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If the shooting in Ferguson was captured on video there would have been no protests. If the video showed a harmless man being gunned down in cold blood then the cop would be on trial for murder and the public would see justice being served - there would certainly be complaints but nothing like what we saw.

Unfortunately, that's not what happened in this case with the Bart police.

The police officer only got nine months of prison, and even then, that's only because of the protests and the riots that followed. Initially, they didn't have any intention of pressing charges.

No wonder, the Bart police is just looking for ways to quickly shut down the cell phone service. Had they had this ability to shut down the cell phone networks during the initial incident, they would have at least had the time to confiscate everyone's cell phone before the video could have been uploaded anywhere.

The $100M construction bond for the San Francisco 49er's Levi Stadium is tied to lease revenue from a shopping mall being built by the team. Santa Clara approved a $25M construction bond for stadium-related improvements that's tied to property taxes. Silicon Valley might be the exception, as most local government depend on sales tax revenue for their own bonds.

Medium is like a crowd-sourced blog with no ads... what's the issue you have with it?

Of all the BS on Slashdot, this is much more akin to its roots of aggregating less-know tech articles.

Ummm... No. Medium is not really "crowd-sourced". And it certainly has ads, it just doesn't have "obvious" advertising of products, rather the whole thing is to include lots of "native advertising". Or ... "product placement" if you prefer. I signed up for Medium a long time ago. I do like some of the stories - some are informative in that they prompt me to research deeper in some topics. But don't suffer from the illusion that this is some popular, organically grown blog site, with authors submitting stories like commentators and submitters on /. It's more like what /. is trying to become: Something that looks like a user-driven comment site, but that's actually a new media channel for companies. In this case, I suspect it's an attempt by Wales and other officers at Wikipedia as part of a marketing campaign to drive up donations. But Medium is that kind of vehicle for any corporation.

Medium doesn't really hide what they do, but you have to dig a little bit to figure out what they are and what they are doing. These are journalists that know journalism is a lousy way to try to make a living these days, with newspapers and magazines dying out, and advertising as an Internet news funding model unable to generate enough revenue to support the kind of staff that traditional print, and even cable news, has been able to support in the past. So this is another idea to generate that revenue (not that there is anything wrong with that, but people should be aware of what's going on, and the funding that is driving the agenda).

Have you noticed that you can only create an "account" on Medium with a Twitter or Facebook account link? Yea, that's the case? Is Facebook helping fund Medium? Maybe. Twitter money certainly is They are trying to bring in companies and especially start-ups to get their marketing messages out on Medium. If you look around, you can find plenty of articles that come down to shameless promotion, which is how I view this one. How many news stories show up on cable and network news that are primarily done for someone promoting a book? That's not incidental to Medium stories - it's what the built Medium FOR.

So, I don't know if you can really call it "crowd sourced". It's another Silicon Valley startup, with no obvious business model, but lots of funding and wealthy Silicon Valley Gen Xer's running it.

Can coastal communities expect rising seas? Yep. Of about 1 foot per 100 years so far. If they can't handle that then move.

Worth mentioning that continental drift moves faster than that. Then there is this kind of thing. If you live on the edge of the ocean, the dynamic nature of the coastline is just something you have to deal with.

My first experience with this was from this article, which quite possibly has the best headline ever - "Incompetent People Really Have No Clue, Studies Find / They're blind to own failings, others' skills"

Someone, please produce a remix of this. The Technology Chronicles - 'Pilotless drone’ caller: No apology By Ben Pimentel on February 20, 2007 10:10 AM http://blog.sfgate.com/techchr... Pilotless Droneplane? https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Gerry Potter's research led to what he calls "pro-drug paradigm" that is it's not a drug, it's turned into a drug by something, then becomes active.

I met one of this guys friends in Starbucks once and we became good friends and he explained a bunch of this stuff to me. Here's the short version:

The Cytochrome P450 enzyme CYP1B1 [1] only occurs in cancer cells [2][3]. When certain phytoallexins such as resveratrol and salvestrol are ingested these phytoalexins are converted by the P450 enzyme into piceatannol [4], which is fatal to cancer cells but not human cells [5][6].

  [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C...
  [2] http://cancerres.aacrjournals....
  [3] http://secure.salvestrol.ca/se...
  [4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P...
  [5] http://www.nature.com/bjc/jour...
  [6] http://www.orthomolecular.org/...

Here's some articles and stuff:
http://www.thisisleicestershir...

"Prostate cancer drug so effective trial stopped"
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/hea...

Pat ettenttion to the colors on this map: http://www.cancerresearchuk.or...

If you poke around you can find cliical repoets online. All people seem to get better and this stuff has been around since 2007.

So, I think they're on to something here... and it may be a a way to Patent Potter's second discovery (based on CYP1B1) which is not patentable. His first discovery based on CYP17 was patentable and sold for two billion untested.

They're awfully skint on the biochemical explanation.

Remember the miracle on the Hudson? It was the flight attendants who made sure everyone was safe and made sure they evacuated in an orderly fashion. They were the last ones off the plane. THAT is why they are there and I for one am glad to see them.

Does the math work? How many lives per year would flight attendants have to save to justify the price?

There's just short of 10m flights per year in the US, and a US life is worth about $7m for prime-aged workers. If a flight costs an average of 10 flight attendant hours (I'm guessing that's low), that means we spend 100m flight attendant hours per year.

Starting pay for flight attendants is $16/hr. So that's 1.6 billion dollars per year, plus overhead, that we pay for flight attendants.

If safety is 50% of their job, and overhead is 50% of base pay, that means we're spending $1.2b per year on flight attendants for safety purposes.

At $7m per life, that means they have to provide safety benefits equal to saving 170 lives per year. In the US, we currently lose about 15.3 lives per year to air travel fatalities.

Just ballpark figures, but it feels like we're overpaying.

The late unlamented Fred Phelps and his crew took any expression of disgust and outrage against him as evidence they were doing the Lord's work. That's how these folks think.

So you're suggesting that they could be compared to a non-violent ACT UP San Francisco ?

If the university has a nuclear science department, it probably has a nuclear research reactor in the basement. Although not big enough to trigger a nuclear chain reaction, they still have enough radioactive material for a dirty bomb.

Salaries in the academic world are crazy, and still getting worse - for example, rather than heralding how budget conscious the UC system is, paying chancellors "only" $319K, instead, they "fixed the problem" with a 20% across the board pay raise.

Just in time, I am sure, without making over $380K, I am sure all those administrators would just go work somewhere else and you wouldn't be able to find anyone qualified for such paltry salaries.

Some of that info seems bogus. 10,000 CNC mills? Unlikely. 10,000 CNC machines of all types across all of Apple manufacturing, maybe.

I was skeptical too, but then I looked up the numbers and turns out 10,000 is actually an underestimation:

Foxconn, the Apple supplier that doubled factory pay after a spate of worker suicides, buys 800 programmable Robodrills from Fanuc every month - for about $62,000 each - to make the stainless steel band that wraps around the iPhone.

The Fanuc Robodrill is the world's common CNC machine measured by installation numbers and by total value thanks to Apple.

Who cares if Uber _is_ a cab company? What moral authority does the state have to stop consenting adults from forming their own contracts and doing business with each other?

As an adult and a cyclist, I would prefer that any vehicle that hits me have the insurance to cover my injuries. Since Uber only has 50k/individual/accident if the driver is between trips, and since Uber has denied liability in similar circumstances, I consider them a risk.

In other news, California courts ruled that Yelp is allowed to manipulate the ratings that users see, depending on whether the restaurant pays for advertising.

Maybe if there is a distracted driving law that you're violating when you do it. Otherwise, probably not. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11... http://blog.sfgate.com/bicycle... http://sf.streetsblog.org/2013...

[...]or drive between cars in their lanes because they are going to slow for you.

Splitting the lane is legal in many states.

liability coverage is needed
http://www.sfgate.com/news/art...

victims should not be holding the bag when drivers like this have insurance that uses loop holes to get out of covering victims. Taxis and other "commercial transport license" drivers have insurance that covers them all the time.

In Australia an Uber driver with private car insurance (meaning all of them) would still have the claims paid out (except that of the Uber driver, because he violated the terms of the policy). However the insurer would be free to go after any assets the driver has and any assets Uber has as compensation.

I'd wager Germany would be similar.

liability coverage is needed
http://www.sfgate.com/news/art...

victims should not be holding the bag when drivers like this have insurance that uses loop holes to get out of covering victims. Taxis and other "commercial transport license" drivers have insurance that covers them all the time.

A series of self-portraits taken by Indonesian monkeys has sparked a copyright dispute between Wikipedia and a British wildlife photographer, says Wikipedia is using his copyrighted images without permission. Photographer David Slater complained that Wikipedia rejected his requests for the images to be removed from the website. Although the monkeys pressed the button, Slater set up the self-portraits by framing them and setting the camera on a tripod. The Wikimedia Foundation claims that no one owns the copyright to the images, because under U.S. law, 'copyright cannot vest in non-human authors', the monkeys in this case.

http://www.sfgate.com/news/wor...

Let's see here:
1) "A series of self-portraits" -- I seem to recall a set of pictures initially, some of which could be considered self-portraits, many of which were of the general area the camera was pointed at with some monkey bits partially in the picture. This was not a selfie-shoot; some of the pictures just happened to be a) of the monkey and b) in focus.
2) Slater set up the self-portraits. False. Slater set up the camera, and was completely surprised by the monkey who came in while he wasn't paying attention and started taking random pictures. I read his original article before this whole thing blew up. Back then he was just excited to share this with the rest of the world. It's true that he curated the photos (got rid of the ones that weren't worth publishing), but there was no artistic intent in his leaving his camera unattended.
3) Non-human authors. This same public domain situation exists if you set up your camera with a motion sensor and capture your cat doing funny things. Unless you had intent (difficult to prove, and you have to PROVE it under copyright law), such images are in the public domain.

So yeah; the thing about a site like Wikipedia, is that everyone who wants free publicity but doesn't get the concept of making information FREELY available will try to coopt it for their own use -- and someone has to be the gatekeeper.

Personally, I think for 90% of the articles, Wales does a decent job as the final gatekeeper, and Wikipedia ends up as a more useful resource than Encyclopedia Brittanica. For that other 10%... 8% of it is stuff that should indicate almost immediately that you should go somewhere else for the real story. The final 2% is an issue, but is still a better hit/miss ratio than you'd get from pretty much any other third-party source.

A series of self-portraits taken by Indonesian monkeys has sparked a copyright dispute between Wikipedia and a British wildlife photographer, says Wikipedia is using his copyrighted images without permission. Photographer David Slater complained that Wikipedia rejected his requests for the images to be removed from the website. Although the monkeys pressed the button, Slater set up the self-portraits by framing them and setting the camera on a tripod. The Wikimedia Foundation claims that no one owns the copyright to the images, because under U.S. law, 'copyright cannot vest in non-human authors', the monkeys in this case.

http://www.sfgate.com/news/wor...

perhaps if these people saved up and bought their own homes rather than renting, they wouldnt be in this mess.

The median price for a new or existing single family home or condo in San Francisco is one million dollars.

The median is the price for which half of homes sold for more and half for less.

The nosebleed price is a result of limited inventory and an influx of cash buyers willing to pay whatever it takes.

Many are tech workers with stock compensation from an initial public offering or takeover. Realtors call them "Google" kids even if they are 40 years old and work on biotech.

A secondary group of cash buyers are [mostly Asian investors] who see San Francisco as a relative bargain.

$1 million city: S.F. home price hits seven figures for the first time [July 17, 2014]

The median household income in the U.S. is $53,000. State & County QuickFacts [2008-2012]

It's really about Xbox. From the linked article ...

Microsoft is getting some free TV advertising by outfitting the tablets with sky-blue cases clearly labeled "Surface." But Microsoft's main motivation is what the Redmond, Wash., company receives from its partnership with the NFL: a reported $400 million, five-year deal. That includes interactive content to help sell Xbox home video game consoles.

[ ... ]

When the regular season starts, Microsoft's Xbox Live network will offer services that include video feeds of game highlights and fantasy football data. Xbox owners will also gain access to NFL Sunday Ticket, the league's package of out-of-market game telecasts that was previously available only to DirecTV satellite service subscribers.

http://www.sfgate.com/technolo...

There is plenty of evidence. Here is just one I found in 5 seconds:

Under forced arbitration, instead of going to court, you're required to take your dispute to an arbitrator hired and paid by the company that wronged you. One study found that arbitrators rule for the big businesses that hire them 94 percent of the time. Odds are you've signed at least one contract with a forced arbitration clause buried in the fine print.

http://www.sfgate.com/opinion/...

You're (I believe inadvertently) painting an inaccurate picture when it comes to Tesla's stance towards unions. Even if they are neutral towards employee unions (more on that in a minute), NADA is still one of the largest unions in the automotive industry, and has made no bones about the fact that they are opposed to Tesla's business model. Unions have been attacking Tesla from the start and continue to do so even now. Factory employee unions may not be a part of the fray yet, but they're hardly the only type of trade union.

Moreover, on the topic of employee unions, Musk may say he's neutral, but Tesla's actions make it clear that it is hardly neutral. From another article (emphasis mine):

Musk's opinions on unionization aren't clear. When he announced the Fremont factory's purchase from Toyota, Musk told The Chronicle that "on the question of the union, we're neutral." [...]

Tesla's last annual financial report struck a far less welcoming note. It listed the possibility of union activity under "risks" to the business.

"The mere fact that our labor force could be unionized may harm our reputation in the eyes of some investors and thereby negatively affect our stock price," reads the report, filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. "Additionally, the unionization of our labor force could increase our employee costs and decrease our profitability, both of which could adversely affect our business, prospects, financial condition and results of operations."

[...] Other Tesla managers, [UAW President Bob] King said, seemed to be opposed. Musk, he said, was "very open and said he would respect what the workers wanted. But his operating management has done the opposite."

And, contrary to your claims regarding Uber, it has been facing issues from trade unions, namely taxi, limo, and other professional driver unions across the country that have been campaigning extremely hard to keep Uber out. I'll grant that they are almost entirely operating against Uber at the city and state level, but that pressure on the governments is originating from the unions. Without the unions campaigning, the city governments likely wouldn't be getting involved at all.

That said, I do agree with you that the summary grossly missteps by suggesting that the issue of state-level protectionist regulators has much of anything to do with the complaints of small-government folks.

So, can you lose your 4th amendment rights, your right to free speech and your right to due process when the government gives you a license to drive a car? How about for fishing or hunting? Or a permit for installing a pool or addition to your home?

Yes, SCOTUS has previously ruled that you do lose some 4th amendment rights when you receive a fishing or hunting license. http://m.sfgate.com/news/article/Game-wardens-don-t-need-a-warrant-to-stop-cars-3383756.php Other cases have clarified that they can search your home, as well as your car, without a warrant and you lose those 4th amendment rights simply by being suspected of fishing or hunting.

"Someone who has "chosen to engage in the heavily regulated activity" of hunting or fishing has a "diminished reasonable expectation of privacy,"

The 4th amendment restricts Customs or even the TSA more heavily than it does Fish & Game Wardens.Thank goodness they abuse it less too.

Do you really want the choice where the safe, knowledgeable driver [...]

"Safe, knowledgeable" taxi drivers like this guy or this guy? And that's just two cases I know of in San Francisco.

actually this has more to do with the presidio trust screwing him over for 4 years.

http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/...

it delays the person's departure thereby reducing effective parking availability.

Yes, but it also eliminates the parking shortage for as long as that parking space is on the market. Remember, a shortage is when you can't buy something at any price, so when you put a price on a parking space when all other spaces are filled, you've temporarily eliminated the shortage of parking spaces.

[Using] phones while driving which in San Francisco is a crime...

No it isn't.

I've personally sat through a case where a bystander's filming was manipulated and only pieces of it brought to court. Without the full context, the film was a lie. That sent a good police officer to prison. The laws are far behind these double edged swords... whatever happened to "the full truth"?

It's too bad that the police don't have access to the same advanced technology that normal citizens use to make recordings.

There is no excuse for police not having body-cams and dash-cams that signs and dates all recordings and are unalterable by the officers. (and they should have enough recording space/battery life to stay on during an entire shift so you don't end up with a situation like "Oh gee, we shot someone by mistake, but none of us remembered to turn on our cameras)

Then when a citizen's camera shows the police in a bad light, the police can counter with their own camera footage.

As pointed out earlier, it's not the FCC's definition, Oliver called on "trolls" verbatim.

Don't worry if you, like the anonymous coward didn't get the joke, pop-reference, and implications of what the current administration is doing/acting like/etc. I'm sure that you'll catch it soon, much like how he's openly flaunting the law.

The Google Play Store, for one. Yeah I know there's F-Droid and others, and you can sideload, but for an average consumer who just wants his angry birds? .. integrations with Google services (contacts and settings backed up, for example)

I can understand why someone would want that stuff, but would the same person who is concerned about "Google adware/spyware" ever want that stuff? If you are ok with sending that data to Google (no wait, not just ok with it, but if you want to store that data at Google) then why the hell are you against Google spyware? If you want Google Play and a bunch of other dubious unauditable proprietary software, all of which is just as dangerous as Google apps except less scrutinized, then what's the problem with Google?

Strangely, you even mentioned Angry Birds, of all games. I feel like you're going out of your way to present a weird, inconsistent situation that describes no type of user's niche. That's like someone who smokes two packs a day saying he is scared to eat bananas because he read they give you cancer.

Pick a position! Are you passionate about security or apathetic? Seriously, I can't tell. I'm not even saying a side is wrong, but you're cherry picking as though you're you're an anarchist nazi, or a hippie capitalist, or drunk prohibitionist, or Victorian pornstar, or religious fundamentalist scientist. WTF?

Self-driving cars are superior to public transport and regular cars in many ways. A long line of self-driving cars can drive like one long flexible vehicle - like a train with rubber wheels. Except any segment in the train can go its own way if the occupant needs to go elsewhere than the rest of the train. Self-driving cars are like a train that goes from your front door to where ever you need to go and where you get your own compartment. These compartments can be centrally routed to maximize the capacity of the road network. You can own your own compartment, so if someone trashes their compartment or takes a dump on the seat, that won't become your problem. They can park themselves more compactly than regular cars - the doors do not need to open when parked and you can box the cars in with other self-driving cars that will get out of the way to retrieve the boxed in car. Self-driving compartments can drive on the already existing road network. Granted, even these small bubble cars are not as dense as a fully loaded bus or train, but it's not like buses and trains are usually fully loaded anyway. If we can replace all the current cars with self-driving compartments, that will be a huge boon to everyone (well, maybe except professional drivers).

To answer your question, what's wrong with normal public transportation is that it doesn't go from where I am. Once I somehow get to a stop I have to wait for the next departure. Efficient public transportation is fully loaded, which means you get to be packed in with a mass of bodies - you don't enjoy that either. Once I arrive, I have to somehow get from the stop to where I want to go. So now I've wasted a bunch of time doing something unpleasant and I STILL need to find an alternative transport solution to get to where I actually want to go. Self-driving cars solve all these problems and more.

In the mean time, Google does support public transportation in SF.

http://www.sfgate.com/nation/a...

You mean like maybe north of Canada or in the Bering Sea where there is so much ice the last few years that boats can't follow their normal schedules and are shut down for months at a time because of the ice? But I never see an alarming article about MORE ice. Always less.

That's because less than "a lot" can still be "a lot". Let's take for example, the difference between now and the 1940s, in 1940s it took 4 years to circumnavigate North America, including 3 years just for the Northwest passage, now it takes less than half a year. Being shut down for just months is a huge improvement over being shut down for years.

Yes, now go lookup what happened with their manufactured (in China) steel decking that wasn't quite up to spec. Details...

http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/...

The CDC recommends 56g of protein for adult males, and 46 for females. The British Nutrition Foundation's RNI is 0.75g per kilogram of body weight. Proteins in diet provide essential amino acids which cannot be synthesized by our organism. Most people get more than enough protein, but getting too little is very very bad. See also. Now show us what you've been reading.

That's the Hollywood argument. So how's the Californian government getting on after all that tax evasion?

Pretty well.

it's not the bigotry, its the fact they have no zoning laws and some megacorp can build a fertilizer plant next to residential housing and kill people when it explodes
or build some oil refinery next to someone's home and poison their air and water

While I'm sure that Texas has totally managed to avoid the scourge of zoning laws, the California approach has its own drawbacks that are becoming apparent, especially as California is now practically speaking a one party state run by Democrats with super majorities able to pass whatever they want.

California: CEOs Rate It Worst U.S. Business Climate For 8 Years Running
Hundreds of Thousands Flee Democrat-Run California
Just How Bad is California’s Business Climate?
California, a bad bet for business - Why would new enterprises come to a state like this?
Texas v. California: The Real Facts Behind The Lone Star State's Miracle
State leaders closely watch migrating millionaires

Linky linky.

http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/...

Herre. Different case than renter-subletters.

S.F. is one of those markets.

I wonder of the IRS will get into the game too. Rentals more then 14 days are taxable income (minus expenses).

No matter how big a spill they make and no matter what the degree of gross negligence, the worst that can possibly happen is that Phillips gets their profits reduced on a one-time basis. Nobody will ever see jail time, and this is the system working exactly as intended.

Your post reads like speculation based on reading too many conspiracy sites (don't worry, I attribute it to political corruption, not incompetence). I don't know if anyone deserves jailtime for this particular pipeline problem, but criminal charges do happen.

well, considering that the rise of these diagnosis seems to be highly correlated with the ability to get SSI benefits in the US, how could anyone really be surprise that, with an economic perk this big, there wouldn't be a shift in behavior among parents?

So, you are saying that the entire medical profession is in on an SSI scam? What's in it for the doctor and nurses involved?

well, considering that the rise of these diagnosis seems to be highly correlated with the ability to get SSI benefits in the US, how could anyone really be surprise that, with an economic perk this big, there wouldn't be a shift in behavior among parents?

Should I keep going? A few more posts perhaps?

Well, that place is going to be dug up soon according to this article.

, you get about 25% of your salary back through not paying income taxes

What state do you live in? State income taxes are on the order of 5%, not 25%. And according to my friends in Texas, you end up paying for it in different ways there - property taxes etc.

California. We passed prop 30, which institutes a retroactive income tax back to Jan 1 2012, payable in April 2014 for the 2012/2013 tax years.

Compare this with the income necessary to purchase a home in the Bay Area, *assuming* you have a 15-20% down payment saved: $115,510.06; if you make less than that, congratulations, you're a renter. Source: http://blog.sfgate.com/pender/...

If you look over the past 500 billion years, the geological record shows that there is a mass extinction event roughly every 62 million years. Even though there is some give and take, on that timescale it's almost like clockwork. Since this discovery, scientists of many disciplines have been trying to figure out what could be causing it. While I admit that it could be a cosmic coincidence, if not, then somewhere a culprit is lurking. There are also lesser extinction events every 26 - 35 million years.

For more on the 62 million year problem

More on mass extinction events in general

Wow that's so much misinformation and tinfoil hat thinking in one place.

Ahhh.. so many of those that died from measles where probably vaccinated but it was not effective?

I'm not even sure what this means as you provide no information. I assume you mean recent outbreaks in which the vast majority occurred because people had not been vaccinated.

So why get it when measles can be beaten with high dose vitamin A?

Again I'm not sure where your misinformation comes from but the WHO recommends high doses of vitamin A with the vaccine to poorly nourished children in developing countries to kill two birds with one stone.

Don't they test these vaccines? Are there any in depth studies of the effectiveness of vaccines?

[Citation please for your misinformation] Decades of research is easy to google btw.

How about Paul "Profit" Offit's poop vaccine?

Again you provide little information on what is in your mind. I can only assume you mean the rotavirus vaccine which he spent 25 years developing. It saves many, many lives a day. For 25 years of research, he gets money from his invention. So what?

How much was that studied before it was rubber stamped as recommended while he was at the CDC?

Does a clinical trial of 70,000 count as rubber-stamping? Again so much misinformation.

http://childhealthsafety.wordpress.com/2011/04/23/offit-congressional-reprimand/

If that is your only source of information, I suggest you need to fact check it. For example, it wasn't a reprimand. It was a report. In it, he voted for rotavirus vaccines (and this important) that he did not develop. He abstained from voting for the one he did develop with Merck. As for the rest of the blog, misinformation and outright lies. For example, Hanah Poling's family was awarded money for encephalopathy which is not due to a vaccine. The anti-vaccine crowd claims it was for autism but anyone reading the full report sees otherwise. Misinformation at best.

Pig Pharma is not to be trusted and that is why parents aren't getting their kids vaccinated.

So much bias and irrational thinking there. I assume that you also advice parents not to give children aspirin as well as they also make billions for the industry.

Vaccines are not a bad idea per se for some things, but there is very little ethics in the industry, and as past practices have come to light over the years it does not appear that there ever was any.

[Citation Please] Other than a blog from someone who is completely biased.