There are many dozens of doctoral degrees:
Which is all sorts of ironic, as the use of the title for physicians in English speaking countries was somewhat controversial and was itself considered a dilution. It’s certainly not the norm to use the same title for a physician and a PhD in many, if not most, non-English speaking nations.
If Canada wants to allow it after requiring several additional years of education past college and licensing requirements, I have no fundamental problem with that. That’s basically how medical doctors came to be allowed to use the title in the first place (which is to the chagrin of many lawyers with their Juris Doctor degrees).
Holy sh*t! I’m a California native, and one of the things you learn very young is how poisonous oleander is (it’s everywhere in So Cal). One of my elementary school teachers told us a, probably apocryphal, story about a family stopping to eat a meal by the side of the road while on a trip. They roasted hot dogs using oleander twigs. And they all died! In summer, when the oleanders were in full bloom and the scent was strong, I’d hold my breath while walking by. :rolleyes:
Oh, and there was some old Vincent Price movie where he killed his wife by placing a potted oleander plant (which was new to Europe) in his sickly wife’s closed up bedroom, and, duh duh DUH, killed her. :eek:
It’s well established that abortion does not increase the risk of breast cancer.
Further clarification: inhaling as you walk by a stand of oleanders in bloom is not fatal. If it was, most of the lower South would be depopulated. And to my knowledge, most varieties are not fragrant.
Death threats from an antivaxxer against a member of Congress https://thehill.com/policy/defense/453726-pentagon-contractor-charged-with-threatening-to-kill-rep-frederica-wilson
To be fair, he seems to be a bit unbalanced in general:
If you’re a follower of Del Bigtree (co-producer of “Vaxxed”), threatening violence against pro-immunization advocates may make perfect sense.
Around here, in brownstone Brooklyn, ground zero for affluent liberalism, they’re predominantly liberal, especially on lifestyle issues, perhaps not so much on economic issues, and highly educated. I’d bet that 90% or more of the anti-vax parents around here have college degrees, and close to half of them have graduate degrees.
Outside of brownstone Brooklyn (i.e., Park Slope, Brooklyn Heights, and some adjacent neighborhoods), the only other people I know of in NYC who are anti-vax are members of some (not all, and maybe only one) of the Hasidic sects. There’s another bunch of them in Rockland County, north of the city.
It’s pretty well established that anti-vaxxers aren’t predominantly liberal or conservative. There are plenty of conservatives who distrust the federal government–not the President, maybe, but the rest of it.
Two of these geniuses tried to school me recently, saying:
“You are aware that people still get those things with vaccinations, right? The live viruses are IN the shots. I had chickenpox, shingles and vaxxed. It happens all the time. The unvacced are literally THE healthiest people out there, you simply cannot spread something you don’t have. The ones spreading it are the ones getting the live virus injected into their bodies, and shedding it to others.”
“Do you realize that you got shingles because of the chicken pox vaccine? Kids used to get chicken pox and then have natural lifetime immunity. And as you grew up you were exposed to chicken pox (because all kids get it) over and over which builds your immunity which leads to natural immunity to shingles. Now no natural chicken pox, no natural immunity, no build up of immunity to shingles. But that’s ok because they have a vaccine for shingles now too.”
Speaking of Trump and anti-vax:
More at the link.
One would think the optics of three children in detention dying from the flu would make them think about that. One would then not be one of the Republican, who today, apparently, consider kids dying, so long as they’re the right kids dying, to be a good thing.
Oh, and if the administration is so stressed out about not having enough medical personnel to care for the detainees, they can mobilize the military again. I hear the Army has some doctors, nurses, and other medical professionals.
Antivaxers move a step closer to serious violence.
I couldn’t access the link because I’ve already maxed out my free articles for the month. If someone would please give me a synopsis, I’d be grateful.
I spent a few days with some anti-vaxxers who are also alternative medicine devotees–and by “alternative medicine,” I mean stuff like pendulum dowsing
and ozone treatments. They were all up in arms over an email sent out by infamous quack Joe Mercola, whom they view as a guru. The email tells his followers how Google, which is, he claims, in cahoots with “Big Pharma,” is trying to stifle the anti-vaxx message by limiting the times his website appears in the first page of results in a Google search. (He doesn’t mention that it also stifles his $15 million annual income.)
Google, as you may know, changed its algorithm under pressure from public health officials, political reps, and almost everyone who’s concerned about the promulgation of anti-vaxx bullshit by assholes like Joe Mercola. I barely suppressed a lusty cheer when I heard them bitching about it, and I hope it hits Mercola and the other health hoaxer millionaires right in their big, fat anti-vaxx wallets.
Antivaxxer “was cited on suspicion of assault by the Sacramento Police Department on Wednesday after he livestreamed a physical confrontation with state Sen. Richard Pan, author of legislation to restrict vaccine exemptions.”
I wonder if they can get that ozone therapy in aerosol cans. After all, as the tweet quoted in your link says, "“Injecting ozone seems to me to be an absolutely lethal thing to do.”
Thanks much.
? Traffic court judge decided to make an example of you or something? I’m presuming you didn’t voluntarily choose this ordeal.
Ha! This woman had the treatment where blood is mixed with ozone and then returned to the body. She’s convinced herself she has an auto-immune disorder and her naturopath told her ozone therapy would help. She got several “treatments” over a few months before admitting it hadn’t done a thing.
That’s another thing that amazes me about these people: they spend a FORTUNE on this worthless crap, and the failure of one scam treatment doesn’t dampen their enthusiasm for another. The ozone therapy cost that lady a few hundred bucks per session. The same woman also had sessions in a hyperbaric chamber to the tune of a couple grand. Another woman is about to get treatment “by one of the few experts in the world” in which a small balloon is briefly inflated in a nostril. It’s supposed to relieve headaches. Cost: $400 per session. You could probably do the same thing with the same effect using an 89¢ package of balloons and a shot of vodka, but there’s no cachet in that.
Wait, what? Hyperbaric chamber? I can’t see how that’s beneficial at all, unless you have decompression sickness. Hell, I wouldn’t be surprised at all if somone’s gotten the bends from undergoing that “treatment” thanks to an incompetent* practitioner.
*I know. I know.