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Space Bar
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 Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2011 1:23 am Post subject: 'Semengate' Stuns Scientific Community |
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Semen: it makes you happy! I wonder if any studies have been done on gays who practice oral sex.
Lazar Greenfield's 'Semengate' Stuns Scientific Community
Posted: 04/25/11 09:12 AM ET
Last week, New York state characterized freeze tag, Wiffle Ball, kickball and dodgeball as potentially hazardous, thereby subjecting camp providers overseeing those games to state regulation.
Out West, the NCAA is at odds with the University of North Dakota over the continued use of the nickname "the Fighting Sioux" and its accompanying logo.
But neither was the PC story of the week. That distinction belongs to a controversy surrounding a world-renowned surgeon who resigned a leadership position in the face of criticism over a one liner he delivered concerning semen.
Lazar Greenfield, M.D. is no ordinary surgeon. Until last week, he was the president-elect of the American College of Surgeons. The man is the inventor of the Greenfield Filter, a device that has saved countless lives as a means of preventing blood clots during surgery. He's a professor emeritus of surgery at the University of Michigan. He has written more than 360 scientific articles in peer-reviewed journals, 128 book chapters and two textbooks. He has served on the Editorial Board of 15 scientific journals and was also the lead editor of the Surgery News, the trade publication in which his writing initiated Semengate.
In the February issue, he penned some thoughts on Valentine's Day under the heading of "Gut Feelings." ("But Valentine's Day is about love, and if you remember a romantic gut feeling when you met your significant other, it might have a physiological basis.") Greenfield proceeded to then discuss the mating habits of fruit flies ("It has long been known that Drosophila raised on starch media are more likely to mate with other starch-raised flies"), the mating habits of the rotifer ("Biologists say that it's more advantageous for a rotifer to remain asexual and pass 100 percent of its genetic information to the next generation."). In each case, Dr. Greenfield made sure to reference to the scientific literature. Then he turned his attention to humans.
Dr. Greenfield noted the therapeutic effects of semen, citing research from the Archives of Sexual Behavior which found that female college students practicing unprotected sex were less likely to suffer from depression than those whose partners used condoms (as well as those who remained abstinent).
Presumably it was the closing line that caused the controversy: "So there's a deeper bond between men and women than St. Valentine would have suspected, and now we know there's a better gift for that day than chocolates."
The attempt at Jackie Mason-humor apparently didn't sit well in certain quarters. Dr. Greenfield resigned as editor of the Surgery News and gave up his stewardship of ACS after learning that his article had spurred threats of protests from outside women's groups.
In an interview with the Detroit Free Press last Wednesday, Dr. Greenfield explained:
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rollo
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| Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2011 2:20 am Post subject: |
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| Just ridiculous. The man attempted a feeble joke. Big deal! |
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young_clinton
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| Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2011 3:18 am Post subject: Re: 'Semengate' Stuns Scientific Community |
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| Space Bar wrote: |
Lazar Greenfield, M.D. is no ordinary surgeon. Until last week, he was the president-elect of the American College of Surgeons. The man is the inventor of the Greenfield Filter, a device that has saved countless lives as a means of preventing blood clots during surgery. He's a professor emeritus of surgery at the University of Michigan. He has written more than 360 scientific articles in peer-reviewed journals, 128 book chapters and two textbooks. He has served on the Editorial Board of 15 scientific journals and was also the lead editor of the Surgery News, the trade publication in which his writing initiated Semengate.
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I guess 360 scientific articles etc. isn't enough, you have to be politically correct also or your vast knowledge and expertise can be thrown out the window by ridiculous hysteria. But then again maybe under any circumstances the cream never rises to the top. Only people that push all the right buttons. I will love the day when some of these petty special interest groups can be told to shove it. I love the superficial survival of the fittest mechanisms that allow some people to find there way to the top in important areas, and allow more worthy people to be crossed out. On a side note Hitler was very superficial, which is why he never made it as an artist although he had pretty reasonable artistic skill. Unfortunately he was able to use his oratorical skills to arouse the superficial feelings of a lot of the population to gain power. Although things are a lot more complex now and there are some nice things going on. Today, he would have made it into less critical art program and could have done something with what he was able to do. Is society ever going to be able to advance beyond this kind of stuff that goes on? I don't think so. |
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Steelrails
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| Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2011 3:56 am Post subject: |
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| Semengate Stuns Scientific Students Studying Surgery. Sioux Story Still in Second. |
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Fox
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| Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2011 4:58 am Post subject: |
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| What's so offensive about the idea of having intercourse with the woman you love on Valentine's Day anyway? Assuming you're in a committed relationship it sounds like a pretty reasonable idea. |
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recessiontime
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| Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2011 5:07 am Post subject: |
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It's amazing the women caught that and then decided to call him out on it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqD48vqCRUU
This is end game of affirmative-action. More women *have* to be surgeons. It's just not fair that there are more male surgeons, we have to make all the numbers equal, even if we have to force it. |
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Space Bar
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| Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2011 5:15 am Post subject: |
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^ For the life of me, I cannot see what is so offensive about that comment.
I have done a lot of study of the human psyche, but I'm afraid I'll never understand women. |
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Fox
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| Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2011 5:15 am Post subject: |
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| recessiontime wrote: |
This is end game of affirmative-action. More women *have* to be surgeons. It's just not fair that there are more male surgeons, we have to make all the numbers equal, even if we have to force it. |
That's pretty much it, except the end game isn't making the numbers equal, it's making sure more women than men end up being surgeons. In short, doing to surgery specialists exactly what was done to university education.
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| I'm afraid I'll never understand women. |
Ambitious western women have discovered the "strength of weakness," and they're using it for social and political gain. Feigning a combination of offense and helplessness generates real social effects. Minority males do it too.
That's the only way I can understand it, anyway. |
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rollo
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| Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2011 10:25 pm Post subject: |
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| Educated beyond their intelligence. so much of "education" today is the ability to spot racism and sexism. A dull conspiracy theory mindset has replaced, true scholarship and analysis. |
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ThingsComeAround
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Xylox
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| Posted: Wed Apr 27, 2011 12:22 am Post subject: |
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| SNL had it bang on all along, **** in a box is a special gift indeed. |
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