Femmostroppo Reader – July 27, 2009

Items of interest found recently in my RSS feed. Please share what you've been reading (and writing!) in the comments.

• US teen pregnancy and syphilis rates rose sharply during George Bush’s presidency, Centres for Disease Control finds | World news | guardian.co.uk

– “(from the ‘no duh’ dept..)”

• Reader e-mail: Why are you picking on Jenny McCarthy over vaccines and autism?

– a nice response from Orac to somebody concerned with his tone

• Those awful ads

– it’s one way to combat garbage science on mainstream media – what do you think?

• The Wizard Of Oz at 70

– surprising

• Make Your Case

– Why worship [any] God? Quote: “The general answer of “because of heaven and hell” is 100% unsatisfying to me – I’m supposed to toady up to a bully just to avoid getting beat up? That’s not moral – that’s cowardly.”