Newspapers and magazines are laying off staff, and those that remain are writing articles on how to survive a layoff. Print media is in big trouble, and was long before the recession. As I highlighted over two years ago, the writing was on the virtual wall as far back as 1972.
One of the things that keeps me reading the printed page are the pictures that don’t make it to the online version of articles. One example is this photo by Jonatham Kantor for a recent Newsweek article, using a Peanuts Band-Aid to illustrate the claim that vaccinations have led to an increase in autism in children.
It’s a clever idea, but do you see the medical mistake?
Ouch! No air bubbles, please!
I was going to comment on the air bubbles, but decided not to, because I read somewhere that it’s sort of only a half-truth. Yes, there really should be no bubbles in the syringe (that’s why the nurse/EMT/whatever always flicks it and then ejects a bit out)
Check this out:
http://www.mtv.com/movies/news/articles/1498868/20050322/story.jhtml
We all remember that horrible suicide scene in “Coming Home” with Jon Voight and Jane Fonda, maybe that’s why. Since that movie, that gag’s been used a million times. As somebody with extremely small, flat veins who is beaten up just to get an IV started, I ought to know!
True, but there’s still a medical mistake in that picture. Would you want to be injected with that syringe?
Children with autistic-spectrum disorders don’t laugh as easily as our friend Snoopy here. I could be wrong; as there are many high-functioning forms of autism such as Aspergers. In fact, the whole medical community makes me just want to puke because every symptom of the brain, body and spirit seems to need a label! plus a medicine to “cure” it!