It is really easy to expose your kids unwittingly to the children of the anti-vaccination crowd. Some of these people take their kids out of the country and then without a care in the world will let you sit with your newborn right next to their kids who could be carrying God knows what. It's downright maddening and dangerous. It is so incredibly ignorant. I can understand if someone knows a parent whose child is one of the unfortunate kids who has the terrible reaction to the shot(s), but you have to be rational about these things. Thank God the shots are mandatory for public school. Thank God again that many private schools require them too. I think you need to be careful of the pre-school co-ops and home schooling groups though.

There is an episode of “This American Life”, hardly a Conservative outfit, called “Ruining It For the Rest of Us” in which they talk about the really horrible domino effect of parents refusing to vaccinate their kids.

" ... That is the plan.
What is our plan? ... "

To try to make the truth known to the majority of people who will listen to reason and supported facts.

In the end though, Israelis may finally wake up and realize that to the anti-semitic nations, it doesn't matter Israel does in terms of getting blamed, so in addition to continuing to do what is honorable and morally correct, they will finally take strong military measures and remove terrorist threats from within and without.

Interesting! The study seems sloppy for two main reasons; firstly the authors don't make any attempt to isolate other factors which may be responsible for the domestic violence, and secondly because as Ms. Chesler says, they don't do control experiments, nor do they look at similar statistics on the Israeli side. Having said that, I also noted that the authors do not seem to claim a causal relationship between political violence and domestic violence but only an association.

In any case, The Lancet is indeed a prestigious journal and the vaccine retraction and this study, while sad, does not mar the quality of other excellent articles published in it.

I find this vaguely reminiscent of claims that the Germans were driven to the Holocaust by their conflict with the Allies.

Were this a journal in my own field, I would refuse to submit papers to them or referee papers for them. As a non-physician, I'm not sure what I can do about it.

A couple of points:

The world's belief that poverty leads to crime is moral relativism at it's worst, and also sociology at its worst. Crime rates have fallen in the US since this recession started as they did during the Great Depression. The world's leading current criminal, Osama bin Laden, is and always was a millionaire.

Second, we have now had two solid examples of British pseudo-science in the last month. First was the proof that "scholars" and "scientists" at the University of East Anglia covered up global cooling evidence and went on a campaign to slur those who opposed them! Now this!

Finally, I take it as a matter of personal pride that my show, Varney and Company on Fox Business, was the first US broadcast outlet to report the Dr. Wakefield autism farce and the Lancet retraction.

I wonder what the Lancet would say about the extreme post traumatic stress disorder that the people of Sderot suffer after being pummeled with rockets from Gaza. *Perhaps* it *could* the fault of the terrorists? Hmmm...no, they would probably give a stock answer of it being the result of living on occupied land.

Robert - great story - see also this from Canada's National Post newspaper - http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/anti-israel-bias-infects-medical-journals/

Mark

the violence increases significantly when the husbands are “directly” as opposed to “indirectly” exposed to political violence.

I believe that ... war-related stress, including poverty, usually increases “intimate partner violence,” aka male domestic violence.

Talk about missing the elephant in the room. What "directly exposed to political violence" mostly means to Palestinians is that they're going out and deliberatly taking part in it. They're not more likely to beat their wives up because they've been exposed to war-related stress; they're more likely to beat their wives up because they're the sort of guys who like to spend their lives deliberately killing civilians. Honestly, these idiots do a study which shows, amazingly, a correlation between men who shoot infants and men who beat up their wives, and then they don't even have the nous to notice that that's what they've discovered.

How about having the Israel Journal of Medicine print an article linking Irish wife beating to the pressure I.R.A. men are under from the British? I know. Childish. Shame on me.

1. It's hard to blame Lancet for falling prey to anti-semitic tendencies when our Tel Avivian friends do it better and harder: There was a paper published that proposed that the reason Jewish soldiers don't rape Arab women is because Jewish racial animosity is so deep as to dehumanize the Arabs. That's hard to beat!

2. Squander, I don't see that Sderot contradicts the Lancet study at all. All the study showed was that exposure to daily violence causes men to beat Arab women. That just shows they subconsciously blame their mothers for being Arabs and making them what they are, and they are taking that anger out on their wives.

Sorry- I forgot to include the link to that fine paper about rape.

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/124674

Miranda,

They'd have to get in a very long queue behind half the British media.