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By razib on May 25, 2006.

I don't know what to think about this year's idol winner, but hey, perhaps he won't be a closeted gay man always in image control mode because of his "secret" (not that there's anything wrong with that!). As for the runner up, best of luck to her, I know how it feels....

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Razee,

Either in some exceedingly strange way the story about the Bangladeshi and the accompanying pic on your blog are actually about you (EXCEEDINGLY strange way...) or you science types really don't know when to let a dead joke go!

mnuez

"I don't know what to think about this year's idol winner, but hey, perhaps he won't be a closeted gay man always in image control mode because of his "secret" (not that there's anything wrong with that!)."

Atleast we know he is not Finnish (not that there's anything wrong with that!).

i believe theyre 2 diffrent razibs as the singing ones name is "Mijan Mahmud Razib" while the razib we know and love is "razib khan".

also the razib in the new picture lookes very diffrent from the one on the old picture