Oh wow, so this is what's it like to be in 'Mean Girls'. I'd always wondered.

Right, if you don't actually understand the meaning of the word "may" in that sentence, I really am done. It means it's a possibility. Nobody in the world is saying that if you drink raw milk, you are guaranteed to get E. Coli. Hence the word "may". Because it is a risk, not a certainty.

That's not actually what they're doing.

Clearly the CDC are the source of some kind of major conspiracy. That sounds plausible.

Why did you read the entire report? The relevant part is the references for the raw milk section. The data are likely to be in there if nowhere else.

I meant that westonaprice.org isn't a respectable site.

Because vegan burgers don't taste as nice.

Natural news has an link on the side saying that all vaccines pose a risk to the health of children. It is, indisputably, not a reliable source.

Unless you've checked all of the references for the relevant section of the CDCs report, you can't actually claim the data isn't in there because it may be by proxy. There are a couple that explicitly mention illness caused by raw milk so I would imagine the data you're looking for is actually in one of the references.

That is not a reliable source.

The CDC disagrees. Slightly.

A whopping 3%. I think that qualifies as relatively few.

"The CDC warns against drinking raw milk, citing it as a cause of 148 illnesses and two fatalities from 1998 to 2011. Raw milk advocates say that, since 3,000 Americans die of foodborne illnesses every year, two deaths over a 14-year span seem to make raw milk a relatively low-risk cookie-dunking option."

Yeah, I was thinking about posting that one too. I love his definition of PC language. When you put it like that, it shows that it's not this inherently terrible thing and is actually quite difficult to argue against.

He started a fire in his house that killed his grandmother. There was never any suggestion of intent to harm her.

He's a bit of an acquired taste; he tends to go off on long, winding digressions with very few jokes and then try to win the audience back round. Arguably more than a little bit pretentious and he does a lot of the deconstruction stuff like the bit at the end where breaks character. But as far as I'm concerned, there…

You mentioned the defence of "it's just a joke" which means I am obliged to post this:

So it took about 30 seconds for me to find a billion videos of this on youtube. The police have got themselves a busy weekend tracking down all those proto-terrorists.

I'm not really sure why invoking Biblical passages for such a trivial event isn't considered sacrilege. God doesn't care about your football team. He's no more likely to take an interest in helping your team win than the other team.

Will Smith had already acted like an asshole. Didn't he only do the show because he'd virtually bankrupted himself and owed loads of money in taxes?