[Warnings: homophobia, police abuse ( Read more... )

If a quick Google on your latest outrage immediately lands me on FactCheck or Snopes telling me that it's not true, or on PolitiFact with a value of Mostly False, False, or Pants on Fire, then DON'T POST IT.

That is all. Carry on.

[Multiple potential-trigger topics here, just so you know.]

There are far too many people who are WRONG ON THE INTERNET where I can see it. I imagine this is true for most of us.

Normally, I don't respond, because the Drama Potential and Time Investment are greater than the Satisfaction of Being Right. The few times I do directly respond, there ( Read more... )

You did not just seriously tell a PhD student, who also does research for a living, to stop reading blogs and start reading peer reviewed articles, did you?

Oh, wait. Yeah you did.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! *headdesk*

(What makes this all the more infuriating? The blog post I linked in the discussion in question is from a blog that references ( Read more... )

SHUT UP.

Or if you can't shut up, leave the ad hominem attacks out of it.

Or if you can't leave the ad hominem attacks out of it, take 'em to YOUR OWN PAGE.

That is all.

Please stop using $CONVENIENT_MENTAL_ILLNESS for the following purposes ( Read more... )