Would you all do me a favor and click the button below…
Graphic stolen shamelessly from Wizbang!blog.
*** Update ***
D’oh! Clicking the link helps cancer patients. Guess I should have told you that.
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db
Asking us to click without telling us why or what for?
Rick
I screwed up: I’m a right-winger, and I clicked anyway. I really let down the side.
Cordially…
rilkefan
“Radiofrequency ablation uses low-frequency radio waves which generate localized heat, not the destructive radiation given off by radioactive elements.”
I.e., our technique is goodly destructive, not badly destructive.
Three cheers for smart new approaches against tumors, but can we skip the radiation-bashing?
Mike S
You’re OK if you right clicked.
Rick
DAMN! Two screw-ups.
ppGaz
I clicked, and I feel very good about it.
It’s as if I am one with the universe ……….
Tractarian
Great! Now I don’t have to give to charity this year.
JPS
rilkefan:
Loved your comment. But, while few people are as irritable as I when it comes to silly plays on people’s fear of radiation, I don’t think this really qualifies as radiation-bashing. Not saying you’re wrong, I just find this benign enough to give ’em a pass. (I mean, hey: we changed NMRI to just MRI because some folks would get scared off if they knew what the N stood for.)
[Off-topic, did you ever see the ad placed by some activist group against killing food bacteria by gamma-irradiation? It showed a picturesque meal with a mushroom cloud over it, and the caption, “The Department of Energy has a new solution to nuclear waste. THEY WANT TO PUT IT IN YOUR FOOD!” I couldn’t parody misleading fear-mongering better than that.]
rilkefan
JPS, you’re right, I’m just in a bad mood because my better half is in a bad mood – plus when I wear my work badge (which indicates I’m trained to access low-radiation areas at my lab with a big ol’ radiation symbol) people get uneasy. And yes, the salmonella-before-light crowd drives me up the wall too.
Gary Farber
“Clicking thew link helps cancer patients.”
I was wondering why, and it turns out that — apparently — this is a sortaonlykindatruereallyindirectly thing. Chris Muir has a cartoon about this, and clicking the link doesn’t do a darn thing to directly help cancer patients. The goal is to “raise the Yahoo rating of the clinic” to help their “P.R.” You might possibly want to link to that explanation, and all.
I’m kinda unclear how vital it is to have a high Yahoo rating, but if you want to inform people, more information might be helpful, might I suggest?
On a non-sequitur, what do you think of the TPM Cafe TOS story?
Gary Farber
Oh, and fear-mongers of “radiation” should curl up and never have treatment for their cancer.
Gary Farber
Um, John? Since you’re back? How does this “help cancer patients,” exactly?
I take this cause very much to heart, which is why I ask. I suppose most all of us take it to heart, and want to do good. But how, exactly, precisely, does clicking the link “help cancer patients,” directly?
I take it to heart, because I don’t want dollars diverted. So: what’s the 501(c)3? What’s the ratio of dollars to charity? What have you done to check out this enthused recommendation of yours? I’d like to support it, if it’s a good cause. I have a voice, too, and I’ll add it in, in a good cause. So: background and substance?