They need the clicks. It’s working.

Varies by author. This is not one of the good ones.

They are not God-damned guinea pigs. They are being asked to participate in a study by your own words. They have the option of not participating in the study, but are under no obligation to do so. Should they choose to participate, they will most likely have to sign an informed consent document that has been reviewed…

Right? Like, the US government has a history of doing some shady shit with medical trials. But it’s pretty insulting to everyone involved to lump this in with that. Research on human subjects happens all the time - and thanks to atrocities like Tuskegee, it’s subject to strict ethical guidelines. This looks like a…

I’m having a hard time reading Giz lately. Are we on a pro science website that shuns preposterous unfounded accusations, or are we on a pseudo science garbage site that can never be taken seriously?

I read the book. It’s actually quite good. The best part was when she paddled up the Amazon river, was attacked by alligators and rabid penguins, but was saved when she rode away in the pouch of a giant kangaroo. Those are all animals I have seen on TV, so I am sure it happened for real.

Talk about mixed messages. These Olympics are poised to be the strangest in recent memory.

Voluntary guinea pigs. Who are going voluntarily, and signing up for the study voluntarily.

“US Olympic Team to help the government with some science” would be an equally correct headline.

Any study using people are using them as “guinea pigs”, that’s the whole point about informed consent and that it’s voluntary. Volunteers are test subjects.

This is why Debra Messing gets shit for publicly making a spectacle out of her Trip to Malawi. Her Twitter feed read do similar to others who have gone before her. Acting as if she is doing something extraordinary and publicizing it because she wants praise from strangers for ‘saving Africans’ at her own peril

How long has she been 29?

She must have been one of the lost boys of Sudan.

I think I read on twitter that her real age is closer to around 34-35 in real age, as opposed to “Hollywood” age. But clearly, she doesn’t have too many issues with fudging the truth...

Sooooo, her bio says she’s currently 29, which makes her 12 years of age in 1999, the year she says she lived alone in “the jungle with big spiders and poor little children with AIDS and, and, and . . . insert cliche here.”

It would have. The NBAPA tried to make that happen after Billy Hunter was replaced but the owners didn’t want that. More because they didn’t want to open up the CBA to discussion more than they thought it was a bad idea.

It’s so strange how against labor most sports fans are.

How they will decry players that don’t take a “hometown discount” when the billionaire owner who finances the team could easily afford to pay them.

How they will call someone greedy for taking the most money they can in a profession where average careers last a…

I’d play the game for free.

Interesting question. Case in point: I’m not familiar with Bucks’ roster, but is Delly in the top 8 in their rotation? They’re paying 9.5 a year to a guy who made about 1 last year. Does his signing mean they’ll only have enough to give that 11-12 spot the league min (which is $500k-$1.4M depending on years)?

It…

Sports is the only field where conservatives denounce capitalism and free markets.