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Or on his head-- Never Been Used.

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Also applies to gunshot deaths, because if the NRA won't let you study it, there won't BE any data ever and "DR" Ablowme can continue to pull "Studies" out of his ass.

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And see where it gets you.

No, wait-- I think I'm in the "Learned Helplessness" phase. It'll pass soon, I hope.

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Because once you do something that scares the hell out of Fox News watchers, you are officially an adult. It's like a Bat Mitzvah or something.

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Halloween costumes of Fat Man and Little Boy?

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I feel that way whenever I hear someone say "evidence based medicine".

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As a kid I remember reading Poe's "Cask of Amontillado" and then bricking my little brother into the corner of the basement. No one warned my parents with a big scary label that I shouldn't be allowed to read Poe.

Dear god I hope this bozo isn't in actual practice with patients. Especially children.

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<i>"Facebook, which should carry a warning label, [and] on Slender Man, which should carry a [government] warning label,"</i>

Isn't there an Amendment of some kind about free speech?

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There are <i>adults</i> who seriously believe in the reality of, say, chemtrails, or that HAARP is a weather control conspiracy. It's not that hard to believe there are gullible 12-year-olds. There is evidently a deeply-seated desire in all humans to believe in <i>something</i>, and for some folks it seems that the something needs to be way different.

Back in the witch-hunting days, young girls would sometimes voluntarily confess to being witches (in training, I suppose). Believing weird shit is not new.

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I am dazzled by the revelation that the 2A may have actually been talking about bears' arms (with an accidentally omitted "s'". This could be more significant than the relevance to short-sleeved shirts.

EDIT: As I finish reading your nomment (that's what we have on Wonket), I realize that you are very reasonably outraged, and I did not mean to denigrate your outrage. I was just momentarily overwhelmed by the possibility of a not-overused pun.

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He resigned from the APA ("in protest" he claims), so he doesn't have to abide by their standards of ethics.

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This guy is doing more to discredit psychiatry than Tom Cruise.

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My solution is a national "Do NOT read the comments" warning be applied to every US website by force, except Wonkette, since it does not allow comments.

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Where's the Surgeon General? I thought the Surgeon General nominee was having his nomination blocked or something.

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This is the same guy who earlier this year was teaming up witb O'Reilly to tell us texting was a form of addiction, right?

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Studies have shown that you're correct.

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