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Comment Onion... :D (Score 4, Insightful) 297

The Onion as usual got right to the core of it :)

"Regardless of what anyone else thinks, I fully stand behind my choices as a mom, including my choice not to vaccinate my son, because it is my fundamental right as a parent to decide which eradicated diseases come roaring back."

Vaccine refusers are some of the most odious, self-entitled pricks on this planet.

Comment Re:thank god for the poor states (Score 5, Insightful) 297

That's amazing. What an amazing story. Get this out to the scientific community pronto, they've been pissing about doing studies of tens of thousands of people for decades, but fuck that, because you got sick a bit as a kid and now that you haven't been vaccinated you don't get sick. So yeah let's chuck the vaccines, based on what you think you experienced.

TLDR anecdotes count for precisely fuck-all.

Comment Re: noooo (Score 1, Interesting) 560

A skeptic will look at a variety of sources and will concentrate on those that challenge his already-held views. You aren't doing that in this case. You quickly found something that espouses one view, and then you stopped.

This contradicts your article.

For what it's worth, I like many would greatly prefer if AGW was bollocks, but it's quite fucking obvious that it isn't. Nuclear energy is definitely the best way to go, and people who accept AGW but oppose that are people who I suspect are more influenced by ideology than by facts.

Comment Re:And who will watch it? (Score 1) 146

"activists" tend to care more about publicity then the "cause".

Given a choice of simply leaving North Korea alone (small isolated country and all) or provoke them by doing this and possibly hurting its citizens in return for nothing of real value... .what does an "activist" do?

Maybe he doesn't share your opinion that it's nothing of real value.

Comment Re:Doesn't matter (Score 1) 341

You do realise that coking coal is used in smelters to make all the steel to build these worthless contraptions? And the cement foundations for the wind turbines; cement is made from heating limestone & shale, releasing vast amounts CO2. You then have all the steel needed to prop up the solar panels, also made by burning coal. It all adds up, you know.

Oh no. How often do they have to make each windmill?

Comment Re:RAH had this in the 50's (Score 1) 235

There is no end-goal of evolution. Therefore not being it is completely irrelevant. There's a whole lot of things that we're not. Who is saying 'let's spend all our money on a Mars colony'? Nobody is; that's what makes it a straw man bullshit argument.

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