Article about an ALS drug that probably doesn’t work

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/hope-sale-get-your-hope-now

“Consider the people who have an interest in getting drugs approved quickly, without necessarily waiting for longer, more comprehensive trials. The patients, for sure. . .but the companies developing the drugs are very much in favor of this system as well. Why wouldn’t they be? Their drugs get to be sold years before they might be otherwise, and if those drugs turn out not to really be efficacious in the end, after all the numbers have come in, well. . .that’s a shame. Really. But no one gets any refunds.”

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While folks are talking about problematic but great villains: there’s this incredibly genderfucky mad scientist in Sankarea who’s a necrophiliac pedophile, and also confirmed straight. One character points out that even zombies try to run away from him. I unironically love this fucked-up bastard.

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Article on Kotaku about how cops found Pokémon cards at a bombing, and they arrested a guy who had Pokémon cards at his house. No mention of any evidence the cards belonged to this guy, as opposed to any other person who has Pokémon cards at their house.

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Sure, “queer people aren’t trying to ‘recruit’ your kids” is a full sentence. But I think there’s a bit more nuance that can be put on it.

There’s a right-wing idea that queerness is contagious, like turning into a werewolf. But on the left, what we think is that some folks figure out they’re queer, and other folks figure out they’re not queer, and what they are doesn’t change, just how much they know about what they are. We’ve seen folks who had a miserable time trying to date women before realizing they’d rather date men, or who pushed themselves to date when they weren’t interested in romance at all, and our goal is to make it easier to avoid that. If you turn out to be straight and cis, all the more power to you! You know what you are because you had the chance to see what you’re not. If you’re bisexual, but you only date the opposite gender, that’s fine! We’re not trying to “fix” you. All we want is for people to understand themselves a little better.