It's highly unlikely that they did full sequencing on these samples. Full sequencing is expensive and time consuming.

Generally they only sequence the specific parts of the DNA that the particular research happens to be interested in.

Based on the fact that it's impossible to brick an iPhone from jailbreaking, like I stated previously.

Wake up and learn to read, dude.

You don't even know what "brick" means, do you?

"Bricking" means, basically, turning the device into a functional brick which does nothing whatsoever. It is not possible to restore a bricked device, under ANY circumstances. There is no such thing as "unbricking". The term makes no sense.

If you could restore it to functionality, then it was not "bricked".

In point of fact, yes, you could. The iPhone has a special mode you can boot it into that will allow you to do a restore regardless of the software on the device. The fact that you didn't know how to do it does not invalidate my original statements.

iPhones cannot be bricked by jailbreaking. Period. This is a statement of fact. If you disagree, then you're wrong. It's that simple.

Jailbreaking cannot "brick" your iPhone. You can restore it to factory settings by simply doing a "Restore" in iTunes. This has nothing to do with the current software on the phone at all, since restoring wipes the phone entirely anyway.

Nope. Quite the contrary, in fact.

50 mg is a whole frickin' lot of nicotine. A normal cigarette only delivers about 1 mg to the user, maximum.

No, you know two people who have some pretty hardcore permanent brain damage who happened to consume a lot of LSD.

Correlation is not causation.

Funnily enough, Google says you're wrong.

Again, citation needed.

Any jailbroken iPhone and the MyWi app works perfectly for this sort of thing as well.

I'm fairly sure that Randi would accept low power 2.4 Ghz wavelengths (aka, Wi-Fi) as being in the "paranormal" arena. Man cannot detect that directly by any known means.

See my other response: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1600484&cid=31674750

Good for you. If you need to fund some research into the phenomenon or pay for your meds, then I bet that million bucks sure would come in handy:
http://www.randi.org/site/index.php/1m-challenge.html

Fair enough, but the problem is that has way too many factors. There's a thousand different ways to tell where cops are, even if you can't see them.

I'm pretty good at "sensing" when there's a cop ahead myself. I don't claim to be able to sense radar, but I do have a pretty good subconscious idea of where they probably are. This comes from the layout of the roads, the behavior of the other drivers, the way people (and cops in particular) think, the time of the week/month, etc.

Not saying your friend was lying intentionally. He probably believed it entirely. Most people who take these sort of tests have total belief in their abilities. It's just that a proper test doesn't depend on other factors, it's testing for the specific claimed ability.

Being able to tell where cops most likely are, even to a great degree of accuracy, is not really a paranormal event. Being able to sense low power radar without any devices or assistance would be. The two are not really the same thing.

You don't have to be able to explain an effect to tell that it exists.

Your claim is untestable not because we don't have instruments to detect it, but because:

a) It's vague. What do you mean by "energy is moving"? That single statement is, basically, total nonsense. You have to actually show the existence of whatever it is you mean by "energy" before it can make any sense.

b) It doesn't affect the outside world. People can make themselves "feel" pretty much anything. Mind over body is pretty well-established, so the fact that you can make your fingers tingle is not a "supernatural" event. The sense of touch is all in the brain anyway, as feeling is simply nerve impulses conducted from your skin to your brain via the spinal column. I can feel like I'm flying when dreaming, and it feels completely realistic. But that doesn't mean I'm hovering in the air and defying the laws of gravity.

"Healing" on the other hand, can be demonstrated. However, it's a bit unethical to do so, as actual injury must take place first.

There's always a market in selling cheap things to stupid people for too much money.

PROTIP: Chicken wire blocks WiFi signals particularly well. Cover an area with it and you have a really good Faraday cage for WiFi.

Define "always be right". Is that actually true, or do you simply not remember when he was wrong?

Tossing out of negative or non-noteworthy results is one of the most common forms of selection bias. Basically, only the notable events (where he was right) get remembered, while the mundane stuff (where he was wrong) gets ignored or forgotten.

For example, this sort of bias is why many people are fooled by psychics. They only remember the hits, not the misses. And what can be a "hit" is very wide indeed.