Touch me, I want to feel your data.

So you should read it.) Recently Australians have been living through a predictably ugly debate around marriage equality. But of course, every country that lives through this humiliating experience needs to add it's own home-grown, jingoistic, and weirdly specific idiocy. This came in the guise of Senator Eric Abetz who claimed that marriage equality would "open the "floodgates" to people rushing to marry the Sydney Harbour Bridge." Well because there is a frequent and vociferous opposition to procedures that "use the data twice". This always surprises me, because when I do applied work [which as of yet has not involved a pre-designed RCT] I look at the data so often that I've basically married it.