Because public health works on a precautionary principle with regards to evidence. Take the advice to pregnant women to consume 0 alcohol, for example.

There has never been a case of FASD, as far as we know, without a pre-existing condition of diagnosable alcohol or substance abuse. It has probably never happened that…

No. Confirmation bias is an important thing to take into account, of course, but that’s not what placebos are; these are effects that are independently observable and objectively real compared with ‘no placebo’, i.e., the placebo effect is not a subjective filtering of information. 

Lol I can’t wait for my memories to get by ransomware. “If you want to remember your first kiss, deposit 500 Libra coins in... “

(Yes I know you can’t do that. probably.)

Boy are you going to be smug on your deathbed.

Depends on if they’re specialists, and if so what kind. It’s always a pretty solid living, but varies *vastly* within medicine.

I don’t think there’s any reason to assume the intimacy coordinator on a set is only there to protect the woman, or only there if a woman actor is involved? I would assume they are there for everyone involved.

Fantastic work, thank you.

Wow, what an incredible article. Kudos!

It’s just like cocaine, man, you gotta address the demand side. Maybe it won’t be enough, but if you can’t change the way things work in the ‘open’ world, you can’t change things in the source countries.

I haven’t played Magic since junior high. So we’re talking about 24 years at this point. The biggest fucking assholes in my group all played blue decks.

In the Bronze age? yes.

I’m sitting here, kind-of hoping that actual royalty inflicts severe, lasting damage on a (nominally) free press.

The Southern Reach was like that; it was all written, but then marketed as three individual books. So it happens.

My condolences on your loss, and my thanks for your writing.

We’re in the middle of an election; we literally do.

I would like to offer you a respectful internet-stranger hug and or fist-bump of “yes I totally get this.” And also, Control is amazing.

in a world where corporate taxation becomes impossible, settlements are an ad hoc way of extracting the surplus needed to clean up the mess. 

are you READY for high-stakes, cut-throat, no-holds-barred NICE DAY-HAVING?

You’re getting cause and effect backwards.

They kill themselves and not others, I suppose, would be a significant difference.