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January LC Thread **Survivor White House Edition**

View Poll Results: Who will NOT survive the month of January?

Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III

11 22.45%

John Kelly

2 4.08%

Sarah Huckabee Sanders

0 0%

Rex Tillerson

9 18.37%

Jared Kushner

11 22.45%

Hope Hicks

2 4.08%

Gary Cohn

4 8.16%

Ryan Zinke

2 4.08%

Rod Rosenstein

5 10.20%

Write-in

3 6.12%

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01-15-2018 , 11:15 PM

#976

spaceman Bryce

anything you guys want

Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 20,646

at Kansas state which I only had to go to because I missed hundreds of days of high school I felt worse than I did working at a grocery store.

01-15-2018 , 11:23 PM

#977

uDevil

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Jul 2003 Posts: 6,941

I met some of the nicest and smartest people at school. Also some serious *******s though. I came out ahead, I think.

01-15-2018 , 11:23 PM

#978

ScreaminAsian

For President

Join Date: Oct 2008 Posts: 33,333

i love school i just hate paying for it

01-15-2018 , 11:25 PM

#979

prana

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 8,513

Thanks 2+2 politards for keeping me sane with facts and ****. I am so overrun with trump morons where I am. Don’t stop what you do. Even poconder.

01-15-2018 , 11:25 PM

#980

spaceman Bryce

anything you guys want

Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 20,646

I distinctly hated school. I did not enjoy it and Kansas state there were a lot of people both good and bad.

01-15-2018 , 11:26 PM

#981

Loki

binary duo

Join Date: Nov 2015 Posts: 12,772

Quote:

Originally Posted by ScreaminAsian

i love school i just hate paying for it

Amen, brother

01-15-2018 , 11:30 PM

#982

spaceman Bryce

anything you guys want

Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 20,646

Paying for school was never a problem for me. If you guys knew the opportunities that I was handed and then ****ed up you might commit suicide just by knowing them. It's the same reason a lot of upper class and upper middle class people kill themselves. I'm good with it at this point though.

01-15-2018 , 11:59 PM

#983

spaceman Bryce

anything you guys want

Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 20,646

This is the part where I need microbet or a sklansky pot something to intervene so i don't feel like everyone is stupid . Not that I d expect anyone to sympathize with someone with a rich parent, you'd say kill everyone who makes over 80k. Jesus yeah I'm the one on drugs
Ha lol.

01-16-2018 , 12:00 AM

#984

spaceman Bryce

anything you guys want

Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 20,646

Quote:

Originally Posted by suzzer99

Stay classy bro

Yeah I agree with Bristol you're all dirty people.

01-16-2018 , 03:20 AM

#985

thechaoz

enthusiast

Join Date: Sep 2017 Posts: 70

Quote:

Originally Posted by prana

Thanks 2+2 politards for keeping me sane with facts and ****. I am so overrun with trump morons where I am. Don’t stop what you do. Even poconder.

I moved from my home of 37 years across the country. I feel reborn. It's amazing

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01-16-2018 , 03:22 AM

#986

thechaoz

enthusiast

Join Date: Sep 2017 Posts: 70

Quote:

Originally Posted by spaceman Bryce

I'm going to add that too things I don't like

Things I don't like

College
Math
Overly sweet food
People who don't know I know chess secrets and talk over me as if I don't know chess secrets
Spiders

Math is life bro

OK I kid, it's drinking.

Love me some bourbon

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01-16-2018 , 06:42 AM

#987

simplicitus

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Jun 2007 Posts: 10,840

8 bad science and health ideas that should die in 2018
https://www.vox.com/2017-in-review/2...yths-dead-2018

1) Voters make decisions based on facts
2) Addiction is a moral failure
3) Opioids are effective for treating chronic back pain
4) “Statistically significant” means “strong scientific evidence”
5) Placebos are useless
6) Exercise is the best solution for obesity
7) Homeopathy works
8) We need a “debate” about climate change

A fairly eclectic grouping, but the world could use at least one "beware of bull**** science" article for every bull**** science article.

01-16-2018 , 07:03 AM

#988

Louis Cyphre

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I found this part weird, especially considering the article also rails against homeopathy.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Vox article

You may have heard someone disparage anti-depression medication by saying it’s mostly a placebo effect, or that alternative medical treatments like acupuncture or Reiki are duping people to spend money on placebos.
(...)
So saying “it’s just a placebo” when talking about alternative treatments may be downplaying their potential usefulness.

The bolded is exactly what's happening. There is a difference between a medical doctor making the informed decision to administer a placebo and pseudo-science hacks pretending they are doing anything but.

01-16-2018 , 07:52 AM

#989

SenorKeeed

mew mew mew

Join Date: Jul 2006 Posts: 37,478

I don't think a doctor can ethically prescribe a placebo.

01-16-2018 , 08:46 AM

#990

Louis Cyphre

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It happens all the time. Whether it is ethical can be debated.

01-16-2018 , 08:49 AM

#991

tomdemaine

Just tries harder

Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 20,065

Quote:

Originally Posted by SenorKeeed

I don't think a doctor can ethically prescribe a placebo.

If clinical trials show they have a statistically significant positive impact why not? Not prescribing something that will make a person better seems like the ethical breach to me.

01-16-2018 , 08:59 AM

#992

BOIDS

Carpal \'Tunnel

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srs potential to undermine confidence in the medical profession tho

01-16-2018 , 09:40 AM

#993

SenorKeeed

mew mew mew

Join Date: Jul 2006 Posts: 37,478

Quote:

Originally Posted by tomdemaine

If clinical trials show they have a statistically significant positive impact why not? Not prescribing something that will make a person better seems like the ethical breach to me.

Violates informed consent, unless the patient is told it is a placebo. Then it isn't a placebo

01-16-2018 , 09:42 AM

#994

tomdemaine

Just tries harder

Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 20,065

Quote:

Originally Posted by SenorKeeed

Violates informed consent, unless the patient is told it is a placebo. Then it isn't a placebo

I thought I read that placebos still work even if you tell someone it is one. I wasn't saying they should necessarily lie to people.

01-16-2018 , 09:51 AM

#995

SenorKeeed

mew mew mew

Join Date: Jul 2006 Posts: 37,478

Quote:

Originally Posted by tomdemaine

I thought I read that placebos still work even if you tell someone it is one. I wasn't saying they should necessarily lie to people.

They work if the patient knows there is a chance they're on a placebo. Don't think it works if they know they are

01-16-2018 , 10:41 AM

#996

SenorKeeed

mew mew mew

Join Date: Jul 2006 Posts: 37,478

And Vox's virulent anti homeopathy makes no sense given their pro placebo stance later in the list. Doctors can't prescribe placebos so homeopaths are fulfilling a valuable service. People are going to seek homeopathy generally when doctors can't provide effective treatments.

01-16-2018 , 10:51 AM

#997

SuperUberBob

Not interesting enough

Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 48,217

Quote:

Originally Posted by suzzer99

The amount of projecting conservatives do is incredible.

01-16-2018 , 10:52 AM

#998

bobman0330

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Aug 2004 Posts: 24,234

Quote:

Originally Posted by SenorKeeed

This is basically the equivalent of someone getting the Chinese characters for "Rotten fish" tattooed on their arm--"It means 'peace and love'!" High-status, exotic quackery = good; low-status domestic quackery = bad.

01-16-2018 , 10:59 AM

#999

Trolly McTrollson

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Oct 2010 Posts: 36,770

"virulent anti homeopathy"

01-16-2018 , 11:11 AM

#1000

ecriture d'adulte

Pooh-Bah

Join Date: Jan 2017 Posts: 5,920

Quote:

Originally Posted by BOIDS

srs potential to undermine confidence in the medical profession tho

Yeah. It’s pretty crazy how shady the medical community used to be before a lot of the ethical stuff became law. I was reading that doctors never told Babe Ruth he had cancer and just told his family because they all decided it was better that he didn’t know.

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