so she locks you up, pegs you and spanks you?
oh 
Thatâs your idea of assertive? 
Everything looks great on that breakfast except that black pudding thing.
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Black pudding is delicious. Have you ever tried it?
Itâs very masculine.
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No wonder the world economy is fucked if good money is being spent on research like this.
Different species.
Iâve had the âAt lease appear to take an interestâ comments.
I really dont give a flying fuck what colour the tea towels are.
Still canât work out why it takes 20 minutes to choose them.
Just say you like the ones that match her outfit when she is eashing the dishes.
So were mine. Itâs literally what my partner says to me all the time in response to the same thing!
This is the kind of news story that used to boil my piss when I listened to Radio 4 on the commute to work.
âA new study has found that (product) makes (outrageous claim). The study, commissioned by (insert makers of the product) claims thatâŚâŚâ
Such as âScientists at Bristol University have found that Porridge can ease erectile dysfunction. The study, which was commissioned by Quaker Oats, looked at men in the 40-60 age bracket and found thatâŚ
Youâd get at least one a week.
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Porridge you say?
Wonder if Tescos is open
Like most research on passive smoking was funded by pharmaceutical companiesâŚ
Who then went on to manufacture nicotine replacement products.
Of course there is evidence of damage caused by passive smoking, but the ethics of the research is at least questionable??
Hold on a minute love
Just finishing my porridge!
You donât even have to cook it before eating
Why?
Because itâs a commercial company getting ten minutes of free advertising on the BBC, by getting some cash strapped scientists to say disputable stuff about their product.
I donât even understand the purpose of this thread anymore.
Yeah, thatâs not how any of that works.
Itâs not free, they will have paid for the research to be done. That means funding a grad student or two. Keeping the lights on in a lab for 6 months to a year. So the âcash strapped scientistâ is not saying âdisputable stuffâ, they are reporting the findings of their study or studies. That research was only conducted because there was a good reason to expect the results would be what they were (i.e. a valid hypothesis to test), but without the outcome data you do not know for sure and cannot make any such claims. The lab that got the funding would have got it (as opposed to just anyone with a white coat) because they would have already been active in this area meaning its an area already being actively studied (hence the hypothesis being able to be generated into he first place).
âOh, but itâs unethical to fund research you have an interest in.â No, it is unethical to not disclose your funding of the research and any additional role your company had in the design, conduct, or analysis of the study, but that VERY rarely happens. It is also unethical to give bias your study, either by design or analysis/interpretation towards the Sponsorâs interests, but that is why we report our methods and our data, and give other people the opportunity to identify those areas of bias and counter them. Industry funding lends itself to a pressure in this direction, and everyone should be vigilant about it, but simply blowing something off because it is industry funded and therefore untrustworthy belies a basic fact of life - If not quaker paying for the study, who else is going to pay for it? You expect an entity with no interest in the hypothesis being validated to spend the money to fund it?
Isnât that the whole purpose of being a man?
Itâs a thread about masculinity and me and Limie are having an argument about something that doesnât matter. Iâm not seeing the issue.
Fixed 
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