Swine flu updates from Science Blogs

[GoneOffShore]

Here at this link - http://scienceblogs.com/effectmeasure/

[salvorhardin]

1. Effect Measure is definitely the place to go for swine flu information

Unless you enjoy hype and fear mongering, in which case DU is your one-stop source. :D

[Mojorabbit]

20. The blog

fluwikie was started by an MD and the authors of effect measure and is the place to go for the most up to date news.
http://www.newfluwiki2.com/frontPage.do

[emilyg]

2. TY

[Codeine]

3. Actual information?

This won't appeal to the Swine Flu Truthers. ;)

[GoneOffShore]

4. I know - That's why I knew it would sink like a stone,

If I'd posted something about how the "gubmint" had constructed the swine flue there would have been 200 responses.

[ColbertWatcher]

7. There's another tribe of troofers!? n/t

[LeftyMom]

10. I think it's mostly the same people on a new tangent.

[ColbertWatcher]

12. Like an addict moving from meth to Jesus. n/t

[nadinbrzezinski]

24. Something like that, one of them actually asked yesterday

if this was an act of god...

Yep, palm on face moment

[MrMonk]

9. Facty overloads are also in style with the troofers.

A litany of facts loosely arranged around the periphery of an assertion.
Tends to smother any relevant information that one might offer.

[bluedawg12]

15. You noticed too?

When there is no point to make-make it with vehemence.

[csziggy]

5. Thanks! Bookmarked for future reference

And it looks like a very interesting site to visit for other science, too.

[Occulus]

6. Casual, 2AM kick n/t

[bananas]

8. A Sermonette? No thank you.

[TZ]

13. Yeah, Silly epidemiologists

What do they know about infectious diseases..:sarcasm:
For someone who says they are interested in science, you ignore actual data quite a bit.:eyes:

[GoneOffShore]

32. I just realized - that much like the old song

"Yes, we have no profiles, we have no profiles todayyyy"

[GoneOffShore]

22. Just remember Hanlon's Razor

Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.

[GoneOffShore]

26. I noticed no sermonizing. Of what is this you speak?

Are you perchance, an alchemist searching for the lapis philosophorum or are your humours unbalanced?

[bananas]

29. They have a weekly "Sunday Sermonette"

"For our many new visitors, the Freethinker Sermonette is a regular Sunday feature here."
http://scienceblogs.com/effectmeasure/freethinker_sermonettes/

[GoneOffShore]

31. You are irony impaired, aren't you?

The posts can hardly be classed as "Sermonettes" unless you think that scientific thought is a religion, which it's not.

[uppityperson]

11. thank you. k&r

[bluedawg12]

14. Thanks, I have been looking for a progressive focus on public health

this current situation is a really good time to look at our national and global public health systems to make sure they are in optimal working condition.

I had read in a fly-by post I couldn't get to, but the gist of it was that the science hating repugs, you know the smiling Bobby Jindal's with their mentality of the "stupidity of monitoring volcanoes - people" that those repugs had also cut funding for infectious disease pandemics.

As it stands, if there were an outbreak, there aren't enough ventilators, hospital beds or meds.

Not to mention staff training on a local community level, as already our health care workers are overworked,
except for our own Heddi, who is now occupied in inventing eau de' smoked porky links. :rofl:

[DainBramaged]

16. DU-ALL SWINE FLU ALL THE TIME, WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE AAARRRGGGHHH

[Skidmore]

33. Some of us have apparently already passed on.

[SidDithers]

17. This thread is full of win...

K&R, and thanks for posting.

Sid

[Dappleganger]

18. Love this site, thanks for the rec. nt

[GoneOffShore]

25. Thanks for the thank you.

There is so much hysteria and nonsense floating around about this that finding a source that actually reports on genuine science is a good thing.

Plus Science Blogs is a great place to hang around. I've learnt a lot recently about the antics of the anti science brigade - on both sides of the political spectrum.

[davsand]

19. I just bookmarked it. Thank you for sharing!

Sent that same link to kevsand as well.


Laura

[bluedawg12]

21. That is an excellent progressive site on public health matters.

It has loads of information above and beyond this flu.

[GoneOffShore]

23. And it leads to Science Blogs

Spreading knowledge and stemming the flood of stupid and woo woo.

[mr blur]

27. I'm sorry, but your lack of hysteria

means that your thread serves on useful purpose. Try again when you've worked up a panic.

[GoneOffShore]

28. But I've got that book with the big friendly letters on the cover

"Don't Panic".

And I know where my towel is.

[SidDithers]

30. Kick...nt

Sid