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GIVEAWAY TIME

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must be following me

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will be choosing a winner randomly

will go on until i feel ive reached a good follower count

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$25 gift card to zumiez

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1 pair of socks

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3 of the 5 pins(your choice)

a drawing from me(not shown above)

$15 amazon gift card

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dogmaster6000-deactivated201602

the branch manager is managing branches

carlburton

#could stare at this forever #omg

Today we got an email from the police saying there was a suspicious person on campus wearing a mask and a Hawaiian shirt with a camera strapped to their chest while hiding in the bushes

Later we got another email saying to disregard the warning because it was actually a biology student studying if a mockingbird reacts to the human face

Something about this is comical to me

cedricsdiggory

#me when someone is listening my music

#me

micdotcom

Stephen Colbert pens hilarious and important feminist op-ed

Who runs the world? If Stephen Colbert could have his way: women. In an op-ed for Glamour magazine, the future Late Show host pushes for equal rights and treatment of women in the workplace and the media, all while mixing in a healthy dose of humor. But despite the hilarious jokes, his extended quotes make some incredibly crucial points.

cakesexuality

Hey

Psstt

The guy who invented the theory that vaccines cause autism had his medical license revoked for it

denyselfandfollowchristsgni-blog

thats ridiculous

they took it away because he came up with a seemingly plausible theory?

cakesexuality

They took it away because other scientists have been unable to reproduce his results, his results were made up, he didn’t even get approved by an ethics committee, and now he’s risking the health and lives of a whole bunch of people

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It’s not just that he came to incorrect conclusions, he falsified data on purpose, apparently because he had patented a related medical test and stood to make a lot of money off people using his test instead of vaccinating.

It’s crazy how this one person, in a study of only twelve children, gained so much traction in the world. He put this lie out there—and it was a lie, not just interpreting data incorrectly—and now it doesn’t even matter that he’s been proven totally false. Years of effort to reestablish the truth can’t undo the lie once it’s out there in the world. Hundreds of thousands of people believe that lie, and actual children are getting sick and dying because of it.

This is a really troubling aspect of how human minds work, and it’s something conservative politicians take advantage of on a regular basis. If you just say that “well over 90% of what Planned Parenthood does“ is provide abortions, it doesn’t matter how often people recite the objective truth that abortions are a tiny fraction of Planned Parenthood services. You can say the truth 1000 times for every one time the lie is repeated, and thousands of people will still trust the lie.

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I’d never heard this before, and it’s actually really helpful information to have, so thanks. Here is a scientific article by the American Academy of Pediatrics explaining the flaws in Wakefield’s research and briefly summarizing four studies that refuted the fraudulent claims. Here is an article by the editor-in-chief of the British Medical Journal calling him a fraud in no uncertain terms. Here is the first part of a nine-part investigative journalistic series, published in the BMJ, uncovering his fraud. And the General Medical Council conclusions that stripped Wakefield of his clinical credentials can be found here.

I’m honestly so mad right now reading about this guy. People are dying of measles right now because vaccinations fell off so sharply, and those deaths can be laid at the door of this man.