from the ‘letters to the editor’ – vaccines & ear infections

A couple of days ago our local paper carried a letter that included the bald statement: "vaccines cause ear infections." My first response to that one was: citations, please! That sort of statement is incredibly dangerous, because it’s essentially saying, don’t vaccinate if you don’t want your kids to get ear infections. (The letter writer […]

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what is ‘normal’?

Well, I had a great time at the Junior Cafe in Tauranga yesterday 🙂 I always like to talk about things that interest me with other equally interested people, & the questions afterwards were really stimulating. As I’ve said before, I enjoy challenging questions because they stimulate my own learning 🙂 Anyway, there was a […]

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more on measles

If you’ve seen today’s papers (& I guess it’s on TV/radio as well), you’ll know that the outbreak of measles that began in Christchurch seems to have spread to Auckland (by the simple path of someone picking up the infection in Christchurch & then travelling north, I suspect). A measles expert quoted on the Science […]

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