I’m all for science - I take the knowledge that, to the best of my limited ability and knowledge, is available to me that I’ve been exposed to and keep it in mind for as many day-to-day things as reasonably possible ranging from nutrition to politics. I support science.

Like the majority of couples, they would like to have a child. But they would like a child without a fatal mitochondrial disease. Seems perfectly reasonable. A medical procedure exists that will allow them to have a child without mitochondrial disease. They opt in. Again, sounds perfectly reasonable.

I’m usually all for scientific advancement, but this just feels like a solution to a problem that doesn’t exist. We have enough people on the planet in need of a home and caring parents.

i found another pic of this:

CoolMiniorNot isn’t exactly a small company in the boardgame world. Their word is worth as much as FantasyFlight or Hasbro at this point. This game will come out, but none of the buyers really know if it’s good or not. This is exactly a preorder.

I recently visited my girlfriend’s aunt, uncle and her nephews - the kids are the only ones who play video games in their whole family so I have a pretty good rapport with them. We’re sitting there chatting about stupid little kid stuff (they’re 9 and 11) and they start talking about bashing Jews and laughing about…

Dawkins is a populariser of that asshole brand of atheism that congeals into a viscous toxic goop on Reddit.

Professor Dawkins is one of the world’s foremost scientists as well as perhaps its greatest populariser of science - fitting into a noble tradition of thinkers who went the extra mile to explain their discoveries for the general public....

Richard Dawkins is a racist, bigoted fool who has done just as much to hurt science education as he’s contributed to it through his academic work. He’s a pompous idiot that routinely comments on things he knows NOTHING about, and he spreads awful Islamaphobic rhetoric.

There is no reason Kotaku should be printing…

Editor’s Note: Yes, the context of the post indicates that we thought this was a real photo and that we thought Bourdain made a sick burn. Rather than acknowledge that we made a mistake, we’re going to pretend that we knew the photo was fake all along and just try to “own” it, because so long as the target is…

that was awfully generous of you

Where do I start.

parthenogenesis and viviparous.

I agree with most of what you say, but you seem to never give answers. Always a lot of, “this sux and is wrong.” But never really any, “Here’s what we need to do...”

This is about a TV show and not a comic book. Maybe that’s your problem?

“How can I write an article about my Mom having too much to drink on io9? Meh, I’ll throw some shit in there about a TV show.”

Actually, congrats to the historians and academics who annotated the book, provided critical analysis and context for this version. That is a lot of work, and I, for one, am not surprised people want to read a version with that level of critical annotation. I do think this is related to the rise of the far right in…

As George Bailey put it:

If everybody in this thread really understood these bigots and their place in the zeitgeist as well as they insist they do, November 8 wouldn’t have come as a surprise, and may even have been preventable. Regarding this particular documentary though, paying for interviews is shady.

Sorry, I can’t be happy about this.