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Yes, not to mention amino and fatty acids that are harder (though not impossible) to get through non-animal-derived sources. All I did was mention the fact that there are some psychologists who red-flag veganism as a disordered form of eating...I even admitted that this is controversial. !!! I...

Oh yes, the dance of the American presidents, the make-nice-with-the-goddists tango. "Almighty God, who is not limited in space or time, created a universe 13.7 billion years ago with its parameters precisely tuned to allow the development of complexity over long periods of time." Ah, yes, the...

This thread is just taking some ludicrous turns. Nobody said you shouldn't be a vegan. Why all of this defensive posturing? Yes, in the past, our research disciplines have used a "normative" framework when studying human behavior. (Tell me something I don't know and readily acknowledge all the...

From wikipedia on "paraphilia": So, whereas in the medical community you have people actually discussing these matters rationally, outside of the traditional heternormative framework, and understanding that not all paraphilias are "bad" or "immoral", your average American just yells "freak!"...

There are vegans whose eating qualifies as "disordered" under the guidlines laid down by mental health professionals. I can't believe this is even somehow being argued against. This is a fact. Look it up. It is expensive to live on vegetables, it can be expensive for me to buy vegetables and...

I got this text message from my bf last night: went to coney island and ate 2 hotdogs, a corndog, bacon-cheese fries, a mozzarepa, and funnel cake. plus 4 coronas.

I'm a new athiest, and I don't care what anybody believes or practices religiously, so long as they keep it out of the science classroom. I'd also prefer if non-believers weren't constantly forced to be party to religious practices during state ceremonies, at school, or anywhere that tax payer...

This isn't true, either. There was a version of the DSM that still listed homosexuality as a "paraphilia" until 1973. A paraphilia is not a "mental disorder", it's a fetish.

Disordered eating is disordered eating, this can happen to anyone across the dietary spectrum. It's not healthy to have to spend an excessive amount of your day thinking about your next meal and planning your time around what you'll be eating. Personally, I think veganism is only feasible, easy...

Just an excuse for a collaboration with Justin Timberlake and Timbaland, another attempt to seem like one of the cool kids. That song really was an abomination wasn't it?

Sex and violence don't bother me but retrograde sexist cliches ("he: cold and rational", "she: passionate and irrational") do.

I guess I'm just not that moved by stories about psychologically fragile codependent simpletons.

Kidney infection you need antibiotics.

Sorry to hear that Sloane. :( Hopefully he has a good strong doctor's immune system from picking up hospital superstrains for years... From what I've heard the meds won't do much anyway, so don't break your back trying to get em. The the Mexicans and Americans who've had it say that the meds...

Exactly...that's why I switched.

Well, I'm thinking the chromosomal regions that are linked to autism are in fact regions that have mutated, probably in part in response to some environmental trigger. From the Science Daily article: Also, don't forget the sperm mutations they already linked--this passed on a chromosomal...

I thought we were talking about phobias not rational fears.

It's possible that someone with severe autism or other unspecified genetic problems has less white brain matter than average. Some epileptics have less because it gets damaged from seizures.

Well, you don't have to convince me that it's stupid, irresponsible, and downright dangerous to glamorize mental illness. But I'm not quite sure which "continental philosophers" you're talking about here, since the only ones who talked a lot about schizophrenia did so in a very particular...

I'll take my Nobel Prize now please.