Epidemiology: bringing you death and destruction since 1854
Savage, who in the past, has taken aim at the legitimacy of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and other behavioral disorders, called autism a “fraud” and a “racket” during his July 16 broadcast, adding that “[i]n 99 percent of the cases, it’s a brat who hasn’t been told to cut the act out.”
Well, I’m glad we finally figured that out…
Y’know, I’m just a grad student and all, but it’s pretty standard that you have to have more than just suspicion to finger a single ingredient in a common-source food-borne outbreak. A dish, sure, you can figure that out pretty easily—but a single ingredient? Especially when said dish has pretty standard ingredients across the board? It sounds to me that someone jumped to a conclusion before it was really warranted and ran with it.
My money’s on the cilantro. It is pure, unrestrained EVIL.
My goodness, the correlation-causation fallacy is awfully handy for politics!
Five people every week are stabbed to death as knife crime has risen by a fifth since Labour came to power, new figures show.
You’ve read the disclaimer linked above, right? OK, here we go…
“Poor people are more than twice as likely to die at any given age than their richer counterparts, according to a new study.”
“Living in the 21st century: older people in England is the most comprehensive in a study into the economic, social, psychological and health elements of the ageing process in Europe, and it follows the life experiences of a group of people born before 1952 through interviews at two year intervals. In the current research in 2006- 2007, 9971 people were interviewed.”
I’d be pissed if I followed folks for more than half a century and the most significant thing I could report is that poor people are more likely to die than rich people. Seriously? That’s all you got?
Telegraph.co.uk: Poor elderly people are twice as likely to die as the richest
Zoonotic diseases, those which have an animal as the reservoir but may be transmitted to humans, are often known as zoonoses. That’s one of those awesome words, like Uranus, that reveals a lot about people based on how they pronounce it. Some folks just go all out and say “zoo-noses”. Others are worried that people might think they’re referring to an elephant’s proboscis and carefully say, “zoh-o-nosees”. Extra points if you wrinkle your nose and sound a bit British.
