innovate. This is a credible speculation but connection of cause and effect isn’t demonstrated. We know that around the same time place climate changed, that humans physically changed, and the first homo artifacts are from the same geological layers. Nothing provided makes this a definite correlation. These Early Humans Prospered During What Should Have Been a Devastating Volcanic Winter can be easily used as “proof” that climate change is not a bad thing [Screen Grab], Why Climate Change Is Good for the World. | Getting Climate Change Right: In Light of the Stars. When it comes to facing global warming, when it comes to dealing with climate change, when it comes to making informed choices for our cherished "project of civilization", we've been asking the same uninformed question over and over again, "Did we change the Earth's climate". We built a world girdling civilization that consumes a sizable fraction of the total biosphere's power, so that question is answered – Yes. The question should now be, “What happens when a species becomes really successful, becomes truly planetary”. Are we to join the universe's winners who met their climate challenge and moved forward, or will we fade away with the cosmic losers too stubborn to see the truth. | How Cheese, Wheat and Alcohol Shaped Human Evolution. Colored Pigments and Complex Tools Suggest Humans Were Trading 100,000 Years Earlier than Previously Believed are not as speculative.
-2. Global Fisheries to Be, on Average, 20 Percent less Productive in 2300, with those in the North Atlantic down nearly 60 percent and those in much of the western Pacific experiencing declines of more than 50 percent. This is a projection of what will happen if current conditions continue without change. Partly erroneous as fish will largely move south around Antarctica as food sources move south away from the heat and polluted dead zones of the north. There is also likely to be technology advances that will impact what happens. The distance in time and the belief that a technology solution will be found will cause most people to shrug. Normal human pattern is to wait until the problem is far worse before seriously finding solutions and alternatives. Ending Overfishing Would Stop the Population Declines of Endangered Bycatch Species about Half the Time. Coral Reefs Suffering in Philippines Despite Outlawing Damaging Fishing Practices, dynamite, poison still common. This Is Why You Don't See People Size Salmon Anymore
-3. Would You Pay for an Ebola Vaccine. Most Say Yes, for $1. People who had traveled internationally within the last 12 months and were interested in getting an Ebola vaccine were more likely to be willing to pay for a vaccine across all price points. Interestingly, participants' interest in getting a vaccine did not necessarily indicate their willingness to pay. Willingness to pay for a vaccine is an important indicator of risk perception and demand. | One key limitation of this study was that questions about the Ebola vaccine were hypothetical; it is unknown if findings would apply to an actual vaccine, and that this study was conducted during the height of the Ebola epidemic in West Africa, and Fearbola epidemic in the United States. It is unclear if findings would be similar under non outbreak circumstances. Which Is Worse: Ebola or Fearbola.
-3.1‡. VCP News Archive↕: (Not in VCP).• Serbia: Measles Epidemic Claims 13 Lives, out of 3,650 cases seems trivial, and calling for more to vaccinate after declaring the outbreak has peaked would seem like one does not need to do so any longer. • Uganda: Parliament Suspends Hepatitis B Vaccination in Private Health Facilities over Fake Vaccines. This type of exploitation is common: overcharging, diverting resources, providing cheap ineffective substitutes but charging full price. All undermine trust. • Italy: Se L’epidemia È La Disinformazione, If the Epidemic Is Misinformation. • Canada: Manitoba School Trustees to Consider Mandatory Vaccinations for School Children. • Denmark: Rebuilding Confidence in HPV Vaccination, 180304-3.1‡. Pakistan: Pakistan Is Racing to Combat the World’s First Extensively Drug Resistant Typhoid Outbreak. • Brazil: When Whatsapp’s Fake News Problem Threatens Public Health, 180311-4‡, same thing happened (In Brazil, Zika Conspiracy Theories Are Contagious. Increased Risk of Yellow Fever Infections among Unvaccinated European Travellers Due to Ongoing Outbreak in Brazil, July 2017 to March 2018). • USA: Anti-Vaccine Advocate Reportedly Setting His Eyes on Texas Elections -180304-3, -171224-7‡↓.
-4. Crisis or Self Correction: Rethinking How the Media Cover Science. One of the recurring media narratives about the nature of science today is that it is 'broken' or 'in crisis'. But an analysis of how the media cover science news argues that generalizations about a crisis in science aren't justified by the available evidence. The essay proposes that those who communicate science, including journalists, scholars and scientists themselves, should more accurately convey its investigatory nature, the self correction process, and corrective measures without legitimizing a faulty narrative the undermines trust in science. -5↓, <ADDED 171001-170806-6.2>10, <ADDED 170827-170305-C.1>, 170305-C.1. [Cartoon, Cartoon].
-5. Big Pharma Created the Opioid Epidemic; We Can Stop It. Declare an end to the war on drugs and declare a new war on their makers. | A Journal of the AMA study found that, for many kinds of chronic pain over the counter painkillers work just as well if not better. | Marketers rewarded their top salespeople, and kept close track of whales – doctors who were writing huge numbers of OxyContin prescriptions. Those doctors received handsome bonuses. | Belated efforts to crack down on over prescribing backfired: If OxyContin wasn’t available addicts soon turned to the street and to heroin. | Pharma has paid hundreds of millions of dollars to settle lawsuits; given the billions that it’s raked in, those settlements look like an acceptable cost of doing business. | Doctors have been ethically compromised, duped or bribed into harming their patients. First responders have endured stress, burnout and PTSD trying to save people addicted to opioids. Taxpayers are covering the costs of caring for both addicts and first responders. Opioids also drive the need for more funding for courts and jails and prisons and detox centres and rehab programs as well as the people who staff them. Money that might have gone into housing or transit or job training goes instead into trying to keep people alive until the next overdose. Usually when the word BigPharma is invoked one thinks of conspiracy theory nuts [Cartoon] and natural remedy nuts [Cartoon]. Having some familiarity with the author as not a nut (well not a dangerous nut at least) the use of BigPharma was unusual for him and that alone attracted my attention. There is so much repetition of debunked BigPharma memes that I rarely collect these now unless it is novel. <ADDED 180311-180218-1>7. ¶ On the Miscalculated Fear of an Opioid Crisis in Haiti, -5.1↓. Hospitals Are Confronting a New Opioid Crisis: an Alarming Shortage of Pain Meds, manufacture rather than moral problem. Proposed Federal Limits to Opioid Prescriptions Draw Opposition from Physicians and Patients. Native American Overdose Deaths Surge since Opioid Epidemic. Opioid Overdoses Soar by 30%. | We Have an Opioid Overdose Crisis, but Cigarettes Still Kill 15 Times More People, -180114-1.2↓. E Cigarettes May Be More Harmful than Beneficial, Teens Often Think E Cigs, Hookah Pipes Harmless.
-5.1. This is a reversal of the moral panic concerning opioids, now the treatment for saving life could become a moral panic -4, 5↑, -180311-2↓ [Poster]. A Lifesaving Drug for Overdoses Doesn’t Reduce Opioid Deaths. Be Skeptical. Naloxone can be a moral hazard. Two economists are arguing that ready access to naloxone can have dire unintended effects. That greater access to the drug increases opioid use, opioid related crime, and, in some places, deaths from overdoses. The authors maintain that despite those results, we shouldn’t limit access to this lifesaving drug. Still, many public health experts are worried that the analysis could be used to justify limits on access to naloxone. Some experts condemned the authors’ approach as reinforcing stigma by stereotyping people who use drugs as reckless and criminal. Others on social media went further and hurled vitriolic personal attacks at the authors – Why a Study on Opioids Ignited a Twitter Firestorm. Even as a moral issue these solutions seem excessive, CDC Rolls out Fleet of Narcan Biplanes to Fumigate Opioid Ravaged Small Towns, The Death Penalty for Drug Dealers Is a Terrible Idea. It’s Also Apparently the White House’s New Opioid Strategy.
-6. ∩ Leadership Changes: When to Make Them. Using Rex Tillerson as an example. Emergency management is all about relationships, and I think that international diplomacy shares the need to have relationships – 180204-3, 170604-C.2, 170409-3 – in place before there can ever be trust established between two governments (or organizations, jurisdictions, different but overlapping areas of expertise). Getting the right people in the right positions is important, but what about the impact 180225-4 of leadership change. If there is an antagonistic relationship, I'm not sure I would like being caught in the middle between my leader and the organization I lead. It is important to remember we are not playing a Game of Thrones board game. This is real life with real consequences. ¶ Mostly Positive FEMA Reports under Obama Removed, DHS IG Removes Old Reports on FEMA — That Were Positive, smells like revisionist history to me -1↑. ¶ Tillerson's Rhetoric Didn't Match Reality on Global Health, 180225-6. As he exits the State Department, he leaves behind a confusing trail of mixed messages about whether the Trump administration wants to support or undermine U.S. We must Invest in New Labs for the CDC to Prepare for Future Health Threats, 180225-6. White House Hails Success of Disease Fighting Program, and Plans Deep Cuts. #Document Implementing the Global Health Security Agenda: Progress and Impact from U.S. Government Investments. The Looming Epidemic Threat. World Health Organization Gets Ready for Disease X.
-‡. Tillerson Aims to Show US Cares Despite Trump's Africa Slur, 180114-8.1, 171224-2A, Out in Africa. Tillerson Trip Leaves Hosts Nonplussed, Fired in Africa. Tillerson Outing Leaves Hosts Confused, Tillerson's Firing Worries Some Africa Experts, In Africa, Trump’s Firing of Tillerson a New Sign of Neglect. Nigeria: Funding for Global Health. Declare State of Emergency in Health Sector, Senate Urges FG. Deadly Lassa Fever Outbreak Tests Nigeria's eRevamped Health Agency. Ebola and Cultures of Engagement: Chinese Versus Western Health Diplomacy. How will this impact on future biodisaster in Africa. -180304-3*A↓. Morale Low at State Department after Only Employee Fired, Secretary of State Fired after Inappropriately Weighing in on International Politics.
-7. DARPA Names Researchers Working to Halt Outbreaks in 60 Days or Less. The increasing threat of infectious diseases is intensifying the need for breakthrough technologies and capabilities to protect first responders and equip them with therapeutics that can halt the impact of infectious agents. Current approaches for recent public health emergencies due to infectious diseases have not produced effective preventive or therapeutic solutions in a relevant timescale. To address the growing threat from infectious diseases as well as to properly equip DoD Service members who regularly deploy worldwide to provide assistance in all manner of high risk environments, DARPA launched the Pandemic Prevention Platform program (P3). The P3 program, which began in 2017, seeks to halt the spread of any infectious disease outbreak before it can escalate into a pandemic. This is another example of the technological default to solve problems*. Technology is a great tool and should be developed, but if one ignores the human factors reliance on technological solutions will lead to creating bigger wicked problems.
-*7.1. #Document Efficiency and Madness. Technologies help us do more with less, they defy boundaries of space, time and self. We experience them as both magic and loss. This essay begins by adopting broader conceptual analysis from the work of academics and theorists, applied from the position of practitioners working internationally on technology deployment for social change. It then looks at how data driven technologies are currently deployed to solve problems. Lastly, it makes a case for why we cannot leave the challenges posed by data driven technologies to technologists. [Chart]. Gathering Health Care Insights from Data About People’s Daily Lives.
-7.2. What Frankenstein Can Still Teach Us 200 Years Later. Frankenstein’s monster is usually portrayed as a shuffling, grunting beast, sometimes flanked by Dr. Victor Frankenstein himself, the OG mad scientist. This monstrosity created in the lab is now part of our common language. From Frankenfoods to the Frankenstrat. Beyond the monster clichés, though, the original story of Frankenstein has a lot to teach modern readers, especially those grappling with the ethical questions science continues to raise today [Photo]. #Book Frankenstein: Annotated for Scientists, Engineers, and Creators of All Kinds [Cover]. This edition of Frankenstein pairs the original 1818 version of the manuscript with annotations and essays by leading scholars exploring the social and ethical aspects of scientific creativity. The Franken prefix has been a great metaphor for many social+biological topics. Bioengineers Today Emphasize the Crucial Ingredient Dr. Frankenstein Forgot – Responsibility. <ADDED 180225-170709-8A>8, <ADDED 170903 <ADDED 170813 -170108-11.1>.
-8. It’s Official: Democrat Conor Lamb Wins Pennsylvania Special Election in Major Upset was getting lots of media attention. The reason for the upset is parademic interest. Exit Poll of PA-18 Shows Lamb Won Big on Health Care: Health care was a top issue to voters. On health care, voters said Lamb better reflected their views by 7 points. Voters were less likely to support Saccone because of the Republican health care agenda. Voters in this heavily Republican district disapproved of the Republican efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act by 14 points. Still too soon to say if this is a trend, 180301-5.5. After Pa. Special Election Results, Democrats May See Health Care as Winning Issue in Midterms. Democrats Argue Health Care Was Stealth Winning Issue in Pennsylvania Special.
-9. What Stephen Hawking Taught a Young Kashmiri Boy about Health Policy. I was sad to hear of his passing early Wednesday at age 76 after battling amyotrophic lateral sclerosis for more than 50 years but will carry his inspiration in my work in medicine and public health. Although highly respected as a theoretical physicist for discovering the behavior of black holes and investigating the origin of the universe, Hawking leaves behind an equally important legacy of making complicated science understandable to the public. Using insight, humor, and clear language, he made science seem accessible, something anyone could pursue. Hawking, and others like him, made it acceptable, even honorable, to get complicated ideas into the public sphere. [Cartoon]. Stephen Hawking Leaves Behind Beautiful Legacy of Unheeded Warnings to Humanity, Stephen Hawking Was Right to Worry about Our Impending Doom. Entire Life of Universe Flashes Before Stephen Hawking’s Eyes.
-10. Mar 18, 1864, Lincoln Praises Sanitary Commission for Work with Troops. Established in 1861 as a federal government agency, the Sanitary Commission was responsible for coordinating the efforts of thousands of volunteers during the Civil War. The group’s workers raised some $25 million in donations and medical supplies; sent inspectors to military camps to oversee the set up of clean water supplies, latrines, and cooking facilities; worked alongside doctors and nurses on the frontlines to help evacuate wounded troops; sewed uniforms and blankets and provided lodging and meals to injured soldiers returning home on furlough. Although administered by men, the organization was made up primarily of female volunteers and represented a major contribution by Yankee women to the war effort. | Some generals and Army doctors found Sanitary Commission volunteers annoying and meddlesome, especially when they criticized the military’s medical practices. One physician complained about what he saw as “sensation preachers, village doctors, and strong minded women” interfering with his work and that of his colleagues. [Poster].
-180311-2>1. This will likely pass House to Vote Tuesday on 'Right to Try' Drug Bill. The Cruel Sham That Is “Right to Try” Will Be up for a Vote in the House Tomorrow. It's been slightly modified from the version that passed the Senate last year to make it less patient hostile. Now watch for further framing as a moral judgement -5.1↑, and if it does pass as law there will be a proliferation of health care choices that will further paralyze decision making and critical thinking, 11 Ways Having Too Many Options Is Screwing Us up. Overchoice creates ideal conditions for quacks and biotrumpism, not to mention increasing probability of accelerated biodisaster if concept is applied to the environment and ecology, providing further justification not to test and gather data before action.*
-‡. ‘Right to Try’ Law Threatens Patient Safety and Rational Drug Development. House’s New Right to Try Legislation Ensures FDA’s Oversight if Terminally Ill Patients Getting Untested Drugs. Giving Patients the ‘Right to Try’ Experimental Drugs Is a Political Maneuver, Not a Lifesaver. Right to Try, the Controversial Plan to Help the Terminally Ill. Patient Groups Criticize Right to Try Bill on Experimental Drugs. This Is Feel Good Legislation for Lawmakers: Critics Blast Right to Try Bill as Harmful to Patients. House Fails to Pass 'Right to Try' Bill amid Dem Objections. We will try again, pass legislation, and bring hope to those whose only desire is the right to try to live. [Tweet, Tweet*]. Had thought it would pass, but was correct about the moral framing. House to Try Again on Bill Easing Use of Unapproved Drugs. It’s Not Over: after Defeat on Right to Try, GOP Vows to Renew Push. ¶ More Political Science: Proposed Laws Protect “Lyme Literate” Doctors from Discipline, who are are scamming patients out of thousands of dollars with needless long term antibiotics -170910-10, -171224-7‡↓, based on a fake diagnosis of Chronic Lyme. Why are state legislators trying to protect these doctors from discipline and make insurers pay for unnecessary treatments.
-*Quote: Are Democrats really going to deny critically ill patients every opportunity to find treatment, -- was attributed to a Paul Ryan Tweet. Either it was deleted or misattributed.
-180304-2>2. 7 Things to Consider When Communicating about Health (Infographic).
-180304-3>3, <ADDED 180311>2. Anti-Vaccine Advocate Reportedly Setting His Eyes on Texas Elections -3.1‡USA↑. Texans Need a Cure for Fake News about Vaccines, New Meta Analysis Confirms: No Association Between Vaccines and Autism, -180311-4‡↓*. Texas’ Anti-Islam, Anti-Vaccine, Born Again Christian Candidate Is a Democrat. An Engineer and a Mathematician Will Face off in Texas’s next Primary Election. How the Anti-Vaccine Lobby Is Influencing the Texas State Primaries. Facebook Announces Plan To Combat Fake News Stories By Making Them Actually Happen. 180204-2¶, 171203-5‡, <ADDED 170910-170827-8*>, <ADDED 170903-170827-8, -*> (this one has links to other related material in database), 161211-4.5 -5, 161218-4, 161204-4.1, 161113-7 -7.1, Anti-Vaccine Trend Worries North Texas Doctors, | Are Antivaccine Groups Hate Groups. Not Exactly, but the Answer Isn’t Entirely No, Either. Recently, Dr. Peter Hotez [Tweet, Tweet, Tweet] characterized antivaccine groups as hate groups, and antivaxer Barbara Loe Fisher took great umbrage, accusing Dr. Hotez and the public health community of bullying parents of vaccine injured children. Did Dr. Hotez go too far. And what about the extreme hypocrisy on Fisher's part, given that Dr. Hotez has received death threats credible enough to warrant police protection. Peter Hotez vs. Measles and the Anti-Vaccination Movement. The Texas anti-vaccine movement also appears to correlate with stances on abortion, illegal immigrants and just plain xenophobia, (lack of) hurricane preparation, death penalty, evangelicalism, gun control -180218-2.1*A↓, illegal drugs, sovereignty, distrust of government and environmental protection.
-*A. Is Conspiracy Fiction Too Dangerous. A conspiracy theory is an imaginative tale that purports to reveal something about the moral structure of the world but actually reveals far more the intimate pathologies of its creator. 10 Mind Boggling Medical Conspiracy Theories, Medical Conspiracy Theories and Health Behaviors in the United States, Ebola Is Man Made, and Other Crazy Conspiracy Theories -6‡↑, An Outbreak of Conspiracy Theories, How Medical Conspiracy Theories Could Be Affecting Your Health, Conspiracy Theories and Medicine: Why Such Bedfellows, Long History of Medical Conspiracy Theories. [Meme, Meme]. ¶ Anti- Vaxxer Effect on Vaccination Rates Is Exaggerated. My guess is the author was swayed by statistics of relative ratio, ignoring the synergy of impact of a vocal minority leveraging their ideology via social media and misinformation. Her previous articles indicates she understands herd immunity, would not believe that a couple of deaths or being handicapped by a vaccine preventable disease is acceptable, is aware of the increasing frequency of measles outbreaks (and other MMR). She may not be aware of Texas, but cannot to be aware of those providing polio vaccine in Pakistan and Nigeria are at risk of being murdered. It may be true that giving attention increases aberrant behavior, but ignoring it is also documented in some cases increasing the intensity and frequency of deviancy, if it is an attention getting behavior. With greater frequency and spread is could possibly become normal. Public Health and Economic Consequences of Vaccine Hesitancy for Measles in the United States.
-180311-4‡>4. The Spread of True and False News Online. Falsehood diffused significantly farther, faster, deeper, and more broadly than the truth in all categories of information, and the effects were more pronounced for false political news than for false news about terrorism, natural disasters, science, urban legends, or financial information. We found that false news was more novel than true news, which suggests that people were more likely to share novel information. Whereas false stories inspired fear, disgust, and surprise in replies, true stories inspired anticipation, sadness, joy, and trust. Contrary to conventional wisdom, robots accelerated the spread of true and false news at the same rate, implying that false news spreads more than the truth because humans, not robots, are more likely to spread it, -180304-3↑. We Know That Lies Spread Faster than the Truth. This Might Be Why. [Cartoon]. People Don’t Go to Doctors to Be Entertained. Why Do They Turn to Celebrities for Health Advice\fs24plain . My own speculation is that a celebrity is a friend – Advice from friends, family or colleagues is cited more than awareness of illness and vaccination as a reason for support, 2.2.2 – a person they know and trust, or believe they do. ¶ Sometimes though it does not matter if something is true or not to influence people in positive ways, Mayo Docs Go Viral with 'Alright' Video.
-180225-5‡•7>5, <ADDED 180304>3. -3.1. Antonietta Gatti and Stefano Montanari: A Strange Antivaccine Conspiracy Theory from Italy. A year ago, I wrote about some bad science in which an electron microscope was used and abused to claim that vaccines are contaminated with horrific nanoparticles. A year later, their homes, labs, and offices were raided and their computers seized in an investigation. Not surprisingly, the antivaccine movement has spun a conspiracy theory out of the raid. The real explanation is likely to be much less sinister. This may be part of the Anti-Vaccine impact on the Italian elections. Rise of Nationalist and Populist Parties Has Italian Scientists Worried.
-180218-2.1*A>6, <ADDED 180225>1. ∩ The gun issue has been argued to be a public health issue*, and it is not that far of a reach to consider guns as being toxic. For parademic this is indicative of how a community will react to other toxic issues -180304-3↑. Here’s How Carrying a Gun Changes How You See the World. Toward a more honest conversation about guns; one that takes identity** into account. Americans weren’t just buying guns for hunting or home protection. Guns had become part of their everyday lives, structuring how they saw the world, their country, and their role in it. Examines how the National Rifle Association’s training programs construct new models of citizenship, and digging into how gun ownership interacts with race, gender, economic decline, and class. Empathy alone offers a way forward in the gun debate, but understanding the identities at play here, among both those who own guns and those who want to see gun ownership restricted is the only way to have a debate that makes sense. Social identity and worldviews can also be considered toxic. A Princeton Sociologist Spent 8 Years Asking Rural Americans Why They’re So Pissed off. Trump Backs Off Some Gun Control Proposals He Recently Endorsed. Congress Stamped out Federally Funded Gun Violence Research 22 Years Ago. Now States Are Stepping in. [Meme, Meme, Meme, Meme]. For parademic this can be indicative of how a community will react to other issues or against perceived force to enforce an unpopular law (such as mandatory vaccination). Those with military backgrounds are likely to recognize that this is not a new belief, but an old one known as the Rifleman’s Creed. | How Gun Ownership Became a Powerful Political Identity. This item appears completely unconnected to being a society and health issue, even as an analogy. However health occurs in the context of, and is influenced by, everything else. This provides the larger context for possible confluences of society and health, an overlap area where multidiscipline approaches are necessary to test correlations. John Morgan Just Connected School Shootings to Prescription Drugs and Vaccines. These Researchers Have Been Trying to Stop School Shootings for 20 Years.
-*Quote1: We lose eight children and teenagers to gun violence every day. If a mysterious virus suddenly started killing eight of our children every day, America would mobilize teams of doctors and public health officials. We would move heaven and earth until we found a way to protect our children. But not with gun violence. – Elizabeth Warren, A Fighting Chance [Cover].
-**Quote2: Speaking personally, you can have my gun, but you'll take my book when you pry my cold, dead fingers off of the binding. – Stephen King [Meme].
-180204-6.4>7, <ADDED 180311>9. Every Day Seems like 'Day Zero' to Some Cape Town Residents. In a neighborhood nearly two thirds of residents live in shacks with no running water. The city provides communal taps and toilets for sanitation, but lately the taps have run dry, sometimes two days without water. Parched by a historic three year drought, Cape Town officials have warned for months of a "Day Zero", when people will have to line up for daily water rations because the dams that supply the city will be too low to pump water to houses. But many people around the city already face a water shortage, every day is Day Zero. This is a classic biodisaster: Prior warning with no action to prevent (probably to save money), unequal access with some (the poor [Map]) suffering before others, problem was a problem long before it became widely known about, anthropogenic climate change contributing to the drought, authorities giving reassurances that it will soon be over, increased economic impact and cascade into other systems because of delay.
-Quote: All changed, changed utterly: A terrible beauty is born. – William Butler Yeats, Easter, 1916 [Art].
-180114-1.2>8. FDA Moves to Cut Nicotine in Cigarettes, Helping Smokers Kick Habit. Stripping cigarettes of all or most of their addictive power could lead 5 million adults to quit smoking within a year of the plan going into place and another 8 million to quit within five years, according to the analysis Potential Public Health Effects of Reducing Nicotine Levels in Cigarettes in the United States. FDA Takes ‘Historic First Step’ Toward Cutting Nicotine in Cigarettes to non Addictive Levels. -5↑. Problem; this article is about a simulation model, but appears to be based on untested assumptions about people. Namely why do people start to smoke and how to mitigate those factors. It also seems likely from observations of other addictive behaviors that if the addict is no longer achieving the previous effects, they use more. This may end up in more cigarettes being sold and increasing a lucrative black market for cigarette smuggling. When I searched this journal, and the general Internet, by using several different boolean terms that related to Lowering nicotine in cigarettes + will result in more people quitting the use of cigarettes, I found no evidence supporting the idea that lowering nicotine will result in the stated result. This plan is probably more an experimental design statement, with a real human population, rather than implementing a tested method of surveillance, containment, control and extinguishing. [Cartoon].
-‡. If You Took the Nicotine out of Cigarettes, Would Fewer People Want to Smoke. The FDA Wants to Cut Cigarettes’ Nicotine Levels. Will That Help People Quit. "Light" Cigarettes and Cancer Risk light cigarettes do not reduce the health risks of smoking. Why Requiring Low Nicotine Cigarettes Is Still Ill Advised (2016). Can Drastically Reduced Nicotine Take the 'Hook' out of Cigarettes (2015). Could Making Cigarettes less Addictive Help People Stop Smoking (2015). Low Nicotine Cigarettes May Help Determined Smokers Cut Back (2015). Is Nicotine Addictive (2018). Is Nicotine Addictive (2015). Reducing the Nicotine Content to Make Cigarettes less Addictive (2013). Tobacco Without Nicotine (2009). Establishing a Nicotine Threshold for Addiction – The Implications for Tobacco Regulation (1994). Tobacco Explained. The Truth about the Tobacco Industry …In its Own Words (¿1992?). The current formulations of low tar cigarettes create false health reassurance and offer little or no health benefit.
-171224-7‡>9. CDC Bans Certain Phrases from Use by Patients in the Emergency Department. My doctor usually gives me an antibiotic to treat [viral disease] -180311-2‡↑. The flu shot gave me the flu, -3.1‡↑.
-170910-10>10, <ADDED 180204>15. UW Madison Developing Antibiotic Resistance 'Weather Map' of Wisconsin. Usually parademic does not post technical or clinical news, except in the cases when those are likely to impact on behavior and/or biosphere. Knowing where antibiotic resistance is, the type, and recommended treatment could lead to behavioral changes, such as in India with indiscriminate antibiotic use among animals <ADDED 180204-170910-10>15. Mapping Antibiotic Resistance (Video). Maryn Mckenna: What Do We Do When Antibiotics Don’t Work Any More (Video). [Map]. Needle Hasn't Moved on US Outpatient Antibiotic Prescribing. -180311-2**↑.
-170820-6.1>11. Most Forensic Science Is Bogus. Will New Federal Rules Help. Comment: Interesting topic as it reflects trust in science and medicine. Unfortunately it also has erroneous applications and raises unrealistic expectations. Fallen Forensics: Judges Routinely Allow Disavowed Science, Jeff Sessions Doesn’t Understand the Necessity of Science, No Room for Error: Clear Eyed Justice in Forensic Science Oversight, Jeff Sessions Wants Courts to Rely Less on Science and More on “Science”. Jeff Sessions and the Odds of Imprisoning Innocents, Most Forensic Science Isn’t Real Science. Try Telling That to the Criminal Justice System, Sessions Scraps Federal Commission on Forensic Accuracy, for Some Reason.
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