# Omnibus Evil MFers in the news thread **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 3, 2023, 11:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-evil-mfers-in-the-news-thread/983496 "2023-05-03T11:05:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 13
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2023, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-evil-mfers-in-the-news-thread/983496/241 "2023-08-26T19:24:21Z")
A congenital defect if ever there was one. And very, very common. ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2023, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-evil-mfers-in-the-news-thread/983496/242 "2023-08-26T19:24:53Z")
> [@SuntanLotion](#): > > Some twitterer says if its congenital, that means LeBron had to have had it too. Thats not correct, right? True, incorrect. “Congenital” means “born with it”. It doesn’t identify the actual _cause_, which could be environmental (perhaps while pregnant something happened to mom and by extension the baby), or yes, _perhaps_ something genetic but that could have come from mom’s side of the family, not dad’s, and sometimes _we just don’t know._ None of the news articles have specified what, exactly, this defect/condition is. From my viewpoint, it’s no one’s business but the family’s. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2023, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-evil-mfers-in-the-news-thread/983496/243 "2023-08-26T19:28:26Z")
To dissect the word, “genital” in this context means “being created/born”. Like the words “generate”, or “Genesis”. It’s related to the act of creation. “Con” is a prefix meaning “with”, so it’s saying it is something that was present at birth. But that’s _all_ it means. ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Hedonia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ann_hedonia/32/319_2.png) [@Ann\_Hedonia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Hedonia)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2023, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-evil-mfers-in-the-news-thread/983496/244 "2023-08-26T22:22:38Z")
> [@SuntanLotion](#): > > Some twitterer says if its congenital, that means LeBron had to have had it too. Thats not correct, right? Not only is a congenital defect not necessarily inherited, I think we can assume that Bronny James had TWO parents. ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2023, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-evil-mfers-in-the-news-thread/983496/245 "2023-08-26T22:24:02Z")
That is, however, a change from the usual “blame the mother” thing. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2023, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-evil-mfers-in-the-news-thread/983496/246 "2023-08-27T00:08:13Z")
Some blamed Brandon Goodwin missing the 2021 playoffs on getting vaccinated, including Goodwin himself – at first. Now it looks much more likely that he had a misdiagnosed case of COVID. > **[Brandon Goodwin (basketball) | Atlanta Hawks (2019–2021)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandon_Goodwin_(basketball)#Atlanta_Hawks_(2019%E2%80%932021))** > > On August 6, 2019, Goodwin signed a two-way contract with the Atlanta Hawks. On February 12, 2020, the Atlanta Hawks announced that they had re-signed Goodwin to a multi-year contract. Goodwin missed the 2021 NBA playoffs due to a respiratory condition. On October 3, 2021, with his season having ended early, Goodwin reported severe fatigue coupled with extreme back pain, and a formal diagnosis of blood clots followed. Goodwin initially blamed a COVID vaccination for his condition but late A study... If you check the history of that article, you’ll see that I stepped in to correct vaccine misinformation. ---
**Author:** ![Folacin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folacin/32/3195_2.png) [@Folacin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folacin)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2023, 11:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-evil-mfers-in-the-news-thread/983496/247 "2023-08-27T11:42:41Z")
Yeah - that’s not going to help. “If he had the vaccine, why did he get COVID?” ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2023, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-evil-mfers-in-the-news-thread/983496/248 "2023-08-27T13:11:03Z")
It’s been known since the beginning that the vaccine doesn’t give 100% protection but helps keep you alive if you get it. But some people won’t hear that truth either. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2023, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-evil-mfers-in-the-news-thread/983496/249 "2023-08-27T13:58:08Z")
Yeah, I’ve had all the vaccines/boosters. I got COVID twice after the shots. But it was not bad at all. Sort of a summer cold that went away in a few days. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2023, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-evil-mfers-in-the-news-thread/983496/250 "2023-08-27T22:06:05Z")
Parents? Dang, the only reason I ever heard of LeBron James was because everybody made such a big deal about how he went to the NBA right out of high school. So, I always think of him (WHEN I think of him) as “that high school NBA star.” He’s got a kid old enough to be in college? I figured bronny James was his little brother or something. Time flies. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2023, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-evil-mfers-in-the-news-thread/983496/251 "2023-08-27T22:54:03Z")
While we’re at it, even if the heart condition was genetic, that would at most mean that LeBron was a carrier (assuming the simplest case, of a genetic disease being cause by a recessive gene). And there are all sorts of other, more complicated, cases by which a child could have a genetic disease without one or both parents having it. ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2023, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-evil-mfers-in-the-news-thread/983496/252 "2023-08-27T23:05:08Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > While we’re at it, even if the heart condition was genetic, that would at most mean that LeBron was a carrier (assuming the simplest case, of a genetic disease being cause by a recessive gene). Not necessarily. My family has not one but _two_ bad cardiac genes, one from each side of the family. They’re both dominant genes, although one of them has variable penetrance which is why my father died at 87 instead of 32 like his brother. Or at 24 and 30 like two of dad’s grandsons. Genetics can get complicated. My dad had a bad gene that, for whatever reason(s) did not affect him as badly as other members of his family. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2023, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-evil-mfers-in-the-news-thread/983496/253 "2023-08-29T12:34:23Z")
When U.S. champion swimmer Jamie Cail was found dead earlier this year, antivaxers [were quick to blame her death](https://twitter.com/ABC/status/1629945666230272003) on Covid-19 vaccination. A [newly released autopsy report](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jamie-cail-cause-of-death-revealed-us-swimmer-virgin-islands-fentanyl-intoxication/#) lists the cause of death as fentanyl intoxication and aspiration of gastric contents. Nevermind, antivax vultures have moved on to newer cases. ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2023, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-evil-mfers-in-the-news-thread/983496/254 "2023-08-29T12:57:56Z")
‘They put FENTUNAIL IN THE JAB!!!1111!!!’ ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2023, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-evil-mfers-in-the-news-thread/983496/255 "2023-08-29T13:04:25Z")
Wait’ll they find out that work is proceeding on [a fentanyl vaccine](https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9737173). ---
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2023, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-evil-mfers-in-the-news-thread/983496/256 "2023-08-29T20:25:36Z")
Not too often that a graduate student deals with his faculty adviser this way: > **[UNC graduate student charged with murder in fatal shooting of associate...](https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/29/us/unc-chapel-hill-campus-shooting-tuesday/index.html)** ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2023, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-evil-mfers-in-the-news-thread/983496/257 "2023-08-30T14:26:48Z")
My county’s library board has eliminated the American Library Association’s Freedom to Read policy statement from their bylaws. The statement by the ALA included this “offensive” language: “It is in the public interest for publishers and librarians to make available the widest diversity of views and expressions, including those that are unorthodox, unpopular, or considered dangerous by the majority.” Can’t have that. 🤪 ---
**Author:** ![Akaj](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/akaj/32/145_2.png) [@Akaj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Akaj)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2023, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-evil-mfers-in-the-news-thread/983496/258 "2023-08-30T15:26:45Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > diversity Woke alert! ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2023, 11:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-evil-mfers-in-the-news-thread/983496/259 "2023-08-31T11:07:55Z")
Israeli police officers [beat a Palestinian man and allegedly branded him with the Star of David](https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israeli-police-accused-branding-star-of-david-palestinian-man-cheek-report?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=Social_Traffic&utm_content=ap_p9fbyy0i6i). The officer in question is suspended for the time being, but all 16 of the officers there had their body cams off (16 for one guy?) so they’re all guilty IMHO. Or does this belong in the Evil Religious thread? ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2023, 11:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-evil-mfers-in-the-news-thread/983496/260 "2023-08-31T11:46:01Z")
“Israeli” is not actually synonymous with “religious”. Arguably, it’s more “police brutality” and “racism”. Far as I can see, though, it fits here just fine because 16:1 is pretty evil. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-evil-mfers-in-the-news-thread/983496.md?page=12) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-evil-mfers-in-the-news-thread/983496.md?page=14)