Final: Missouri State 66 Bradley 69

[Bravesfan]

One more blurb (along with the MSU announcers call) regarding yesterday's game, this one from Yahoo sports calling the Bradley/MSU game the game with the most exciting finish of the day in the Valley.

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/ncaab-the-dagger-college-basketball-blog/walt-lemon-jr-saves-bradley-buzzer-beater-002059736--ncaab.html

[Dub]

Anhybody with the audio of Dave's call at the end of the game yesterday?

[LittleBrave]

Nice! Well deserved!

Here's one more link to the Walt's shot from one more different angle that was shot from the crowd:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bL4btYciVsw

Very nice video clip - love seeing the different vantage points of an amazing play!
Thanks for posting Bravesfan!

[Mikovio]

This is a good All Things Considered piece on the anti-vaccine hysteria that erupted 15 years ago thanks to a bogus study claiming a link between vaccines and autism, and how it's resulted in kids today contracting diseases that were thought to have been wiped out decades ago:

http://www.npr.org/2011/01/09/132735944/as-the-facts-win-out-vaccinations-may-too

Hib and many other diseases thought to be eradicated have returned as more parents choose not to vaccinate their children.

Mnookin says diseases like whooping cough or pertussis have seen huge rises in cases across the country. Last year in California, there were more cases of whooping cough than at any point in half a century. Ten children died.

With children now at risk for diseases that were thought to be forgotten, "the risk of not getting vaccinated felt notional to a lot of parents," he says.

A 2010 pediatric study reveals the movement is growing. Twenty-five percent of parents believe vaccines could cause developmental problems in kids ??” a rise Mnookin blames, in part, on the media.

When the media puts celebrity and anti-vaccination advocate Jenny McCarthy alongside experts from the Center For Disease Control and Prevention, he says, it "gives the impression that there's an equal number of people on two sides of this. And it's just not true."

Countering The Fears
"The American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Medical Association, the CDC, the EPA, doctors, scientists around the world all agree ??” vaccines are safe," Mnookin says. That scientific consensus is now being trumpeted by a more communicative public health community.

"In pediatricians' offices, there are now, oftentimes, informational pamphlets," he says.
Seminars are held after hours for parents to discuss their concerns.

Additionally, he hopes parents become savvier researchers in the information age. Just Googling "vaccines" and "autism" is dangerous, he says. "There are reliable sources of information out there, and I think those are the people we should look to."

Mnookin recommends the websites of the CDC, American Academy of Pediatrics, and American Medical Association for reliable information about vaccine risks.

"There have been questions that were raised in the past that should have been ??” and were ??” examined. At this point, we're sort of at an asked-and-answered juncture of this debate."

[Da Coach]

Well said- for the record, the one single scientist who's single study lead to the hysterical and erroneous link of childhood vaccines to autism- British physician Dr. Andrew Wakefield- has been thoroughly discredited and stripped of his medical license and long-ago lost all funding for any research. His study has now been thoroughly debunked and proven fraudulent. Many results of the study were found to be altered by Wakefield for the designed purpose of trying to show that vaccines caused autism. His co-researchers all withdrew their names from the study when they became aware of his fraud, and the fact that Wakefield had funded the study from money given by lawyers who had planned to sue the vaccine makers with the results.
In 2011, Wakefield was #1 on a list of the worst doctors of 2011 in Medscape's list of "Physicians of the Year: Best and Worst", and in 2012, TIME Magazine named Wakefield in a list of "Great Science Frauds".
He has essentially gone into hiding in the US, though he still has a small but loyal following, including the lovely Ms. McCarthy.

http://www.cnn.com/2011/HEALTH/01/05/autism.vaccines/index.html

[tornado]

This is a good All Things Considered piece on the anti-vaccine hysteria that erupted 15 years ago thanks to a bogus study claiming a link between vaccines and autism, and how it's resulted in kids today contracting diseases that were thought to have been wiped out decades ago:

http://www.npr.org/2011/01/09/132735...ations-may-too

the recent surge in whooping cough is almost exclusively in kids who did get the vaccine - it has nothing whatsoever to do with anti-vax sentiment.

http://vtdigger.org/2012/10/08/90-percent-of-whooping-cough-cases-in-vermont-among-vaccinated-children/

http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2012/11/28/166081909/more-evidence-suggests-shortcomings-for-whooping-cough-vaccine

by contrast - with most other vaccines - like measels, mumps, etc....virtually 100% of vaccinated kids - even when exposed - NEVER get the illness.
Some vaccines simply are NOT very effective.
One more example - the highly promoted shingles vaccine - for the main group of people it might help - those over 80...
is only 18% effective according to the very data the manufacturer reports.

"..only 18 percent effective for individuals 80 years and up."

http://www.lockhaven.com/page/content.detail/id/512014/SHINGLES.html

[Da Coach]

Unfortunately, more parents are refusing to vaccinate their kids in recent years, mainly because of wacky false-propaganda like that from Jenny McCarthy, and others. I would urge anyone trying to decide to do your own research and don't necessarily believe what anyone tells you.
But most of the scientific field believes the lack of vaccines has indeed lead to a surge in common preventable diseases like measles and whooping cough, and in infant and childhood deaths from these diseases-

http://science.slashdot.org/story/12/04/12/1511255/lack-of-vaccination-sends-babies-in-oregon-to-the-hospital

http://articles.cnn.com/2008-05-01/health/measles.outbreak_1_measles-outbreak-vaccinations-immunization-and-respiratory-diseases?_s=PM:HEALTH

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/04/cost-vaccine-refusal/

[Bravesfan]

Very nice video clip - love seeing the different vantage points of an amazing play!
Thanks for posting Bravesfan!

No problem. Great to enjoy a win like this which hasn't happened too often lately!

[Bravesfan]

Well said- for the record, the one single scientist who's single study lead to the hysterical and erroneous link of childhood vaccines to autism- British physician Dr. Andrew Wakefield- has been thoroughly discredited and stripped of his medical license and long-ago lost all funding for any research. His study has now been thoroughly debunked and proven fraudulent. Many results of the study were found to be altered by Wakefield for the designed purpose of trying to show that vaccines caused autism. His co-researchers all withdrew their names from the study when they became aware of his fraud, and the fact that Wakefield had funded the study from money given by lawyers who had planned to sue the vaccine makers with the results.
In 2011, Wakefield was #1 on a list of the worst doctors of 2011 in Medscape's list of "Physicians of the Year: Best and Worst", and in 2012, TIME Magazine named Wakefield in a list of "Great Science Frauds".
He has essentially gone into hiding in the US, though he still has a small but loyal following, including the lovely Ms. Jennie McCarthy.

http://www.cnn.com/2011/HEALTH/01/05...nes/index.html

Glad to see some fraud finally got exposed for who he is! Don't even get me started on the autism fallacy.

Melissa McCarthy? Not sure if that's who you are talking about.

Oh never mind, just saw it in your above post. I was close. That's Melissa's cousin.

[Da Coach]

Another YouTube video of Walt Lemon's buzzer beater-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=tCw_QKDUTtY

[AZ BU Fan]

The Bank was open!