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That's... not quite how it works. They don't just see a funny spot on the mammogram and proclaim loudly "OFF WITH HER TITS" or something. At the very least, someone would prob. realize that it was not your name on the paper. Or in the 1 in a bajillion chance that they don't figure it out...

This is simply not true. Unless someone is -personally- diagnosed with a BRCA mutation, there is absolutely no reason to believe that they themselves are at any higher risk of breast or ovarian cancer. The person should not merely "discuss it with a genetics counselor" but should get tested for...

Because human eyes naturally tend to have cones, the things that allow you to see color and see in light, concentrated in the center of your vision and rods, the things that allow you to see in the dark (but don't provide color discrimination) in the periphery of your visual field. There's...

That is simply not true. Breast cancer can develop at any time (although it is world-wide news if a teenage girl gets it, and extremely rare in your 20's and 30s, and still pretty uncommon in your 40's), and if you are a younger woman (40-50), the odds are you'd develop an aggressive (fast...

So, would you be okay with your child/niece/nephew/sister/partner being a victim of the "mere" 3% who are -caught- for an additional crime in a narrow study in a short period of time? After all, 97 "non-reoffending" (more specifically, not caught reoffending) people got freed, it just...

I think that's a great idea. Tanning is stupid for anyone, but allowing immature and impulsive teens to put their lives at risk without being fully capable of appreciating the consequences is silly.

Have you suddenly determined that I'm a moron? Because you're sure acting like that's the conclusion you've come to. One could gather from the context of this thread that I meant pedophilia in the context of people who've already acted on it, or in this particular case a parent who has...

There are -many- psychologists and psychiatrists which hold the opinion that there is no currently effective therapy for pedophilia and the like. Don't assume that because one psychologist believes that some serious sex offenders are capable of re-entering society, that she somehow...

I'm pretty much of the opinion that, short of extraordinary situations of mental illness being managed properly with meds for oh, at least a decade, that releasing a serious sex offender always poses an unacceptable risk to society. Simply put, there is NO therapy/drug/other mode of treatment...

I do not believe in second chances when it comes to such situations, and am strongly against the current legal encouragement of "always reuniting children with parents whenever possible." You teach a child nothing good by allowing them to be around a person who abused children. That person has...

This is for phone ringing, texts, alarms on your phone, etc only. The OP posted the example of "Telephone ringing" in particular, which is why I responded. Also, because this isn't a specialized-for-deaf-people-device, it is affordable and not hideous.

His hearing doesn't sound bad enough to even make him a candidate for CI... If someone can hear that well without a hearing aid, they wouldn't even be considered to have more than a mild hearing loss at all in many cases! Granted, that's not equally reflective of hearing with HAs in terms of...

Already exists: ThinkGeek :: BluAlert Bluetooth Bracelet Sorry, too late to the party.

This is not a wholly implausible scenario. I do not mean stopped as in "having my vehicle stopped" but "being caught". Say, if an officer catches me parking at a "no parking" spot.

You are an outsider to a culture commenting about something you genuinely know nothing about. Yes, there is a pressure to cover in VERY few countries- but the VAST majority of women who wear the niqab outside of select few muslim-dominated countries have never encountered any social...

What if the woman question is born French, as are her parents, grandparents, etc? Do you really hold that it is reasonable to demand she attempt to immigrate to another country merely because she wishes to wear more clothing than most French people wear? Also, it is very much a religious...

Yes, it literally bans anyone from wearing them anywhere but their own home, and while attempting to point out that it is ridiculous to claim that such a ban is for "identification" purposes (when the understood spirit of the law is that it will only be applied to muslim women), I both got...

Officers are highschool graduates with sticks. Doctors spend a decade or more of their life studying medicine. Who of those should have a say on what medical risks are acceptable for someone with a serious illness?

Or to take controlled risks which should be to the discretion of the individual and their doctor. Not the individual, their doctor, and lawmarkers who think that covering your face is oppression.

Fine in this country. But in France, if one is being literal about the law, we would be breaking the law by being in a public space with our masks. Of course, the spirit of the law is to discriminate against muslims, not sick people, but I want to point out the hypocrisy of saying it is strictly...