http://sufficientscruples.com/blog Bioethics, healthcare policy, and related issues. Tue, 07 Feb 2012 04:49:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://sufficientscruples.com/blog/faq/comment-page-1/#comment-13224 Sufficient Scruples » Blog Archive » The Extinction of the Stegosaurus Fri, 28 Jul 2006 19:10:36 +0000 http://sufficientscruples.com/blog/?page_id=4#comment-13224 [...] After barely a  month, I’ve decided to retire the “Stegosaurus of the Week” award. I’ve begun feeling uncomfortable about it, and decided it wasn’t the right thing to be doing. [...] [...] After barely a  month, I’ve decided to retire the “Stegosaurus of the Week” award. I’ve begun feeling uncomfortable about it, and decided it wasn’t the right thing to be doing. [...]

]]> http://sufficientscruples.com/blog/faq/comment-page-1/#comment-12837 Sufficient Scruples » Blog Archive » I’ll Be Glad to Help You Do What I Say Tue, 25 Jul 2006 01:00:41 +0000 http://sufficientscruples.com/blog/?page_id=4#comment-12837 [...] So, Jacque, for being the most childish self-described “professional” in easy sight, for asserting your standing in an autonomy-centered, non-directive, healing profession for the explicit and admitted purpose of directing those who come to you into a choice of actions you personally have made for them ahead of time, for spreading long-discredited anti-choice propaganda as fact, for using bizarre, false, and ideologically based definitions of ordinary factual terms like “pregnancy”, “abortion”, and “birth control”, for explicitly refusing to reveal your ideological biases and schemes when asked directly about them while citing as justification professional codes that require the exact opposite, and for demeaning your own profession with these immature antics and your display of childish rancor at a total stranger on two public Web sites, you are officially (albeit belatedly - I had a rough weekend) the Stegosaurus of the Week. Next time try thinking with the cerebral ganglion, not the sacral one. [...] [...] So, Jacque, for being the most childish self-described “professional” in easy sight, for asserting your standing in an autonomy-centered, non-directive, healing profession for the explicit and admitted purpose of directing those who come to you into a choice of actions you personally have made for them ahead of time, for spreading long-discredited anti-choice propaganda as fact, for using bizarre, false, and ideologically based definitions of ordinary factual terms like “pregnancy”, “abortion”, and “birth control”, for explicitly refusing to reveal your ideological biases and schemes when asked directly about them while citing as justification professional codes that require the exact opposite, and for demeaning your own profession with these immature antics and your display of childish rancor at a total stranger on two public Web sites, you are officially (albeit belatedly – I had a rough weekend) the Stegosaurus of the Week. Next time try thinking with the cerebral ganglion, not the sacral one. [...]

]]> http://sufficientscruples.com/blog/faq/comment-page-1/#comment-11665 Sufficient Scruples » Blog Archive » Holy Third Wave, Batman! . . . Fri, 07 Jul 2006 21:25:04 +0000 http://sufficientscruples.com/blog/?page_id=4#comment-11665 [...] I know this sounds pathetic, but I’ve been trying to build readership for a year, and can’t seem to find the formula. As both my regular readers know, my penchant is for longer-form essays on more theoretical issues in healthcare policy and ethics. This is not to say I don’t frequently take time out to rip some right-wing dipshit a much-deserved new one, but many of my posts are more discursive than brief commentary. And I don’t do “Friday Random Ten”. That’s just me. (See the FAQ for some light on why.) Maybe it’s not what blog-readers want. But I can’t help thinking there’s some sort of an audience for me out there. And if there is, that audience will be one with progressive values, strong feminist leanings, science-literate, with an eye for detail and a respect for argumentation. And I suspect much of that audience is already at the blogs I read and respect, such as the ones in my (very selectively chosen) blogroll. I think I’m posting things they (you) would find worthwhile, and I wish I could get the out to that wider audience. [...] [...] I know this sounds pathetic, but I’ve been trying to build readership for a year, and can’t seem to find the formula. As both my regular readers know, my penchant is for longer-form essays on more theoretical issues in healthcare policy and ethics. This is not to say I don’t frequently take time out to rip some right-wing dipshit a much-deserved new one, but many of my posts are more discursive than brief commentary. And I don’t do “Friday Random Ten”. That’s just me. (See the FAQ for some light on why.) Maybe it’s not what blog-readers want. But I can’t help thinking there’s some sort of an audience for me out there. And if there is, that audience will be one with progressive values, strong feminist leanings, science-literate, with an eye for detail and a respect for argumentation. And I suspect much of that audience is already at the blogs I read and respect, such as the ones in my (very selectively chosen) blogroll. I think I’m posting things they (you) would find worthwhile, and I wish I could get the out to that wider audience. [...]

]]> http://sufficientscruples.com/blog/faq/comment-page-1/#comment-11619 Sufficient Scruples » Blog Archive » Anti-Choice Tool Confirms Stereotype (One in a Continuing Series . . .) Thu, 06 Jul 2006 20:47:17 +0000 http://sufficientscruples.com/blog/?page_id=4#comment-11619 [...] So, Pete, even though it’s not yet the end of the week, you take the prize. For being an unbelievable moron, for sanctimoniousness above and beyond the call of decency, and for confirming in hilarious detail the sheer boneheaded idiocy of the pro-life movement, you are officially the Stegosaurus of the Week. Next time try thinking with the cerebral ganglion, not the sacral one. [...] [...] So, Pete, even though it’s not yet the end of the week, you take the prize. For being an unbelievable moron, for sanctimoniousness above and beyond the call of decency, and for confirming in hilarious detail the sheer boneheaded idiocy of the pro-life movement, you are officially the Stegosaurus of the Week. Next time try thinking with the cerebral ganglion, not the sacral one. [...]

]]> http://sufficientscruples.com/blog/faq/comment-page-1/#comment-11124 Sufficient Scruples » Blog Archive » Blinded by Non-Science Fri, 30 Jun 2006 19:28:08 +0000 http://sufficientscruples.com/blog/?page_id=4#comment-11124 [...] The “Vital Signs Blog” earns the just-established “Stegosaurus of the Week” award with this post noting that the Mayo Clinic Web site explains (in response to a reader’s question) that there is no scientifiically verifiable link between abortion and risk of later breast cancer. This perpetual fantasy being a mainstay of right-wing propaganda, Vital Signs is concerned, weighs the issues . . . and concludes that the Mayo Clinic is wrong. Because, after all, what do they know about medicine or anything? [...] [...] The “Vital Signs Blog” earns the just-established “Stegosaurus of the Week” award with this post noting that the Mayo Clinic Web site explains (in response to a reader’s question) that there is no scientifiically verifiable link between abortion and risk of later breast cancer. This perpetual fantasy being a mainstay of right-wing propaganda, Vital Signs is concerned, weighs the issues . . . and concludes that the Mayo Clinic is wrong. Because, after all, what do they know about medicine or anything? [...]

]]> http://sufficientscruples.com/blog/faq/comment-page-1/#comment-11123 Sufficient Scruples » Blog Archive » Dawn Eden Reads Your Mind Like Bill Frist Reads Terri Schiavo’s Fri, 30 Jun 2006 19:17:20 +0000 http://sufficientscruples.com/blog/?page_id=4#comment-11123 [...] So, congratulations, Dawn Eden. In recognition of your onging, though by now long overdue for extinction, tendency to pull nonsensical crap out of your ass, you are the second-ever Official Stegosaurus of the Week. Thanks for playing, and next time try thinking with the cerebral ganglion, not the sacral one. [...] [...] So, congratulations, Dawn Eden. In recognition of your onging, though by now long overdue for extinction, tendency to pull nonsensical crap out of your ass, you are the second-ever Official Stegosaurus of the Week. Thanks for playing, and next time try thinking with the cerebral ganglion, not the sacral one. [...]

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