Actually, that's a pretty good Malapropism. Beth Benoit On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 12:15 PM, <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Ha ha. "Land mind." Does it mean anything, or should I simply not have come > to work sick today? > > Land mine - let people learn to be "better" by stepping on mines > (figuratively). > > Nancy M. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > To: > Sent: Tue, Sep 29, 2009 9:13 am > Subject: Re: [tips] Cervical cancer vaccine and death > > Never mind the many thousands of conservative folk who believe that the > threat of contracting HPV and/or cervical cancer is an effective way to keep > girls and women "good" according to their definition of that word (however > you feel about it, it disregards the fact that many women who fit that > definition will get the disease through sex with their unfaithful husbands). > > Teaching morality via the land mind method. I love it. Not. > > Nancy Melucci > Long Beach City College > Long Beach CA > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Paul C Bernhardt <[email protected]> > To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) < > [email protected]> > Sent: Tue, Sep 29, 2009 9:05 am > Subject: Re: [tips] Cervical cancer vaccine and death > > > This is Kahneman and Tversky framing of decisions stuff: Doing something > that is known to kill a certain number of people is less preferred decision > compared to doing nothing knowing that some people might die. If the news > article focused on the tens of thousands saved by the vaccine compared to > the tends of thousands who have morbidity and mortality from getting > cervical cancer the discussion about the unfortunate few who (allegedly) die > from the vaccine might shift away from outrage. > > -- > Paul Bernhardt > Frostburg State University > Frostburg, MD, USA > > > > On 9/29/09 10:19 AM, "Beth Benoit" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > Just after Mike Palij posted the suggestion that we take a look at the > article discussing the fact that there *will* be deaths following flu > vaccines, but they are likely to be deaths that would have occurred > naturally, this just came in to Google News: the death of a girl in England > after she was given the cervical cancer vaccine. The vaccination programs > has been halted while the situation is being examined. It should be > interesting to see if this is yet another correlation-without-causation > situation, or what factors are actually involved. > > > http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2009/sep/29/cervical-cancer-vaccinations-postponed > > I imagine that even though the news that there have been over a million > doses given without anything like this happening, the program will face huge > challenges now. > > Beth Benoit > Granite State College > Plymouth State University > New Hampshire > > --- > To make changes to your subscription contact: > > Bill Southerly ([email protected]) > > > > --- > > > To make changes to your subscription contact: > > > > > Bill Southerly ([email protected]) > > --- > To make changes to your subscription contact: > > Bill Southerly ([email protected]) > > --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([email protected])
