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On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 9:19 AM, Martin Weiss <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

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>
> I think medicine, and agriculture (food) production, as Charlie implies,
> are areas that have great promise for making inroads to peoples
> understanding and acceptance of at least biological sciences. These have a
> direct impact on all our lives; profound effects. Just the story of
> antibiotics and the prevention of deaths (mainly children) should be eye
> opening. However, the avoidance of vaccines mainly due to the argument
> about mercury preservative and autism is a tough nut without some
> understanding of how we learn and understand. The emotions and fears around
> vaccinations are hard to overcome but when it spills over to measles and
> chicken pox these attitudes become dangerous.
>
> I almost feel that a campaign like the horrific images and notices that
> FDA is requiring to be put onto cigarette packages should be used to
> explain how an understanding of evolution (science) benefits all our lives.
>
> I sometimes loose patience with talk of how we should teach, what kind of
> tribe we are etc.  Sorry, I mean no offense but when I hear arguments that
> parents are choosing not to vaccinate their children because of
> know-nothing arguments (Santorum and all his ilk) about science I see red.
> How many of these same people reject antibiotics or other medicines or food
> made more nutritious by hybridization?
>
> Martin
>
>
> –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––
Martin Weiss, PhD
Senior Scientist
New York Hall of Science
mweiss at nyscience.org
cell   347-460-1858
desk 718 595 9156

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