bright Bulb: Facebook it.
This idea is so shockingly simple, it’s amazing no one thought of it before: The University of Maryland is using Facebook to promote emergency awareness. Next step? Using Facebook to alert students of danger. At least someone can put some good use to the hours and hours students are spending on Facebook. Let’s just hope they make better use of this than their eerily quiet text-SMS alert system.
Outrage
- Who: Parents
- What: Some parents are not vaccinating their children for fear of increasing their chances of autism.
- Why it’s a bad idea: There is no medical proof that vaccination increases the likelihood of autism. And it endangers your child and everyone else’s child.
- Why they are doing it: They think they’re doing the right thing, but the problem here is that parents aren’t listening to reason. Before you make a decision this important, you need to look at the facts — facts laid out by professionals — and weigh relative risks.
- Where to vent: cdc.gov/vaccines/
