If you bothered to look, below the picture is a citation to CDC data, including a breakdown of infant mortality rate in the published peer-reviewed data.
I'm basing this off of my Masters Degree in Public Health and epidemiology classes. Not the arbitrary decision on my part; it's standard convention to add uncommon diseases to the catch-all "All Other Causes" heading defined as:
Defined as all causes of death other than all vascular disease, all cancer, all respiratory disease, all infectious disease, all conditions arising near the start of life, and all injury. Includes pneumonia, diabetes, multiple sclerosis, epilepsy, peptic ulcer, intestinal obstruction, hernia, liver cirrhosis, gallbladder disease, malnutrition, anaemia, obstetric (ie, maternal) causes of death, and all causes of death that are ill-defined.
WHO codes: ICD-10 AAA less all of: D00-D489, J03-J069, I00-I99, C00-C97, J40-J989, V01-Y899, A00-A99, B00-B99, J00-J029, J10-J118, J20-J22, L00-L089 or P00-Q999; ICD-7, ICD-8 and ICD-9 codes defined similarly.
Back to the original topic, you think that somewhere buried in this heading is a pile of dead babies from vaccines, that somehow the entire health community has missed? Go on.
"All other causes" is the sum total of every other disease that leads to death; including pneumonia, measles, mumps, malaria, hepatitis, HIV, drug abuse, etc. None of them are linked to vaccine-related death.
Countries that can afford to have more vaccines ALSO have more car accidents. Should we assume vaccines cause them? No.
Tamiflu is not a vaccine, but an antiviral medication. Nobody is demanding people take Tamiflu, due to numerous side effects, cost, and worries of drug resistance. You're making up a strawman argument.
If you look at the Infant mortality statistics in America for example, the leading cause of infant death is congenital malformations (birth defects), followed by low birthweight and gestational problems, and so on. Which of these can you blame on vaccines? None. Quit spreading FUD.
The headline is misleading: Kodak first sued Apple just days before filing for bankruptcy. They tried to get an ITC ruling, which would have frozen Apple's sales. It looks like they were hoping Apple would quickly settle, and Kodak would use the money to stay afloat.
That didn't happen, so now Apple is suing back in retaliation, but before doing that they're asking the court for permission (which isn't necessary).
Well, it's more than that. Kodak sued Apple just before filing for bankruptcy. It looks like they were hoping Apple would settle, and Kodak would use the money to stay afloat. That didn't happen, so now Apple is sueing back.
Use the iPhone Configuration Utility (it works on iPads). Turn off all other extraneous apps and restrict the rest. There's several non-Safari browser apps that you can lock in Kiosk mode, use one of those.
Oh give me a break. Other than Iran, show me a country that has elected a Theocracy so far. The parties that won the elections in Turkey and Tunisia are about as threatening as the Republican party in the US. Quit being hyperbolic. Get back to me when Tunisia's and Turkey's parties decide to ban alcohol or pork, something neither has done and repeatedly said during their election campaigns that they won't do.
Last I checked, the US Supreme Court ruled that obscenity is not protected by the First Amendment, and is thus subjected to local "community standards" and jurisdictions. Before everyone gets all outraged that Tunisia bans pornography (and likely overreaches), maybe you should look at your own laws first.
Of course I do. Men and women are spiritually equal according to contemporary Muslim scholars. Women definitely deserve equal education, the ability to choose their husbands, wear what they want, and yes, vote.
I love religious freedom, I gladly live in a place where we have a First Amendment and think it needs to be defended from government and people who want to eliminate it.
These are so obvious that I think you are stuck in some sad stereotypes. You do realize that the largest Muslim countries in the world have had women leaders, like Pakistan, Bangladesh, Indonesia, right?
The British played a big role in it, it's known as the Arab Revolt when they encouraged the Arabs to rise up against the Ottoman empire and break away. The famed "Lawrence of Arabia" took place in it. The Saud forces were promised British support, which they got. And thus the dictatorship was born.
Saudi Arabia is less than 2% of the entire world Muslim population, and its laws are condemned by other non-Saudi Muslims. You think that represents the Muslims anywhere outside its borders? Pakistan's blasphemy law was created by the British and has been on the books since before they got independence. You're looking at a country that has a literacy rate of under 50%. It's like vilifying Christianity because ignorant Alabamans burn mosques and ban gay marriage.
I'm a Muslim and happily live in one of the democracies where such blasphemy laws don't exist. Shaykh Hamza Yusuf says that America is more aligned with Islamic principles than any other country in the world. I can practice my religion here and am not trying to oppress anyone.
Senegal, Maldives, Kazakhstan, Burkina Faso, Mali, Guinea, Azerbaijan, Turkey, Chad, Brunei, Gambia, etc. All countries with Muslim majorities and democracies. Add them all up, then add up the minority Muslim populations in places like India and Europe, and you have over 800 Million Muslims living in democracies. More than half the world's Muslim population. It's hard for me to believe that in 2012 I still have to explain to people that 80% of Muslims aren't Arab nor live in the Middle East.
I didn't say any country was flawless, but they're not the terrorist hotbeds you seem to be making them out. Al Qaeda never took hold in Bangladesh, and although there are hundreds of millions of Muslims living in India, they got single-digit number of AQ terrorists. Indonesia is home to hundreds of religions, and despite some scattered friction on the local level, the public at large supports religious freedom. Your examples aren't really convincing; dozens of mosques in the US have burned down since 9/11, should I claim that America and Christianity have issues with tolerance? Sure, but let's look at it in the proper scale.
Colombia is the cocaine capital of the world, and is also 90% Roman Catholic. Should we blame Catholicism for drug abuse then? Then why are you trying to link islam with human trafficking via Albania etc?
That's not directly related. The US government never claimed that the Taliban had direct knowledge of or aided in the 9/11 attacks. They were toppled after the attack because they refused to hand over Bin Laden to the US without Bush first sending them evidence. The Taliban offered to try Bin Laden in Afghanistan but Bush did not agree to the idea.
The Taliban were a corrupt and repressive group, but nobody accused them of helping with 9/11.
I think you have it quite backwards. The citizens want democracy and love the US culture and lifestyle. It's the royal family that keeps buying guns from the US to brutally use on their population, and the royal family that uses its wealth to force right-wing ideas to be taught domestically to a public that doesn't want it. Opinion poll after poll shows that the Saudi public WANTS women to be allowed to drive, and wants an elected parliament and wants the right to be able to watch satellite TV legally. The whole "we can't allow democracy in the middle east because they would be worse than the existing dictators" is soo 2000...
Wait, so you're judging a 1.5 Billion follower religion based on what a dictator of a small country decreed as a law? Saudi Arabia's population is less than 2% of all Muslims, but that's even less relevant because it's a dictatorship. The majority of the world's Muslims do not support what's going on here.
What are you babbling about? As a Muslim, I know that Muhammad, peace be upon him, died 1400 years ago, while God never dies. You still say Islam puts him above God; the Being who created all of the galaxy and existence?
Look, if Muhammad were alive today, he would not stand for such an injustice being done in his name. He was known to have people spit in his face and physically assault him, and he forgave them and spared them from punishment. What the Saudi dictatorship is doing is quite the opposite of Islam and islamic history.
Oh come on, stop assuming that Malaysians are OK with such a thing. That's flat-out false; Malaysia's interpretation of the Quran is very very different than Saudi's. Malaysia's version of Islamic law doesn't even punish adultery, while Saudi considers it a capital offense.
Malaysia is bound by an extradition treaty, do they even have any legal leeway to deny such a request? Unlike the US/UK, Malaysia probably doesn't have any laws forbidding deportation if they will be tortured/executed. To use a Florida example, when Clinton handed Elian Gonzalez back to the Cubans as part of a custody trial, Clinton wasn't endorsing communism (although many Americans loudly screamed that he was).
Sure, what can I do in New York, when Obama is selling billions of dollars of fighter jets, heavy guns, and cattle prods to the Saudi military and police?
My local mosque sent signed petitions to the Saudi king asking him to please lift the ban on women driving. It's the opposite of 1400 years of Islamic history. I wrote in my blog and twitter how I want the Saudi King to step aside and allow democracy to take place, but it's hard to make that happen when the US government firmly stands behind them. I voted for Obama, but sadly he increased the support to Saudi, not decreased it.
I guess in your case, it's democracies that don't make headlines in the news you read. Senegal, Albania, Bangladesh, Indonesia, etc. India isn't majority Muslim but there's more Muslims living in India than Pakistan. Over 50% of Muslims such as myself live in a democracy, and look at these other countries with pity.
That's the thing, Muslims don't. Saudi Arabia is a dictatorship that rules by a king who was installed by the British. Their meager population is 1.75% of all Muslims worldwide. Consider this, there are 2x as many Muslims in China than Saudi Arabia, should we judge Islam and Muslims based on that? (It's equally ridiculous)
Saudi Arabia has been criticized by every other Muslim country for its backwardness and repression. There is no other Muslim country that bans women from driving, and Muslim leaders abroad have led the call to pressure the King to drop the ban. Millions of Muslims like myself have signed petitions calling on them to recognize greater religious freedom and human rights. As a Muslim, I'd like to see an Arab Spring in Saudi, but unfortunately the US government has been selling the Saudi government weapons and tools to suppress the population. The Saudi king doesn't really own cows, so why is he importing thousands of cattle prods and giving them to the police forces?
Try actually talking to Muslims, or heck, reading Muslim blogs/tweets/newspapers, before you assume that we all support such an abomination. There's no place in the Quran where it says a king should ever rule over people.
Man there's a heck of a lot of trolls commenting here.
Look, this is a problem of dictatorship, not of religion. The majority of the world's Muslims live in democracies and don't have such repressive laws. Muslims in America are aghast at such an unjust situation. Saudi is the backwards exception in the Muslim world. I'm a Muslim and I certainly don't support what's going on here.
The UN has no standing military, using the above analogy it's like a neighborhood watch. I'd like to see the UN become stronger, but for now it's not yet there
Quite different. Iran has so far acted as a rational state actor in their own interests. They haven't engaged in any suicidal campaigns etc. Second, mentally incompetent people lose their ability to self-defend with firearms and are forced to rely on police, hospitals, and other government services for protection. Countries do not have that protection.
Secondly, when was this about nuclear weapons? Iran continues to deny making them, the IAEA has proven that none of their nuclear fuel is missing from their energy program, and even the CIA and Israel have found no proof contrary. Iran is still in compliance with the NNPT and even offered to sign the additional protocols under Bush (who refused to entertain the idea).
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If you bothered to look, below the picture is a citation to CDC data, including a breakdown of infant mortality rate in the published peer-reviewed data.
I'm basing this off of my Masters Degree in Public Health and epidemiology classes. Not the arbitrary decision on my part; it's standard convention to add uncommon diseases to the catch-all "All Other Causes" heading defined as :
Back to the original topic, you think that somewhere buried in this heading is a pile of dead babies from vaccines, that somehow the entire health community has missed? Go on.
"All other causes" is the sum total of every other disease that leads to death; including pneumonia, measles, mumps, malaria, hepatitis, HIV, drug abuse, etc. None of them are linked to vaccine-related death.
Countries that can afford to have more vaccines ALSO have more car accidents. Should we assume vaccines cause them? No.
This claim was debunked a while back. You're misreading the data and playing with faulty IMRs.
Tamiflu is not a vaccine, but an antiviral medication. Nobody is demanding people take Tamiflu, due to numerous side effects, cost, and worries of drug resistance. You're making up a strawman argument.
Correlation does not equal causation.
If you look at the Infant mortality statistics in America for example, the leading cause of infant death is congenital malformations (birth defects), followed by low birthweight and gestational problems, and so on. Which of these can you blame on vaccines? None. Quit spreading FUD.
The headline is misleading: Kodak first sued Apple just days before filing for bankruptcy. They tried to get an ITC ruling, which would have frozen Apple's sales. It looks like they were hoping Apple would quickly settle, and Kodak would use the money to stay afloat.
That didn't happen, so now Apple is suing back in retaliation, but before doing that they're asking the court for permission (which isn't necessary).
Well, it's more than that. Kodak sued Apple just before filing for bankruptcy. It looks like they were hoping Apple would settle, and Kodak would use the money to stay afloat. That didn't happen, so now Apple is sueing back.
Use the iPhone Configuration Utility (it works on iPads). Turn off all other extraneous apps and restrict the rest. There's several non-Safari browser apps that you can lock in Kiosk mode, use one of those.
Oh give me a break. Other than Iran, show me a country that has elected a Theocracy so far. The parties that won the elections in Turkey and Tunisia are about as threatening as the Republican party in the US. Quit being hyperbolic. Get back to me when Tunisia's and Turkey's parties decide to ban alcohol or pork, something neither has done and repeatedly said during their election campaigns that they won't do.
Last I checked, the US Supreme Court ruled that obscenity is not protected by the First Amendment, and is thus subjected to local "community standards" and jurisdictions. Before everyone gets all outraged that Tunisia bans pornography (and likely overreaches), maybe you should look at your own laws first.
Of course I do. Men and women are spiritually equal according to contemporary Muslim scholars. Women definitely deserve equal education, the ability to choose their husbands, wear what they want, and yes, vote.
I love religious freedom, I gladly live in a place where we have a First Amendment and think it needs to be defended from government and people who want to eliminate it.
These are so obvious that I think you are stuck in some sad stereotypes. You do realize that the largest Muslim countries in the world have had women leaders, like Pakistan, Bangladesh, Indonesia, right?
The British played a big role in it, it's known as the Arab Revolt when they encouraged the Arabs to rise up against the Ottoman empire and break away. The famed "Lawrence of Arabia" took place in it. The Saud forces were promised British support, which they got. And thus the dictatorship was born.
Saudi Arabia is less than 2% of the entire world Muslim population, and its laws are condemned by other non-Saudi Muslims. You think that represents the Muslims anywhere outside its borders?
Pakistan's blasphemy law was created by the British and has been on the books since before they got independence. You're looking at a country that has a literacy rate of under 50%. It's like vilifying Christianity because ignorant Alabamans burn mosques and ban gay marriage.
I'm a Muslim and happily live in one of the democracies where such blasphemy laws don't exist. Shaykh Hamza Yusuf says that America is more aligned with Islamic principles than any other country in the world. I can practice my religion here and am not trying to oppress anyone.
Senegal, Maldives, Kazakhstan, Burkina Faso, Mali, Guinea, Azerbaijan, Turkey, Chad, Brunei, Gambia, etc. All countries with Muslim majorities and democracies. Add them all up, then add up the minority Muslim populations in places like India and Europe, and you have over 800 Million Muslims living in democracies. More than half the world's Muslim population. It's hard for me to believe that in 2012 I still have to explain to people that 80% of Muslims aren't Arab nor live in the Middle East.
I didn't say any country was flawless, but they're not the terrorist hotbeds you seem to be making them out. Al Qaeda never took hold in Bangladesh, and although there are hundreds of millions of Muslims living in India, they got single-digit number of AQ terrorists. Indonesia is home to hundreds of religions, and despite some scattered friction on the local level, the public at large supports religious freedom. Your examples aren't really convincing; dozens of mosques in the US have burned down since 9/11, should I claim that America and Christianity have issues with tolerance? Sure, but let's look at it in the proper scale.
Colombia is the cocaine capital of the world, and is also 90% Roman Catholic. Should we blame Catholicism for drug abuse then? Then why are you trying to link islam with human trafficking via Albania etc?
That's not directly related. The US government never claimed that the Taliban had direct knowledge of or aided in the 9/11 attacks. They were toppled after the attack because they refused to hand over Bin Laden to the US without Bush first sending them evidence. The Taliban offered to try Bin Laden in Afghanistan but Bush did not agree to the idea.
The Taliban were a corrupt and repressive group, but nobody accused them of helping with 9/11.
I think you have it quite backwards. The citizens want democracy and love the US culture and lifestyle. It's the royal family that keeps buying guns from the US to brutally use on their population, and the royal family that uses its wealth to force right-wing ideas to be taught domestically to a public that doesn't want it. Opinion poll after poll shows that the Saudi public WANTS women to be allowed to drive, and wants an elected parliament and wants the right to be able to watch satellite TV legally. The whole "we can't allow democracy in the middle east because they would be worse than the existing dictators" is soo 2000...
Wait, so you're judging a 1.5 Billion follower religion based on what a dictator of a small country decreed as a law? Saudi Arabia's population is less than 2% of all Muslims, but that's even less relevant because it's a dictatorship. The majority of the world's Muslims do not support what's going on here.
What are you babbling about? As a Muslim, I know that Muhammad, peace be upon him, died 1400 years ago, while God never dies. You still say Islam puts him above God; the Being who created all of the galaxy and existence?
Look, if Muhammad were alive today, he would not stand for such an injustice being done in his name. He was known to have people spit in his face and physically assault him, and he forgave them and spared them from punishment. What the Saudi dictatorship is doing is quite the opposite of Islam and islamic history.
Oh come on, stop assuming that Malaysians are OK with such a thing. That's flat-out false; Malaysia's interpretation of the Quran is very very different than Saudi's. Malaysia's version of Islamic law doesn't even punish adultery, while Saudi considers it a capital offense.
Malaysia is bound by an extradition treaty, do they even have any legal leeway to deny such a request? Unlike the US/UK, Malaysia probably doesn't have any laws forbidding deportation if they will be tortured/executed. To use a Florida example, when Clinton handed Elian Gonzalez back to the Cubans as part of a custody trial, Clinton wasn't endorsing communism (although many Americans loudly screamed that he was).
Sure, what can I do in New York, when Obama is selling billions of dollars of fighter jets, heavy guns, and cattle prods to the Saudi military and police?
My local mosque sent signed petitions to the Saudi king asking him to please lift the ban on women driving. It's the opposite of 1400 years of Islamic history. I wrote in my blog and twitter how I want the Saudi King to step aside and allow democracy to take place, but it's hard to make that happen when the US government firmly stands behind them. I voted for Obama, but sadly he increased the support to Saudi, not decreased it.
I guess in your case, it's democracies that don't make headlines in the news you read. Senegal, Albania, Bangladesh, Indonesia, etc. India isn't majority Muslim but there's more Muslims living in India than Pakistan. Over 50% of Muslims such as myself live in a democracy, and look at these other countries with pity.
That's the thing, Muslims don't. Saudi Arabia is a dictatorship that rules by a king who was installed by the British. Their meager population is 1.75% of all Muslims worldwide. Consider this, there are 2x as many Muslims in China than Saudi Arabia, should we judge Islam and Muslims based on that? (It's equally ridiculous)
Saudi Arabia has been criticized by every other Muslim country for its backwardness and repression. There is no other Muslim country that bans women from driving, and Muslim leaders abroad have led the call to pressure the King to drop the ban. Millions of Muslims like myself have signed petitions calling on them to recognize greater religious freedom and human rights. As a Muslim, I'd like to see an Arab Spring in Saudi, but unfortunately the US government has been selling the Saudi government weapons and tools to suppress the population. The Saudi king doesn't really own cows, so why is he importing thousands of cattle prods and giving them to the police forces?
Try actually talking to Muslims, or heck, reading Muslim blogs/tweets/newspapers, before you assume that we all support such an abomination. There's no place in the Quran where it says a king should ever rule over people.
Man there's a heck of a lot of trolls commenting here.
Look, this is a problem of dictatorship, not of religion. The majority of the world's Muslims live in democracies and don't have such repressive laws. Muslims in America are aghast at such an unjust situation. Saudi is the backwards exception in the Muslim world. I'm a Muslim and I certainly don't support what's going on here.
The UN has no standing military, using the above analogy it's like a neighborhood watch. I'd like to see the UN become stronger, but for now it's not yet there
Quite different. Iran has so far acted as a rational state actor in their own interests. They haven't engaged in any suicidal campaigns etc. Second, mentally incompetent people lose their ability to self-defend with firearms and are forced to rely on police, hospitals, and other government services for protection. Countries do not have that protection.
Secondly, when was this about nuclear weapons? Iran continues to deny making them, the IAEA has proven that none of their nuclear fuel is missing from their energy program, and even the CIA and Israel have found no proof contrary. Iran is still in compliance with the NNPT and even offered to sign the additional protocols under Bush (who refused to entertain the idea).