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Comment Dictionary definition of MOOT (Score 1) 200

This study is old as hell and it resurfaces from time to time.It has been debunked so many times that is gets already boring.

What these guys did was "normalizing" the datasets of both, active and sedentary subjects eliminating the effects of smoking, etc, etc. What is compared thus makes no sense as it is not "Sendetary vs Active" but "How would sedentary people compare to active if they weren't dying earlier do to lung cancer and heart disease" or putting it in other words "How would sedentary people do if they weren't sedentary"

The very initial premise makes no sense:

"As part of the Copenhagen City Heart Study, 1,098 healthy joggers and 3,950 healthy nonjoggers have been prospectively followed up since 2001"

How can you compare that? A "healthy non-jogger" may be anything from a runner (don't EVER call us "joggers") to a bodybuilder, cyclist or swimmer, but that's NOT a sedentary person.

By definition an individual that does some activity (and is thus healthy as defined by the standards of physical fitness) is NOT sedentary. Or what is a "healthy sedentary" then? People who just by pure random chance and without doing any sort of sport do not get fat, are nimble, strong, have good balance and don't get sick? I don't say this may

And I assume that these guys aren't going to say that a fat guy with 5 heart bypasses is "healthy"... according to what parameters? Not having got a cold in the last 5 days?

Every 2-3 years a study of this type is made and rapidly debunked... but the target of these is not the scientific or sports communities but the general public and the "Wellness" industry who is eager to give credit to these studies and sell low-ass fitness programs for everybody who is too lazy to do much more than 10 minutes of thumb gymnastics a month giving them a "valid" excuse for being lazy and not feeling guilty about it.

Anyway: This is like the joke of the guy who goes to the doctor and the doctor tells him "You are deadly sick, you will only live for a year" "Can I do something?" "Yes, no sex, no drinks and avoid excitement" "Will I live longer then?" "Nope, but it will look like a hundred years to you"

Comment Re: A Less Hysterical Take (Score 1) 360

Aaah... sorry for your waste of time typing.

In the article that you cite as Source of Wisdom and Holy Book in your crusade against Hysteria there are two considerable statistical Blunders (with capitals):

First of all: You cannot talk about statistical significance or not in a scalar value. You could with discrete values in a distribution that may seem random and where you could analyse if a given measure (such as the median or mean ) is or not statistically significant. BUT: This does NOT apply to single data point, sorry. AND this does not apply to a scalar.

Second of all: There is no need to ame a deep analysis to see if a number is higher than other/s, and if thsi is not obvious you will have to visit a doctor (a physic s this implies lost of grey matter, mate).

So mate, again, sorry for the calories you wanted typing, but your Guru needs a recap in statistics .

Should I point out the blunder of the 95%? I don't think is necessary, right?

What your dear potential girlfriend writes is nothing but gibberish.

Comment Re: A Less Hysterical Take (Score 1) 360

Where is this described mate?

You anti-climate guys are constantly repeating this stupidity filling your mouth with "models that fail" as if it were true... but can you provide any link? And please not from the Inhofe fan club and NOT related to HAARP, Big Foot or Nazis on the moon.

Just a small issue to remember: I live in a country were we used to have skating postmen. It has been 17 years since we had out last Elfstedentocht: http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/E...

But of course, the models are all failing and in fact this is not true: The Evil Climate Scientiest gather every winter here in Friesland and melt the ice in the channels with lighters.

Comment Re:A Less Hysterical Take (Score 2) 360

In which way has the theory been falsified? Has AGW failed to predict that this past year would be warmer than the others before? Quite obviously NOT.

First of all, you are just answering to a random bloke who says some random idiocy pulled out of his ass. Where is the peer-reviewed evidence of all these "discrepancies ? I see it only among you climate deniers repeated as a mantra to see if it somehow becomes reality. None of you ever checks anything, Of course not: Knowing that half of you guys including your Gurus like Jimy Inhofe or Ted Cruz are Young Earth Creationists gives already a good idea of the quality of your judgements.

And meanwhile in Greenland:
http://www.independent.co.uk/e...

Comment Re:A Less Hysterical Take (Score 1) 360

"‘is it statistically significant?’"

Mate, the blokes at NASA send out the fucking satellites. If they are smart enough to put them out there without them crashing into your WC while you are taking a dump I would give the guys at least the benefit of doubt regarding them and the guys at NOAA knowing what they do and say. I would say that the probability of them being smarter than you Miss Indian Spice together are statistically significant.

Not to speak about the stupid question. of Ms Curry-Rice.

Comment Re:PDF chart (Score 1) 360

3,1,4,5 and 9 all have occult meanings!!

Number 3 represents the planet Mars and War, number 1 represents The Unity, for the Illuminati this is the Number of the Great Leader, the number 4 represents the 4 elements, the number 5 represents the Council of Five, the permanent members of the UN Security Council, better known among the Illuminati as the 5 Magnificent and the number 9 is the number of Beelzebub, the Demon of Climate and Hoaxes.

It is crystal clear. The IPCC, the Illuminati Pokemon Collectors Club, is planning to wage war on earth from their secret bases on Mars. The Great Leader will use HAARP to disrupt the atmosphere and create earthquakes and using chemtrails to convert everybody to Gaydom. Beelzebub will then raise and desecrate all the holy places. And all this will be done so that the dreaded Climate Scientists can make a living and to take away our guns and force us to believe in Evolution!!!

Comment You totally misunderstood Mr Cameron (Score 1) 329

What he wanted to say is that they will push a law forward to teach the government personal and MP to read, write an basic arithmetic. All except for the UKIP MPs who will be treated according to their level of evolution and mental capacity: They will thus have a piece of glass shoved up their butts and tied to poles in the North Sea were they can be useful producing pearls.

Comment This will costs the USA a lot of money (Score 1) 496

Nowadays us, the Western countries, such as the EU countries, the USA, Canada, etc are building our future on top level innovation, another source of income is attracting outside talent and students. A good example of that is my country, Holland, a pretty solid revenue for our universities are students from all over the world who come here to study and this means not only benefits for the universities but also for the rest of the economy, from housing to shopping.

But more importantly than that maybe is being able to create an environment that attracts both foreign talent and companies and this too works in synergy with the universities.

Large prestige operations such as ESA, CERN, etc are not only important for the scientists and basic research, they are important because they serve to showcase the level of infrastructure of a region and it's ability to house other projects and companies and the interest of these regions in maintaining and nurturing innovation.

With two radical anti-scientists such as Jim Inhofe and Ted Cruz in charge of institutions like NASA and similar the USA have already suffered a mayor damage to their image, just by their presence. And I am afraid that international talent will not be very attracted to your country if the conditions for them to work there are not attractive enough. Not to speak of possible reductions to agencies such as NOAA for instance given the hate this two fellows have against climate science and with disregard to the fact that predicting weather and climate is vital for the physical safety of your country.

Pity, but I take the opportunity to recall everybody that here in Good Old Europe we are open for business, and learning Dutch or German is still easier than learning Chinese ;)
 

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