Given the amount of media fuss about the cervical cancer vaccine recently, particularly in the UK, this is very timely. And quite beautifully presented. The most striking point is the difference between the odds of dying after the vaccine (15,200,000:1) and dying in a road accident the year after the vaccine (a mere 10,000:1). Striking because the newspaper inches given to each of these causes of death is pretty much the reverse…
How Safe is the HPV vaccine? - Information Is Beautiful

Jeez, and we thought the apocalypse protests were bad on this side of the Channel. They know how to do it properly on the continent!
have we, as a hype-obsessed culture having recently experienced the mid-term elections (first 100 days), coldplay’s follow-up to parachutes, the macbook air and the 3g iphone, failed to learn the primary rule of hype? reality < hype.
Tyler Hilker (via amwelles)
Exactly what I was talking about in those posts about Vogue earlier. The whole thing is built on hype and is overblown, from that particular thing to all of the above and more.
Reblogged from: amwelles
Originally posted on: Autumn's Web Vomit