Open Eyes Network 068 02-06-15 Hellish Doctrines

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Every two years, the National Science Foundation conducts a survey as part of a report called Science and Engineering Indicators that’s presented to the president and Congress. In the survey, they ask questions to get an idea of Americans’ grasp on basic science. They just did it again, and the results weren’t so good. More than 25% answered that the sun revolves around the Earth, less than half said yes to evolution, and only 39% said the universe began with the Big Bang.

I understand the doubt on evolution and the big bang theory.  However…

That’s over 80million people.

It probably doesn’t help that throughout history and currently, we say the sun rises in the east and sets in west, sing and write about sunrise and sunset, poems about sunrise/sunset and visually it appears that the sun rises and sets and even our weather reports have sunrise and sunset times. All indications implicate the sun as the mover and shaker. If someone doesn’t learn the facts they will believe what they see and hear even though it isn’t true

Most People Getting Measles Are Adults

Data from CDC: (Source)

Age Distribution of Confirmed Cases

Age (Years)

< 1 year old = 8%

1 – 4 yrs old = 14%

5 – 19 yr old = 18%

>20 yrs old = 60%

In lieu of the heated debate about vaccination of school-age children, looking at the CDC’s statistics, we see that most of the the outbreak is hitting adults, and children who are too young to be vaccinated (less than 1 year= 8%) or those only old enough to have one of two recommended vaccinations (1 – 4 yr olds = 18%) Less than 20% of the infected persons fall into the age group who are at the heart of the vaccination debate.

Why is there no outcry from the pro-vaxxers concerning adults getting a booster, considering they are clearly most effected by the outbreak, hence the true ‘carriers’ and danger to the ‘herd.’

http://gizmodo.com/half-the-dna-on-the-nyc-subway-matches-no-known-organis-1684045880?utm_campaign=socialflow_gizmodo_facebook&utm_source=gizmodo_facebook&utm_medium=socialflow

Half the DNA on the NYC Subway Matches No Known Organism

 

The results of a massive new DNA sequencing project on the New York City subway have just been published. And yup, there’s a lot of bacteria on the subway—though we know most of it is harmless. What’s really important, though, is what we don’t know about it.

 

The PathoMap project, which involved sampling turnstiles, benches, and keypads at 466 stations, found 15,152 life-forms in total, half of which were bacterial. The Wall Street Journal has created a fun, interactive microbial map of the subway out of the data, showing where on the lines the bacteria “associated with” everything from mozzarella cheese to staph infections was found.

 

 

Initial database searches with subway DNA, for instance, turned up false matches to the Tasmanian devil, the Himalayan yak and the Mediterranean fruit fly—all creatures highly unlikely to be found in a New York transit system.

 

http://gizmodo.com/oh-shit-health-insurer-anthem-was-the-victim-of-a-mass-1683904320

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