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As is standard practice, we asked all women of childbearing age to use effective contraception during our trials, and then tested them before each vaccination to make sure that they were not pregnant. We therefore did not expect any pregnancies in our trial participants, and did not expect to be able to get any information from our trial about the effects of the vaccine on fertility. However, because real life doesn’t always go as planned, there have been quite a few pregnancies during the trials. These have been evenly split between the vaccine group and the placebo group. If the vaccine really did affect fertility, we would have seen fewer pregnancies in the vaccine group. The claim that vaccines would affect fertility worried many people, but it is completely false.
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Sarah Gilbert and Catherine Green
Trump himself probably finds such treatment grossly unfair, since to him “unfair” coverage is anything that doesn’t portray him in the most glowing terms. But it is perhaps ironic that after all this time of wondering how to cover this most unusual candidate, Trump has shown the press that the best way to do it is to cover him like every candidate *should* be covered. That means not just planting a camera at his rallies and marveling at how nuts it all is, but doing the work to fully vet his background, correcting his lies as swiftly and surely as they can, exploring what a Trump presidency would actually mean, and generally doing their jobs without letting him intimidate them.
The Media Have Reached a Turning Point in Covering Donald Trump. He May Not Survive It. - The Washington Post
Paul Waldmancolumnist June
Es sagt eigentlich mehr über die deutsche Gesellschaft aus als über den [Islam](http://www.sueddeutsche.de/thema/Islam) oder diese Männer. Nämlich darüber, wie sich die Deutschen selber sehen. Sie zeichnen ein idealisiertes Bild von Deutschland als Gesellschaft, in der es keinen Sexismus gibt. Stattdessen versuchen sie, den Sexismus in der eigenen Gesellschaft auf die neu Dazugekommenen zu projizieren, um damit zu suggerieren, dass das Problem importiert sei. Besonders krude wird es, wenn erzkonservative Politiker, die nichts mit Feminismus am Hut haben, plötzlich Sexismus beklagen, wenn es um Muslime oder Geflüchtete geht. Sie vereinnahmen damit die feministische Debatte für ihre politischen Ziele.
Flüchtlinge: Männliche Muslime Leiden Unter Vorurteilen - Gesellschaft - Süddeutsche.de
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