Category Archives: She Blinded Me With Science

Forced and coerced sterilizations for HIV-positive women in Chile

Posted on December 1, 2010 by Sabina Becker

For anyone who seriously believes Chile is a model democracy, consider this shocker: The Chilean government does not and never has trusted women to make their own reproductive health decisions. It places the matter in the hands of doctors, who … Continue reading →

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Heroes for Today: Sully, again

Posted on November 16, 2010 by Sabina Becker

Hero pilot and airline safety expert Capt. Chesley Sullenberger weighs in on the US-TSA’s infamous “porno-scanners”. He doesn’t like them, feeling that they’re merely “expedient” and don’t help air crews do their job–protecting passengers–at all. There are other reasons to … Continue reading →

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Cuba overrun with cancer patients

Posted on November 1, 2010 by Sabina Becker

I’ve blogged on this one before, but it looks like now, some interesting Cuban research into scorpion venom as a cancer treatment is starting to pay off big-time: A Cuban pharmaceutical laboratory has been overrun by hundreds of foreign patients, … Continue reading →

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Memo to the media: Lose your sexual fetish and report the REAL story!

Posted on October 18, 2010 by Sabina Becker

For those living in Southern Ontario, these are interesting times, in the Chinese-curse sense of the word. An air-force colonel from CFB Trenton is currently standing trial for a stunning series of offences ranging from stalking and break/enter to rape … Continue reading →

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Stupid Sex Tricks: In which Christine O’Donnell comes out the loser, AGAIN

Posted on October 17, 2010 by Sabina Becker

Surprise! Forcing God to kill kittens is good for you. And, if scientists say true, it’s also good for evolution–a concept in which certain devout teabags don’t believe, even as the evidence just keeps piling up that it is real… … Continue reading →

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Stupid Sex Tricks: This’ll put Weight Watchers out of business…

Posted on September 8, 2010 by Sabina Becker

…at least with the menfolks. (I always knew that pic would come in handy, somehow, somewhere…) Fat is fun! At least, that’s the word from Turkey this week. Researchers at Erciyes University in Kayseri have just completed a yearlong study … Continue reading →

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Quotable: Iain McGilchrist on poetry

Posted on August 9, 2010 by Sabina Becker

“Poetry engraves itself in the brain: it doesn’t just slip smoothly over the cortex as language normally does. It has all the graininess of life, as it rips into being from deep within the limbic system, the ancient seat of … Continue reading →

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Teh Heterostoopid: “Sugarbabe” needs an insulin shot–and a dose of hard reality

Posted on August 4, 2010 by Sabina Becker

So there I was, this dark and stormy, just bopping around the web, when I chanced on this interesting little interview at Lemondrop. Seems that some cute young bit of fluff, supposedly a psychologist, has written a book saying that … Continue reading →

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Quotable: Elizabeth Wagele on the Shadow

Posted on June 13, 2010 by Sabina Becker

“In the process of becoming whole, we recognize and take responsibility for our shadow. Each shadow issue we reclaim is one less to project out onto another person, nationality, or race.”–Elizabeth Wagele, from The Happy Introvert

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Men Who Just Don’t Get It: Explaining birth control (sorta)

Posted on May 27, 2010 by Sabina Becker

Guys, I love you all to bits, but damn, some of you are SO dense:Please, PLEASE don’t be this dim when it comes to condoms, ‘kay?(Meanwhile, here’s the lowdown on all the birth control methods “explained” above. Read and learn.)

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