you will all love bad science blog

IT IS AMAZING.

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Originally posted by silly punk:
you all love bad science.

See?! didn't i tell you that this 'silly punk' has been defaming our character(s)? now, i didn't read the entire post, but clearly you can tell from this snippet that she's bad news!

Join us at 10:00 - Rain causes premature baldness!

SP, I got hooked on that blog about a month back when someone at work forwarded me one of his columsn ranting about the anti-vaccine people. I'm working through his back catalog.

Is his book available in Canada? I can't find it on Amazon.com except as a very expensive import.

dunno! as i'm still in the UK.

it is only £5.39 here. if shipping is costly, you can always ship it to me and i can drop it in the post when i'm in san diego in july

i hate hate hate hate going to the GYN. GAH!

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Originally posted by silly punk:
dunno! as i'm still in the UK.

it is only £5.39 here. if shipping is costly, you can always ship it to me and i can drop it in the post when i'm in san diego in july

Good plan. I'll ask my Canuckistani 'rents and see.

the 'healthy choice' baked beans taste really, really bad. I mean, not tasteless like they've taken out all the fun bits, but actively bad. At least having eaten them means I don't have them still to eat.

There's a phantom pounding in my head. Like there are teenage homunculi having a never ending metal band practice in the attic of my skull. The exceptionally bad imp-drummer’s double-kick pedal is blast-beating out the arrhythmic waves of headache that resonate through my brain. It’s the psychic residue of these fucking goddamn roofer crews who’ve been pounding what must be the same five roofing nails with sledge hammers and/or jackhammers the size of engine blocks, directly above my room, for the mornings of the past two and a half weeks. Last week, they borrowed an extension cord to power some ridiculously large roofing machine. As my neighbor was about to leave, they heard a static-ey explosion, ran into the kitchen to find the outlet the roofers were using had caught on fire. It painted charcoal feathers on the wall, missing the curtains by six inches.

I know the landlords are old nuns who couldn’t tell a leaking roof from a leaking bladder. I know we need infrastructure stimulus, but this is cruel and unusual over-stimulation. This is Obama-unapproved, dead end, unproductive spending. This is someone trying to over-employ themselves by replacing my not-leaking, perfectly good roof with tiles of some post-functionally cheap material. Not unlike people who get payed a Gettelfingerian $250,000 a year to stand around on a dock directing Matson cranes, the same people who are trying to kill legislation that has built and continues to build Hawaii's tech and green economy. And my legislators have heard my opinion on that. The global housing heist-bubble is over, Mr. Ferreira. Time to enroll in a community college.

Mercifully, the pounding has recently faded, and it appears they have confined themselves to the less raucous cash charade of replacing the roof drainage system.

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Originally posted by Domitella:
the 'healthy choice' baked beans taste really, really bad. I mean, not tasteless like they've taken out all the fun bits, but actively bad. At least having eaten them means I don't have them still to eat.

*nods*

are these the reduced salt ones? they are foul!

yeah, I thought they'd have made some effort to have them taste the same at least. But they added bad things! Such a result cannot be achieved simply by removing the salt and sugar!

agrees completely...i was amazed at how bad they tasted...i wonder what the hell they did, and why they did it!

Healthy choice is Soylent green!

Bugger this.
For better or worse, one learns to *trust* the more reputable national papers. Apparently my trust was misplaced.
Where the international papers (The economist and Die Zeit" sensibly lay out the facts and opinions, why there could be a pandemic and which factors look hopeful, one of the two big national Dutch papers seems to vaguely flounder around citing "phase four" "hightened risk" under the header "Virus reaches Europe". And then: "Ministery of foreign affairs advises against traveling to Mexico" In that article they cite "second case: Spain". Whatever that has to do with traveling to Mexico is beyond me.

Half-information: or too little information only leads to scares.
"Flu reaches Europe" alright, but the cases seem to have been mild, which is hopeful. The circumstances under which people in Mexico seem to have been so sorely afflicted are as yet unknown. Un-known. So it's still possible that if this virus spreads further throughout Europe, the consequences need notbe *as* severe as the strain seems to respond to regular antiflu medication such as Tamiflu.

My dearest Newspaper. My parents have had a subscription to you since i can remember: and even *they* decided to switch to another daily about a year ago. This is yet another example of shoddy reporting, leading to gaps in knowledge, leading to fear. I'm glad i can read the Economist in English and Die Zeit in German, so that i at least have the option of getting some real information elsewhere. Others here might not be so lucky.

and to think, some people in the u.s. still watch fox news, even though they have other options. *eyebrows*

Alli arrived in France yesterday.

A new blue pill that allows you to get daily diarrhea for only 60€ a month.

Ain't it nice ?

Oh, and it will also make you lose 4kg in 6 months. But only if you start a low-fat diet and exercise more.

Seriously, that's exactly what the commercial says. They're not even trying to pretend it works.

It sounds stupid, it is stupid, therefore they've already sold hundreds of boxes.

I find this utterly depressing.

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Originally posted by Apathy:
and to think, some people in the u.s. still watch fox news, even though they have other options. *eyebrows*

Erm. I still watch fox news. I also watch a lot of other news. I like to get my daily dose of bullshit from both sides of the extremes in the hopes that somewhere in the ass crack of the media a nugget of real news will pop out. Not all fox viewers are idiots. I will grant you that anyone who chooses to only follow a single news source is probably not the brain trust of the century.

i understand checking out what everybody's got to say. that's probably the best way to get at what is true and what is hype/spin. additionally, my parents tend to gravitate to fox as their televised news source, and they are not idiots.

I just don't consider Fox to be good enough journalism. There's other sources of extreme right-wing opinion which have a better standard. I understand getting different views, but I do have minimum standards of professionalism, research and approach.

My sister on her journalism MA has been studying Fox, which is held up as an example of very, very bad journalism. It's not about views, it's about quality.

I think the same about the Guardian. It's often poorly written as well as having many spelling errors. However, I feel that I need to read something with a left-wing bias to balance out the Times & Private Eye.

I also find the Independent does tend to slide into:

"OMG ENVIRONMENT1111! WE ALL GOING TO DIE!11!"

which is somewhat disconcerting.

I just don't understand how anyone can watch Fox News and not have a seizure...I've never managed to get as far as the content, my eyes shut down in self defence.

The Indy is hilarious. By accident. Whereas the Guardian would be a half-decent newspaper is they a) fired bloody Toynbee and b) acquired some copy-editors and a style sheet.