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Watch: "The Science of Anti-Vaccination"



The science of anti-vaccination

Vaccinate your children.

"Get the facts from the medical and scientific community, and if you're not a doctor or scientist yourself, listen to the people who are. It's that simple."

 Laura Payton, CBC News;

Prime Minister Stephen Harper says parents in developed countries have a responsibility to set an example for those in less-educated countries when it comes to using vaccines, and advised people to listen to scientists and doctors.


Stephen Harper tells parents to listen to scientists about vaccines

Too bad Harper can’t take his own advice when it comes to environmental issues. Hypocrite.

Read: "The Power of Story" by Elizabeth Svoboda

Elizabeth Svoboda;

The careers of many great novelists and filmmakers are built on the assumption, conscious or not, that stories can motivate us to re-evaluate the world and our place in it. New research is lending texture and credence to what generations of storytellers have known in their bones – that books, poems, movies, and real-life stories can affect the way we think and even, by extension, the way we act.


The power of story

Watch: "Empathy, Neurochemistry, and the Dramatic Arc: Paul Zak at the Future of StoryTelling 2012"



via Aeon Magazine