https://pinboard.in/u:jm/public/ recent bookmarks from jm 2014-01-11T00:24:17+00:00 http://www.slate.com/articles/life/family/2014/01/growing_up_unvaccinated_a_healthy_lifestyle_couldn_t_prevent_many_childhood.html jmI understand, to a point, where the anti-vaccine parents are coming from. Back in the ’90s, when I was a concerned, 19-year-old mother, frightened by the world I was bringing my child into, I was studying homeopathy, herbalism, and aromatherapy; I believed in angels, witchcraft, clairvoyants, crop circles, aliens at Nazca, giant ginger mariners spreading their knowledge to the Aztecs, the Incas, and the Egyptians, and that I was somehow personally blessed by the Holy Spirit with healing abilities. I was having my aura read at a hefty price and filtering the fluoride out of my water. I was choosing to have past life regressions instead of taking antidepressants. I was taking my daily advice from tarot cards. I grew all my own veg and made my own herbal remedies. I was so freaking crunchy that I literally crumbled. It was only when I took control of those paranoid thoughts and fears about the world around me and became an objective critical thinker that I got well. It was when I stopped taking sugar pills for everything and started seeing medical professionals that I began to thrive physically and mentally. ]]> health medicine science vaccination disease slate https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:a2e0db712118/ 2012-01-22T21:09:37+00:00 http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn21373-why-should-we-stop-online-piracy.html?full=true jm piracy new-scientist slate sopa filesharing dead-weight-loss economics music movies https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:47074ad8f905/