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Mefi Followup Kevin Everett walks after spinal injury

Remember Kevin Everett? Well, those of you who said Kevin Everett would walk, it turns out you were right.
posted to MetaTalk by ikkyu2 at 9:54 PM on June 30, 2008 (20 comments)

AskMe screws the pooch

AskMe gets it badly wrong, as the original poster reveals here.
posted to MetaTalk by ikkyu2 at 6:43 PM on December 5, 2007 (254 comments)

offensive, sexist, NOT RACIST

I see that this AskMe post gratuitously compares a beautiful woman's face to a diseased rectum, distended with constipated feces.
posted to MetaTalk by ikkyu2 at 3:19 PM on November 25, 2007 (3 comments)

Safety first!

Before yesterday, it'd been 280 days, since November 11th, that we'd gone without a Metatalk post.
posted to MetaTalk by ikkyu2 at 10:13 AM on August 19, 2007 (80 comments)

Seems to me that this question on AskMe is asking...

Seems to me that this question on AskMe is asking for advice on how to break the law, specifically how to break immigration law restricting the scope of the poster's employment. In order to get around the immigration laws, the income couldn't be reported to IRS, so he's asking how to break tax laws too.

I don't really care, but it seems to me that if "How can I break this law," violates the askme guidelines, then this post needs to be yanked.
posted to MetaTalk by ikkyu2 at 9:20 AM on July 5, 2006 (63 comments)

AskMe for free graphic design? It's a good cause,...

AskMe for free graphic design? It's a good cause, but it's still a solicitation; I get plenty of those through other channels, don't really think they belong here too.
posted to MetaTalk by ikkyu2 at 9:46 PM on November 6, 2005 (133 comments)

Anyone have a better email address/contact method...

Anyone have a better email address/contact method for occhiblu? [mi]
posted to MetaTalk by ikkyu2 at 3:51 PM on August 25, 2005 (17 comments)

Where should I, a physician, draw the line at...

Where should I, a physician, draw the line at commenting on health-related posts in AskMe?

I enjoy thinking about folks' medical puzzles and often learn something in the process of trying to solve them. However, I'm a neurologist, so most of what I comment on is well outside my scope of practice. I've tried to make it clear in my user info that I'm not commenting in my professional capacity as a medical advisor, but instead as "just another Metafilter user." But if you scroll down to roofus' thought-provoking post a few days ago, you can read about a number of harmful things that we docs could inadvertently be causing, including but not limited to the inflammation of hypochondria, acute bad-adviceFilter, and sudden dismemberment or death.

What do folks think? Should I just can it before I get sued?
posted to MetaTalk by ikkyu2 at 8:29 PM on July 15, 2005 (52 comments)