Quickies
Quickies: FDA doesn’t protect us, offense discourse, and birth control
- Infoporn: Proof that the FDA isn’t protecting Americans’ health – “Whenever the FDA catches falsified data or unreported side effects, it issues a warning letter to document the bad research. That’s good. But a new study shows the FDA also goes to extreme lengths—from bureaucratic obfuscation to outright redactions—to hide any links between that negligence and any particular drug. That makes it impossible to tell if these letters are doing anything to protect consumers.” From cerberus40.
- “I find this offensive”: How “offense” discourse traps us into inaction – “This word, “offense,” is the devil in every detail of every argument and it needs to go. To use it to describe acts of prejudice is to cede much of a hotly contested epistemic field to those only too happy to make the discussion entirely about speech rights rather than material harm.”
- 10 things I’m going to have to tell my gamer daughter – “Gaming has been the norm in her life as much as movies and books have been, and I don’t really see that ever changing. Gaming has gone mainstream, and one day sooner than I’d like she’s going to start sharing her love of the hobby with people in real life and, dear God, online.”
- IUDs and birth control implants last longer than we thought – Making them an even more cost-effective option for long-term birth control.
- Cute Animal Friday! Two little maned wolf pups and their mama. A little girl and her pet pig.
Most of the time, I’ve found “I find this offensive.” is some variant of “I don’t like your tone.” Of course, to call tone-policing a logical fallacy would be to dignify it with the label of ‘argument’, and tone-policing is not an argument