What some celebrities are saying or thinking might not go will with scientific proof or the lack of it. Do not blindly follow what they say, do your own homework.
Sense About Science is a United Kingdom independent charitable trust, its aim is to work with scientists to ensure that the best available scientific evidence is at the forefront of public discussions about science, and to correct misinformation.
Barack Obama: “We’ve seen a skyrocketing autism rate. Some people are suspicious that it’s connected to the vaccines. This person included. The science right now is inconclusive, but we have to research it.”
John McCain on autism:“There's strong evidence that indicates it’s got to do with a preservative in vaccines”
Although from differing parties, they have common ground in rise of autism and are commenting on the Measles, Mumps and Rubella (MMR) vaccine, but studies in several countries involving millions of children have shown no correlation between MMR and autism rates.
Find out more of MMR from Sense About Science here - http://www.senseaboutscience.org.uk/pdf/MMRPolicyBriefing.pdf
Madonna:"I mean, one of the biggest problems that exists right now in the world is nuclear waste… that’s something I’ve been involved with for a while with a group of scientists — finding a way to neutralise radiation."
Dr Nick Evans, Environmental Radiochemist, Loughborough Univ, differs with Madonna, he said:
"Radioactivity cannot be ‘neutralised’, it can only be moved from one place to another until it decays away at its own rate. It comes in many different types: some last for billions of years, others decay away in a few minutes. There are no magical solutions."
Jamie Oliver, on the benefits of organic food: "I want to cook with the best ingredients and have food the way it should be: healthy, tasty and grown with nature."
Prof. Vivian Moses, Biologist, King’s College London, had this to say: "Not one of our crop plants or domestic animals exists in the wild: they have all been created by selective breeding over the past 10,000 years. Wheat, for example, doesn’t exist in nature; we made it. And nowhere on earth do crop plants exist in rows unless we put them there."
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