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Inside the Ikea Table Factory.
Owl Loves A Good Noggin Scratch
Darth Vader Can't Touch This
Now, more than ever, Discover cards get swiped the wrong way
You idiots do realize most machines have read heads on BOTH sides?? (In addition to everything in commercials is fake, from the food to the "doctors"
Okay. If my sarcasm detector is on the fritz, I do apologize. However, that is not the fail in this commercial.
Take a look at any credit card or bank card, Joe, and notice where the magnetic strip is. The Discover card was being swiped upside down in every instance, not backwards.
Porn FAIL: He Stinks
>> ^blankfist:
Another embarrassing moment in the life of gwiz665.
It's not easy being green...
And stinky.
V: The Miniseries - Stanley's father teaches him a lesson
Keith Olbermann's "Worst Person in the World" 10/21/09
I think I'm going to start a petition.
Bill Maher Gets Schooled On Vaccines By Bill Frist
Operative word there: "Choose".
I'm a diabetic with a compromised immune system, and if medical science has developed a vaccine that can help minimize any risk of me catching any sort of flu, or ailment, sign me up. Right now I'm knee-deep in a cold that just hit me like a ton of bricks today at work (happens like that, and I hate it) and I'm a little worried because I can't really afford to be sick right now, and most of the cold/flu remedies at the local pharmacy are rather bad for diabetics to take.
Why so worried? I start a new, very high-profile job at the company I work for on Monday. Week one is Quality Assurance and Food Safety Supervisor Training. Showing up with a cold for that... Not a good idea.
Futurama: Wind mills do not work that way! Goodnight!
Bill Maher Gets Schooled On Vaccines By Bill Frist
^Yes, how dare anyone question the all-knowing oracles of medical knowledge.
I think the reason that many geeky type people always toe the main-stream medical line is because they conflate medicine with science (which we all love). Yes, it's almost the same, but if I had to draw it as a venn diagram, there would be a crescent of over-hang. Medicine to me is 80% science and then the rest is filled in with dogma, patriarchy and business ($$).
That crescent of non-science is the part that makes me squirm. I don't think it's that wrong to question medical programs like vaccinations- with the idea that it may be being pushed non-scientifically by the medical industrial complex. (big pharma).
I'm with you, Dag, on most of those points. Questioning things is what makes someone a skeptic to begin with, and you could apply that Venn Diagram to almost any (if not all) avenues of science. Scientists need funding, and not all are unbiased in their pursuit of knowledge. Please, question "the all-knowing oracles of medical knowledge" until you're blue in the face, but make sure that when you're done you've seen, understood, and accepted the evidence and the facts. Not testimonials and anecdotes. Maher did bring up that Frist used an anecdote, however I'm confident Maher fails to realize that the entire "alternative medicine" movement is based on anecdotes and the placebo effect.
Bill Maher is not a kook.
^And there is where we disagree on the subject of medicine and Mr. Maher. He is plainly a kook when it comes to such a serious subject as this, because he employs the exact same tactics as those religious kooks he fights against. If I could send him an amazing book I own called "Snake Oil Science: The Truth About Complementary and Alternative Medicine" what do you think the chances are he'd read it? And if he defied logic and actually read it, would his mindset allow him to see the truth, based on research and evidence into these sorts of things?
He reminds me of my mother. She's not "spiritual", but she believes almost entirely in "alternative treatments". She once argued with me to get off of my insulin treatment for Diabetes and seek an Acupuncture and more "natural" route to cure it. I calmly told her to look into these things from unbiased sources.
I lent her that book.
She threw it at me.
Bill Maher Gets Schooled On Vaccines By Bill Frist
Reason verses the Brick Wall of Ignorance, round one: FIGHT.
As a side-note, I don't get to watch any Real Time, aside from clips here on the Sift and on YouTube. Tell me, did he mention anything at all about this: http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2009/09/28/australia-homeopathy-manslaughter.html
Because I'd love to know his thoughts on it.