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Comment Re:This is how organized religion dies (Score 1) 623

Feel better now? You asked a very specific question, I gave an answer, plus a supplemental answer, based on verifiable facts.

The US already has de facto bigamy. It's even on TV - see Sister Wives - and this court judgment striking down the ban on bigamy Mostly, it's being ignored because the laws might not survive a constitutional challenge. So, that's how US law handles bigamy, and you could have found this with the easiest of searches.

Next time, instead of asking a question to score points, how about you do a little research first :-)

Comment Re:Go for it (Score 1) 43

Oops, should have said "just after an economic boom". Sorry. And honestly, I wouldn't even execute Hitler or anyone else on the list. It's not a moral or ethical question - more along the lines of "why bother?" When all the arguments are said and done, it's more bother than it's worth. The dead won't sleep better in their graves. The living won't get closure (what a stupid idea). So, aside from revenge, why bother? It's simply not worth the hassle. Repeating the same thing over and over and expecting different results is as nutty as some of these people.

Comment Re:Misnomer (Score 1) 392

Diesel is actually going to remove less lubricant from parts than gasoline. Back in the days of carburetors, it wouldn't to any more harm than when you have a sticky pushrod and pour a stream of automatic transmission fluid down the carb while modulating the throttle to keep it from stalling, or doing the same thing with a pint of water to blast carbon buildup in the cylinder head(s) to stop engine run-on from hot spots.

Besides, waiting for the AAA to have a car towed in the middle of the night during a snow storm when the person has things to do isn't the best option. And it doesn't require you getting your hands dirty, so what's the big deal?

Comment Neil deGrasse Tyson has another brain fart (Score 1) 275

From the Sidney Morning Herald:

In the search to find the high-paying jobs and industries of the future, Neil deGrasse Tyson has an idea for a novel solution. How about a militarised space race to Mars?

More specifically, the famed American astrophysicist says that if he could just get China's leaders to leak a memo to the West about plans to build military bases on Mars, "the US would freak out and we'd all just build spacecraft and be there in 10 months".

Ignoring the fact that the US and China (and over 100 other countries) have signed the Outer Space Treaty, which prohibits establishing military bases on other planets, just who would you be defending from / attacking from a Mars military base? Martians who want a second War of the Worlds?

Comment Re:Which tests were more or less accurate? (Score 1) 37

The article says it's the interpretation. So does the summary. You can't say it's a vague article if you didn't read it. The actual article gives the hard numbers.

This isn't the first time either - up here investigative tv journalists sent samples from each test subject to several different labs and the companies refused to be interviewed to explain why the results came back different depending on which company did the test.

Comment Re:Headline versus article (Score 1) 37

And what is the impetus for collecting more data? It's not because the tests and their interpretations are giving accurate results all the time, that's for sure.

An investigative TV news program here did their own study - sent samples from the same people to different labs, and got back different results. The tests do often get it wrong.

Comment Re:Bayes rule (Score 1) 37

If you had bothered to read the article, you would have found that in the 11% that were compared by more than 1 company, 17% came back with differing interpretations. That's alarming.

11 percent have been analyzed by more than one lab so results can be compared. In 17 percent of those cases, labs interpreted the findings differently, as either raising the risk of a disease, having no effect on it or having an unknown effect.

So what do you do - get 3 tests and let the majority inform your decision?

Submission + - Gene Testing Often Gets It Wrong 1

BarbaraHudson writes: From the you-pay-your-money-and-you-take-your-changes dept

ABC is reporting that gene test for risk of specific diseases are not as accurate as were thought, with different labs giving different interpretations.



At least 415 gene variants now have different interpretations that could sway a medical decision, such as whether to have healthy breasts or ovaries removed to lower the risk of cancer, or to get a medical device such as an implanted defibrillator to cut the risk of sudden cardiac death.

"The magnitude of this problem is bigger than most people thought," said Michael Watson, executive director of the American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics, one of the study's authors and a partner in the data pooling project.

And it can harm patients. Rehm described a woman who had genetic testing and wrongly was told she did not have elevated risks for breast cancer. She later developed the disease but could have had preventive surgery had the right gene analyses been done.

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