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It’s been almost a year and a half since I visited the Jenny McCarthy Body Count. In that time, it looks like over 250 unnecessary vaccine-preventable deaths and over 20,000 illnesses have occurred because of Jenny and her ilk spreading brain-meltingly frustrating misinformation about the safety of vaccines.
Sure, she’s not the only guilty one, but she’s the leader of a dangerous movement that’s still quite active today.
This from a woman whose website has the following headline up today: 21 Benefits of Enzymes and Why You Need Them … oh I dunno, maybe to complete basic biological functions and literally BE ALIVE?!?!
A society that cares about science more will be a society that cares less about Jenny McCarthy. Keep up the good fight, and keep sharing science with your friends. Someone’s life may depend on it.
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Killdeer (Charadrius vociferus)
Killdeers will frequently use a distraction display (“broken-wing act”) to distract predators from their nests. This involves the bird walking away from its nesting area holding its wing in a position that simulates an injury and then flapping around on the ground emitting a distress call. The predators then think they have easy prey and are attracted to this seemingly injured bird and away from the nest. If the parent sees that a potential predator is not following them, they will move closer and get louder until they get the attention of the predator. This is repeated until the predator is far from the nest, and the killdeer suddenly “heals” and flies away. [via]
Chameleon Tail by Mark Bridger
34b-WY6Z8142 by Robert in Colombia on Flickr.
Tettigoniidae, Phaneropterinae, Markia hystrix katydid
Dandelions & Raindrops by féileacán on Flickr.
The Spiral Staircase, a photo from Gyeongsangbukdo, North | TrekEarth
Photographer’s Note: A very unusual part of the walkway, leading from the lighthouse, to Jeodong town, along the cliffs of this rocky volcanic shore, where the terrain plunges straight down into the sea. From memory, I think the stairs are 57 metres. Ulleunggo Volcano is about 75 miles off the east coast of South Korea, & last erupted over 9,350 years ago, with a force equivalent to Pinatubo, in the Philippines, in 1991.
(Source: facebook.com)
Which is why I’m trying to wean myself off of arguing with creationists.