Canadian Blood Services Promotes Pseudoscience 219
trianglecat writes "The not-for-profit agency Canadian Blood Services has a section of their website based on the Japanese cultural belief of ketsueki-gata, which claims that a person's blood group determines or predicts their personality type. Disappointing for a self-proclaimed 'science-based' organization. The Ottawa Skeptics, based in the nation's capital, appear to be taking some action."
Not surprising. (Score:4, Interesting)
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The aircraft scene is a Scientology reference. See the entry on Xenu [wikipedia.org].
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Third one in the second row: this is an airplane flying over a volcano, which either has a tree growing out of it, or more likely a cloud of ash?
Xenu [wikipedia.org]
Middle one, next row: there's a teapot between the Earth and Mars? Is this Sagittarius?
Russel's Teapot [wikipedia.org]
Re:Teach the Controversy Riddle-runes (Score:5, Funny)
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Read message it carries
All will be made clear.
Burma Shave.
Politically correct? (Score:2)
It's still stupid, and as a Canadian I'm just glad that I live in Quebec and we run our program separately [hema-quebec.qc.ca]. english version [hema-quebec.qc.ca]. ... though someone shou
Re:Politically correct? (Score:5, Interesting)
You're lucky you live in Quebec. I had to endure the torture of "What's your blood type?" from all my friends the whole five years I lived in Korea. I obnoxiously answered "I don't know" (even when I did) just to avoid being typed. Of course, I answer the same to Thais when they ask "What days of the week were you born on?" and to westerners' "What's your sign?" Unfortunately, I can't pretend I don't know my birth date. Western culture doesn't seem to take the matter too seriously, but Korean and Thai cultures do.
These practices all need to die. Do you want to understand me? Get to know me.
Re:Politically correct? (Score:4, Interesting)
I answer the same to Thais when they ask "What days of the week were you born on?" and to westerners' "What's your sign?" Unfortunately, I can't pretend I don't know my birth date.
If you can even give a toss about this, try figure out what the LEAST compatible sign for each sign is, then ask them theirs and adjust yours to fit. Not like you want someone who really buys into that around you a lot anyway, right?
It's a joke. Laugh. (Score:5, Funny)
Birth Sign (Score:4, Insightful)
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Sounds like my method for dealing with political activists. I always find out who they are campaigning for and tailor my response to fit, with the goal of choosing the least compatible option. For example, I respond to Republicans with "Anarchist". Other fun responses are Green Party and "Can't vote, I'm a convicted felon".
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[_] "I was adopted, you ignorant clod!" (and watch them go "Oh ...")
... or if you really want to scare them off ...
[_] I was born February 29th so I only have a sign every 4th year.
[_] What sign was I born under? Yellow Cab | Maternity Ward | Abortion Clinic ("I was a screw-up even back then")
[_] What's my sign? Well, I was born a [insert bogus info] and I was born again in [insert month] so now I'm really a [insert bogus info], so let me
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Western culture doesn't seem to take the matter too seriously, but Korean and Thai cultures do.
You are clearly a Sagittarius, with the Moon rising over the plain of Mars in retrograde.
I'm not sure about you, but I know plenty of Americans who seem to take astrology and numerology a little too seriously.
I'd love to go on the show Deal or no deal (The one with the women holding the suitcases), and select my suitcases in numerical order (1, 2, 3, etc)-- because my chances are EXACTLY THE SAME as someone who se
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Yep, those people are usually refered to as "the house".
Re:Politically correct? (Score:4, Interesting)
I'd love to go on the show Deal or no deal (The one with the women holding the suitcases), and select my suitcases in numerical order (1, 2, 3, etc)-- because my chances are EXACTLY THE SAME as someone who selects the cases according to their own numerological theory.
I'm not so sure about that. The only thing required to make the game fair is to ensure the contestant has no idea which suitcases contain which prizes. There is no reason some person on the show can't be distributing the cases according to their own idea of 'randomness'.
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Many American gamblers also tend to believe in numerology a little too much.
Not those of us who are successful...and btw, do me a favor and quit trying to tell the unsuccessful ones what they're doing wrong. ;)
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I obnoxiously answered "I don't know" (even when I did) just to avoid being typed. Of course, I answer the same to Thais when they ask "What days of the week were you born on?" and to westerners' "What's your sign?"
Can't speak to the others, but if a westerner asks you what your sign is, they were hitting on you.
Or so I have heard. Oh wait... you're on slashdot too. Yeah, she was trying to steal your credit card, so good job.
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The few who get the joke are marginally worth speaking with.
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Unfortunately, I can't pretend I don't know my birth date.
Sure you can. Just pretend you're an adopted orphan.
Re:Politically correct? (Score:4, Interesting)
These practices all need to die. Do you want to understand me? Get to know me.
I had a psych lecturer who said: "I don't believe in the power of Astrology to fortell the future, but I do believe in the power of Astrology to influence the way others perceive you." So what he had done is "change" his star-sign every year so that people getting to know him one year would think him a Leo and react accordingly, people getting to know him the next would think him a Sagittarian etc etc.
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It's still stupid, and as a Canadian I'm just glad that I live in Quebec and we run our program separately [hema-quebec.qc.ca]. english version [hema-quebec.qc.ca]. ... though someone should tell them the blink tag is dead!
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They should also get rid of those "news crawler" tickers along the bottom of tv shots. Put the text up a line at a time and we'll read the at our own speed.
Or how about 2 feeds - one with the stupid crawlers, and one without.
Or maybe if I fiddle with my remote, there's a custom setting so I can stretch the screen enough to hide it.
Re:Not surprising. (Score:5, Informative)
If you lived in Ottawa, like I do, you'd understand that we're nearly the most absurdly "politically correct" place on earth.
From what I've seen, the Japanese take this only slightly more seriously than people here in the US take horoscopes. If Ottawa is actually concerned about not offending Japanese Ottowans, I think they should probably be more concerned about not assuming the Japanese are that stupid.
Looking at the website in question though, it seems like it's just a gimmick to get people to donate.
For type O here is the full extent of the information:
So, you’re an O. You already know that having type O blood suggests that you might be competitive, goal oriented and a real meat eater. Did you also know that anthropologists believe that type O is the oldest and most common blood type, originating in Southern Africa?
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45% of Canadians have type O blood. Group O blood is like no other and can only receive blood from other people who are group O.
One unit of your blood can help save up to three lives, and we know that giving blood is in your nature.
Many experts believe that your personality, career and even your diet can be influenced by your blood type. In addition to your tendency towards romanticism, an aptitude for writing and a love of hearty eating and exercise, here are a few other things you should know about being an O [3x3 chart here with fluff]
[next page]
All Types
Every minute of every day, someone in Canada needs blood. Blood is used to help save the lives of ordinary people in extraordinary health situations.
If you are unsure of your eligibility, please take a look at our basic eligibility and temporary and indefinite deferral information, or call 1 888 2 DONATE (1 888 236-6283) for assistance.
If you have already made an appointment to donate, thank you. If not, please review our clinic locator and call 1 888 2 DONATE (1 888 236-6283) to book an appointment or to find a "What's Your Type" even in your community today.
For more information on blood and blood types, please browse our Web site or visit:
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There are plenty of Americans who take Astrology WAY too fucking seriously
Astrology has some Scientific Merit (Score:2)
There are plenty of Americans who take Astrology WAY too fucking seriously
Astrology is not a complete waste of time. To paraphrase a well-known British astronomer: "Astrology has proven one law of science: there really is a sucker born every minute!".
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Because there are general ages that are pegged within brain development and rational thinking. While these ages aren't set in stone and some individuals never truly do get to that point of rationality, if you want to draw a line you have to draw it somewhere.
Now does astrology have any scientific basis like developmental psychology does?
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One possible reason that astrology had a bit of truth in it in primitive times is that the stars were used as a calendar and the season that some one was born had much more influence.
A baby born in the middle of winter is more likely to start out malnourished affecting their intelligence, size, etc whereas a baby born at harvest is more likely well fed.
Even today the season has some affect. The extreme example is identical twins born 10 minutes apart. One at 11:55 PM on Dec 31st and the other at 00:05 AM on
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The problem with Astrology is it presents a causal relationship with only some correlational evidence. Some of what you presented is an example of possible correlational evidence that astrology may claim. They actually claim a ton more, and those relationships arn't surprising considering the amazingly high amount of variables available in the night sky. There is no evidence of a causal relationship, however, and most signs indicate there isn't.
To bring it back to what I was originally talking about. Ye
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How come the amount of revolutions the earth gives around the sun can determine if you are eligible for drinking, having sex or driving?
Because age correlates pretty well with experience, which has at least a moderate correlation with judgment. While it's not exact, age-based discrimination is FAR more rational than astrological-based discrimination.
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From what I've seen (lived there for 7 years and married one of them), Japanese do indeed believe this blood type stuff. I was giving blood last month and saw a pamphlet that had the text you quoted. I just assumed that it was a goofy "would you believe..." kind of thing.
Nonsense peddlers often sneak in... (Score:5, Insightful)
You also see this sort of thing happen when otherwise respectable medical schools will get endowed institutes in nonsenseology because some big donor has $200 million; but also believes that squirting coffee up his ass cures cancer.
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Also note that "not for profit" doesn't mean that the people who work there cannot make mad cash in personal compensation...
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Ok, explain to us why you think this is NOT harmless. It's not like they are saying that HIV doesn't cause AIDS and telling infected people to donate.
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I had a friend who had a really stupid sister. His sister had a young toddler, and she was discussing him with another really stupid woman. Her stupid friend asked what sign the kid was. She answered (I don't remember what sign). Her stupid friend clucked, and said "Oh... I'm sorry" and she stupidly nodded and said "yeah, I know, it's hard..."
Belief in magic personality-determining preordination is harmful. You think that kid wasn't harmed by
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Toddlers are not harmed by mother's belief in astrology. A 2 year old is perfectly capable to defend his/her own personality and also tell parents what their personalities should be like. They are harmed by junk food, lack of exercise and lack of proper supervision in the presence of dangerous objects. You are accusing two people of stupidity and yet your own skills in the same area (parenting) are lacking in much more fundamental way.
In the same way, people are less harmed by blood type personality beliefs
Re:Nonsense peddlers often sneak in... (Score:5, Insightful)
Honestly, I don't see what the big deal is. It clearly states that "The What's Your Type? program is a recruitment program with information provided for the participants' enjoyment" (emphasis added). It's just a silly recruitment program, and it blatantly says so. They're not claiming that there is any science behind it. This is not the science-oriented people in CBS backing this, it's the PR-oriented people.
There is no conspiracy here to to drive a wedge of Japanese pseudoscience into an otherwise scientific organization. This is a bit of silliness to get people interested in donating blood.
Seriously people. Relax. Loosen your tinfoil hats. "They" are not conspiring to take your precious science away.
Barking up the wrong tree (Score:4, Informative)
After looking through the site, it's pretty clearly just a marketing ploy to engage with people who believe it to be true.
It even says right up front: 'The What's Your Type? program is a recruitment program with information provided for the participants' enjoyment. You should seek medical supervision for all matters regarding your health.'
I don't care if you believe in pseudo-science, if I need a transfusion and you're a blood match as long as it's clean _Go team blood-donor!_
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Just hope you don't get too many stem cells from them that survive in your body.
A few might lodge in your brain[1] (or your stomach "brain"[2] - which might change some of your dietary preferences[3]).
[1] If fetal stem cells can end up in their mother's brains, why not other transplanted stem cells?
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg18725134.300-baby-comes-with-brain-repair-kit-for-mum.html [newscientist.com]
[2] See "Enteric Nervous System"
[3] See: http://www.springerlink.com/content/k51335l4k4676577/ [springerlink.com]
That's somewhat anecdo
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It's not even that. It's a way to break the ice with people who would be bored to tears with "facts" about blood. It's meant for fun, not education, other than educating people that giving blood is a good thing.
It's not the Canadian Blood Service's job to teach every person on the planet every fact about blood nor are they required to UNteach every superstition.
As for the "skeptics",
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They also mostly steer clear of the dangerous stuff. The personality types are basically a horoscope and all they do is suggest two of the types might benefit from a "healthy diet" (no duh), the third might enjoy vegetarianism, and the fourth might be a meat eater.
It's stupid, but not like the summary suggests.
It breaks down as follows (Score:5, Funny)
Type A: Asshole
Type B: Bitch/Bastard
Type AB: Asshole and a Bastard
Type O: Okay
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Nah: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognac_(drink)#Grades [wikipedia.org]
Odd name for the group (Score:5, Funny)
If they're based in Toronto, why are they called the Ottawa Skeptics?
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You've obviously never lived in Toronto. They think they're not only the centre of the universe, but that "Canada" and "Toronto" are the same thing.
Those who have actually passed (the local version of) geography assume that because "Ottawa" is in "Canada" that it must be a suburb of Toronto.
Don't knock Toronto (Score:2)
It's been great for National Unity - some of us can remember life before Toronto replaced Brian (Bullwinkle) Mulroney as the one thing the rest of the country can hate (who had replaced "and God Damn the CPR!") [google.com].
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Mod parent up - he's totally right on this one. I know a guy from Toronto who's lived in a rural town West of Ottawa for almost (over?) two years now, and he still won't shut up about how Toronto is better in almost every way. (For those wondering why he even moved, it's because his wife's parents are out there.)
--- Mr. DOS
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If they're based in Toronto, why are they called the Ottawa Skeptics?
Maybe they moved and couldn't decide on a new name. Or maybe they had a membership drive in Toronto one year.
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It's the membership application test. A card will be mailed to you shortly.
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Everyone knows that Toronto thinks they're the center of the universe.
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Because the Toronto Skeptics are based in Vancouver.
Don't even get me started on the Unsure People of Montreal. Splitters.
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The joke is that most Torontonians (and a lot of foreigners) treat Toronto like it's the capital of Canada, not just Ontario. (In fairness to them, were a new capital to be chosen today, Ottawa probably wouldn't even make the shortlist, but that's not the point.)
--- Mr. DOS
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Ottawa was chosen precisely because it isn't Toronto. Or Montréal. Either of those were the two "obvious" choices in the 19th century. Both were the largest cities of their respective provinces, the largest cities in Canada at the time, and Canada consisted of only Ontario and Quebec (Upper and Lower Canada). But choosing one or the other would have been too controversial for anglophone or francophone Canadians. The choice of Ottawa was actually a pretty wise one for a variety of reasons [wikipedia.org], becaus
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America has a governmental version! (Score:2)
NCCAM [nih.gov] started as a promise to put "complimentary and alternative medicine" (CAM) to scientific scrutiny, with politically predictable results [csicop.org].
As much as I love science (and how!), I'm ambivalent about even the idea of NCCAM. Testing herbal remedies... I don't know, maybe we'll find something great. But testing things like homeopathy, which even NCCAM admits "a number of its key concepts are not consistent with the current understanding of science, particularly chemistry and physics," is just a waste of r
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There funding was cancelled this year and is unlikely to ever be renewed.
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Eh... there are some legitimate herbal, non-mainstream medicines which are reasonably effective (yet which I assume most people would call alternative medicine). You could drink willowbark tea for your headache or smoke pot to alleviate symptoms of chemo for instance. The active ingredients -- salycilic acid and THC, respectively -- certainly have the desired effects.
Herbal Medicine more Insane (Score:2)
Eh... there are some legitimate herbal, non-mainstream medicines...
This is potentially even more stupid than other alternative medicines. To take a herbal medicine means that you clearly believe in the active ingredient (because it is the same in both) but that you would rather take an unknown dose of it with various impurities and other chemicals added. Why on Earth would you not want to take the carefully manufactured version of the same chemical where the dose can be carefully controlled and there are no unknown impurities? Being produced by nature does not make the ch
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I'm a plant person, and I understand that herbs have power, they really do but I really hate those herbal morons. Many drugs are based on herbal medicine, and people in third world countries who can't afford pharmaceuticals still use them to a degree of success. But herbs don't work because they're herbs, they work because if you take away the leaves, roots, and stems, you're left with an active ingredient, and if you purify that, put it in a measured dose, we call them pharmaceuticals, and a varied dose
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Watch this [youtube.com] for a good summery of it.
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Bacteriophage treatments would be effective, no doubt. But the problem is bacteria have much greater genetic variability than eukaryotic organisms we're used to thinking of. Bacteriophage treatments, to be effective, usually have to be tailored specifically to each patient individually, which is an expensive and time-consuming task. The nice thing about most pharmaceuticals (as opposed to phages) is that once your drug has been invented, generally producing more of the drug is dirt cheap.
Why is this news? (Score:4, Insightful)
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Yeah, seriously. It even says so clearly on the page:
"The What's Your Type? program is a recruitment program with information provided for the participants' enjoyment. You should seek medical supervision for all matters regarding your health."
Gogo stupidity in idle?
Another form of pseudoscience (Score:2)
There's another form of pseudo-science that is more rampant in the clinical world -- genetic testing. Or, more specifically, carrying out genetic tests for things that only contribute a small fraction (say 2%) of the total variation, and making it out that it's closer to 100%:
"Oh, you have type O blood, that means you're at risk for cardiovascular disease."
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One example is neurology. Neurologists can identify patterns in the brain that correspond to interest, arousal, anger, and so forth... but it's a mistake for them to de
Donor restrictions (Score:2)
Canadian Blood Services has already proven themselves to be an organization that makes decisions according to myth and rumor rather than fact. Despite a large amount of controversy (and a grilling of one of the organization's leaders on CBC radio) CBS not only refuses to take donations by homosexual or bisexual men (despite the fact that every unit of blood that is donated is tested) who have been sexually active since I believe the late 70s, but refuses to take donations from women who have been sexually
Re:Donor restrictions (Score:5, Informative)
You may not remember this, but back in the 90s blood services in Canada were run by the Canadian red cross. They infected tens of thousands of people with HIV and Hepatitis, due to improper handling and care. CBS was created in response to this scandal, so unsurprisingly they have always been enormously risk-averse when it comes to infectious disease. I, for example, am not allowed to donate blood because of time I spent in the UK- they're afraid I may be a mad cow. It seems a bit silly, but I understand the reason. Not everything is bigotry.
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I know the head of the local CBS branch, and because she spent several years in the U.K., she's not able to donate.
quick silence these heretics!!! (Score:4, Interesting)
Can someone remind me why ANYONE needs to do something about a private non-profit expressing views that haven't been vetted via the scientific method?
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They aren't any old non-profit, they are the people who handle the medical blood supply. The lives nearly all surgical patients and all blood donors are in their hands. When people in their position screw up, other people die (indeed, the Red Cross used to handle the blood supply in Canada; they screwed up back in the 80s and a bunch of people got AIDS and hepatitis C. Canadian Blood Services only exists because that mistake made people lose trust in the Red Cross.)
So, given the critical place of Canadian B
Is handwriting analysis also bunk? (Score:2)
I don't know much about this blood type thing, but a cursory look suggests that the foundation holds some logic.
The blood types, like any difference owed to evolutionary forces, have roots which can be traced with relative ease across anthropological history.
For instance, type O's owe their genetic origins to hunter-gatherers; they thrive on foods available to such cultures, i.e., red meat and complex animal fats whereas they are not primed for efficient digestion and use of grains and similar plant materia
They live in my building! (Score:2)
Ha ha! I said "Tenants" of science. Like they pay rent or something. :)
-FL
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People look uncomfortable because *you're* full of shit. Sceptic means exactly the same as skeptic. Septic is the spelling that refers to a tank for holding sewage.
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People look uncomfortable because *you're* full of shit. Sceptic means exactly the same as skeptic. Septic is the spelling that refers to a tank for holding sewage.
Oh dear! Touched a nerve, did we?
The spelling depends on which dictionary you happen to be reading from. For some reason which I find curious, dictionary instances of the double spelling are much more difficult to find on-line than they were only a few years ago. Though I distinctly remember seeing the alternative spelling in dictionaries when
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To start off, an expression which anyone that thinks about science should constantly keep in mind: "Data is not the plural form of anecdote". You created some sort of correlation between blood types and human physiological differences based on a single case!
Well, actually I wasn't trying to make any sort of formal argument. I was pointing out that in the cases of me and my old room mate, we happened to fit into larger patterns observed across Japanese culture. Does it mean anything? I don't know. As I s
For recruitment and entertainment purposes only (Score:4, Informative)
No matter which blood type you select, it gives you a few tidbits of bullshit about what your personality and preferred diet might be, then a few tidbits of bullshit about what careers you might do well at. Then it tells you that no matter what your type is, it is important to donate blood, how you can donate, etc.
So I don't think this is an example of Canadian Blood Services promoting or believing this pseudo-science. I don't have a problem with them having a "fun" online activity like this, if it encourages more people to give blood. However, I would prefer if it more explicitly said on the first page that these are beliefs from the Japanese culture, and state that they have no basis in science, but that they can be fun and interesting to read about.
They could keep it without promoting it... (Score:2)
It's not like it would have been hard for them to acknowledge that it's just "popular myth" or something, and keep all the rest of their little attention-drawing page as it is.
People like idle little bits of trivia, even if they know there's no scientific basis.
"A+ people are pretty! Like me!" et cetera.
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I always wondered why they listed the blood type for the characters in Street Fighter. Now I know. Thanks Slashdot!
Nice. But maybe that really is why it's listed in the game...
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OK...well if this does no harm in perpetuating stereotypes about blood typing and behavior, you know something the Nazis liked to spout, then how the hell does creationism in school hurt anyone?
Whats the difference in saying A+ people are more likely to be mass murderers and saying Jesus rode a Dinosaur when he salted Carthage?
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I see your point, and I would agree with you if the website described any of the blood types in an undesirable manner, but from what I have seen the website makes a few positive affirmations (along the lines of "you are independent"), suggests a diet (not sure how that one works, I will leave it to someone else to comment on), and then state where and when the blood type is thought to have emerged.
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Gays and anyone who visits Africa cannot give blood. This is far more serious.
What's wrong with that, at least the Africa bit? In fact, I believe it's if you've visited any place prone to malaria within 12 months, not just Africa. Obviously, they're trying to keep malaria and HIV out of the bloodstream, so they're eliminating anyone who's in a high-risk group for having contact with those pathogens. Why is that a problem? Testing all blood is also important, but tests can fail sometimes, and eliminating
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what about anybody that spent more than 5 years in Europe cannot donate blood ever period? or if you have spent more than 6 months in France or the UK between 1980 and 1996, or if you were ever treated with blood products made in Europe at any time since 1980?
I think the vCJD policy is way, way, way excessive and basically making any European immigrant ineligible to donate blood is extremely shortsighted, also considering how far out of the way CBC goes with advertising and campaigns to get people to donat
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Probably. But such policies do get adjusted from time to time. Either new science or cheap testing will make it safer to take blood from what was previously considered a too high risk group - or else their exclusions will put too much pressure on t
...or being British (Score:2)
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Why? That's a sensible reaction to the fact that they're more likely to have communicable blood diseases (AIDs specifically, of course). At least, that's the reasoning... are you arguing that isn't true? Honestly, I haven't paid much attention... has the incidence of AIDs leveled out between the homosexual and heterosexual communities?
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No, because in the long run, promoting ignorance will cost lives.
Re:Japanese Science and Pseudo (Score:5, Informative)
Many, many famous scientists are such skeptics, such as Richard Dawkins, Phil Plait, Carl Sagan...
I'm pretty sure you've got some agenda you haven't quite revealed to us. So, what exactly is your agenda? Believer in ESP? Ghosts? Homeopathy? Hmm?
Your talk of going to pubmed and looking up the terms yourself makes you seem clever to the uninitiated but anyone who has ever used a scientific DB would know that those keywords are going to produce a lot of noise. Indeed, they do--and almost none of it, if any, has to do with ABO-typing and personality, but merely hormones or chemicals in the blood influencing personality traits, something almost no scientist / skeptic would deny. I looked over the keywords you gave. Some of them reference no association found between a personality characteristic and some chemical, some of them are completely tangential, and again, almost none of them have anything to do with the blood typing myth.
You try to present yourself as a scientist very well, but I have to question how much you really do in practice, as any researcher, even on an undergraduate level, would be able to instantly spot how much noise the keywords "blood type personality" would produce. And indeed, it does--all the results that come up do NOT support ABO typing to personality, despite you implying that the results you'd get with those keywords indicate research done on ABO-typing and personality. It's telling how you don't even cite a single study, instead pointing people to impressive-sounding numbers on database hits in a database using broad key words in order to make it seem like research is being done on ABO-typing and personality when there isn't, because the notion has long been discredited even in Japanese scientific circles.
You clearly have some sort of agenda, to so cleverly try to mislead people the way you have What is it?
Re:Japanese Science and Pseudo (Score:5, Informative)
I forgot to further note that the ABO-typing and personality theory has nothing to do with hormones and possible effect of chemicals on behavior. That is what comes up on the studies provided on your keywords. That is what makes your attempt to fool people so obviously deliberate--you obviously know that those results don't have anything to do with what the "skeptics" (as you lovingly put in scare-quotes) are complaining about, yet you still went ahead and tried to present the results as evidence that ABO typing is mainstream science somewhere.
Someone ought to mark DynaSoar down as a troll for this, because it's really just a disguised troll towards "skeptics" because someone pissed in his cheerios over his religion or pet superstition, that he wants to pretend is science, and is using this incident to further his grudge.
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You seriously need to get a life. Like, bad. Posting absurdly long winded pseudoscience apologia on slashdot because a skeptic here once offended one of your delicate irrational beliefs is incredibly pathetic. Elaborate troll is elaborate.
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The Korea Consumer Protection Board (KCPB), a South Korean government-funded public agency, issued a consumer safety alert in 2006 warning that "asphyxiation from electric fans and air conditioners" was among South Korea's five most common seasonal summer accidents or injuries, according to data they collected.[11] Also included among the five haz