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October 10, 2016
October 9, 2016
perletwo:
note-a-bear:
kata-speaks:
Victorian era surgeons...
Victorian era surgeons didn’t wash their hands and found the suggestion that they should wash their hands offensive.
This was said by Charles Meigs AFTER multiple papers had been published showing how important it was that surgeons wash their hands and sterilize their instruments.
The reason? Class. The gentlemen doctors weren’t like those dirty poor people.
Which sounds a bit like anti-vaxxers.
Because TODAY, when we were going to see the eradication of measles within in our lifetime, the upper crust decided that their children didn’t need to have “chemicals” put in their bodies. And why would they need vaccines anyway? Their upper class precious children could never contract measles… not like those dirty poor people.
If you don’t think this outbreak stems from blatant classism and racism, just remember that the lowest vaccination rates in California are also in its whitest, wealthiest cities.
Read that last line
Read it over and over and get through your heads: this anti-vaxxer thing is not about your caricatures of poor, ignorant white folks. This is white, WEALTHY people with access to information and resources thinking they’re too good for all of this.
“I talked to a public health official and asked him what’s the best way to anticipate where there might be higher than normal rates of vaccine noncompliance, and he said take a map and put a pin wherever there’s a Whole Foods. I sort of laughed, and he said, “No, really, I’m not joking.” It’s those communities with the Prius driving, composting, organic food-eating people.“ — Journalist Seth Mnookin’s new book, The Panic Virus: A True Story of Medicine, Science, and Fear, explores the public health scare over vaccines and autism.
shychemist:
One of my favourite twitter trending topics I’ve...
One of my favourite twitter trending topics I’ve seen in a while: #GirlsWithToys.
This came as a response to an Astronomer’s remarks that Scientists are ‘boys with toys’.
Glad to see such a strong response from the women of STEM. :)
ryannorth:
jtotheizzoe:
kenobi-wan-obi:
bouncingdodecahedrons:...
Carl telling us how (not) to science.
“conclusion: dinosaurs” is still my favorite rebuttal to just about anything tbh.
Second perhaps only to “Therefore: aliens”
seems legit
rebekamikaelson:
beowulfstits-archive:
friendly reminder that spirit animals are a sacred concept...
friendly reminder that spirit animals are a sacred concept in a variety of religions worldwide (many of them being aboriginal religions that are at risk of destruction by european colonialism) and are not a way to joke about your admiration for something
vilgefcrtz:
sweetpollyoliver:
wtfzurtopic:
Tom Hardy loves...
Tom Hardy loves every dog.
Tom hardy is a national treasure
Tom softy
9musesandanoldmind:
First of all, I love Maggie! Consider this...
First of all, I love Maggie! Consider this a… creative exercise, the comingoutday tag gave me ideas…
ps: the catch phrase of this movie is “Tell me, Diana… does your heart bleed?” =X XD
princess-fluffybutt:
sassyhiddles:
grimdarkcarnival:
missingdinosaur:
methroid:
do actors get...
do actors get boners while making sex scenes this is one of the things i’ve wondered my whole life
Idk if you actually care for the answer, but they have to put their dicks in little sleeves that attach to the leg so if they get a boner it just get held down.
that sounds like a garment that should be sold everywhere and considered polite if not mandatory to wear, like bras
Omg I can’t
As a guy I second this.
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