This is so fraught with PC values and other silliness that I'm surprised that anyone could call it science, even social science. Laws are supposed to define the limits of human behavior so that it is costly to purposefully harm other people. Laws are not there to protect individuals from themselves; nor to create a sit...more

I'm glad that MY tax dollars didn't go to fund this study (I'm in the US). But of course many other studies just as silly are being funded with US taxpayer dollars right now, so I'm not that glad.

This is the kind of journalism you get when there are too many journalists chasing too few stories. But we already knew that, of course, and much worse examples are in the news every week. They're much worse because they're put out as serious stories, but are just like this thing.

So don't buy those seeds, there are plenty of competitors. And all they seem to provide is resistance to a herbicide, which also has alternatives and competitors. Most seeds are not genetically altered (beyond the normal selective breeding techniques) so there are alternatives.   Also, if he signed a contract then a ...more

Who cares if "Siri" is hindquarters in Japanese. Just market under a different name in Japan. Nowhere else on Earth does anyone care about the Japanese language, and very few non-Japanese will learn it--especially no one in China, Korea, Manchuria, Vietnam, Indonesia, or anywhere else the Japanese have previously been....more

Somehow we're supposed to expect that no one in Africa knows how to cook anything good, since some people somewhere in Africa are having a famine or other crisis. It's a pretty big continent, and I think that's a pretty big slur to a lot of people just for the sake of your personal "PC-ness". Of course, I doubt that Mc...more

Most of this is just stupid. Calling a sneaker that is colored black and tan a "black and tan" has nothing to do with Ireland or the Irish. If I like having a sneaker in those colors, no Irishman is going to care one way or another. (Most shoes are brown anyway!) The Barbie bit is obviously a marketing mistake since it...more

Yes, sheep are generally smelly, and not just their feces. However, the smell is lanolin which repels moisture and most stains. Usually by the time wool is refined into cloth material most of its nature is gone. So maybe that is their big deal, that they have figured out how to keep the natural wool intact. (Usually th...more

As a potential customer, that's a definite turn-off. I'd look for another RE agency and agent if I saw the agent had a company logo. Ugg on the tattoo and ugg on the corporate identity!