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Hillary claims mistakes were made. True mistakes go both ways. About half help you and half hurt you..When all the mistakes helped you, which appears to be the case with Hillary, they were at least half NOT mistakes, but deliberate misbehaviors, not inadvertent..This is a crude cousin of Benford’s Law which tells you whether financial and other types of numbers have been falsified by comparing the incidence of certain digits in certain positions in random sets to those in faked sets. .Benford’s Law: the principle that in any large, randomly produced set of natural numbers, such as tables of logarithms...

Nearly everyone in the U.S. got measles before there was a vaccine, and hundreds died from it each year. Today, most doctors have never seen a case of measles. [I got measles in the 1950s.] More than 15,000 Americans died from diphtheria in 1921, before there was a vaccine. Only one case of diphtheria has been reported to CDC since 2004. An epidemic of rubella (German measles) in 1964-65 infected 12½ million Americans, killed 2,000 babies, and caused 11,000 miscarriages. In 2012, 9 cases of rubella were reported to CDC.Approximately 24,000 people die a year from the flu. If 100%...

Here is a judge’s explanation of why he rejected a challenge to CA’s vaccination law from today’s San Francisco Chronicle.“Society has a compelling interest in fighting the spread of contagious diseases through mandatory vaccination of school-age children. [The right to practice one’s religion] does not outweigh the state’s interest in public health and safety. [The California State Supreme Court upheld mandatory vaccination since 1890. religious freedom] does not include liberty to expose the community or the child to communicable disease. [The right to an education, strongly protected by California law, must give way to the public interest in protecting children’s...

Copyright by John T. Reed It would take an encyclopedia to cover the global-warming debate. I will not write that much, but I want to go on record about it to an extent. Definition The phrase “global warming” suggests nothing more than a series of scientific temperature readings. But thanks to Al Gore and others, it has taken on a much larger, political meaning, namely, The earth is rapidly getting catastrophically warmer because of increased burning of fossil fuels by humans and emergency laws must be passed to reduce that burning of fossil fuels to Nineteenth Century levels. Warming? Is...

I have published 35 books, about 108 if you count editions. I learned long ago that I should wait until I approve the proof of the book sent to me by the book manufacturer before I start to take orders. Today I received the proof of The Unelected President  novel and sent back my approval to print it with no changes. Last I heard, they expect it will come off the press on September 16th. Only when you approve the proof can you be confident about ship dates.