Because public health works on a precautionary principle with regards to evidence. Take the advice to pregnant women to consume 0 alcohol, for example.

There has never been a case of FASD, as far as we know, without a pre-existing condition of diagnosable alcohol or substance abuse. It has probably never happened that…

Just switch to smoking until this is all figured out. Smoking won’t kill you for a good 30 years.

And despite your corporate overlords telling you to stick to sports, I hope Deadspin never does because

and I can’t emphasize this enough

I come to Deadspin BECAUSE YOU DON’T JUST STICK TO SPORTS

The whole “making the best choice” part should have been a flashing red siren that this was obviously not about the men’s team.

Does anybody really care?

Yes the whole “pivot to video” thing was based on maliciously faked data, but it also brought us Dom wielding that stupid fucking chopstick so I say it was worth it.

Look, Trubisky has only been in this system for a year....sorry wrong thread. 

*Michael Jordan, doing the grizzly Robert Redford appreciative smile and nod gif*

shocking that someone employing an MLK quote on social media did not actually mean it

Yes, really. The point of choosing this course, of getting together a team to give him favorable conditions that are all but categorically impossible in an open race, intentionally creating better-than-ideal conditions is to see if, even under those constraints, a marathon under 2 hours was at all possible. When you…

“I like to call them Twin Towers.  It’s a name no one has thought of ever. They are the biggest, most beautiful twin towers and nothing will ever knock them down, not like other towers you might have heard of.”

Turkey Fucks Chicken

America was once a modern, relatively secular country with an educated middle class that embraced Western culture.

I personally hate Twitter, and yet I have literally no idea what you are yelling about.

The snake that ate its tail, and then vomited up its own butt.

Prohibition is leading to bootlegging? Who could have ever foreseen?

Quick! Outlaw the regulated ones that tested negative, that will solve the problem, ONCE AND FOR ALL

If by “everyone” you mean “less than one in five,” I agree.