Parker:
The problem is that every time one of our "retired" (read DEAD) orbiting satellites breaks apart, the debris is traveling at about 20,000 miles/hour. At that speed, if the space shuttle (for example) is hit by a paint-chip, it takes significant damage. I'm not making this up; this is recorded data. "Space junk" flying out into space is not a problem, as you say. However, space junk STUCK IN ORBIT is a HUGE problem for us. Several solutions have been recently proposed by NASA but none are really that great yet. Some are as loony as putting up in orbit a MASSIVE mylar sheet to catch or slow down debris so it stops and falls to earth... which would work if you can spare like a million square miles of mylar...

Without animal testing, there is no medicine. There is no biomedical science. There are never any new drugs. There are never any new vaccines. All diabetics will die for lack of insulin.... shall I continue?

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I happen to live within 5 miles of a nuclear power plant and every year we get the "what to do in case of a 'nuclear incident'" pamplet in the mail letting us know just that. Unexpectedly, it is remarkably survivable. In short, if you know what happened early, get the hell out of Dodge...upwind. If you find out later or know traffic will be too heavy to escape, get in your basement, pile a ton of stuff up in a corner, and get under it. The radiation won't go through that much material. You only really need to be down there for a few days. By then, the radioactive material will have settled. That's when you get the hell out of Dodge.
In every case, however, you're told to take an iodine tablet or smear some beta-dine on your arm to flood your thyroid with cold iodine. This will prevent the radioactive iodine from the meltdown from accumulating in your thyroid and wrecking all the DNA in the vicinity. It is fantastic to know that soon, there may be another pill you can pop to help with the inevitable radiation you will come in contact with during your escape.

Tim, in short, you're wrong. <--virologist
It's a common conspiracy-theory-style assumption. If a company is big, and makes profit, it must be evil and corrupt. This assumption is not supported by the evidence.

And btw, the FDA's drug trial program is the single most thorough evaluation system in the world... for ANYTHING... by a landslide. They check and recheck and recheck research to a level that you cannot imagine. I personally was absolutely astounded when I learned the extent of this process.

In addition, "Big Pharm" is responsible for discovery, function, efficiency, and production of most of the drugs that you take for basically anything. If it were not for Pharmaceutical companies, you would probably never have been born and if you had, you would have had a slim chance to reach the age that you are now.

Also, a single ATTEMPT at producing a drug for cancer treatment typically costs "big pharm" $500,000,000 (Five Hundred Million Dollars) and many of those drugs fail and are trashed. In addition, those drugs that pass the FDA approval process have been patented for long enough that the patent is nearly expired. As soon as that happens, the drug company is SOL.

Someone get this man a harder reed STAT!

All a post like this does is prompt anti-Christian hate speech and warping of scripture meaning. The 2.1 billion Christians of the world would be appreciative if you would not so blatantly smear our faith, thanks.

And of course the discussion is not helped by anti-theists who spread lies about what religious people teach their children.

If you're ok with the government deciding what your children think, then by all means support this. If however, you'd rather PARENT your children, you should be furious about this decision. If in the same breath you can say that our education system is pretty bad, but children should be forced to attend, you've got a bit of a contradiction there.

Children who are homeschooled, on average, perform better on standardized tests and college entrance exams. They typically perform better in college. Whether they are socially adept is the responsibility of the parents. Anyway, the social "reality" of public high-school is about as genuine to adult life as the easter bunny... hence the reality check that occurs when people finally get out of school and out into the world.

In addition to Sid's comments, protestant Christians who do not hold the same view of Mary, mostly adhere to the belief that Jesus' "brothers" were the sons of Mary and Joseph, so therefore half-brothers. In all fairness to this article, James did just fine in terms for fame. He wrote the book of James, a notable if brutally honest volume.

You must grasp the impact of engaging the target audience. Your unprecedented and novel approach is ground-breaking. It could change the direction of the field and open new opportunities for advancement.

Wow, congratulations. That's some serious publicity!

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Oh, because encouraging prison rape is a greeeaat idea. Yeesh. Cruel and unusual punishment anyone?

That was twisted. Pun intended. A little too far-fetched for me though. You'd die pretty freakin early in the process.

Too bad her intended child was destined to invent cold fusion, solve global warming, and cure HIV. Oh well.

And anyway, everyone here is calling her smart? psh. hardly.