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Pianists impress me because the dexterity and co-ordination required to play a piano is immediately obvious.


Just in case anyone suspects electronic shenanigans, here she is on an acoustic piano.


Which led me to this interesting transcription by another pianist. It's a piano version of Metallica's "Fade to Black" with a slightly classical flavour to it.

 
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Hours of anti-vaccination stuff
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I wasn't going to waste another 2.5 hours watching people arguing against the most effective large-scale medical treatment in existence, so I decided to cross check one claim at random on the basis that since they're probably all false it wouldn't matter which one I chose.

So I picked the claim showing on the still for the embedded video - that a study in the Journal of Neurology in October 2008 showed that vaccination against Hepatitis B increased the risk of developing multiple sclerosis dramatically, with one type of vaccine increasing the risk by nearly 300%.

The study did exist, but that's not what it showed.

The team sent a questionnaire to all participants, and requested a copy of the child's vaccination history. Of the original group, 349 cases and 2941 controls responded and provided enough information to be included in the analysis.

Of the group who experienced a neurologic episode, 24.4% had been vaccinated in the three years before symptom onset, compared to 27.3% of the controls. There was no association between the development of confirmed MS and general hepatitis B vaccination. However, children who eventually developed MS were significantly more likely to have received a particular vaccine, Engerix B. In their paper, the authors suggest that since the link between MS and the Engerix B vaccine was the only one to emerge from among a number of analyses, it could have been due to chance. These results warrant confirmation to determine if indeed this link holds up and if any significant difference exists among vaccine brands.
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http://www.nationalmssociety.org/chapters/COC/chapter-news/chapter-news-detail/index.aspx?nid=397

It's also worth noting that other, much larger, studies showed no link at all.

Even if hepatitis B vaccines did very rarely cause MS (and there's no evidence that they do) hepatitis B vaccines would still save lives overall.

Even if they were right (and there's rarely any evidence at all that they are right in any way) anti-vaccination campaigners kill people. It's as simple as that. Sadly, it's usually not the people who do the campaigning who die as a result of it. It's usually their children who die unnecessarily.
 
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