I'm not saying don't mention weight at all; I'm saying consider everything going on in the body along with weight. Joint pain may be exacerbated by weight, but it may not be the root cause of the joint pain. For example, I have the same pain issues as my mom; autoimmune diseases run in my family. I'm considered a…

It was considered "mild murder" back in the day, apparently.

It's like having a partially broken leg. You just walk it off.

He's been wrecking his credibility for years by acting like a petulant child. He didn't discover atheism, he just decided to be particularly vicious about it. There are better thinkers out there.

Richard "why worry about sexism in atheist spaces when rape happens in scary foreign countries" Dawkins is dismissing others' problems simply because his experience differs? Color me unsurprised.

The more coffee you drink, the faster you poop out the donuts you've eaten. Fact!

I'm sorry. I wasn't aware that pedophilia came in various strengths. Seems to me that pedophilia is always pedophilia, just like there is no such thing as being a little pregnant.

Just as we don't look back at the 18th and 19th centuries and condemn people for racism

My problem is that he's speaking on behalf of his peer group. "I don't think he did any of us lasting harm." I'm sure others who were molested as children, even in the same decade as he was, would disagree. And then he's using his personal experience to make judgments on who we can, and can't, condemn.

I have heard this exact same attitude espoused by many men who went to English boarding schools. Dawkins is a dick who ought to know better, but I think a lot of what we think of as the stiff-upper-lip British attitude is actually a form of PTSD that results from the fucking brutal way they used to treat their male…

He can speak for himself but to assume it didn't do anyone any harm is ludicrous. He can't know and it's disrespectful and ignorant to think he can.

I fully realize this probably makes me an asshole, but defending pedophiles makes me very suspicious that Dawkins is himself a pedophile.

You stay classy, Dawkins.

What the fuck!! What the hell is mild pedophilia? It seems like this guy hasn't come to terms with what happened to him.

Nope! Home-grown grains are linked with a million-percent increase in ankle cancer. You're going to die of all the cancers.

Mmm... half-baked arguments...

I HATEYOU, study! You're not my real dad!

Holy fucknuts, the fat snark is ridiculous in the comments.

The linked article says: "being obese is probably the greatest cause of the cancer," i.e. endrometrial cancer — not that "obesity is probably the biggest cause of cancer" full stop.

I volunteer to eat all the doughnuts and cookies for you Jezzies, saving you all from cancer.