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@Corso: Viagra is only approved for use in erectile dysfunction. Other uses, including pulmonary hypertension, are off label. (I also…
Ron, Respectfully... Are you saying these things because you actually have an ideological opposition to any use of off-label prescriptions,…
Which leads one to ask how many studies showed the breast growth effect of Spironolactone and what their quality was.…
I am reluctant to take any supplement in the US, even the relatively benign ones like vitamins, because who knows…
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Category Archives: Rape, intimate violence, & related issues
Fred Phelps' son discusses abusive childhood
(MAJOR TRIGGER WARNINGS — Lots of stuff about how Fred Phelps abused his entire family. Please be cautious about reading on or following the links if you think it may be a trigger for you.)
Silence is the Enemy
Marine biologist Sheril Kirshenbaum is, along with Chris Mooney, a co-blogger at The Intersection, a blog on science and public policy whose RSS feed should be in your reader, and if it isn’t, you should go, right now, and rectify … Continue reading →
Blogs discussing the "strip search" case
Other blogs discussing the oral arguments in the case I blogged about yesterday. You’re Reading Too Much Into It, an interesting blog about politics and pop culture, starts by discussing Breyer’s infamous remarks and segways into critiquing the Daily Show’s … Continue reading →
Supreme Court Seems Poised to Okay Schools Strip-Searching 13-year-old for Ibuprofen; also, Stephen Breyer needs to stop rewatching that scene in "Porky's"
Dahlia Lithwick reports on the oral arguments at the Supreme Court, involving a 13 year old girl stripped-searched because she had been falsely accused of giving ibuprofen to other students: Adam Wolf, the ACLU lawyer who represents Redding, explains that … Continue reading →
Teaching And The Need To Speak Out About Sexual Abuse
I was not planning to start posting again until I could begin in earnest the series I want to do on classical Iranian literature–and interruption after interruption after interruption has kept me from getting to the point where I am … Continue reading →
Skepticism and Criticism of Eugene Kanin’s Study Of False Rape Reports
[Shorter Amp: Eugene Kanin famously found that 41%, or perhaps 50%, of rapes reported to police are false. Kanin’s study is both badly designed and unverifiable; more reliable studies have found that between 2% and 8% of rapes reported to … Continue reading →
The US government's crime survey is severely underestimating rape prevalence
[Trigger Warning! This post includes a sample question from a study which asked graphic questions about rape.] (I know that some “Alas” readers looked at the title of this blog post and said “well, no kidding: isn’t that obvious?” But … Continue reading →
Chello Speak
You listen. Seriously. Go now.
Posted in Feminism, sexism, etc, Rape, intimate violence, & related issues
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Billy Goes a-Stalkin'
So as you may recall, Bill O’Reilly was invited by the Alexa Foundation to give a speech at a fundraiser. The Alexa Foundation is a group that supports rape survivors — a great cause — but the invitation to O’Reilly … Continue reading →
Rape Culture and the "Colonized" Mind
This email was sent to the Alas moderators and I thought it would be a good thing for everyone to discuss. So I have an interesting, for lack of a better word, anecdote relating to rape culture. I am a … Continue reading →
Corso, what caught my eye was: The doctor was worried about my kidneys with what I’m on, and I get…