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You don't seem to be familiar with how science reporting works.

Good lord, you can't even quote your own source correctly. It says "People who die after getting swine flu are 100 times more likely, compared to seasonal flu, to have been killed by the virus itself rather than secondary causes." Which is a rather odd way of putting it to start with (by "dying from the virus itself" they really mean "dying due to overzealous immune reaction"), and not helpful from assessing mortality rates in general. If 1000 people die of swine flu, and another 1000 die of seasonal flu with complications, it's not really that important from a lethality standpoint. If the seasonal group's secondary infections would not have occurred absent the seasonal flu, then the seasonal flu was still responsible for the death.

Secondly, the article itself notes that "Both seasonal influenza and the new A(H1N1) virus that has swept the globe since May appear to have roughly the same mortality rate of one-to-five per 1,000 infections," though it notes that the swine flu figures are sketchy.

Finally, your source is suspect to start with. It's a single scientist, and the results haven't actually been published, just posted to a research sharing website (no real vetting has occurred). In case you've forgotten, science reporting goes for sensation over accuracy.

SMBC is completely accurate on this count.

Yep, it's obvious that we're all mutants, how else does evolution happen? The bbc seems to have missed the point, which to me is that they've now got a decent (they claim) estimate of the rate of mutation. This is, however infinitely less interesting than the bbc title.

How science reporting works

SMBC is completely accurate on this count.

Hehehe... Sexist AI

Obligatory (stupid) comic strip reference http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=1592

http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=1548#comic

I guess now it's up to the religious leaders to redefine what "blasphemy" means. We'll see what they come up with...

So when a religious person and an atheist meet and say something like "I find your views completely ridiculous" at the same time to each other then the religious person can sue the atheist but not vice versa?
Reminds me of this

This bodes ill for us men.... :p

Ah, an SMBC reference!

i knew it was going to happen!

I am jealous of these people posting relead XKCD and Cyanide comics, so I will post a related episode from SMBC.

http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=1535#comic

Ok, not soo much related probably. But, who cares? no one read this messages anyway.

Sort of reminds me of this.

http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=1478#comic

Naming time? (Score:3, Funny)

For its name, I nominate Splork!

WELL I THINK THAT THE MORE CAPITAL LETTERS THE BETTER.

For its name, I nominate Splork!

http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=584#comic

Once again, web comics get it right...

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal

Seems appropriate.

http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=1452#comic

http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=1347

That's why!

http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=1355#comic

I can just see the consequences that follow...

Illustration.

Yup... sometimes I think it's just as well, since the world might be a better place if America loses some of their power (happening already, I guess).

But there are ways for that to happen that require less suffering from all of the citizens involved....

Here's my guess: the web, TV, movies, games, and other forms of "entertainment" will be riddled with product placements, product storylines, and an overall commercialized experience. The line between "feature" and "commercial" will blur and blur until it ceases to exist. Sometimes this will be well done and the entertainment value will be preserved. Sometimes it will come off as transparent shit, exposing both the "feature" and the advertised product(s) to public ridicule or boycott.

... but that's just my guess

In a couple of decades, it'll end up like this.... Only then will I truly appreciate ads.

http://smbc-comics.com/comics/20060901.gif

I think Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal is relevant here.

It's rude to criticize someone's beliefs. But when they stick those beliefs into the public sphere, they're subject to just as much mockery and derision as anything else is. The moral, one would think, is to keep religion the hell out of politics, but some people just can't grasp that.

Of course.

While we're at it, I think I should link this graph, just in case.

See this comic.

We cannot see footprints or anything else left there because there is nothing like that over there!!