Comments on: Unheeded http://www.politedissent.com/archives/2338 a blog of medicine, comics, television, science and other fun stuff Thu, 09 Feb 2012 23:50:22 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Your Obedient Serpent http://www.politedissent.com/archives/2338/comment-page-1#comment-516936 Your Obedient Serpent Sun, 03 May 2009 18:27:31 +0000 http://www.politedissent.com/?p=2338#comment-516936 Gaaaaah. Every time I see an old comic or cartoon with someone playfully getting up to hijinks with an old-school fluoroscope, it makes me twitch. Of course, characters like Bugs are regularly incinerated, crushed, folded, spindled, and mutilated, with no lasting effects. Thinking, "Auuugh! They have no idea how much radiation they're getting screwing around like that!" is ABSURD. But I still twitch. Gaaaaah. Every time I see an old comic or cartoon with someone playfully getting up to hijinks with an old-school fluoroscope, it makes me twitch.

Of course, characters like Bugs are regularly incinerated, crushed, folded, spindled, and mutilated, with no lasting effects. Thinking, “Auuugh! They have no idea how much radiation they’re getting screwing around like that!” is ABSURD.

But I still twitch.

]]> By: Psudo http://www.politedissent.com/archives/2338/comment-page-1#comment-515680 Psudo Fri, 01 May 2009 18:57:49 +0000 http://www.politedissent.com/?p=2338#comment-515680 Last time we had swine flu in the news in the USA (1976), the vaccine killed hundreds of people and the flu itself killed one. This will be like SARS and Bird Flu and the other panics -- I won't pay attention, and I'll be better off for it. Last time we had swine flu in the news in the USA (1976), the vaccine killed hundreds of people and the flu itself killed one.

This will be like SARS and Bird Flu and the other panics — I won’t pay attention, and I’ll be better off for it.

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