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Your book points out that autism rates between 1983 and 2008 have climbed in lockstep with vaccination rates, yet childhood obesity, diabetes and even cell-phone use have soared since then, too. Why do you find causation in one and not the others? I'm not saying it's only the vaccines. But children are given so many shots from the moment they're born. They get multiple injections all at once, and if they fall behind, doctors put them on a catch-up schedule. Babies get the hepatitis B vaccine immediately after they're born and the only...
...university administration to invite the president, whose policy positions and many recent enactments directly oppose the Church’s essential teachings. The president had signed executive orders releasing a ban on funding abortions abroad and reversing the Bush administration’s refusal to subsidize embryonic stem-cell research. These two questions of abortion and stem-cell research—on which the Church and the White House are in direct opposition—are the political issues that the American episcopacy had singled out, both before the election and after, as the most crucial for Catholic voters...
...fightin’ Irish,” like Notre Dame, “when it comes to working for social justice.” American Catholic laymen on the right and left will continue to disagree, no doubt, on which political issues—abortion or immigration reform, stem-cell research or education—are most salient...
...Catholic Church teaches that abortion and stem-cell research is wrong and forbids its faithful from supporting such practices, whether directly in person or indirectly through the ballot box. In inviting a president whose recent agenda prominently has contradicted those tenets, Notre Dame intimates that the Catholic truth it purportedly upholds is malleable and appropriately sacrificed for the fleeting prestige that a presidential commencement address would confer...
...posters of Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera in a tea shop up on the road, and believes they may be worth a few wild cattle in trade. As we head into the current, a few younger Nishi gather on a bamboo suspension bridge above us, snapping photos on cell phones pulled from their monkey-fur pouches; in our wetsuits and helmets we are just as much an oddity to the Nishi as they...