bethefawn / mmix

Studies conducted over the last eight years by federally financed researchers in San Diego, for example, found that alcoholic teenagers performed poorly on tests of verbal and nonverbal memory, attention focusing and exercising spatial skills like those required to read a map or assemble a precut bookcase.
"There is no doubt about it now: There are long-term cognitive consequences to excessive drinking of alcohol in adolescence." (sfgate.com)

I really don't mean to be playing the diabolic avocado here, but isn't it just possible that the people who suck at using their brains might turn to drink earlier in life than others?

Scientists: you need to get out of the lab once in awhile and realize that the average human totally fucking blows. 6 billion peasants are not an aberration.

And if one more god-damned bastard talks about the "cervical cancer" vaccine, I am going to put my boot in their guts. Incomplete information is dangerous.