I don't usually respond to Anonymous Cowards but here we go. The "more research is needed" meme is a favourite from the loony altmed crowd. So I am guessing you are either Ms Ladan Eshkevari, Susan E. Mulroney, Rupert Egan, or Lixing Lao or some other loony who believes in this woo. What is needed is intelligent research. Not crap. And this "research" is, sadly, crap as I've demonstrated elsewhere in this discussion. But it is from Georgetown University, so I guess that's OK.

Let me spell it out for you in the slightly modded words from LeadSongDog above. A proper test on "St-36" would include EA of nearby non-"St-36" points. Randomly select which EA to electrify. Vary over time. Cross-correlate the measured response series to each of the EA's selection series. Repeat until p=.05
The real challenge will be to do a blind study even among the four authors to pinpoint the alleged St-36 points on a series of rats. LOL LOL LOL cry LOL cry weep, oh my fucking god this is unbelievable shit. But it is coming from Georgetown Uni so that's all right.

Dear AC, I know that's you [editorial team for Ladan Eshkevari, Susan E. Mulroney, Rupert Egan, and Lixing Lao.] Since when is comedy vitriol? Filter the logic of my comment for comedy and you might learn something. Hey I just learned something else. Georgetown University is a hotbed for this sort of crap. Amazing how such poor "science" gets past the checkers.

I hate rubbish research and I hate rubbish research on slashdot.
Stick needles in anyone and you affect HPA axis. Doh!
Blast adrenal glands with electricity and you affect HPA axis. Another no brainer.
The real test, if these woo believers wanted to test the magic scientific meridian whacko superpoint stomach meridian point 36 (St36) [help me stop laughing], is to do the magic at various points on the poor bloody rats and see what happens (including the little itty bitty points close to the magic St36).
I sincerely hope no taxpayer money went into this particular egregious piece of flam. Check out this for NZ subsidy of this religion:
https://kmccready.wordpress.co...

ta

http://www.scottaaronson.com/b...

and can someone confirm this UMM (Universal Memcomputing Machine) is not the UMM U-MM Unbounded-MM related to RMM of the class of languages recognized by KWQFA's with cut-point (i.e. with unbounded error) of Brodsky and Pippenger 1999 paper . And I found this while trying to understand. "What is the largest probability with which a 1QFA can accept the language. in contrast to the model 1QFA discussed so far, that has been then termed as MM-1QFA (many measurements) model."

used to be clusty.
at least you get clustered results

I disagree with your premise. Technical verification is comparatively easy. What's lacking is the real will. Don't forget that we are talking geopolitcs and company profits here. They, as usual, dominate.

Democracy would be a good idea first.

If it's not Proportional Representation (PR), it's not democracy.

Sadly, USA is not a democractic country in spite of their silly belief that they are.

Ta for interesting bit of chess history. I think you're way off the mark in your analysis of mass murdering regimes. The pattern recogntion theory seems much more likely.

summary should have said so

I wear very strong progressives with different script in each eye. I once had lens like you describe. I tried for a few days THEN I learned that they hadn't been made properly. The post above talking about inter-pupuilary distance is spot on. They have to be EXACT.

I would bet good money that the glasses you have had made up have the wrong inter-pupilary distance.

Assuming I'm right, your optomotrist should replace them at no cost.

I also got the latest and greatest photogrey lens with my last script but they made white people's skin look pink in the sun - the company making the lens withdrew them and I got free replacements.

I've got mod points but won't be using them.

Why?

Because the system isn't working. Check the number of comments rated 5 on this thread. How many are basically the same comment? I had to scroll down towards the very end to find a different and valuable comment.

There are too many moderator points sloshing around.

I'd be happy with 2 points only on about the same timeframe as I've been getting five points.

Ok. Thanks for the lesson. It's a timely reminder for me. I learnt hate from my mother and have to unlearn it. Having said that, you are perhaps making the mistake of shooting the messenger in your response to me. Try rewriting my message in "nice" (including removing rhetorical devices), then check my logic.

I'm totally stunned by the anti-scientific "bash kids" meme being promoted in the comments on this admitedly badly written summary.

The evidence is clear, spanking is shit. I'd expect slashdot people to understand that.

Oh but my parents spanked me and I'm Ok. Sure about that? My ancestors dragged women by the hair into caves and raped them. Is that OK too?

Or is it that slashdot is so dominated by USA cititizens who live in a totally fucked violent anti-democratic society that any evidence challenging their view is tossed aside without a proper hearing?

Grow up guys.