>Eliminate biased studies and the rest can see the light of day.

If it wasn't for some researchers fudging data, breaking every rule in the book, about research design, there never would have been any pilots from Tuskegee, during WW2.

In this case, the bias of the researchers, and the funders, was a goodness.

>until a study gets obsoleted by newer, superior studies thus gets shorter

In my field, most of the research from the last two decades is pure unmitigated crap. Basic errors in research protocol are so common, that the few people who read, and review everything, remark when there are no research protocol errors.

(It is pathetic to see a study by an author of a university textbook or research protocol, do a study that fails to adhere to what is in the book on research protocol that has their name on it.)

>the technology is here, the problem is paywalls.

Whilst both indexing and accurate bibliographic citation in those paywalls has improved, for fields of study that are way off the mainstream, the only way to ensure that all relevant articles from a journal are correctly indexed, for that non-mainstream field of study, is to go through each article, in each volume of the journal, doing the appropriate indexing it yourself.

> Probably No scientific institution in the world has access to all the journals that cover the relevant fields of the institution.

Even by using Inter-library loan, accessing the articles is an issue. Especially since libraries started dumping their hard copy journals.

You do realize that 100% of the published peer-reviewed research, where the patients were diagnosed according to the standard protocols of homeopathy, resulted in a 100% cure, don't you.

And you do further realize that 70% of the published peer-reviewed research on homeopathy does not diagnose the patient according to the standard protocols of homeopathy, don't you.

What you are forgetting is that most publishers neither know, nor care about correctly formatting an eBook, whether it be in PDF, ePub, Mobi, LIT, or other file format.

>A fucking 360 didn't have a 45 minute boot time.

I had a Dell laptop running Win7 that took about an hour to boot up. I took two videos:
* The first one was from when I clicked on the mouse, to restart the system, until the login screen after rebooting was displayed;
* The second one was from I clicked on the mouse, to shut the system down. Then pressed the start key, and watch the entire boot process, until the login screen is presented;

When I uploaded them to YouTube, they were rejected, due to their length. To this day, I have no idea why Win7 took so long to boot up.

I also had a BSD box that took about ten hours to boot up. That was because it ran a disk integrity checker, then tripwire, and then something else. Roughly three terrabytes of data files to check, every time it booted up.

For most sites, the two most critical things to track you are:
* Originating IP Address;
* User-Agent String;

However, I've noticed an increasing number of sites that are not functional, when there is no referring header, or when adblock, or one of its variants is installed.

Proving the existence of anybody who was born more than roughly 500 years ago, is, at best, problematic.

Finding any evidence of a person who was a nobody from the backwoods of an insignificant country, when they lived two thousand years ago is pretty much guaranteed to be "not going to happen".

A country bumpkin, without political authority, spiritual authority, or money is usually going to be a nobody. 2000 years ago, it would have been a nobody. That is what Jesus was.

That we have biographies about Jesus, is something to ponder. The way you prove that there was no Jesus, is by categorically rejecting any evidence that might support the thesis that there was a Jesus.

Athiest: There is no god.
Theist: There is a god.
Polytheist: There are many gods.

Gnostic: I know.
Agnostic: I do not know.

Claiming a theist is an athiest, becuase said theist appears to doubt the existence of one diety, whilst accepting the existence of another diety, is as illogical as it is irrational, as it is delusional.

The so-called state-of-the-art about the existence of God, starts with the axiom that there is no God, but refuses to acknowledge that as an axiom.

>And I'm pretty sure Buddhists are okay with gay

Whilst there are variations, the primary "Thou Shalts", and "Thou Shalt Not" mandate celibacy.

Of course, those precepts do not apply the masses, becuase they are unwilling to do the work required for spiritual progress, preferring the insecurity of their delusions.

> Mitchell and Cooper were both nuts. In which case how did they qualify as astronauts in the first place?

At least one report issued by Project Blue Book stated that there were cases that they could not explain. The majority of these cases appeared to have been close encounters of the third kind. Both Mitchell and Cooper were interested in those encounters.

To get more information about those encounters, they had to be willing to talk with anybody, about any alleged event. Furthermore, in those discussions, they could have done "damage control", by suggesting avenues of exploration, that were far removed from the cause of the event, but whose research would have been of interest to the military.

> someone isn't going to make more than $18k because that work just isn't that valuable

In some places, the minimum wage is US$15.00 per hour.
For a full time job, that means an annual income of US$30,000.

>Perhaps part of every welfare program should include some money and financial management counseling.

If your gross monthly income is US$1,500:
* Tax: US$180;
* FICA: US$180;
For a take home check of US$1,140:
* Prudence dictates that one spend no more than 25% of one's gross income on shelter, including utilities.
Most landlords insist on a take home check that is at least three times the monthly rent.
* Using the prudent formula, your shelter costs should not exceed US$375 / month;
* Using the landlord formula, your shelter costs should not exceed US$380 / month;

It doesn't matter how good your skills at keeping a budget are, if there is no shelter at a price that either prudence, or landlords will accept is affordable for you, the renter.

As a home owner, the options are slightly better, but even there, property tax can prevent financial prudence.

>How the guys running the fraud bots get anything out of the deal is a bit mysterious

No mystery.

The fraud-click is part of generating a cover story for the individual bots.

The big revenue generation comes after each bot has a credible cover story, and presence on the various social networking sites.

If, as a result of generating a cover story, a competitor of a friend's business no longer advertizers on the Internet, so what?

Bots can handle Captchas more easilly than individuals with accessibility issues.