"For a certain set of nutrients" = conveniently )or as the article put it, "curiously", not those nutrients which the research from Newcastle University found to be higher in organic foods.

For a meta-study, that's a pretty bad.

From TFA:

"Yet even within its narrow framework it appears the Stanford study was incorrect. Last year Kirsten Brandt, a researcher from Newcastle University, published a similar analysis of existing studies and wound up with the opposite result, concluding that organic foods are actually more nutritious. In combing through the Stanford study she’s not only noticed a critical error in properly identifying a class of nutrients, a spelling error indicative of biochemical incompetence (or at least an egregious oversight) that skewed one important result, but also that the researchers curiously excluded evaluating many nutrients that she found to be considerably higher in organic foods."

So, no, he doesn't have the wrong definition of nutritious. You just read the first two paragraphs or so.

Yep, you can train your pleasure center, which is what a lot of people who cut down on red meat consumption have done.

The pleasure center of the brain is a notoriously unreliable guide to decision making. Look at compulsive gamblers, crack addicts, and people with massive consumer debt - not to mention those who are obese for dietary reasons - as an indication. You may want to try to get some executive function over that shit.

Except when the public learns that they banned party balloons while the military kept using the lion's share of helium, they'll rightly turn on the scientist who called for the ban as the miserable kill-joy he really is.

When they opened offices to do business in those countries. As long as they're interested in selling ads from Indian and Malaysian companies to Indian and Malaysian markets, and getting paid in Indian and Malaysian currency, they'll abide by Indian and Malaysian laws.

Are you asking yes and no questions? Yes. As I way to concede without conceding? Yes. Is it effective? No. Is it overdone? Yes. Are there better ways to write? Definitely, yes.

Fruits are vegetables.

(A vegetable is any edible part of a plant.)

God, I hate Blackboard. I mean, really really hate it.

If GOPHER and Usenet were good enough for me, they're good enough for my students.

We always called the "clit-mice."

Oh, I thought I was talking to someone smart, not someone who would make such a reflexive and unthinking statement like:

Because a smart person would realize that the most important discussions are those which may not result in simple "establishment" of the superiority of one claim, concept or valuation over another.

Also, Heidegger's viewpoint isn't an "opinion." There are more categories of utterance than just "fact" and "opinion," by a multitude. And clearly, if I refer to Heidegger, it implies that I find his viewpoint compelling.

But I'm sorry for wasting our time. Please, go back to your world of simple formulaic thinking.

A "human being" - hate to say this, but read Heidegger's "Being and Time" for an understanding of what the human mode of "being" is. (There are also definitions of "child" that distinguish them from "infant," and definitions of "infant" which distinguish them from neonates. We're talking about neonates here.)

The point is that a two-month old baby is more like an eight-month old fetus that it is like a four-month old baby. There is a sense of human self-hood in the latter; there is inter-relationality and inter-subjectivity, there is communication, there is an awareness of social contingencies.

Philosophical, rather than biological, definitions of humanity are necessary here, because we're talking ultimately about ethics.

It's clearly an organism, and alive, and I loved mine very much when he was newborn. But it wasn't a "child," it wasn't anymore aware and learning than most lower-order mammals, and it didn't demonstrate anything of a sense of self. The difference between a 4 month old and a newborn is an immense gap of development.

In terms of development, the first 3 months of life after birth are sometimes called "the fourth trimester."

I was about to say "oh, good to know." But then I clicked on the link...

It has, um, 15 games.