About jtg2001

jtg2001

Location:

boston (02111, USA)

Joined on:

12/03/06

Occupation:

medical student

Contact:

bgalen@gmail.com

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  Health

  response to  Andrew Price's post Shot

  this lurid commerical is misleading

  My first thought was, why are there never overweight people having sex on TV or in commercials. Obesity/Diabetes is a far, far greater threat to women under 30 than HIV is. An Hispanic woman born today has a 50% lifetime risk of developing diabetes...a car with two fat people going at it would probably scare me from eating ever again.

  This commercial might make a very strong point about condom use, but it does so by providing an image of post-coital M-on-F violence that is unacceptable no matter how well it "represents" a woman's risk of contracting HIV.
  Plus, this ad is embracing an outdated metaphor for HIV, the 1985 notion that HIV/AIDS is an immediate death sentence. With today's standard of care, AIDS is not a death sentence like owning a handgun is.

  Lastly, the emphasis on the increasing incidence of HIV in heterosexual women is alarmist. There were 7,000 new cases of HIV in heterosexual women in the US in 2006, 16,000 new cases of HIV in men who have sex with men.
  Condoms are important, but we don't have to resort to harshly shocking comics to promote them. Trojan ads with men as pigs in a bar are a much more reasonable approach. Let's save the big guns for another date.

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  Commented on April 16, 2008 by - jtg2001

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  Technology

  response to  Andrew Price's post Gained In Translation

  cyborg alert!

  cybernetic organism phobics beware!

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  Commented on April 8, 2008 by - jtg2001

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  Technology

  response to  Patrick James's post Street Viewed

  racist?

  My initial reaction is that presumption of nefarious activity is racist, given the lack of context. But then I realized that a white man at a car window with cash would be equally suspicious.

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  Commented on March 25, 2008 by - jtg2001

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  Politics

  response to  danielriley's post Obama: The Race Speech

  it's only polite

  my father always taught me, when there's an elephant in the room, it's only proper to introduce him

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  Commented on March 19, 2008 by - jtg2001

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  Magazine

  response to  Morgan Clendaniel's post Design 21 Contest Giveaway

  Social Design is Social Progress

  Social Design is progressive. It is the result of forward thinking and the physical manifestation of the ideal that social change is possible. Everyone with a home makes choices about its contents. These choices represent one's values. Having the option to elect for social change rather than tradition is Social Design's goal, which enables us to embark on social change right in our own backyard.

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  Commented on April 19, 2007 by - jtg2001

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  Culture

  response to  Patrick James's post Rate My Turban

  not good

  this post is not GOOD at all. it's exploitative and tasteless.

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  Commented on April 10, 2007 by - jtg2001

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  Culture

  response to  Morgan Clendaniel's post Violin Commute

  loved that piece

  thank mc, that's a great find. forwarded that to everyone i know.

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  Commented on April 10, 2007 by - jtg2001

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  Art & Design

  response to  Patrick James's post MS Paint Mona Lisa

  huh?

  this doesn't even look like the mona lisa! only the angle of the portrait is at all recognizable. That video isn't GOOD, it's LAME.

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  Commented on April 3, 2007 by - jtg2001

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  Politics

  response to  Patrick James's post Moby Drip

  miscategorized

  as political as killer whales can be, does this post deserve the "politics" category?

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  Commented on April 1, 2007 by - jtg2001

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  Magazine

  response to  Morgan Clendaniel's post Soy Bomb

  Scientific merit? Wait, there is none!

  Having just completed a nutrition class at the world's leading institute for the scientific study of nutrition, I officially refute this claim. And guess what, just like Jim Rutz I am not going to cite any primary literature. The only thing proven to make you 'gay' is conservative propoganda that distorts evidence and relies on spurious correlation.

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  Commented on December 15, 2006 by - jtg2001

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  Environment

  response to  Morgan Clendaniel's post Bruce Sterling On Climate Change

  all katrina all the time?

  why can't it be all bruce sterling all the time? this guy rocks my world.

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  Commented on December 15, 2006 by - jtg2001

• Bruce Sterling On Climate Change

  Authored by Morgan Clendaniel - 3 votes