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Comment Re:and so the stereotypes abide... (Score 1) 315

You're making the common mistake of thinking the current hipster driven fad for some of the superficial aspects of nerd culture is the same as the real deal being actually appealing.

It's not. Nerd culture is no more popular today than it ever has been, the difference is instead of openly harassing/bullying nerds just for being nerds people are inventing a straw boogeyman that lets them pretend to be a victim in order to justify their abuse. The only difference between today and twenty years ago is the slur used. Twenty years ago it was "nerd" itself. Today it's neckbeard.

Comment Re:Ass time (Score 1, Insightful) 499

You also need to live somewhere with access to those ingredients, have a high enough income that you can afford the ingredients, and a high enough income that you can afford to be not-working long enough to cook and eat them. There are thousands upon thousands of people too poor for all three. They don't live anywhere with access to fresh food ("food deserts"), can't afford to travel to where they could buy fresh food, couldn't afford the food itself even if they could get there, can't afford to take the time out of their multiple jobs to go even if they could afford it, and can't afford to to take the time off to cook or eat it.

Comment Re:Economic reasons (Score 1) 384

That's sophistry. It sounds like a legitimate argument on the surface but it's really just high minded sounding bullshit. If someone tries to present you with "facts" that vaccines cause autism or shaking water in six directions and thinking hard can cure cancer they're full of shit from start to finish.

Comment Re:Economic reasons (Score 3, Insightful) 384

Democracy or even Debate does not mean that someone else's ignorance is as good as my facts. There are some things there just isn't any intelligent debate ABOUT, and even pretending to listen offers a veneer of legitimacy they simply do not deserve. Like vaccines and autism. Vaccines do not cause autism, they have not, and never will cause autism. There is no possible legitimate thing anyone could ever say that supports the idea vaccines cause autism, and merely by listening you're legitimising their bullshit more than they deserve.

Sometimes the proper response is to just tell people to sit down, shut the fuck up, and LISTEN to the facts.

Comment Re:Showing pain, not feeling pain (Score 5, Informative) 274

"Further testing showed that the rodents exposed to male odors were actually feeling less pain, rather than simply hiding the pain they were in. The male aroma ramped up their stress levels, which deadened the hurt. “It’s really astounding that such a robust effect could have been missed for so many years,” Mogil says."

RTFA.

Comment Re:Is Ebola a "rapid burnout" disease? (Score 1) 112

Do I LOOK like an expert in bat psychology to you? All things being equal the simplest explanation is most likely to be correct. Either there was a pocket of the disease in the other location already or it was somehow carried there. Maybe it was an animal, maybe a person in the incubation period, we don't know and probably never will.

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