Predictably, pretty, shiny roadways appeal to many people and they didn’t really appreciate the reason for Thunderf00t’s criticism, thinking him a bit of a luddite… Actualy, Thunferf00t is a real-life super-smart scientist, advancing the leading edge of scientific discovery.
Which is precisely why he is criticizing the ‘LED road markings in the daytime’ and glass-surfaced roads…
But, let’s go to the video and let Thunderf00t answer some of these accusations himself:
UPDATE: Here are some more answers fromThunderf00t:
The following video explores just how damaging it can be for ‘regulators’ to ‘regulate’ things they have no personal stake in – like the pain and suffering of another human being.
Pain is a uniquely individual experience – no two people experience the same injury or ‘pain’ in exactly the same way. The way our society deals with individuals who are in the process of experiencing pain is insulting and actively counter-productive.
OK – I may be off on a rant again – if you’d like, skip to the video.
But pain is something I know quite a bit about, having been on the receiving end of more and more intense pain than most of the people I know. And medical personnel have uniquely failed to comprehend any of it…
For example: when you tell medical personnel (mp) that you are experiencing pain, they will typically ask you: “On a scale from 1 to 10 (or, 1-5 – or something similar), how bad is the pain?”
Excuse me, but a person who had never experienced more than a hangnail or a papercut will not be using the same scale as someone who had suffered sufficient level of pain so as to loose consciousness from the pain alone. So, that question is irrelevant at best, downright harmful in reality.
Yet that is the starting point for our medical ‘science’….
While I am ranting – I have two children. As such, I have been through labour twice. The first time, I had an epidural; the second time there was a danger of an emergency C-section, so I got what is called a ‘saddle-block‘. ( Both are a form of pain relief – one through delivering an analgesic to the spine, so that everything below is numbed, the other blocks the neural transmissions of pain below the solar plexus so that an emergency surgery can be performed without being felt – or so it had been explained to me. Different methods, different medications – one is a continuous dose, the other is one-time-lasts-for-few-hours type thing.)
In both cases, I was able to tell the mp exactly what stage I was in, and was not believed because, according to them, I had no way to feel things through the procedure,. Both times I was right – of course, or I would not be writing about it here. Especially the second delivery was surprising to the mps: I had only just entered labour when the baby went into distress and I got wheeled into the operating room where they were already scrubbing for the emergency C-section. Well, as the panic took over my body, it went into ‘hyper mode’ and even before they secured the gurney, I was ready to deliver. They did not believe me. I insisted they check. The baby came….and it was faster than had they done the C-section!
They stood around shaking their heads, wondering how I could possibly have felt it? But, I did….. (Mind you, the process was so fast, I dislocated a hip in the process, but that is a small price to pay for preventing oxygen deprivation to my baby!)
Why am I ranting on about this?
Simply to demonstrate that pain is not perceived the same way by different people. Even things as well known and understood such as local anaesthesia will be perceived by some people differently than most.
Even the same ‘thing’ – like childbirth – can differ: not just from woman to woman, but from delivery to delivery. My sister-in-law has 4 children – and says that the pain she experienced during her 4th delivery was much stronger and very, very different from the pain she experienced with her first 3 children. So, even if mps ask about a pain scale where 0 is no pain and 5 is childbirth pain – guess what, there is no common top to the scale!
So, if even well understood meds like local anaesthesia are not accurately known by our medical people, how about a new and quickly evolving field, such as chronic pain management?!?!?
And what happens when regulators try to get their proverbial two cents in?
What happens when politics tries to inject itself into the cutting edge of medical research?
‘A doctor in Britain faces up to 14 years in prison under that country’s Female Mutilation Act for allegedly performing an operation that is condoned in Canada by the Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists as part of a “culturally competent” approach to medical care.’
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Dr. Margaret Burnett, an ob/gyn in Winnipeg, says that when women who have been the victim of infibulation have babies, their labia often have to be cut open for the baby to come out. After, she says, requests for reinfibulation are relatively common. That’s because it is considered normal for women who come from countries where FGM is widely done, mostly Africa and the Middle East.
“It’s my impression that we do get many requests for this and almost all of them come from the husbands,” Burnett says. “They want their wives closed again.”
In Canada, the ob/gyn society’s new guidelines, issued last November, suggest doctors explain the dangers of reinfibulation to patients, and that requests for the procedure “should be declined.”
That’s a softening from a policy statement issued 20 months earlier, which stipulated that requests for the operation “must be declined.”
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Burnett, chair of the society’s social sexual committee that helped draw up the guidelines, says the approach was softened to be more culturally accepting. The change was made after speaking to immigrant women who have been through FGM.
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Burnett says she herself has performed reinfibulations…
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Dr. Beverley Chalmers, adjunct professor in the department of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Ottawa, believes that caregivers in Canada should not be permitted to perform any form of genital mutilation that is not clinically necessary.
“To hide behind ‘cultural accommodation’ to permit the practice of FGM, or any other practice that is unquestionably harmful, is a craven distortion of political correctness … (and) is simply moral cowardice,” she says.
Kowser Omer-Hashi, a Somali-Canadian who wrote a book with Chalmers about Somali women’s birthing experiences in Canada, is shocked that Canadian society appears to tacitly allow reinfibulations. She remembers being mutilated — her clitoris cut and infibulated — as a child.
“I will never forget when I first had to pee,” she says. “The pain is indescribable.” ‘
This is outrageous!
We must not permit this horrible torture to be accepted – and performed by doctors – in Canada and other countries which would like to consider themselves ‘civilized’!!!
I am so angry, my hands are shaking…
Please, let your federal and provincial legislators know that you want genital mutilation to become illegal, with hefty jail sentences for both those who perform it and the parents who commission it.
Also, please let the Canadian Society of Gynecologists and Obstetricians – the organization which has now made female genital mutilation legal for doctors to perform in Canada – please, let them know exactly what you think about this change in their policy:
The Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada
780 Echo Drive, Ottawa, ON K1S 5R7
Tel: 613-730-4192
or 1-800-561-2416
Fax: 613-730-4314
Email: helpdesk@sogc.com
While you are at it, why not let Dr. Burnett, the MD who pushed for this change and has admitted to having performed reinfibulations (that is sewing the vagina shut, to be ripped open during intercourse), why not let the doctor herself know your opinions about the practice in general and her culpability in perpetuating sexual torture in particular:
Burnett Margaret Dr Obstetrician & Gynecologist
Health Sciences Center, 810 Sherbrook St.
R3A 1R8 Winnipeg – West Alexander
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A simple google search (which is how I got the above information) also reveals this:
Margaret Ann Burnett, MD, BA (HONS), MA, CCFP, FRCSC
Professor, Faculty of Medicine, University of Manitoba
Associate Head, Academic, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, University of Manitoba
Director of Post Graduate Medical Education, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, University of Manitoba Section Head, Gynecology, Women’s Hospital, Winnipeg
So, this sounds like Dr. Burnett is quite influential…and if she promotes accommodating this barbaric practice, we are in big, big trouble!!!
The right to bodily integrity is paramount. Monstrous practices like female genital mutilation must not be perpetuated on our citizens. Tell your lawmakers to outlaw this cruel and horrible and dangerous (remember, it increases not only maternal mortality but also infant mortality) practice.
As most of you know, Mark Steyn is a defendant in a lawsuit by the possibly Canuckaphobic (judging by the disproportional number of Canadians among the victims of his lawfare) and reflexively litigious Dr. Michael Mann.
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