Yeah, I stopped reading the article after a few paragraphs to post this same comment. If there aren't rules, the story becomes a free for all where anything can happen. You can suspend your disbelief for fantasy (and sci-fi probably) but the story still has to have internal consistency. It also proves the writer isn't…

This article is actually quite a good analogy for Prometheus: promised much, delivered little.

I hadn't forgotten about her: Byrum was banned for repeatedly trying to interrupt the Speaker, and was told that her behaviour was unacceptable at the time. That was my understanding of it anyhow.

You made a bold claim (that Monsanto has put out so many GMOs that they've crossed with "all plants"). Rather than waste my time googling obvious nonsense, I asked you for a source. I don't think that's unreasonable. Especially given that, in the end, you provided a link to this guy:

...Dumbass.

Has it occurred to these people that if they refuse to buy health insurance for their employees that includes contraception, and then their employees have to go and buy contraception out of their own pockets, the Catholic Church is still paying for their contraception? I mean, if they're going to buy it anyway, who…

I don't know what the usual response is for breaking rules of decorum. Yeah, it seems a pretty harsh ban (although one or two articles I found said it only prohibited her from talking for one day), but there seems to be a lot of confusion about and little clear information on the nature and rationale of the punishment…

"No means no" really is a rape reference. "It's a message to stay out of someone's body" is a rape reference too. It has no connection to that sentence except for its use as a slogan (of sorts) against rape.

I'm aware that it's all connected (I believe there's a nursery rhyme to that effect, although iirc it mostly leaves out the reproductive system...) but I'm a firm believer in pedantry.

I have to say that I'm inclined to side with the Republicans on this one. She didn't just say "vagina", there is a rape reference there.

If this doesn't suggest that trademark and intellectual property law can be a massive pile of shit, I don't know what does.

I'm just saying that quoting it doesn't automatically mean that the author of this piece "is quoting sensational bullshit". Of course they're not going to say that's why they fired the photographer. It does seem an odd coincidence that they would decide to do so shortly after this clusterfuck blew up in the media and…

And we all know a company would never lie about the reasons for dismissal, or deliberately set out to find infractions that would justify the dismissal of someone they objected to.

Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome for one. There are a variety of intersex conditions and it really isn't quite as simple as sex chromosomes. Not least because there are people who don't have just two sex chromosomes...

Not recently but there were a few cases a long time ago. A German high jumper (in I think pre-WWII). And there were a couple of Soviet field athletes who retired just as the IAAF brought in gender testing, that people considered to be a bit dubious.

A proper investigation, yes. I can't imagine there will be any outcome (assuming that the information given above is remotely accurate) that won't result in a decision not to proceed with a prosecution.

I agree with jll3; that's an intellectual property laws issue.

I'm not in favour of vigilante justice or capital punishment but I don't think prosecuting this guy is a reasonable thing to do. It serves no real purpose and benefits nobody. There are situations where we don't prosecute people for killing others; I see this as one of those. The risk of reoffending is practically…

Under the NHS, this treatment would presumably be available to any and all people who required it in this country (although probably with a couple of stipulations that are present for conventional IVF too). The "this is a pointless waste of time that will only benefit the mega-rich" comments seem a bit unnecessary. I…

Nuclear power ftw. I'm still disappointed at the extent to which the environmentalist movement has been co-opted by anti-science people.