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I never noticed until people started posting about “Star Wars” non-stop that Owen Lars claimed that Anakin Skywalker was a “spice freighter navigator”.

Tatooine. Desert planet. Psychic powers. The Sarlacc.

Fear is the path to the Dark Side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.

Fear is the mind killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.

I wonder if George Lucas initially had something else in mind for the source of the Force instead of midichlorians? #‎TheSpiceMustFlow

(crossposted on Facebook)

Martin Shkreli, CEO of Turing Pharmaceuticals, best known for trying to gouge patients with toxoplasmosis and Chagas disease as well as buying a Wu-Tang Clan album for $2 million, has been charged with securities fraud.

Shkreli, CEO Reviled for Drug Price Gouging, Arrested on Securities Fraud Charges • 32-year-old suspected of plundering Retrophin to pay debts • 2015 Dec 17 • Christie Smythe • Bloomberg Business

Hmm. While it’s true that most cases of viral acute gastroenteritis are caused by rotavirus, norovirus, enteric adenovirus, and astrovirus, influenza can totally cause GI symptoms.

(in response to There Is No Such Thing As The Stomach Flu • 2015 Dec 17 • Kavin Senapathy • Forbes)

It’s true that calling vomiting and diarrhea “stomach flu” tends to obscure the etiology and the mechanism of action, but until the general populace is willing to call it “acute gastroenteritis” or “gastro” as pediatricians are wont to say, I’m not sure “stomach flu” is ever really going to go away.