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Date: 2011-09-20 08:43 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2011-09-21 06:55 am (UTC)Of course, by having done it for other things recently, they can claim that it's a general belief of theirs.
And if they win the referendum then they'll have to generally extend the voting age, if they don't want to look particularly hypocritical.
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Date: 2011-09-21 11:00 am (UTC)But then the SNP have ever been troubled by arrogance. Their response to the Lib-Dem call for more challenging questions on the question of independance drew from the SNP the official comment that they would take no pointers on how to run a referendum from the Liberal Democrats, following the AV vote fiasco. Which, was about the least mature thing I've heard in politics this week.
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Date: 2011-09-21 11:28 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-09-21 12:17 pm (UTC)I'm not saying some 16 year olds don't have very profound views on politics of course.
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Date: 2011-09-20 09:52 pm (UTC)so threatening to cut off the water too...
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Date: 2011-09-21 09:39 am (UTC)I was reminded of it by the ten-best Amazon reviews link.
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Date: 2011-09-21 11:31 am (UTC)Him: Homosexuality is unclean.
Me: Have you got any evidence for that bold statement?
Him: Gay men are banned from giving blood in your country.
Me: But this is only because people weren’t sure what was going on with HIV/AIDS and panicked and were a bit homophobic. The evidence suggests that blood from gay men who practise safe sex is as clean as any other blood.
Him: If homosexuality wasn’t unclean why would they ban blood from homosexuals?
Me: Because they made a mistake. There’s no evidence that there is any difference in the quality of the blood.
Him: Yes there is. It’s banned and it’s banned because it comes from homosexuals.
Me: So what you are saying is that blood from homosexuals is unclean because homosexuals are unclean because their blood is unclean.
Him: Yes – why do you keep asking me these questions? Are you too stupid to understand logic and science.
It was a trying day. I was tempted to ask him if he was worried he might catch homosexuality but decided discretion was the better part of picking a fight with a homophobe.
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Date: 2011-09-21 03:57 pm (UTC)http://www.pinknews.co.uk/news/articles/2005-6205.html/
Wikipedia suggests that 6% of men have had a homosexual experience, so 3% of the population are 'men who have sex with men'. Consequently the simple rule 'no blood donations from men who have sex with men' results in a 3% drop in the amount of blood donated but an 80% drop in HIV incidence in the amount of HIV infected blood.
To go all bayesian on you,
P(HIV|gay-man) ~ 10%
P(HIV|not-gay-man) ~ 0.3%