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October 24, 2001 on 7:39 pm | In Main |Sean is having a real rough time. In addition to the conjuctivitis, he now has croup. I think both are caused by the same virus that is giving me the bad cold. The air for the last few weeks has been very dry, causing a simple cold virus to be much worse than normal. The doctor gave Sean a cortico-steriod shot, and we will make sure Sean gets plenty of fluids to drink and plenty of sleep. We are running a humidifier in his room to help as well.
One of my pet peeves is misleading news headlines. Here’s one example, Study: Ultra-Sound Test Can Make You Left-Handed. I sure hope the scientist who made the correlation didn’t come up with this conclusion. If he did, he will likely be creamed during peer review. The data just shows a correlation between ultrasounds and left-handidness. I think it is likely that only more well off families have ultrasounds, meaning the two sets of children were likely raised in completely different environments. This is certainly a more reasonable proposal than the infant brain is actually altered by ultrasound. Here’s another: FBI Sees No Anthrax, Hijackings Link. You would think this means the FBI has another suspected cause of the anthrax attacks. In reality, the FBI doesn’t have any information as to the source.
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