A Pain-free Life is Nothing to Wish For. Steven Pete has congenital insensitivity to pain (CIP), which means he hasn't felt pain in his 41 years of life.
The Story Behind "It's a Small World." (via Strange Company)
Water on the Moon May have Come from Earth. (via Damn Interesting)
I'm really impressed with how much he didn't die there.
She was the Queen of the Cakewalk and the Most Famous Black Woman of the Gilded Age.
The Social Security Administration has released the statistics for what Americans named their babies in the year 2021. There doesn't seem to be a lot of changes from last year in the top ten. (via Digg)
7 persistent claims about abortion, fact-checked. (via Fark)
The 84-year Journey of Dorothy's Dress. It was lost for 50 years, and now there's a lawsuit over it.
Comic of the Day: The sun and the moon. (via Geeks Are Sexy)
3 comments:
Claim: After Roe, abortions skyrocketed.
Well, they doubled in the decade after the ruling. Not sure if that is "skyrocketing" or not.
Claim: There is big support for ending Roe in America.
A very broad claim that is easily disproved. What percent of people are OK with abortion with no limits?
Claim: The only people getting abortions are straight, cisgender women.
Any claim with an absolute (only) can be easily disproved. Change "only" to "vast majority" or another similar term and the claim is true. The article that 99.9% of abortions are apparently straight, cisgender women.
Claim: Fetuses feel pain early in a pregnancy.
A study from 2005 is cited. The is not really settled science. A quick internet search brings several more recent journal articles that have revisited this "widely accepted medical research from 2005."
This NPR article would not pass muster in a high school science class assignment.
Love the shipping joke, LOL!
The claim is...After Roe abortions skyrocketed. The claim is not for the decade after Roe, but the 5 decades after Roe, so false.
The claim is... There is big support for ending Roe in America..
The PEW claims 37% for illegal in all/most cases which would be opposed to Roe. OK with abortion with no limits? Yes because it's none of my damn business what a woman and her doctor decide is best.
The claim is... The only people getting abortions are straight, cisgender women.
Agree it's an absolute statement, and invariably false like any absolute.
The claim is...Fetuses feel pain early in a pregnancy.
The 2005 study shows the the fibers necessary start to appear between 23 and 30 weeks but that's like wiring in a building under construction, It doesn't function until it's all connected.
It's common in science to write articles looking at past peer reviewed research, but they're just speculation. Until someone actually does the science.to prove or disprove, the result stands.
My question is where did NPR get the "7 persistent claims", are they paraphrasing or quoting?
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