Ferri Tales

Questions and doubts keep arising, needlessly, about vaccine safety such as: there are too many, or too many in combination, or they aren't safe. There have been hundreds of studies that show that vaccines are safe and effective at preventing serious and deadly disease. A quick review shows dozens of studies reported in or by JAMA , Vaccine , the Journal of Pediatrics , Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety, The National Academy of Sciences , Lancet , the British Medical Journal , AMA , Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine, N ew England Journal of Medicine, Archives of Disease in Childhood, Psychological Medicine, Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, The Annals of Pharmacotherapy, Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, The Canadian Journal of Neurological Science, American Journal of Preventive Medicine, etc . These studies show no link between autism and the MMR vaccine or any other effects as proposed by the anti-vaccine conspiracy crowd, and th...

In late August (8/21/2016), I went outside to get the newspaper (the Review, of course) and found that someone had put a Donald Trump sign on my front lawn bordering York Avenue in Towanda, PA. This is ironic since I’ve had anti-GOP signs in my front windows for almost a decade. They’ve been there in the sunshine long enough to almost totally fade away, just like the GOP is doing with Trump as the sunshine. I’ll explain. Trump’s speeches, proposals, insults, and his general bigoted obnoxious behavior define the GOP platform, except that Trump has no filter and is not subtle. His intentions expose the heretofore-disguised agenda of the Republican Party. Trump has shone the sun on the GOP and exposed them for what they really are. The GOP and Trump are one and the same -- except for a growing population of Republicans who disavow him. In Florida, under Republican control, the Zika virus is spreading because of reduced mosquito control. It took Florida decades to develop effective ...