Reason and empirical evidence should be applied to public policy and could make the world a better place if only we allowed it to. But what generally gets in the way is something called repugnance

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And in several cases, there's evidence suggesting that the anonymous people who made these bets may have had insider information.

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I think that we've enshrined a lot of cultural assumptions about women and their reproductive capacity in the terms for their organs and terms for things happening in pregnancy and their reproductive decisions, I guess. It's like a really messed up form of metonymy where the organ, like the incompetent cervix, the hostile or geriatric uterus, is standing in for how our culture is stereotyping women.

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