Maybe a way to weed out the less "fit" in the sense of less good critical thinkers?
Annette Annette Kujawski Taylor, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology University of San Diego 5998 Alcala Park San Diego, CA 92110 619-260-4006 tay...@sandiego.edu ---- Original message ---- >Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2009 12:13:40 -0400 >From: drna...@aol.com >Subject: Re: [tips] Cervical cancer vaccine and death >To: "Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)" <tips@acsun.frostburg.edu> > > 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 <pcbernha...@frostburg.edu> > To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) > <tips@acsun.frostburg.edu> > 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" > <beth.ben...@gmail.com> 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 (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu) > > > --- > To make changes to your subscription contact: > > Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu) > > --- > To make changes to your subscription contact: > > Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu) --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu)
