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Remember the Ice Bucket Challenge? * 1
    #23483122 - 07/27/16 05:42 PM (7 years, 6 months ago)

I recall a lot of whining about it around these parts. "Pointless social media trend, blah blah blah" Everyone who bitched about it should be feeling like an idiot right about now;

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Ice Bucket Challenge's 2nd anniversary celebrates its gene discovery
By Farida Fawzy

Updated 6:11 PM ET, Wed July 27, 2016

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The ALS Association has discovered 3 new genes that will help identify new treatment.

(CNN)Throwback to 2014, the year of the Ellen DeGeneres Oscar selfie, Pharrell's giant hat, and the Ice Bucket Challenge. These fads "broke the internet" (a phrase also coined in 2014) dominating social media feeds across the globe.

But one of these viral pop culture moments is even more relevant today.

The campaign that encouraged millions of people to dump buckets of ice-cold water over their heads raised enough money to help make an important research breakthrough, the ALS Association announced Monday.

The massive, socially-driven fund raising push saw 17 million people posting videos online and a slew of celebrities from Bill Gates to Steph Curry getting soaked to raise awareness for ALS, also called Lou Gehrig's disease.

The disease causes nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord to gradually deteriorate. Within two to five years of diagnosis, patients lose their ability to breathe, leading to their death.

In just eight weeks, $115 million was donated to the ALS Association, 67% of which was dedicated to advancing research for treatments and a cure, the non-profit reports.

One million dollars went towards Project MinE, a University of Massachusetts Medical School Project that was able to identify a gene that is responsible for the degenerative disease.

The gene, identified as NEK1, provides another potential target for therapy development, and brings scientists one step closer to treating the neurological disorder.

"The sophisticated gene analysis that led to this finding was only possible because of the large number of ALS samples available," said Dr. Lucie Bruijin, Chief Scientist at the ALS Association. "The ALS Ice Bucket Challenge enabled The ALS Association to invest in Project MinE's work to create large biorepositories of ALS biosamples that are designed to allow exactly this kind of research and to produce exactly this kind of result."

This is the third ALS-related gene researchers have discovered using money from the Ice Bucket Challenge, the organization says. The discovery is unique in that the project that found the gene is led by someone who has ALS.

Despite being heavily criticized for water waste and dismissed as a form of "slacktivism" (lazy activism), many saw the Ice Bucket Challenge as a campaign driven by a passionate community that capitalized on peer-to-peer fundraising and activism.

http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/27/health/als-ice-bucket-challenge-funds-breakthrough/index.html






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Re: Remember the Ice Bucket Challenge? [Re: Dark_Star]
    #23483130 - 07/27/16 05:44 PM (7 years, 6 months ago)

This goes attuned with when Lebron left Cle for Miami and had "The Decision" He raised of 15m for it and people crucify him to this day.


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Re: Remember the Ice Bucket Challenge? [Re: iLLeXXXX]
    #23483185 - 07/27/16 05:56 PM (7 years, 6 months ago)

whoever had a problem with the ice bucket challenge needs to critique more relevant issues


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Re: Remember the Ice Bucket Challenge? [Re: ergoticmandala]
    #23483190 - 07/27/16 05:59 PM (7 years, 6 months ago)

There were threads full of people bitching & moaning about it.


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Re: Remember the Ice Bucket Challenge? [Re: Dark_Star] * 1
    #23483191 - 07/27/16 05:59 PM (7 years, 6 months ago)

I only remember the white wet tshirts and nips. Sorry OP.


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Re: Remember the Ice Bucket Challenge? [Re: Dark_Star]
    #23483197 - 07/27/16 06:00 PM (7 years, 6 months ago)

whoa, they raised a lot of money!

So does dumping an ice bucket on your head help with dianogsis somehow? :confused:


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Re: Remember the Ice Bucket Challenge? [Re: Dark_Star] * 1
    #23483216 - 07/27/16 06:08 PM (7 years, 6 months ago)

It's still stupid and if I had been around during that time then I would have gladly wasted my time joining in on the complaining.


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Re: Remember the Ice Bucket Challenge? [Re: Kush_Zombie] * 1
    #23483261 - 07/27/16 06:26 PM (7 years, 6 months ago)

Yeah funding the discovery of 3 genes is stupid. :whatever: edgy people that complain about simple trends that get shit done are stupid. :cookiemonster: same people that complain about there being no cures for stuff usually too, which is ironic.


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Re: Remember the Ice Bucket Challenge? [Re: Dark_Star] * 1
    #23483267 - 07/27/16 06:27 PM (7 years, 6 months ago)

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There were threads full of people bitching & moaning about it.




a good black friend of mine suggested everyone that did it instead invested in clean water... makes sense


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Re: Remember the Ice Bucket Challenge? [Re: Dark_Star] * 2
    #23483274 - 07/27/16 06:30 PM (7 years, 6 months ago)

yeah complaining over something that pushes people towards paying contributions to helping out a severe disease instead of wasting their money on whatever else they'd spend it on like shitty malt liquor or mccdonalds is fuckin dumb. anyone who viewed the ice bucket challenge in a negative light should have a bucket of ice poured on their head as punishment


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Re: Remember the Ice Bucket Challenge? [Re: ReposadoXochipilli] * 3
    #23483277 - 07/27/16 06:31 PM (7 years, 6 months ago)

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Dark_Star said:
There were threads full of people bitching & moaning about it.




a good black friend of mine suggested everyone that did it instead invested in clean water... makes sense



nothing about this post makes sense


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Re: Remember the Ice Bucket Challenge? [Re: Dark_Star]
    #23483286 - 07/27/16 06:33 PM (7 years, 6 months ago)

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Dark_Star said:
Yeah funding the discovery of 3 genes is stupid.



No, the ice bucket challenge is stupid.

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Dark_Star said:
edgy people that complain about simple trends that get shit done are stupid.




In the grand scheme of things, I am stupid.

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same people that complain about there being no cures for stuff usually too, which is ironic.




Actually I think there's many natural cures for pretty much all illness and disease and the fact that people think they need 3 genes to be discovered in order to create more medications is more or less propaganda bs. So I guess you'd more or less want to call me a conspiracy theorist. Nice assumption though :cookiemonster:


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Re: Remember the Ice Bucket Challenge? [Re: Kush_Zombie] * 4
    #23483298 - 07/27/16 06:37 PM (7 years, 6 months ago)

Yeah, all you need is some organically grown weed and shiny rocks mined in Cali to cure severe nuerodegenerative diseases. Fuck funding propaganda research for that shit. Everyone should just smoke a J instead and pray the ALS away


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Re: Remember the Ice Bucket Challenge? [Re: ReposadoXochipilli]
    #23483302 - 07/27/16 06:38 PM (7 years, 6 months ago)

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Kush_Zombie said:
It's still stupid and if I had been around during that time then I would have gladly wasted my time joining in on the complaining.




I wanna spend my time complaining about this thread.
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Dark_Star said:
There were threads full of people bitching & moaning about it.




a good black friend of mine suggested everyone that did it instead invested in clean water... makes sense




Why not both? You can save the trees and clothe homeless children at the same time.


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Re: Remember the Ice Bucket Challenge? [Re: Sheekle]
    #23483304 - 07/27/16 06:38 PM (7 years, 6 months ago)

Why am I even explaining myself? You have a great grasp on it already.


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    #23483306 - 07/27/16 06:39 PM (7 years, 6 months ago)

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I wanna spend my time complaining about this thread.





Seems about as productive as spending my time supporting this thread :shrug:


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Re: Remember the Ice Bucket Challenge? [Re: Supachopped719] * 2
    #23483307 - 07/27/16 06:39 PM (7 years, 6 months ago)

Yeah I still think it was fucking stupid... maybe i'm the dumbass for not seeing a correlation between an uncomfortable flash-freeze and researching ALS.

Glad research is progressing.


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Re: Remember the Ice Bucket Challenge? [Re: ModestMouse]
    #23483310 - 07/27/16 06:41 PM (7 years, 6 months ago)

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Yeah I still think it was fucking stupid.
Glad research is progressing.



why do you think a challenge that encourages people to donate money to helping research the cause & cures of a disease is stupid?


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Re: Remember the Ice Bucket Challenge? [Re: Sheekle] * 3
    #23483321 - 07/27/16 06:43 PM (7 years, 6 months ago)

You shouldn't need to encourage people to pour ice on themselves and post videos of it on their social media profiles in order to raise legitimate funding for research on a disease. Also the complete lack of relevance between the two is what strikes me as "fucking stupid".

The fact that a tactic like that is not only sensible but works well, points to obvious issues in our culture of flash-trends and sheep behavior.


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Re: Remember the Ice Bucket Challenge? [Re: Sheekle] * 1
    #23483327 - 07/27/16 06:46 PM (7 years, 6 months ago)

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There were threads full of people bitching & moaning about it.




a good black friend of mine suggested everyone that did it instead invested in clean water... makes sense



nothing about this post makes sense



it was during a massive drought and most places have issues with clean water, he specifically was referring to Africa but the problem is prevalent world wide.


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