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.
How hypocritical is it that PETA’s poster woman is former, bosomy showgirl, model and actress, Pamela Anderson. Thankfully, the second most abundant element on earth is silicon, but nonetheless, I still wonder how many animals were harmed in the making of those puppies.
French artist Mademoiselle Maurice who creates stunning geometric figures on urban surfaces using rainbows of folded origami figures. via
Example: A 19-year-old with serious stones secretly took up residence inside AOL’s Palo Alto campus, eating free food, enjoying gym access, and building a startup in the process.
Back Story: Eric Simons was in a four month program with the incubator Imagine K12 which is housed at AOL. When the four months ended he had no money left to go anywhere else so he started couch surfing around the corporate campus.
Via CNET:
Having spent several months legitimately working in the building, often quite late, Simons had noticed that although there were security guards with nightly rounds, there were at least three couches that seemed outside those patrols. Plus, they looked fairly comfortable. He claimed them.
This was his routine: He’d work until midnight or later, and then fall asleep around 2 a.m. on one of the couches. At 7 a.m. — and no later than 8 a.m. so he’d be safely out of his field bed before anyone else arrived — he’d wake up, go down to the gym for a workout and a shower, and then go back upstairs and scarf a breakfast of cereal and water or Coke. Then he’d work all day, finally waiting until everyone else in the building had gone home before returning to one of his three favored couches.
“I got a really good work ethic,” he said, “and I got in shape, since I had to work out every morning.”
Demonstrators outside the presidential palace in Tegucigalpa, Honduras protesting the murder of more than 20 journalists in that country over the last three years.
None of the murders have been solved.
(via futurejournalismproject)