Comment Re:Which string theory? (Score 1) 148
True, but it seems string theory attracts more woo and people trying to claim it predicts something.
True, but it seems string theory attracts more woo and people trying to claim it predicts something.
Pine FTW!
Will Apples be made of wormwood?
I'm sorry Mr. Johnson, your computer has termites.
Calculus was never claimed to be anything else.
Climatology has proven much more predictive than string theory.
Actually, quantum mechanics made a few actual predictions that proved to be dead on.
Imagine a "theory" with a bunch of adjustments. So many adjustmentrs that no matter what happens, there is some adjustment that canm be made such that it "retroactively) predicts it. That is string theory.
The big problem with string "theory" is that it predicts everything and so, nothing.
String toolkit might be a better name. It is just that, a bag of parts and tools that might one day be used to construct a theory that predicts something in particular.
If you don't have any meetings, how do you know what your coworkers are doing?
Most of the time they are orking cows.
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.
And then epigenetics have popped up and shown some signs of heritability. Not exactly Lamarckism but it shares some characteristics.
There is a great deal of evidence that smoking in some way increases the risks of lung cancer. I don't think there's much room to deny that.
BUT, now look at nicotine use without smoking. Look at all the studies that have the test group smoking and yet claim to draw conclusions about nicotine use.
It's very hit and miss in medicine and we sometimes spend billions on the misses (and then wonder why the U.S. has the world's most expensive healthcare but only achieves mediocre results).
Perhaps you attempted to troll, but it looks like ShanghaiBill sawed you off at the knees.
if despite the fines the company is better off the way things are, then it is in their interest to just eat the loss and go on with life because their value will be preserved.
And that's why fines for corporate criminal activity need to be high multiples of the amount they benefited from the crimes. Make SURE the pain is intolerable. Otherwise, they will certainly do it again.
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