{"id":3057,"date":"2014-05-18T10:31:43","date_gmt":"2014-05-18T09:31:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/mindthegap\/?p=3057"},"modified":"2014-05-18T10:31:46","modified_gmt":"2014-05-18T09:31:46","slug":"in-which-my-language-becomes-everyones-for-a-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/mindthegap\/2014\/05\/18\/in-which-my-language-becomes-everyones-for-a-moment\/","title":{"rendered":"In which my language becomes everyone’s – for a moment"},"content":{"rendered":"

Following on from my piece in the Guardian this week about the chickenpox vaccine<\/a>, my friend Buffy clued me in to this clever little number in the Onion<\/a> that had been published the day before.<\/p>\n

\"Onion_Vax\"<\/a><\/p>\n

It’s too gloriously sunny and warm outside to write a serious post, so I thought I’d just point it out in case you missed it, and mention that it’s really great to see actual, hard-core science in such a popular venue. Does this mean, just possibly, that science is becoming just that bit more acceptable to the world at large? I do hope so.<\/p>\n

When interviewed, many mothers described quality time spent gathered around the kitchen table, with the whole family helping to grind recombinant proteins with mortars and pestles while a supervising adult helps purify the mixture through chromatography and ultrafiltration. Others reportedly do prep work ahead of time on Sundays so that during the week they can simply come home from work, stir in any necessary adjuvants or stabilizers, and have an inoculation ready to go.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

…<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u201cEnough people were complimenting my measles vaccine that I now make a couple extra vials on purpose,\u201d said Theresa Berman, a Fresno, CA mother of two, who revealed that her \u201csecret ingredient\u201d is a pinch of ginger. \u201cIt may not be as flashy as MMRV ProQuad, but it has the exact same WI-38 human diploid lung fibroblasts and MRC-5 cells as the brand-name variety.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Following on from my piece in the Guardian this week about the chickenpox vaccine, my friend Buffy clued me in to this clever little number in the Onion that had been published the day before. It’s too gloriously sunny and … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,34,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lablit","category-scientific-thinking","category-silliness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/mindthegap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/mindthegap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/mindthegap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/mindthegap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/mindthegap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/mindthegap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3057\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/mindthegap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/mindthegap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/mindthegap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}