I was thinking the guy was supposed to be Chiss, too.

The Postman was a really good book.

Everyone I’ve ever spoken to about Fantastic Beasts was amazingly disappointed that Colin Farrell turned into Johnny Depp. No one likes Johnny Depp in the role, especially since we’re supposed to believe Jude Law’s character has a thing for Johnny Depp’s character.

Oklahoma and Texas are not the Midwest. They’re either the South or their own thing.

To be fair, the whooping cough vaccine was only recommended every ten years by the CDC in 2006 and for each pregnancy in 2011. Plus, it’s kind of in the tetanus vaccine (dTap) nowadays, so you’re probably up to date if you keep up to date on tetanus.

If lukijo is in fact that commenter, I applaud you for even trying to argue with them.

My intention has only ever been to show that he does epidemiological research, which, again, he does, and is thus an expert in the specific field in question, so my original argument is still valid. I’ve made my mea culpas elsewhere in the thread about my unfortunately repeated accidental mislabelling of his…

I just looked up his CV again, and you’re right. He did get his degree in Public Health with an emphasis on social and behavioral health; I got mixed up somewhere when I was arguing with IWon’tCalmMyTits. Epidemiology and public health are so deeply intertwined that I didn’t really want to write a full essay on how A)…

To be fair, I was wrong about his specialization. He’s a public health biostatistician, which is slightly different than an epidemiologist in that he’d be looking at a wider breadth of things concerning public health with the same kinds of tools (ex. one of his first author papers is titled “Association Between…

Why are you so nettled that I referred to someone who does epidemiological research as an epidemiologist based on the information given in the article, not realizing that he was actually trained as a public health biostatistician before admitting I was wrong but that in practise the two professions do overlapping…

That’s why I said “to a layperson”. Biostatistics are used extensively in epidemiology, and doing public health biostatistics research involves analysis of the data you collect. Look, I don’t understand why we’re arguing. The link you provided essentially says the same thing I have, and that Ms. Wang doesn’t seem to…

Yeah, I looked up his CV after I wrote the initial comment. He does public health biostatistics, which overlaps with epidemiology quite a bit and is basically the same thing to a layperson, so my point still stands. He’s the best sort of person to ask about this stuff.

People can do whatever the hell they want to themselves, but it’s rude at the very least to expose people to a drug they don’t want to interact with.

Look, I hate vaping, too, but the kind of research this guy does is what physicians would be referring to when talking to patients about risks. Plus, he’s clearly tiptoeing around saying that nicotine itself is harmful, and his highest praise was that from a health perspective vaping is preferable to smoking.

He is a professor of epidemiology specifically doing research on nicotine addiction at Columbia. Epidemiologists are the people you go to in order to study what the general risks for things are. Individual medical doctors can discuss risks with patients, but the doctors are getting their information from…

And Miroku from InuYasha.

Why wouldn’t they? It makes more sense to purify nicotine from tobacco, just like we do with cocaine and coca leaves and morphine and opium. For the record, though? I googled this before I commented the first time, and apparently synthesis of nicotine is very expensive (>10x as much), so very few companies do it and in…

Where do you think they get the nicotine from, then?

If Trump is impeached, the Senate can vote to bar him from ever running for public office again, and I can’t imagine that if the Senate does actually impeach him that they wouldn’t do so, especially since he’s probably going to be brought up on a variety of state and federal charges not related to the Ukraine…

Re: your “best case scenario”: I’m not worried about Pence being elected if Trump is impeached. That creepy semi-melted white chocolate figure of Voldemort has the charisma of a wet paper bag, and his biggest accomplishment is causing Indiana as a whole to hate him.