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“Vaccines” are medicines we take when we’re healthy to prevent us from getting sick later. Nobody loves getting their shots. But vaccines protect you, your family, and your community. Vaccines have helped us control many serious diseases. Right now, scientists are racing to develop a safe, effective vaccine to make us immune to COVID-19. However, some people claim that a COVID vaccine might not be safe, or even that it might be some sort of trick to control us. Others say vaccines are more dangerous than doctors admit. What is the truth? Are vaccines safe or risky? Or might the truth be something in between? Let’s find out! In this free issue of Junior Skeptic we cover:
- Centuries of Sorrow
- Smallpox Scourge
- Inoculating America
- Cows to the Rescue!
- Birth of the Anti-Vaccination Movement
- Vaccine Victories — and Risks Along the Way
- Contaminated Vaccines
- Hitchhiking Viruses
- Deadly Mistakes
- Side Effects
- Anti-Vaccine Myths
- Rumors and Panic
- Measles, Mercury, and Autism
- Conspiracy Theories and COVID-19
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EPISODE # 159
Joshua Glasgow — The Solace: Finding Value in Death Through Gratitude for Life
How can we find solace when we face the death of loved ones? How can we find solace in our own death? When philosopher Joshua Glasgow’s mother was diagnosed with cancer, he struggled to answer these questions for her and for himself. Though death and immortality introduce some of the most basic and existentially compelling questions in philosophy, Glasgow found that the dominant theories came up short. Recalling the last months of his mother’s life, Glasgow reveals the breakthrough he finally arrived at for himself, from which readers can learn and find solace. When we are grateful for life, we value all of it, and this includes death, its natural culmination. Just as we are grateful for the value in our lives, we can affirm this value in death.
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