The meaning is clear by context, you incomprehensibly illiterate bellyacher. It's obviously referring to the quack dieting phenomenon. I get that Jimmy Kimmel hurt you, I do, and that's very sad, and I get that io9 does occasionally indulge in clickbaity headlines, but this is not the place for you to work out your…

Every reasonably informed consumer of this site is well aware that the headline refers to the detoxing pushed on consumers, not to the real biological process mentioned in the article.

Part of the reason parents are willing to be idiots about vaccines is that they don't understand just how bad some of these diseases are. They don't know anybody who is paralyzed from polio. They have never seen anybody die of measles. They don't understand how rheumatic fever changes a person's life forever. So…

Personally, Minchin's "If I didn't have you" is the perfect love song because it systematically demolishes all the magic and muddle headed thinking around the subject. And it's funny!

Johnny Depp had his costume all picked out, too. He was going to wear dead stuffed badgers on each shoulder, with a six foot stovepipe hat and green face paint. "Because that's strange, and his name is Doctor Strange," he said, while Tim Burton nodded in the background. "Also, the Avengers are all ghosts now," Burton…

Could be worse. I was fully prepared to lock Johnny Depp in an abandoned cellar until the role was cast.

Speaking as a scientist here, this sort of misinformation is exactly why the United States has such a public mistrust of science and scientific research. PETA is not at all a reputable source for any of the above claims you're making. That's irresponsible reporting.

As a scientist, I can assure you that all of the mice at our institution are treated with a higher standard of care than our graduate students. Guaranteed housing, free food, and defined experimental endpoint.

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As a scientist, in fact someone who conducts animal research, I am appalled at this article. The language Chandna is using is completely inflammatory. To suggest that "anything goes in American laboratories" is to be completely ignorant of how IACUC review is actually conducted. It is true that rodent work is not…

"There's no prohibition on any kind of experimentation no matter how cruel, painful, redundant, frivolous, or pointless."

As someone who has worked with mice in order to justify clinical treatment for patients, this is completely false! I cannot stress how hard it is to get protocols approved for grants and new…

What you're doing here, really, is you're attacking her right to demand something most people would label as "simply being reasonable". The divine right of kings isn't reasonable, and neither is an economic system where gains are concentrated at the top. Amazon's treatment of Hachette wasn't particularly reasonable-…

Lots of very intelligent people believe in a creator. Newton, one of the greatest scientists who ever lived, believed in one. The head of the Human Genome Project is a theist. But belief in a creator isn't science, and it can't get taught in school as science. My problem is not theism. My problem is theists who…

This is part of the reason why creationists will never be able to accept evolution. As John M up there rather strongly implies, he expects there to be a bright dividing line between one species and another (I suppose the point of inflection being presumed to be between parent and offspring). That's not only grossly…

Of course there's also the problem that "species" is really somewhat ambiguous distinction we created. Where does nature draw that line, really? I'm green-eyed and brown haired. My mother was black haired, brown-eyed. Are we different species? Any single organism is an example of a transitional species, in a way.…

Hantavirus, bitches. I'm coming for you.