I was working in the same offices with Anita at the time. It was tragic until it was hilarious.

That's awesome. We were dropped if we missed 3 days. Not all teachers held to that rule, but my school was pretty clear about it. They didn't care how sick or dying you were, GO TO CLASS.

Yes. People in first-world countries all simultaneously developed thyroid issues at the same time. Did you know everyone who posts on Jezebel who is obese is a vegan who exercises 10000 hours a day and subsists on kale juice and flavored air? What are the chances?!

I'm with you. It's too long... sexzoned? fuckzoned?

Drunk it is, then.

Sanctuary thread for my people who are grossed the fuck out by pictures of cute babies covered in food. I know you're out there. We can get through this.

I'm sorry, but criticising my tone when there is a creationist-level of wilful scientific misunderstanding going on in this article doesn't really make much difference. If me parroting back to you exactly what this article and the comments sounds like seems a bit absurd, it's because my source material is absurd. …

Miracle's comment was not out of line in the least. I don't know who appointed you Sheriff around here but I don't welcome tone trolls in my threads. If you'd like to complain about tone, make your own thread.

It makes me want to weep for humanity if even the progressive, open-minded feminists dismiss science in the same way that certain republicans they like to mock tend to do.

As far as I can tell, because Dave Barry is science illiterate. Dr. Swaab is an esteemed neuroendocrinologist of impressive pedigree and he has contributed greatly to both neurology and endocrinology. This isn't some creationist crank spouting bullcrap; the man is a world-class scientist.

Yeah! And all this global warming bollocks is getting out of hand too! Temperatures are suppose to be rising, but North America had a polar vortex the other week, and if I know anything about words and temperatures, "polar" means "cold", not "warm"! Why is BIG SCIENCE lying to us?!

Ugh. Rather than posting this like a hundred times:

But how do you report on her past without outing her as trans? If she has been born a woman Hannah would have said before she was Dr.V she was Jane Smith. He couldn't just stop at Dr.V didn't exist before 2000.

Some mafia guy who wrote a memoir late in life talked about how, when you've got contraband/a person in your trunk, you drive very safely and inconspicuously, because the last thing you need is to be pulled over for speeding/not signalling then. Being trans is clearly not a perfect parallel, but ... if you've got a…

I was a journalism major and sometimes you go where the story takes you. And if someone was lying about credentials and had a previous name, that would be relevant to the story. If the person was female and the past name was male that would have to be explained. While I think it could have probably been handled…

Trouble is, researching the lies about his/her background revealed that as part of an attempt to change the past and claim credentials never received.

Of course it had something to do with it. Who was this person who was lying about so many things?

As to the first point: it's still fraud. If I build a better mousetrap in my garage and want to get investors, I can't say "I'm a mousetrap engineer with 18 years' experience coming up with ways to kill household vermin efficiently" when I'm actually a housewife with an education in the humanities who happened to…

you do in this case her gender switch was an important part of why the reporter had to investigate so thoroughly checking for degrees under different names etc... as such it was necessary for the article. He had to prove he attempted to find any evidence of this MIT background otherwise thats just bad reporting. She…

If white people don't get offended for them, who will? /sarc.