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  1. Re:Litigious society on Court Rules Against Vaccine-Autism Claims Again · · Score: 5, Informative

    Have you ever stopped to wonder why polio is so uncommon in the US? Yep, vaccines.

    We are currently seeing a resurgent of measles cases in kids BECAUSE parents are not vaccinating their children due to concerns for vaccines causing autism. This will happen with polio as well. You assume a steady state of population in the US (or other country) without influx of unvaccinated, exposed people.

    You fail to realize that not every vaccine works as a post-exposure prophylaxis. There are some that do and some that don't. I don't recall if polio is one of them, but a quick pubmed search could probably find out.

    Modern medicine is a field of balanced risks. Every medication I prescribe for a patient has a potential to cause harm. I and the patient have to balance this risk versus the risk of not treating the disease. Absolutely no treatment in medicine is "safe". For most, the benefit outweighs the risk. Even supplemental oxygen can be disastrous in a patient with lung disease.

  2. Re:Come on, can't we have a autogenerator for VRML on Open 3D Scientific Visualization Toolkit · · Score: 2, Informative

    Actually there is an open viewer for molecules. It's called Rasmol http://www.umass.edu/microbio/rasmol/ and many source files can be downloaded from their site.

  3. Re:My idea for a video on demand system depends on on EFF Makes Call For DMCA Help · · Score: 1

    No offense or anything, but I believe this is already illegal. It's called Broadcasting Copyrighted Material. It would be fine if it were in just your room, but in a commons room is questionable.

  4. Re:Perhaps a secure format has a place on Set Digital Music Free · · Score: 1

    Limited use? Does anyone remember Divix (sp?). DVD quality movies that could only be viewed for a certain time period. Where is Divix now?

  5. Re:Linux Version? Why port it to a server OS? on Diablo 2 Goes Gold · · Score: 1

    Not all of us use it just for servers. Yes I run a few servers with it, but I also have it dual-booted on both my personal desktop and my laptop. I know I would buy Blizzard games for linux. I would love to wipe out my Windoze partition. Only if I could get Creative to support my Dxr3...