Worst case scenario for chicken pox is fevers hot enough to cook your brain and strokes. There's a small percentage of the population that can and did die from it.

even though she knows there's no actual proof that the MMR vaccine causes autism, allergies or other diseases, "anecdotally," she's seen otherwise.

I appreciate the comment.

So if you're curious, maybe stop her and ask her where she's going. She and her friends were clearly calmly walking along the sidewalk. This presumption that a one hundred pound girl needs to be laid out for officer safety, rather than pointed in the right direction, is terrifying to me.

Because their car is across the street. Since when is it illegal to cross the street? I had no idea I couldn't walk behind a cop.

It's a sidewalk, and she probably didn't realize she was in a war zone. That guy just saved his buddies from a sorority girl getting within 5 feet of them. What a hero.

Only a completely soulless asshole thinks this way. He did the right thing.

False. He actually saves it. You know how vaccines are developed? In that situation, there was no assurance they would be able to develop one. In that situation, letting Elly live her life and procreate makes more sense.

Is this corrected for UK usage of public school? Generally they use them the reverse of how the US uses them.

There's something...off about this story. Like we should be celebrating, but I definitely don't feel like celebrating.

No, that's not what anyone is saying at all:

It's always been clear that funding a project on Kickstarter is more donation than investment—there's no financial return, and no legal recourse if someone takes your money and runs—but we've never seen anything on this scale before. Without that Kickstarter money, Oculus might have not been able to attract any of the…

If it's "charity" then why do you get something in return for donating X amount of dollars?

RIP Oculus Rift. At least you got to do some cool things before being finished.

The NY Times did a piece on the real Special Victims unit, which is almost all male these days. One of these guys said that if a victim asks for a female detective, “Nine times out of ten," it's because she thinks she can fool a female easier than she can a male, ergo....she's lying. I can't imagine why a female…

If you don't believe that we can trust cooks to wash their hands, why the hell do you think we can trust them to wear gloves? Your arguments make no sense.

This is exactly why the death penalty should be abolished.

Just wondering: where is the data showing a direct relationship between ungloved chefs and the illness of diners?

I would think the families did still have hope, absolutely. Not us audience members from the balcony, because it's easy for us to crunch the odds and go "mm we know they're gone" but for those who had spouses, grandchildren, etc. missing - you always hold out hope for as long as you possibly can, until death is…

There is no reason not to have all four 3rd molars extracted in one procedure. The most danger comes from the general anesthesia, so having to be put under only once would be preferable to having to be put under multiple times.