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The Easiest Horcrux Quiz You'll Ever Take

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“I, who have gone further than anybody along the path that leads to immortality.” —Lord Voldemort

20 Times Frank Reynolds Was The Most Hilarious Character On "It's Always Sunny"

Tinder Just Added An STI Testing Locator To Their Website

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Your next chlamydia screening: 4 miles away.

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This comes after an awareness campaign from the AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) put up billboards associating apps like Tinder with STIs.

This comes after an awareness campaign from the AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) put up billboards associating apps like Tinder with STIs.

The ads appeared around L.A. and New York City in September 2015. Tinder then sent a cease and desist letter to AHF asking them to remove all references to the app on their billboards or website.

Now that Tinder added this health safety section, AHF is removing all ads mentioning the app, according to Reuters.

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17 Cheesy Soups That Are Equal Parts Gooey And Delicious

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This Vet Is Nursing Baby Animals Back To Health After Terrible Bushfires

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This little 'roo suffered burns to his tail, arms, and legs after getting stuck in an out-of-control bushfire in Western Australia.

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Wildfires have been pushing through Western Australia throughout January, with two deaths and more than 100 homes destroyed.

On top of all this, animals from the region have been left displaced and injured, many with burned limbs.

Waroona Veterinary Clinic is a small vet in Waroona, Western Australia, that has been taking in injured animals from the fires.

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Currently they have birds, possums, cats, and kangaroos all bundled up and medicated, hoping for a quick a healthy recovery.

Nurse Hayley Donovan works at Waroona Veterinary and she told BuzzFeed News the kangaroo joey is currently staying at one of the other nurse's homes, along with two girl joeys and a possum.

"Once they have made a full recovery they will be released back into the bush where there is plenty of food and water," she said. "The response from people willing to donate money and goods has been insane! It's so lovely that there are so many kind hearted people out there willing to help."

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"All of the pet products that have been donated have gone to the victims of the bush fire with pets and the medical supplies and monetary donations have gone to the treatment of the burnt animals. It's a heartbreaking situation and we've seen some horrendous things but we are hopeful for the ones that have survived."

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We Tried Stand-Up Comedy For The First Time And It Was Just Awful

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So. Much. Cringe.

With the comedy scene really taking off in India, we decided it was high time we tried our hand at it. Some of us, didn't take it too well.

With the comedy scene really taking off in India, we decided it was high time we tried our hand at it. Some of us, didn't take it too well.

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Our ragtag cast of heroes, Yohann, Aayushi, Sumedh, and Sujay, were clearly terrified of what was to follow.

Our ragtag cast of heroes, Yohann, Aayushi, Sumedh, and Sujay, were clearly terrified of what was to follow.

An open mic night at The Hive was where they had to prove themselves.

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They tried rehearsing, but that didn't help at all.

They tried rehearsing, but that didn't help at all.

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Finally, they had no choice but to go.

Finally, they had no choice but to go.

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Look At This Ginormous Ball Of Fried Nutella Ice Cream

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Holy shitballs.

If you’ve ever wanted to eat a big, battered, deep-fried 1.25 litre ball of Nutella ice cream, Sydney cafe chain Piccolo Me have you covered.

If you’ve ever wanted to eat a big, battered, deep-fried 1.25 litre ball of Nutella ice cream, Sydney cafe chain Piccolo Me have you covered.

Cafe co-owner and creator of the ball, Roy El Hachem, made a mini-version of the dessert two years ago, which is still sold in various Piccolo Me locations.

Recently however, he decided to take it to the next level. "I wanted to go a bit crazy, and make it bigger, and bigger, and bigger," he tells BuzzFeed Life. And so, the giant "Fried Maltella" was born.

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To give you an idea of how massive this thing is, 1.25L is the equivalent to approximately 13.5 Macca's soft serves.

To give you an idea of how massive this thing is, 1.25L is the equivalent to approximately 13.5 Macca's soft serves.

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"Old Friends Senior Dog Sanctuary" Is The Best Facebook Page Ever And You Need To Follow It

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It’s a senior citizen home for dogs!

The Old Friends Senior Dog Sanctuary is the best Facebook page that exists. No question.

The Old Friends Senior Dog Sanctuary is the best Facebook page that exists. No question.

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Old Friends is a Tennessee dog sanctuary, which focuses on senior dogs "especially those with medical problems or disabilities... because it is difficult to find adopters for them due to their shorter additional life expectancy and unknown veterinary costs."

On the sanctuary's Facebook page, they introduce you to all the old dogs living there, like this pug named Smiley.

On the sanctuary's Facebook page, they introduce you to all the old dogs living there, like this pug named Smiley.

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Smiley is best friends with Harley, a very wonderful golden retriever.

Smiley is best friends with Harley, a very wonderful golden retriever.

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How Facebook's Plan To Give The World Free Mobile Internet Went So Wrong

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On a Tuesday afternoon in May 2010, a Facebook program manager named Sid Murlidhar published a blog post announcing “another way for people to access Facebook anytime, anywhere.” It was called 0.Facebook, literally a URL you could type into your mobile phone’s browser that called up a stripped-down, quick-loading, text-only version of Facebook — accessible only as long as you were using a participating mobile operator.

It was a big deal, much bigger than most people realized at the time. The fast, bare-bones version of Facebook made it more usable for people living in the poorly connected locations it rolled out in — countries like India, Uganda, and Bolivia. More importantly, 0.Facebook could be accessed for free in those countries, without any associated data costs, thanks to deals Facebook made with carriers. The internet? That would cost you —but 0.Facebook was free of charge.

“We hope that even more people will discover the mobile internet with Facebook,” Murlidhar wrote that day. They certainly did. And from that moment on, it’s been Facebook’s policy to work with mobile operators to offer some form of its site for free.

Over time, the seeds planted with 0.Facebook grew into a much more ambitious fruit, called Internet.org. Internet.org includes an array of technology solutions to bring the world online — things like drones to bring connectivity to rural regions where there is no infrastructure, and affordable smartphones. But its best-known element is something called Free Basics, which serves up versions of Facebook and other services, like Wikipedia and the weather, that don't count against a person's mobile data plan. It is very much the progeny of 0.Facebook.

Yet more than five years later, the policy Murlidhar helped introduce is at the center of a global backlash. When Internet.org launched, it was lauded for bringing the world online. A New York Times headline from August 2013, for example, proclaimed, “Facebook Leads an Effort to Lower Barriers to Internet Access.” Yet just two years later, in October 2015, another headline from the Times would note that “Facebook’s Internet for All Is a Tough Sell in India."

Indeed, Free Basics is in grave peril in India, where it has already been suspended and now faces a permanent ban. Egypt has already pulled the plug on Free Basics entirely, for reasons that remain unclear. A host of international partners — including Samsung, Qualcomm, and Ericsson — have essentially disappeared from the Internet.org site. Meanwhile, partnerships with competing companies like Google and Twitter — which would have lent credibility to Facebook's argument that Free Basics is open to everyone — never materialized. In short, Facebook's massive push to bring the world online has hit a wall of activists and government regulators who argue that its free service violates basic principles of an open, free, and fair internet.

Here’s how it all went down.

The Zero in the Beginning

0.Facebook, also known as Facebook Zero, was hatched by a team within Facebook in charge of growing the platform, along with its mobile partnership team. By mid-2010, the company had moved from college campuses to the general American public and then to Europe. And though Facebook was not yet close to its current 1.5 billion monthly active users, its addressable market in the developed world had started looking saturated. So when Facebook began seeing people in emerging markets join the platform via low-cost phones and plans, operating on slower speeds and thinner wallets, it realized it needed to find some way to tap this immense pool of potential new users. The answer was 0.Facebook.

The introduction of 0.Facebook, a product clearly geared toward growth, was uncontroversial. TechCrunch was characteristically optimistic about its prospects: “This mobile site could play a big role in Facebook’s growth going forward, especially given the predictions that browser-equipped mobile phones will be more abundant than PCs in the not-too-distant future,” Jason Kincaid wrote.

Riding on smooth seas, 0.Facebook reached more than 50 operators in dozens of countries, without causing much of a stir. But there was another fundamental problem that Facebook still needed to address. Most of the new users it saw coming online weren’t doing so with Android or iOS handsets, where you could just download the Facebook app from an app store, but on so-called “feature phones.”

These feature phones might be best thought of as the Nissan Versa to the iPhone’s Tesla Model S. These handsets often had very limited memory and processing power — which meant there wasn’t enough horsepower for robust applications. What’s more, they came in a thousand different varieties, with custom interfaces that often required specialized builds. In short, you couldn’t just build a one-size-fits-all app for feature phones.

Enter Snaptu

Facebook addressed this feature phone problem with an acquisition. On March 20, 2011, Israeli newspapers Calcalist and TheMarker reported that Facebook agreed to acquire Snaptu, a small Israeli technology startup. Snaptu had mastered development for feature phones by figuring out how to run applications largely on the server side, with just a thin layer on the handset itself. Months earlier, Facebook had completed a feature phone app launch in partnership with Snaptu, which built the app to work across more than 2,500 devices. To keep expanding within the very large feature phone market — which then accounted for 80% of mobile phones — Facebook decided to bring the master builders in house.

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An article about the Snaptu acquisition in The Guardian noted how important the Snaptu-built app was for Facebook’s global expansion plans. The app, it said, “brought Facebook capabilities to feature phones in countries as diverse as Sri Lanka, Ukraine, Poland, Singapore, Saudi Arabia, Hong Kong, Tunisia, Dominican Republic and Romania, with carriers in Canada, India, Mexico, Brazil and Bulgaria also planned.”

The Snaptu acquisition was a critical component of Facebook’s strategy to grow in emerging markets. But it wasn’t enough to just enter these markets: Facebook needed to get people, many of whom had limited means and had never used the internet previously, to download and try its app. So when Facebook launched its Snaptu-built app, it enlisted 14 mobile carriers to offer 90 days of free use.

After the acquisition, Snaptu’s CEO, Ran Makavy, moved to Facebook with the title of growth manager. His LinkedIn profile offers a preview of what came next: “Started internet.org, looking at connecting the next 5 billion people to the Internet.” (A Facebook spokesperson confirmed Makavy was part of the team that started Internet.org.)

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By November 2012, Facebook began posting a new free data offer every month or so on its page for Facebook for Every Phone (or FB4E), the enhanced and renamed version of the Snaptu-built app. In a message geared to Kenyans, for instance, Facebook pitched: “Tell your friends and family on Safaricom to join Facebook and they can access it for free for 90 days.” Offers to people in India, Guatemala, Mexico, and others followed.

An image advertising free Facebook posted to the FB4E page.

It’s worth noting that Facebook did not actually pay for the waived data charges for FB4E promotions and 0.Facebook. Operators provided the data free of charge, viewing Facebook as a gateway to customers who might, after getting a taste of free data, opt to pay for the full meal. And clearly, FB4E was a hit: By early 2014, it had more than 100 million active users.

Facebook wasn’t the only company engaged in such efforts. Google, Twitter, and others were launching their own zero-rated (meaning no data charge applied) apps at the same time. In November 2012, for instance, Google introduced the Google Free Zone, providing free data access for search, Gmail, and Google+.

The Google program rolled out first in the Philippines in partnership with operator Globe Telecom. Months afterward, Facebook began working with Globe as well, developing the groundwork for a more ambitious program.

“We started some experiments in the Philippines, with Globe, and we quickly iterated, and we decided that what we were going to do was we were going to give people access to an entire set of free basic services,” Facebook product VP Chris Daniels told BuzzFeed news in a phone interview.

Internet.org Is Born

Throughout their history, Facebook’s zero-rating initiatives had been both uncontroversial and unabashedly self-serving. But on Aug. 20, 2013, that all changed, even if it wasn’t immediately obvious. That’s when Facebook announced Internet.org. Its stated goal wasn’t platform growth, but “making internet access available to the next 5 billion people.”

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With Internet.org, Facebook had added ennobling traits to its raw ambition. Its zero-rating programs, which had previously been nakedly aimed at attracting new users, were now part of a larger effort to build out the infrastructure and lower the costs associated with bringing the world online. The effort was cast in altruistic terms and included a global coalition that could have come right out of Colin Powell’s playbook.

In fact Facebook was the only American partner at Internet.org's launch. Facebook, Ericsson, MediaTek, Nokia, Opera, Qualcomm, and Samsung all signed on as founding members, their logos prominently displayed on its site. A blog post on Facebook’s website said these companies would work to connect the next 5 billion people via a number of methods, citing everything from decreasing data use requirements from apps, to building new hardware like low-cost smartphones. A zero-rated program was to be included as well.

“Everything Facebook has done has been about giving all people around the world the power to connect,” Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced. “Internet.org brings together a global partnership that will work to overcome these challenges, including making internet access available to those who cannot currently afford it.”

Two factors contributed to Facebook’s broader efforts. First, pushing into emerging markets made Facebook aware just how massive a problem connectivity was in many regions of the world. Zuckerberg himself became invested in solving the issue, according to a person with knowledge of the situation. The Facebook CEO knew the problem was bigger than the company could solve on its own. Second, Facebook realized a significant lift was required to get operators across the world to offer data for free. These operators were still making money from text messaging fees, for example, and they did not see much incentive to offer access to a communication platform like Facebook Messenger at no cost. A global, strongly branded initiative with a number of powerful partners had a better chance to help Facebook win that argument.

“For Facebook it was always known that the company alone couldn't tackle this issue, that we had to find a way to work with the ecosystem to bring down the barriers to access,” the person with knowledge of Internet.org’s origins said. “It was always meant to find out how we can bring the ecosystem together to spread connectivity. And for that reason, it had to have a greater mission.”

From this point on, Facebook’s free internet efforts took on a more evangelical tone. Facebook wasn’t out to simply grow its own platform, the company would say; it was out to help the world. (And sure, what would help the world would also help Facebook.)

Today, Internet.org is behind a number of different connectivity initiatives, from a discounted Wi-Fi program, called Express Wi-Fi, to Aquila, a drone that can fly for months and beam down internet to those below. Yet its most prominent initiative is its zero-rated app, now called Free Basics, which contains the “entire set of free basic services,” Facebook's product VP Daniels said. Both Facebook and Facebook Messenger are included.

From Org to App

In October 2013, less than two months after Internet.org was announced, Facebook acquired Onavo, another Israeli startup working to make data use more efficient.

The Internet.org app.

Nine months later, Onavo co-founder and CEO Guy Rosen — now a Facebook product management director whose LinkedIn profile reads “Internet.org, Growth, Onavo and more cool stuff” — wrote a blog post, in July 2014, introducing the Internet.org app. The app included zero-rated access to a handful of sites and services, including AccuWeather, Go Zambia Jobs, and Wikipedia. Facebook and Facebook Messenger were, of course, included as well. The app launched first in Zambia.

“By providing free basic services via the app, we hope to bring more people online and help them discover valuable services they might not have otherwise,” Rosen wrote.

After the app launched in Zambia, Facebook’s Internet.org team spent the rest of 2014 rolling it out in more countries — Kenya and Tanzania — and building support in India, Facebook’s second-largest market. In October 2014, Facebook held its first Internet.org Summit in India, with Mark Zuckerberg keynoting. While in India for the summit, Zuckerberg met with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to “discuss the importance of connectivity in India,” according Internet.org’s Facebook page. Modi, in a Facebook post of his own, called the meeting “wonderful.”

In February 2015, the Internet.org app (which would be subsequently renamed Free Basics by Facebook) came to India. An intense backlash soon followed.

This Busker's Random Party In A Subway Station Went Viral On Facebook And It Changed His Life

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Did you see Ali Köse’s performance of “Get Lucky”?

You may have seen this video going around just before Christmas.

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The video, which has been viewed over a million times, was filmed one Friday night last month in Marble Arch tube. The guy in the video is 32-year-old Ali Köse, from Lewisham.

He told BuzzFeed News: "The acoustics in the station sounded awesome. My voice was travelling up the escalators. People were smiling on the way down who had probably heard me from the top of the escalators.

"After around 45 minutes or so of me busking, slowly but surely when I started playing more funky pop cover-song combos, people were spontaneously dancing in front of me and were really enjoying the music I was performing."

Eventually, station staff moved Köse on.

Eventually, station staff moved Köse on.

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He said: "The impromptu party dancers were not so happy and didn't want to leave when I was stopped - they just kept shouting - one more song..... I raised my poster which had my social media details on and people were chanting my name very loudly."

"I was overwhelmed and felt extremely lucky to have had experienced such a unique moment as a new busker on the London Underground with over 100 people dancing and singing to my pop cover songs."

But Köse's story doesn't end there. He said that, pretty soon "my inbox was flooded with encouraging events opportunities, messages from all around the world." His story was picked up by some media outlets including Heart Radio and ITV News.


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I Used A Bunch Of Crazy Japanese Photo Booths And This Is What Happened

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Welcome to the bizarre and adorable world of purikura.

In a lot of neighborhoods in Tokyo, you can find multi-floor arcades. Usually, one of those floors is dedicated to purikura machines.

In a lot of neighborhoods in Tokyo, you can find multi-floor arcades. Usually, one of those floors is dedicated to purikura machines.

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Purikura is short for purintokurabu or "print clubs" and they're essentially photo booths.

Purikura is short for purintokurabu or "print clubs" and they're essentially photo booths.

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First, you and a couple friends pile into one of them.

First, you and a couple friends pile into one of them.

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And follow the signs. This one said, "step into the place if you want to be taken more beautifully," and like, I figure I can always look more beautiful.

And follow the signs. This one said, "step into the place if you want to be taken more beautifully," and like, I figure I can always look more beautiful.

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How To Have A Panel About Women's Equality At Davos

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It’s important to get the optics right – make sure you follow these steps for a super diverse panel!

So you want to hold a panel about lady business people in Davos during the World Economic Forum.

So you want to hold a panel about lady business people in Davos during the World Economic Forum.

Good for you!

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The first step is to come up with a really good hashtag, like #WhenWomenThrive.

The first step is to come up with a really good hashtag, like #WhenWomenThrive.

Use a double hashtag to give your panel double strength!

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Next: Have a lady moderator on your lady panel!

Next: Have a lady moderator on your lady panel!

Ladies make the best lady panel moderators.

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Now, it is very important to have a diverse panel. So make sure you have a Man With Brown Hair.

Now, it is very important to have a diverse panel. So make sure you have a Man With Brown Hair.

Men With Brown Hair are essential to your business and you don't want them to feel unappreciated.

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How Scientists Are Doing A Bait-And-Switch With Medical Data

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Researchers are “choosing their lottery numbers after seeing the draw”, making medicine is less reliable – and respected journals are letting them do it.

Medical science is being undermined because researchers are changing the things they're measuring after looking at the data, a campaign group has warned.

Medical science is being undermined because researchers are changing the things they're measuring after looking at the data, a campaign group has warned.

Research published in some of the world's most prestigious medical journals is rife with "outcome switching", they say, where the researchers choose what data to look at after the results come in. One scientist compares it to "choosing your lottery numbers after seeing the draw".

It means that it is harder to tell whether a drug or a treatment is as effective as it claims, and may mean that doctors are failing to give people the best possible treatment for various diseases because they have been misled by bad data. It also may mean that the NHS and other health services are paying over the odds for expensive drugs that are no better than cheaper alternatives.

The group found that 58 out of 67 articles they examined in the five most famous medical journals in the world had switched outcomes to one degree or another.

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The CEBM Outcome Monitoring Project, COMPARE, part of Oxford University's Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine, says that the top five medical journals all regularly publish articles with switched outcomes, and that it is a huge problem for science.

The CEBM Outcome Monitoring Project, COMPARE, part of Oxford University's Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine, says that the top five medical journals all regularly publish articles with switched outcomes, and that it is a huge problem for science.

The journals are the British Medical Journal (BMJ), the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), the Journal of the American Medical Assocation (JAMA), the Lancet, and the Annals of Internal Medicine.

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So, for instance, if you propose a study into the effects of alcohol on health, you could say that you were going to look at 10,000 people who drink and 10,000 people who don't and look at how many in each group die within five years.

It would be "outcome switching" if, at the end of the trial, you count how many heart attacks there were, instead, without admitting in the article that you originally planned to count the number of deaths.

This matters, because sometimes, you'll get good results just by chance. The more things you measure, the more likely you are to get a fluky good result.

This matters, because sometimes, you'll get good results just by chance. The more things you measure, the more likely you are to get a fluky good result.

Dr Ben Goldacre of Oxford University, who leads COMPARE, told BuzzFeed Science that: "Our statistical models are based on the assumption of one outcome being measured, so if you don’t report all the things you say are going to report, then your statistical models are fundamentally broken.

"For instance, imagine a randomised trial on alcohol to determine whether a glass of wine a day is better for your health than abstinence. 'Better for your health' is a broad outcome, so you might measure deaths, heart attacks, blood tests, headaches, employment, subjective wellbeing all kinds of things, in all kinds of ways."

But if you divide up the data lots of ways, and don't specify in advance what you're measuring, you'll probably get some impressive-sounding result. There's a lot of random noise in medical studies, meaning that sometimes you'll get what looks like a real effect just by chance.

A scientific result is considered "statistically significant" if there's a less than one in 20 chance that it could happen by chance – if you measure 20 different things, you'll probably get one positive result, as this XKCD demonstrates.

"If you measure a huge number of outcomes, and then allow yourself to pick and choose which you will report as your main finding, then suddenly the scientific integrity of your study is in big trouble," said Goldacre. "You can probably get some kind of positive finding, regardless of the true effect of your intervention."

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19 Things That Happen When You Can Drive But Your Friends Can't

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“You got that gas money?”

Your friends are constantly asking you to drive them places.

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And whenever you get an invite to somewhere far away, you can’t help but wonder if your friend just wants a lift.

And whenever you get an invite to somewhere far away, you can’t help but wonder if your friend just wants a lift.

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You find yourself being the designated driver all too often...

You find yourself being the designated driver all too often...

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...and you realise that it’s not fun being the only sober one.

...and you realise that it’s not fun being the only sober one.

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Man Has To Give Police 24 Hours Notice Before Having Sex

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The man, who can’t be named for legal reasons, has to tell North Yorkshire Police in England about any sexual activity at 24 least hours before it happens, or he faces up to five years in jail.

A man has been told he can't have sex unless he tell the police 24 hours in advance – and he could face jail if he doesn't.

A man has been told he can't have sex unless he tell the police 24 hours in advance – and he could face jail if he doesn't.

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The man, who is from York but can't be named for legal reasons, was given a sexual risk order on Thursday at York magistrates court, which is currently sitting in Leeds because of flooding.

The man, who is from York but can't be named for legal reasons, was given a sexual risk order on Thursday at York magistrates court, which is currently sitting in Leeds because of flooding.

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The Press reported that the order means that if he begins a sexual relationship with any woman or plans to have a one-off sexual encounter, he must tell North Yorkshire Police 24 hours in advance.

The order also restricts his internet use and compels him to tell police about any device that he could use to call or text people.

It's an interim sexual order and a full hearing will take place on 19 May, to decide whether to grant a full sexual risk order. A full order would last for a minimum of two years and can have no maximum duration.

Breaching the order could result in a jail term of up to five years, but someone with an order can appeal against it.

BuzzFeed News spoke to the man's solicitor, who declined to comment but confirmed that the order is in place.

North Yorkshire police declined to comment. York magistrates court said it could not provide a copy of the order because of reporting restrictions.

Magistrates courts, the police or the National Crime Agency can apply for them in cases where "an individual has done an act of a sexual nature and as a result poses a risk of harm to the public in the UK or adults or vulnerable children overseas," according to Home Office guidelines.

The wide-ranging order can prevent people from "doing anything described in it".


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A Guy Asked People Not To Vote For Donald Trump In His Obituary

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“Jeffrey would ask that in lieu of flowers, please do not vote for Donald Trump.”

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A Pittsburgh chiropractor placed an unusual request in his obituary, published on Wednesday in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: "In lieu of flowers, please do not vote for Donald Trump."

He added that a donation to the Nimmo Educational Foundation would be acceptable.

The obituary says Cohen took pride in being "the only Jewish cowboy that he knew of".

The obituary says Cohen took pride in being "the only Jewish cowboy that he knew of".

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It goes on to describe how he "became known as 'The Chiropractor to the Stars,' treating Gold Medal winning Olympians, members of Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre and the Pittsburgh Symphony, and professional boxers."

And it goes on: "He was also a voracious teller of jokes of all kinds, especially dirty and groan-inducing ones. He had a great smile and all his teeth were still his."


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Man Uses Obituary To Ask People Not To Vote For Donald Trump

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“Jeffrey would ask that in lieu of flowers, please do not vote for Donald Trump.”

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