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[dreamer_easy]

Epics and Monsters
Jack Graham's posting on Brecht's "Epic theatre" and Love and Monsters helped me better understand a performance of the Threepenny Opera I saw some years ago at the Opera House (thanks to Kyla) and made me ponder the meaning of the fourth wall in the era of the video blog.

Barriers to childhood immunisation: Findings from the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children
Anti-vax conspiracy theories and the snake oil merchants who profit from them are a well-known menace to public health; but they are not the main reason why children in Australia miss out on vaccinations.

Seven ways to talk to anti-vaxxers (that might actually change their minds)
Listening to parents with respect, building trust, addressing their concerns.

The magical thinking of guys who love logic
My beliefs are rational, intelligent, logical, unbiased, objective, and factual. My enemies' beliefs are irrational, stupid, illogical, biased, emotional, and insane. Or, in other words, I'm not actually arguing, I'm just patting myself on the back over and over.

Comments

[pbristow]

Glad I popped over to see what else you had up lately on DreamWidth. That last article (I haven't read the others) is right up my alley! Thanks. =:o}

[dreamer_easy]

Loads more links where those came from, including some along the same lines. As a kid watching (or rather, reading) Star Trek it was logic and reason on the one hand and emotion on the other. Turns out it is _so_ much more complicated than that.

[pbristow]

Ah, the number of times I've wanted to yell at Spock when he comes out with one of his "logical" deductions: "Based on *WHAT*, ya fraud?!?" =:o}

I have the same problem with a certain Mr. Holmes, in most of his incarnations... Thinking about it, those two really are templates of the type, aren't they? Except that what gets you respected and renowned in fiction, more often just exposes you as a jackass in real life (or even on the internet!). (Note: I speak as one who has all to often been one of those jackasses myself. It's a hard habit to break, even once you've recognised it for what it is. =:o\ )