The Lancet, the prestigious medical journal, has lit into the The Pope over his recent remarks about condoms worsening the AIDS crisis in Africa.

Not only labeling those remarks, well, science-fiction, The Lancet called Pope Benedict XVI's official statements and his lack of retraction "devastating."

The BBC reports:

"Whether the Pope's error was due to ignorance or a deliberate attempt to manipulate science to support Catholic ideology is unclear," said the journal.

But is said the comment still stood and urged the Vatican to issue a retraction.

"When any influential person, be it a religious or political figure, makes a false scientific statement that could be devastating to the health of millions of people, they should retract or correct the public record," it said.

"Anything less from Pope Benedict would be an immense disservice to the public and health advocates, including many thousands of Catholics, who work tirelessly to try and prevent the spread of HIV/Aids worldwide."

I don't think he cares, oh Lancet editors. Believing magic to be true, and not just the fun of dreams, justifies a raft of sins, trivial and paramount.

Source:  Science Blogs 

Joss Wheadon is telling us tonight's DOLLHOUSE is when everything really gets good. The myth-arc clicks in, Agent Ballard catches up with Echo, and Fox finally left Wheadon alone to write the show the way he wanted.

I'm still mad about last week, when Topher and Saunders told us that Victor was getting boners in the shower. Show don't tell is the hallmark of good drama, people.

Anyway, tonight we get a Tahmoh fest, as he does his heroic best on the finale of BSG and takes off his coat to go mano-a-mano with Echo in a fun fist fight.

What, you thought by the title of the post Tahmoh was getting naked? Well, he's getting close. Below, is Tahmoh in his boxers.

I guess that answers one question. Here's the answer to another question that just occured to you: commando.

My boys need to breathe. 

At some point during the finale of BSG tonight, Sci-Fi-Soon-To-Be-Sy-Fy-Channel is going to give us a 30-second preview of the new STARGATE series, STARGATE:UNIVERSE. It's being billed as a darker, grittier take than previous STARGATEs.

Considering this is the Sci-Fi-Soon-To-Be-Sy-Fy-Channel, I'm predicting the differences between the two shows to be the difference between vanilla ice-cream and French Vanilla ice cream.

Sci-Fi-Soon-To-Be-Sy-Fy-Channel has released a cast photo of the upcoming show. At first, I thought I was looking at the cast photo for MELROSE PLACE: THE NEXT GENERATION.

Source: Exclusive first look at cast of 'Stargate: Universe' | Stargate Universe | Ausiello Files | EW.com

Do I really, really, really, have to explain the relevancy of Jared Padelecki, whose career not only includes SUPERNATURAL but FRIDAY THE 13th and several other genre films? This boy was born to play in genre films.

He is also destined to be my husband.

Well, one of them anyway.

Source: Jared Padalecki Sexy Photoshoot + "Supernatural" Returns Tonight!

You know, at risk of being labeled obsessed with penni -- and I'll leave that to you, gentle reader, to ponder in your private moments -- I'm just incredibly fascinated by all of the "Oh My God PENIS!" comments in the WATCHMEN reviews I keep reading.

Obviously, I'm fascinated because I'm gay. I see penis all the time and don't see a problem with it. While I've joked with many, many friends about the, well, let's call it the Manhattan Mound (or MM for short), I don't mean to be childish about it.

Okay, it is me. I am a little childish, but still, I'm a fanboy, too....

It's just so wild to see the number of reviewers, many of them Straightboys, remarking constantly and uncomfortably regarding the explicitness of the MM on display. I'm going to chronicle a few of them here and open it up to you doorQs. Is this a big deal? Is this exemplary of homophobia? Or "nudophobia?" And to any of our Euro or Asian readers, is Doctor Manhattan's manhattan of any note in your neck of the woods?

Oh and if you can think of any further euphemisms, feel free to share.

But talk about real issues too, or Jody will beat me for cheapening discourse on his site....

From ScreenRant.Com:

Of course one aspect of the film I could have stood to see a bit less of was Dr. Manhattan’s penis. The logic of the story was that eventually he becomes so detached from human norms that he doesn’t see the point of wearing any clothing. However I’m pretty sure I don’t recall Mr. Happy being so prevalent in the book. Here we’ve got full body shots all over the place and frankly, it was a bit distracting...

There were so many disgusting, violent, morbid, grisly scenes and acts of killing, I had to start writing them down, lest I forget. And that's in addition to the rape scene between superheroes (complete with violent beating of a female superhero) and an explicit sex scene between two other superheroes. Oh, and don't forget another superhero's swinging computer-generated penis frequently in your face on-screen....If you take your kids to see "Watchmen," you're a moron.

Just in case you've had problems keeping up, here's the entire mythology of BSG in pictoral form, with handy color coding, flow lines, and series high points. There are one or two things I might take issue with... it's "Kobol" not "Cobal" (that's a computer language), but it generally does help to keep things straight.

No, I didn't create it (I'm too busy researching The Blue Penis Controversy). Apparently these guys did.

I like how I spend my time better.

(Right click the image into a new window to see it larger size.) 

At least it is if you read SciFi Wire, where an article about the amount of umm.. cut and uncut penis in WATCHMEN has caused a riff, with comments like the following showing up:

I agree with the previous commenters that both this article and movie producers are childish. It's all about the crotch in Hollyweird. In fact, I'm waiting for a movie simply called "Crotch" to premiere...it'll only be one step away from Idiocracy's "Ass".
Honestly, I'm glad Scifi Wire posted this article. I was very interested in seeing "Watchmen" until I read all this. Now I have absolutely no desire to see a single frame of this crap if all they're concerned about is a CGI penis.
Grow up, Hollyweird. Come back, the REAL Scifi Wire.

Do you guys have nothing better to write a story about? This is childish and immature. unless you are going for the giggling tween audience what is the point of this?

This isn't news. This is scifiwire's attempt to be hip and make a buzz. Somebody there just wants to be cool by talking about this and thinks "penis" is funny. Isn't working. I'm so tired of this new site that it won't take much more for me to stop bothering with it. I can get all the info here on 411 mania, or newsarama, or a million other places that are far better.

Come on. You know you've thought about it.

Fighting Wolverine, I mean. What did you think I was talking about? 

You're nasty. 

 Source: Would you like to blow Wolverine? - ComicMix news