Comments on: Minority Retort http://www.badscience.net/2007/11/minority-retort/ Ben Goldacre's Bad Science column from the Guardian and more... Fri, 10 Feb 2012 11:24:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Snuggie http://www.badscience.net/2007/11/minority-retort/comment-page-1/#comment-30901 Snuggie Fri, 05 Feb 2010 08:58:05 +0000 http://www.badscience.net/2007/11/minority-retort/#comment-30901 Snuggie blanket <a href="//www.snuggieblanketsale.com/" rel="nofollow">Snuggie blanket</a> blanket with sleeves <a href="//www.snuggieblanketsale.com/" rel="nofollow">blanket with sleeves</a> Snuggie blanket Snuggie blanket
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]]> By: Victoria http://www.badscience.net/2007/11/minority-retort/comment-page-1/#comment-18015 Victoria Sat, 10 Nov 2007 11:39:50 +0000 http://www.badscience.net/2007/11/minority-retort/#comment-18015 Here's a more logical way to express the same information: once a woman becomes pregnant, she can reduce the chance of getting breast cancer by having the baby or forgo this benefit by having an abortion. This information could be provided along with all the other thousands of points to be considered when making this incredibly difficult choice. By trying to make the facts seem even more on their side, anti-abortion groups consistently undermine what little evidence they have. I almost feel sorry for them. Here’s a more logical way to express the same information: once a woman becomes pregnant, she can reduce the chance of getting breast cancer by having the baby or forgo this benefit by having an abortion. This information could be provided along with all the other thousands of points to be considered when making this incredibly difficult choice.
By trying to make the facts seem even more on their side, anti-abortion groups consistently undermine what little evidence they have. I almost feel sorry for them.

]]> By: Ben Goldacre http://www.badscience.net/2007/11/minority-retort/comment-page-1/#comment-17988 Ben Goldacre Fri, 09 Nov 2007 19:43:29 +0000 http://www.badscience.net/2007/11/minority-retort/#comment-17988 heh he also talks about "dark forces" in research http://www.epolitix.com/EN/MPWebsites/Robert+Spink/0f77a5e7-5d28-4ea6-bde3-3fddd428bfe7.htm and took out an ad in his local paper saying "What bit of 'send them back' don't you understand Mr Blair?" a couple of years ago. http://politics.guardian.co.uk/election/story/0,15803,1459087,00.html mind you he got re-elected in a marginal afterwards so there you go. heh

he also talks about “dark forces” in research

www.epolitix.com/EN/MPWebsites/Robert+Spink/0f77a5e7-5d28-4ea6-bde3-3fddd428bfe7.htm

and took out an ad in his local paper saying “What bit of ‘send them back’ don’t you understand Mr Blair?” a couple of years ago.

politics.guardian.co.uk/election/story/0,15803,1459087,00.html

mind you he got re-elected in a marginal afterwards so there you go.

]]> By: oldpillman http://www.badscience.net/2007/11/minority-retort/comment-page-1/#comment-17987 oldpillman Fri, 09 Nov 2007 19:35:48 +0000 http://www.badscience.net/2007/11/minority-retort/#comment-17987 What is really worrying is that one of the MP's has a science related PhD!. At least, when he was first was elected, that's what he said. Can't either recall, or find, where he was awarded it, though. What is really worrying is that one of the MP’s has a science related PhD!.

At least, when he was first was elected, that’s what he said. Can’t either recall, or find, where he was awarded it, though.

]]> By: JRanderson http://www.badscience.net/2007/11/minority-retort/comment-page-1/#comment-17968 JRanderson Fri, 09 Nov 2007 10:19:22 +0000 http://www.badscience.net/2007/11/minority-retort/#comment-17968 You may be interested in [off-topic spam link removed x] You may be interested in [off-topic spam link removed x]

]]> By: Hacker http://www.badscience.net/2007/11/minority-retort/comment-page-1/#comment-17936 Hacker Tue, 06 Nov 2007 13:19:18 +0000 http://www.badscience.net/2007/11/minority-retort/#comment-17936 Nuns have breasts in order to facilitate jokes regarding the blind man & the bathroom Nuns have breasts in order to facilitate jokes regarding the blind man & the bathroom

]]> By: manigen http://www.badscience.net/2007/11/minority-retort/comment-page-1/#comment-17934 manigen Tue, 06 Nov 2007 12:11:01 +0000 http://www.badscience.net/2007/11/minority-retort/#comment-17934 That's it, the black helicopters have got him. That’s it, the black helicopters have got him.

]]> By: used to be jdc http://www.badscience.net/2007/11/minority-retort/comment-page-1/#comment-17933 used to be jdc Tue, 06 Nov 2007 09:09:18 +0000 http://www.badscience.net/2007/11/minority-retort/#comment-17933 Cheers for the link Kess. Kess? Cheers for the link Kess. Kess?

]]> By: Filias Cupio http://www.badscience.net/2007/11/minority-retort/comment-page-1/#comment-17932 Filias Cupio Tue, 06 Nov 2007 00:30:30 +0000 http://www.badscience.net/2007/11/minority-retort/#comment-17932 Offtopic: BBC story on those "scientist discovers formula for the perfect bottom" stories: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/more_or_less/7078866.stm Offtopic:
BBC story on those “scientist discovers formula for the perfect bottom” stories:
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/more_or_less/7078866.stm

]]> By: emilypk http://www.badscience.net/2007/11/minority-retort/comment-page-1/#comment-17931 emilypk Mon, 05 Nov 2007 18:47:08 +0000 http://www.badscience.net/2007/11/minority-retort/#comment-17931 I am no geek but simple cut & paste easily selects the 'hidden text' I am no geek but simple cut & paste easily selects the ‘hidden text’

]]> By: Kess http://www.badscience.net/2007/11/minority-retort/comment-page-1/#comment-17930 Kess Mon, 05 Nov 2007 18:11:51 +0000 http://www.badscience.net/2007/11/minority-retort/#comment-17930 "I think that could technically be construed as a breach of the Digital Millenium Copyright Act." I'll push my luck further - the original report (dealing with the US's trigger-happy shooting of an Italian secret agent in Iraq a couple of years ago), complete with all those black rectangles, is at http://download.repubblica.it/pdf/rapportousacalipari.pdf I'll leave it as an exercise for the reader to work out how to get the text from behind the rectangles. Hang on, is that a knock at the door... “I think that could technically be construed as a breach of the Digital Millenium Copyright Act.”

I’ll push my luck further – the original report (dealing with the US’s trigger-happy shooting of an Italian secret agent in Iraq a couple of years ago), complete with all those black rectangles, is at download.repubblica.it/pdf/rapportousacalipari.pdf

I’ll leave it as an exercise for the reader to work out how to get the text from behind the rectangles.

Hang on, is that a knock at the door…

]]> By: boatie http://www.badscience.net/2007/11/minority-retort/comment-page-1/#comment-17929 boatie Mon, 05 Nov 2007 10:39:18 +0000 http://www.badscience.net/2007/11/minority-retort/#comment-17929 I had real problems getting on to Bad science over the week end. Was the "missing material" related to this or was there something more sinister and government related behind it? Sorry I havent created a conspiracy theory for a while, I needed a fix. I had real problems getting on to Bad science over the week end.

Was the “missing material” related to this or was there something more sinister and government related behind it?

Sorry I havent created a conspiracy theory for a while, I needed a fix.

]]> By: nekomatic http://www.badscience.net/2007/11/minority-retort/comment-page-1/#comment-17928 nekomatic Mon, 05 Nov 2007 10:26:12 +0000 http://www.badscience.net/2007/11/minority-retort/#comment-17928 "the original text was still there and could be revealed by, er, turning off the rectangles" I think that could technically be construed as a breach of the Digital Millenium Copyright Act. Your one-way ticket to Guantánamo sir, window or aisle? “the original text was still there and could be revealed by, er, turning off the rectangles”

I think that could technically be construed as a breach of the Digital Millenium Copyright Act. Your one-way ticket to Guantánamo sir, window or aisle?

]]> By: csrster http://www.badscience.net/2007/11/minority-retort/comment-page-1/#comment-17927 csrster Mon, 05 Nov 2007 08:52:50 +0000 http://www.badscience.net/2007/11/minority-retort/#comment-17927 "I bravely downloaded the PDF, and then I read it." You'll never make it as journalist that way. Why can't you just repeat soundbites from press conferences and reproduce snippets from press releases like a real journo? “I bravely downloaded the PDF, and then I read it.”

You’ll never make it as journalist that way. Why can’t you just repeat soundbites from press conferences and reproduce snippets from press releases like a real journo?

]]> By: pv http://www.badscience.net/2007/11/minority-retort/comment-page-1/#comment-17921 pv Sat, 03 Nov 2007 23:45:59 +0000 http://www.badscience.net/2007/11/minority-retort/#comment-17921 Great logic! Obviously there isn't room on the planet for more than one virgin birth. Think of the confusion that would cause. You'd have wise men and shepherds wandering all over the place and getting in each other's way. And it would certainly put up the price of stabled accommodation. Abortion's the answer. Great logic!
Obviously there isn’t room on the planet for more than one virgin birth. Think of the confusion that would cause. You’d have wise men and shepherds wandering all over the place and getting in each other’s way. And it would certainly put up the price of stabled accommodation.
Abortion’s the answer.

]]> By: curranhung http://www.badscience.net/2007/11/minority-retort/comment-page-1/#comment-17920 curranhung Sat, 03 Nov 2007 21:21:41 +0000 http://www.badscience.net/2007/11/minority-retort/#comment-17920 I reckon those nuns who get breast cancer have all had abortions. How's that for logic? ;-) I reckon those nuns who get breast cancer have all had abortions. How’s that for logic? ;-)

]]> By: pv http://www.badscience.net/2007/11/minority-retort/comment-page-1/#comment-17919 pv Sat, 03 Nov 2007 20:35:11 +0000 http://www.badscience.net/2007/11/minority-retort/#comment-17919 curranhung said, November 3, 2007 at 9:15 am <i>How do these religious MPs explain the higher than average breast cancer rates among nuns?</i> Sorry if it's a millimetre off topic, but this prompts a question for any IDers creeping about this forum: Why do nuns have breasts? curranhung said,

November 3, 2007 at 9:15 am

How do these religious MPs explain the higher than average breast cancer rates among nuns?

Sorry if it’s a millimetre off topic, but this prompts a question for any IDers creeping about this forum:

Why do nuns have breasts?

]]> By: ian http://www.badscience.net/2007/11/minority-retort/comment-page-1/#comment-17918 ian Sat, 03 Nov 2007 18:05:13 +0000 http://www.badscience.net/2007/11/minority-retort/#comment-17918 curranhung, it's simple. God works in mysterious ways, and He has a plan for everyone. Really. I also thought this was a good edit (although I haven't seen the original of course). It's short and sweet, easy to read, and delivers a nice portion of face egg at the end. curranhung, it’s simple. God works in mysterious ways, and He has a plan for everyone. Really.

I also thought this was a good edit (although I haven’t seen the original of course). It’s short and sweet, easy to read, and delivers a nice portion of face egg at the end.

]]> By: Ministry http://www.badscience.net/2007/11/minority-retort/comment-page-1/#comment-17917 Ministry Sat, 03 Nov 2007 17:57:06 +0000 http://www.badscience.net/2007/11/minority-retort/#comment-17917 emmer: the longer version is Ben's previous entry here, isn't it? emmer: the longer version is Ben’s previous entry here, isn’t it?

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