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View More Newsfrom the holy-shit dept The country is continuing to reel from multiple infectious disease outbreaks in America, even as childhood vaccination rates continue to fall. Measles, cyclosporiasis, whooping cough: you don’t actually need me to go on. With RFK Jr. using his position as Secretary of HHS to further muddy the waters on vaccines and their safety, some states are going even further than the federal government. Even as states like South Carolina have fielded proposals to end religious exemptions for public school inoculations, states like Florida have attempted to go the opposite direction and simply end all school vaccine…
Documents obtained by The Guardian and The Associated Press indicate that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. lied to Congress when he said that his 2019 visit to Samoa ahead of a deadly measles outbreak had “nothing to do with vaccines.” The records were recently released by the U.S. Department of State in response to a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit Reporters Committee attorneys filed on behalf of the AP and reporter Michelle Smith. The newly disclosed documents include a letter in which Kennedy told Samoan officials ahead of his visit that he wanted to study the measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine…
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On 15 June 1991, the volcano Mount Pinatubo on the island of Luzon in the Philippines erupted violently, releasing an ash cloud on a scale so vast that seeing a photograph of it boggles the human mind. The eruption spewed out something north of 17 million tonnes of sulphur dioxide. For context, that’s roughly equivalent to 1,700 Eiffel Towers’ worth of material ejected out of the ground and into the sky.The effects were global, albeit quite temporary. As a result of the explosion, NASA estimates that temperatures worldwide fell by about half a degree Celsius on average over the following…
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