>> ^Arg:
I'd be amazed if this man is capable of tying his own shoelaces.


I meet him and he is an intelligent, funny and likable guy. Of course you can mock and spout something about a person that you don't know instead of dealing with what he says.
Ben Stein was considered one of the smart guys before he decided to make his movie about Evolution. Now (even though he is not a Christian) he is mocked in similar fashion.
I was under the impression that this is a country where people can speak their mind and challenge thought?! Isn't that, an open discusion and reasoning, what makes sience worthwhile and lead to something?
Funny how nobody wants to talk about the things that Darwin said would have to fall into place to prove his theory. Funny how many of the “proof” comes out forged or plain false? If it is so clear and logigal… why the need to forge things? Funny how these known forgeries are still used in school text books today?!

Just to name a few:

Piltdown man: Found in a gravel pit in Sussex England in 1912, this fossil was considered by some sources to be the second most important fossil proving the evolution of man—until it was found to be a complete forgery 41 years later. The skull was found to be of modern age. The fragments had been chemically stained to give the appearance of age, and the teeth had been filed down!


Nebraska Man from the Illustrated London NewsNebraska man: A single tooth, discovered in Nebraska in 1922 grew an entire evolutionary link between man and monkey, until another identical tooth was found which was protruding from the jawbone of a wild pig.


Java man: Initially discovered by Dutchman Eugene Dubois in 1891, all that was found of this claimed originator of humans was a skullcap, three teeth and a femur. The femur was found 50 feet away from the original skullcap a full year later. For almost 30 years Dubois downplayed the Wadjak skulls (two undoubtedly human skulls found very close to his "missing link"). (source: Hank Hanegraaff, The Face That Demonstrates The Farce Of Evolution, [Word Publishing, Nashville, 1998], pp.50-52)


Orce man: Found in the southern Spanish town of Orce in 1982, and hailed as the oldest fossilized human remains ever found in Europe. One year later officials admitted the skull fragment was not human but probably came from a 4 month old donkey. Scientists had said the skull belonged to a 17 year old man who lived 900,000 to 1.6 million years ago, and even had very detail drawings done to represent what he would have looked like. (source: "Skull fragment may not be human", Knoxville News-Sentinel, 1983)


Neanderthal: Still synonymous with brutishness, the first Neanderthal remains were found in France in 1908. Considered to be ignorant, ape-like, stooped and knuckle-dragging, much of the evidence now suggests that Neanderthal was just as human as us, and his stooped appearance was because of arthritis and rickets. Neanderthals are now recognized as skilled hunters, believers in an after-life, and even skilled surgeons, as seen in one skeleton whose withered right arm had been amputated above the elbow. (source: "Upgrading Neanderthal Man", Time Magazine, May 17, 1971, Vol. 97, No. 20)

The theory of embryonic recapitulation asserts that the human fetus goes through various stages of its evolutionary history as it develops. Ernst Haeckel proposed this theory in the late 1860’s, promoting Darwin’s theory of evolution in Germany. He made detailed drawings of the embryonic development of eight different embryos in three stages of development, to bolster his claim. His work was hailed as a great development in the understanding of human evolution. A few years later his drawings were shown to have been fabricated, and the data manufactured. He blamed the artist for the discrepancies, without admitting that he was the artist. (source: Russell Grigg, "Fraud Rediscovered", Creation, Vol. 20, No. 2, pp.49-51)

Oh god, I came here to whore out that I posted a really poppy Jpop song only to see that your cat died. I'm really sorry about that, man. Mine got put to sleep about four years ago because of an infection in his toe that spread up into his leg. They had to amputate the leg, and it still wouldn't go away, they think it might have been some sort of cancer or something. Best cat I ever had, had him from fifth grade all the way up until the summer before my senior year in high school.

now that he's trained we'll be amputating his front legs

It's unfortunate that there are people who suffer from this affliction, they put doctors in a difficult position because I'm sure no doctor wants to cut off a perfectly healthy limb, but some of the past cases of this have gone so far as to sit in garbage cans full of dry ice in order to force the amputation, so I suppose it's probably least harmful to just perform the amputations before the person risks death to force the issue.

I wonder though, when you see pictures of people who have radical body modifications(piercings, tattoos, plastic surgery, etc.), does that person also suffer from a similar disorder, just on a different scale?

@ peggedpea: I completely agree with you about gastric bypass. I hate that it has become such a popular "treatment" for obesity. The ridiculous part is that if the surgery wasn't performed, but the patient was put on the same nutritional regimen the same weight loss would be seen. That's why I think they should require a person to follow the post-surgery diet plan for 6 months prior to performing the surgery so that people would realize it's the alteration of their lifestyle that is the source of the weight loss, not the dangerous and permanently debilitating medical procedure.

My father in law is morbidly obese, and seeking to undergo gastric bypass, but I cannot convince him that it is needlessly risky, and that if he'd just eat healthier/smaller meals, he'd lose the weight. But he'd rather endanger his life, than to voluntarily change his lifestyle. I'm more saddened by this because he's not even 40 yet.

it seems that performing the surgery is avoiding the cure of this mental disease. The fact that the pacients want to be amputated as phisically healthy as they are is a sign of that disease and not a matter of medical ethics. next to this , euthanasia shouldn't even be considered an odd choice in the view of medicine and its ethics.

wouldn't it be better to put neurologists looking for brain damage on these pacients? or even looking for worms that control certain basic functions of the brain (which here would be to perceive the body as an integral part of the self)?

the assumption that psychiatry, and any other area of medicine possibly concerned with body dismorphia, is impotent to manage the pacients' integreal health seems utterly easy, careless and cinique (by integral, body is included, since the body suffers as a consequence of several mental conditions, take depression and attempted sucidide for example).

I've seen the SawStop in action, but this still gave me chills to watch. From what I understand, he would have gotten a deeper nick (perhaps even something deep enough to call a cut) if he was moving his hand across the table with a little more speed, but it still beats amputation.

Isobel (4 y/o) and Frankenbutt (7 m/o). Isobel is named after the Bjork song, and Frankie because a Raccoon attacked him as sa stray two week old kitten. We got him to the vet and they shaved him, amputated his nerve damaged tail, and stitched him up. His butt resembled Frankenstein, so that became his name. Issy was from an adoption service and Frankie was a stray.

My avatar is Frankie, Issy's avatar is... well... Issy.

Issy is an independent, fastidious, immaculate, cat, of discerning taste. She loves to play fetch and horde huge amounts of bottle caps in secret nooks and crannies around the house. She will also topple any empty plastic bottle she encounters.

Frankie is a cuddler and tireless rascal, constantly pouncing on Issy, whether she is in the mood or not. He is very skiddish of strangers and certain types of noises. He is also a bit of a slob, leaving a trail of cat food and kitty litter wherever he goes. He loves to be picked up and will stay on your lap for quite a long time purring, and giving generous amounts of kitty kisses.

http://www.videosift.com/video/The-REAL-Issykitty-other-Issykitties-are-just-imitating and http://www.videosift.com/video/I-Love-My-Cat are my favorite cat vids.

No surprise here.. I wonder if the game comes equipped with Virtual Brain Trauma and virtual amputations?

A friend of mine who works as a game designer and I were talking about games like this. An idea I had was to humanize every individual that you kill in the game. That is, when you're about the kill "the enemy," you have to sit through a five minute biography of that individual, including their family history, the children s/he leaves behind, and the charity work he did (before you blew off his head with a M16).

Seriously, how does this not qualify as cruelty to animals. I mean, it takes a long time and the cats aren't necessarily aware of the cruelty, but I feel like this woman needs to have her arms amputated to make her "cuter."

Speaking as the parent of a child with a congenital amputation, based on the many hundreds of amputees I have met at conferences I think it is fair to say that there are many causes of amputation, and stupidity is rarely one them. Among leading the candidates (*not* in order frequency or anything):
1. Congenital amputation
2. Diseases such as a variety of cancers and meningitis
3. Accidents (work place and otherwise)
4. War

There seem to be a lot advances in upper-limb prosthetics just around the corner. I'm sure many of them will never pan out for broader use for one reason or another, but I hope a least a few of these technologies live up to their promise.

I can has amputation?

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No one seems to be taking up the cause of the amputations! A man's leg has far more human attributes than a 50 cell blastocyst! What of the depraved individuals giving up one of their God-given kidneys for a transplant? WHAT IF THE TRANSPLANT DOESN'T TAKE?? OH THE HUMANITY!!!

The next time I see someone waste billions of children giving someone a facial, I may have to shoot them. With a gun I mean. Really.

Harold Ickes is obviously well practiced in the art of talking out both sides of his ass at once. Else where he talked about how all elections are flawed in some way but counted, and thus just because the Michigan and Florida elections were flawed doesn't mean they shouldn't be counted in full. How nice and simple it would be if we could just ignore things in terms of degrees. Maybe the next time Mr. Ickes stubs his toe his doctor will amputate claiming, "whether is gangrene or a stubbed toe its still damaged and must be removed".

Personally I think they were given way way more than they deserved, especially since Hillary supported the DNC's decision to punish Florida and Michigan, until it became apparent she might actually need those states. If she really gave a shit about Florida or Michigan she would be pushing for nothing less than a complete revote in both states.

A capable surgeon of the day could complete a lower extremity amputation in less than 2 minutes, preferably within 60 seconds. Interesting, in the American Civil War, inhalation ether was administered to a great number of these patients. Even in primitive conditions, the mortality related to the anesthetic was low. Ether does not depress respirations to a great extent and the patients were administered what was considered an "amnestic" dose, something schmawy and I have discussed. Some would call it amnesthesia instead of anesthesia. If a patient doesn't remember what happened, even if they were crazy with pain during the procedure, it is generally judged a success.