Mr. Wakefield (he’s so infamous Autocorrect fucking knows him) should be barred from speaking about any medical issue. Period. End of story. Any attempt to do so should be a criminal offense
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It’s rather telling, isn’t it, that he complimented the film by saying they approached it “like a trial”? There’s a reason why we don’t reach scientific conclusions through trial. In a trial we start with two possible outcomes (guilty/not guilty), and it is the job of the lawyers on each side to construct the…
This reminds me... my financial advisor has suggested I may want to get heart bypass surgery. He usually gives me good advice, so...
And I’m here to tell you, as an autistic person, that even if that horseshit were true, I would rather be my lovable, loving, vibrant autistic adult self than be dead of or permanently incapacitated by a vaccine-preventable childhood disease. Vaccinate your fucking kids. And learn to embrace neurodiversity while…
I rely on other people being vaccinated. I was unable to complete the whooping cough vaccination due to a legitimate allergic reaction and doctors along with my parents decided for my safety it would be best for me not to have additional vaccinations for whooping cough. Which meant that any time there was an outbreak,…
As a public health researcher, professional, and teacher: FUCK THAT NOISE. Stop being an ableist asshole, stop denying scientific evidence, and stop enabling cockmuffins in your state to further exempt themselves from vaccines that not only save their OWN kids’ lives, but OTHER kids’ lives.
I have a friend who is a vegan activities, and one night while we were drinking, she brought up vaccinations. She believes that Bill Gates is part of a new world order to wipe out our world's population by providing vaccinations. I really couldn't wrap my head around her logic, and when I asked her why would he get…
My thought exactly, right after “yes, it is a coincidence.”
Even if they do exist at the same time, we don’t really have the technology to travel to them. 94 light years equals 552,590,800,877,350 miles. At 36,000 mph (fastest current spaceship), it would take about 1,752,253 years to get there.
I might throw “and close enough to actually detect one another” into your list of conditionals, but sure.
It’s more like the fine print on science reporting with an overhyping headline/lede.
It’s true. When HD 164595 sends its little green people, they’re not sending their best. They’re sending little green men that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems to us. They’re bringing alien drugs. They’re bringing alien crime. They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good bug-eyed people.
Damn scientists, getting their science all over our fun yet again.
For real, though. This stuff has happened before and invariably turned out to not be aliens.
Some Astronomers think that, although the life is probably prolific in the universe, the chance of two advanced civilizations overlapping each other is infinitesimal. The universe is so vast that whole civilizations like ours could have lived, evolved, and been wiped out before we ever even came around. So even if…
The chances of civilizations of similar enough lifeforms at similar enough stages of evolutionary and technological development and similar enough forms of sentience, and similar and broad enough frames of reference for perceiving non-natural patterns in data, and both seeking that simultaneously... I think those…
Or they could have existed a billion years ago or a billion years in the future and we’d never exist at the same time.
I guess I technically believe in aliens. Our universe is fucking massive so it’s a little presumptuous to think Earth is the only planet to have the right mix of sun and water to sustain life. Depending on where the “aliens” are in their evolution they may be more primitive than us or they could have been around…
SETI has pretty officially put a wet blanket on this whole thing.