Amy sent this open letter written by a woman to her father, who had posted anti-vaccination information on his Facebook account, thus — according to the writer — contributing to an anti-science mentality that very much affects reseachers’ ability to move forward. From Tara C. Smith, an epidemiologist: Know the results of this vaccine backlash?… Continue Reading
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If Facebook had existed during WWII:
This is what it would have looked like. (Naughty word alert: But this is pretty incredible.) And thanks, Sue, for the link.… Continue Reading
Hocus pocus for the 21st century: Facebook and the law
If you have a Facebook account this week, you have probably seen people either posting a stream of legal-sounding wording asserting copyright protection of their Facebook content, or, if you have friends like mine, you’ve seen an increasingly infuriated series of posts pointing out that the copyright message is utter hokum. I have joined in… Continue Reading
You and the Book of Life
I am Facebook friends (as opposed to friends-friends) with something called Jesus Daily. I don’t know how that happened, but just last night, the above photo appeared, and it sent me into a long cogitation session over how one would know. (For the uninitiated, the Book of Life is the big book in which… Continue Reading
Restore your own Ecce Homo!
After word got around that the elderly Cecilia Gimenez had inexpertly “restored” a beloved fresco of Jesus by Elías García Martínez, some wags started this website, where you can trumpet your own do-it-yourself projects — the good, the bad, and the ill-advised. (Of course, not everyone hates Ms. Gimenez’s work.) I mean, her work has… Continue Reading
Politics and Facebook
On this, the first day of the Democratic National Convention (the Republican National Convention was last week), what role should social media play in the discussion? (I ask as a user of both Facebook and Twitter, and on one night last week, I was such a snot-ball, I vowed to take the next night off… Continue Reading