That doesn't even mean anything!

It means WAKE UP SHEEPLE THE CDC IS IN THE POCKET OF BIG PHARMA!

I think. It might be the other way around.

I trust my body more than the CDC, FDA, or drug companies.

That doesn't even mean anything!

I know, right? I don't care if he personally chooses to eschew medication, but...I trust my body, too, yo. That has nothing to do with (1) the utility of medication in certain disease states, or (2) the CDC tracking data about factual illnesses happening.

I just got an email from the government of Nunuvut - specifically, Kivalliq School Operations - regarding relocation to Rankin Inlet. To which I say 1) no thanks and 2) I suspect you have the wrong email.

But I'm concerned enough about this year's outbreak that I'm going to find a flu shot today.

Yeah, me too. Both my sister & my mother are sick, and I can't avoid them indefinitely.

That doesn't even mean anything!

Also, what's this about dog vibrations?

Do you think someone could apply by editing the job listing first?

Only if you want to work there. Eek.

really don't want to have to yell at a friend on Facebook that spouting the phrase "pharmaceutical companies don't create cures; they create customers" is both facile and not only wrong but dangerous.

Yeah, working for drug companies, I can say there's lots of shady shit they've done/do. But if there were a magic cure for all the cancer? Hells yeah they'd be selling it--they'd just be charging an arm and a leg for it. And even if they didn't want to sell it, they'd have to test it first (to prove it works) and the people who tested it (both on my side and on the doctors' side) would never be like "Oh, it seemed to be perfect and work amazing, but oh well, they aren't going to sell it". No.

Statistics aren't witchcraft.

But Nate Silver is still a witch, right?

Gris, that sounds like a horrid logistical nightmare on top of a situation that's already awful.

But Nate Silver is still a witch, right?

Probably

MFNlaw, I know you are thinking going where you don't know anyone, but I would like to make sure you know you are welcome out here anytime. There's nothing here. Like, at all. But that may well be exactly what you need, and you are welcome to it.

OR! This summer we'll be gone to do the camp and will likely be looking for a housesitter, so if you wanted time alone in the high desert, which you could use as a base for places like the Painted Desert and the Grand Canyon, that would be available to you too.

Statistics aren't witchcraft.

But Nate Silver is still a witch, right?

Or a golden god.

Also, what's this about dog vibrations?

This is what I'm talking about. He and his wife are very hippy-trippy. Lovely people, and comics geeks the both of them. And they can eschew drugs, and talk about dog vibrations, but, well, I'ma have to use an emoticon here:

O_o

(Also, I am looking at my dog right now. He is practically comatose, he's sleeping so hard. He does not vibrate.)