It depends where you live. In Australia, skin cancer is a very real and prevalent risk.

Eh, Firefly was a fair amount more optimistic than Blake's 7 and while Firefly's characters weren't quite squeaky clean, they were nowhere near as morally ambiguous as those of Blake's 7.
That difference in tone stops it from seeming like a spiritual successor and more just 'inspired by' for me.

But what if someone had paedophilic desires, but kew that it would be wrong to actually act on them? Would you advocate that that person should be 'exterminated'? Plus if you have a widespread program of extermination then paedophiles are going to try to hide and just be more careful in who finds out what they are…

Yeah fair enough to say the methods are flawed (I don't know enough about it to judge), but so many people are talking about SES here as if it hadn't even been considered by the researchers.

There are certain statistical analyses that are used when you expect the presence of a confounding factor such as SES that are used to control for and take the factor into account, even when sample populations differ. From my reading of the study they did this, specifically statistically controlling for SES when doing…

So there are a lot of people here commenting and bringing up possible methodological issues that if they had bothered to read the study were actually considered and addressed by the researchers.

Other articles about this study mention that the authors did specifically control for SES and other factors. Critiquing a study's methods is fine, but you kind of have to read the actual paper first.

For fuck's sake, why is everyone assuming the authors didn't control for socio economic status? They did!

The study actually took this into account. They controlled for socio economic status.

The study controlled for socio economic status, so this effect is not caused by same sex parents having more money.

The study controlled for socio economic status.

It's different when you choose to call yourself something, to some stranger shaming your for your personal grooming choices, with the weight of societal pressures behind them. Society tells us every day that there's something wrong with us if we choose not to go along with the current fashion for hair removal, so I…

A "gorilla"? Seriously, fuck you.

The planet has continued to accumulate heat since 1998 - global warming is still happening. Nevertheless, surface temperatures show much internal variability due to heat exchange between the ocean and atmosphere. 1998 was an unusually hot year due to a strong El Nino.

Actually, in old Greek culture women were expected to almost never leave the house, and when they did to completely cover up. Sparta was slightly less restrictive of their women, but ancient Greece tended to consider women as only fit for birthing children and keeping house.

You haven't addressed the fact that the "god damned hippy bullshit" is what actually works in preventing recidivism, saving money and preventing future crime.

You know that being 'tough on crime' doesn't actually prevent crime from happening, right? The human brain isn't that simple, there are a lot of social and economic reasons causing people to commit crimes as well.

Green tech creates jobs and costs less than fossil fuels:

You do know that the green technology funding was actually making more money back for the government, right? But for some reason Abbot has decided that he would rather we keep wasting taxpayer money on subsidising the mining industry instead of actually making money on new technologies.

Ah, an expert! Please explain how our climate works, then.