Some how I doubt the tattoo in the photo or video is going to reply "yes" in response to the question.

"Until there is a rational, scientific, empirically tested explanation of the placebo effect, you really need to admit that there are things going on in this reality that are outside the realm of science"

There is explanation of the placebo effect. Your brain is not just the bit in your head, every nerve in your body is composed of the same stuff and you have brain trendrils spread everywhere throughout the body all connected to the brain. Every cell in your body is controlled and regulated via chemical and electromagnetic signalling from your brain. Whether it is signalling the cells of a tumor not to reproduce and therefore die, correcting a pain sensory problem, or other ailment your brain is perfectly capable of healing most anything going wrong in the body. The placebo effect is no more or less than using a mirror to convince a phantom lost fist to unclench by creating the visual illusion of the hand back in place and opening and closing it. Nothing outside the realm of science is required. Fully utilizing the placebo effect IS beyond the current grasp of medical science though. Most medical science works by trying to avoid the placebo effect when it is probably the most powerful medical tool we have.

You have it backwards. You can't prove there is no magical all powerful sky fairy that uses it's powers to be undetectable. But believing in one without any evidence it exists fairly qualifies as a delusion. Billions of people believing in such qualifies as a mass delusion.

"give you reasonable grounds to get a search warrant"

Bringing someone in for questioning is one thing. Raiding a private home and ripping the funiture, walls, and floors apart leaving the resident with all financial responsibility and cleanup duty... that should be a MUCH higher bar and should require positive identification to count as reasonable.

Agreed. Your ability to agree with an unpopular contrary view in light of a reasoned and rational argument is a rare thing. Props to you sir.

It looks like whatever is on the other side of it.

But why turn off the source brain or wait for death?

"The more significant achievement seems to be, at least to me, creating a syringe with an inner diameter of 95 meters."

I'm actually more impressed by the creature of a rat who requires a 95 meter i.d. needle for a brain injection. You be afraid of dinosaurs being brought back. I'll just be back here hoarding cheese to appease our new overlord.

Less confusing would have been for the standards body to make the abbreviation "um" in the first place and skip non text characters on official units of measure.

Some of us lost the password on our 5 digit uid account and can't get it back anymore.

It's people who argued against being worried that are the reason we went in to Iraq and failed to block the patriot act.

Agreed. That is no different in my mind than someone saying "if Putin really wanted to succeed he'd..." people should be able to speak in favor of anyone and any activity they want especially if it's counter to government interests and/or agendas. Even if we are at war with the commies you are entitled to think we are on the wrong side of the dispute and advocate the other side convince enough people and the dispute may end with a meeting of minds and reduce overall bloodshed.

I don't know that I'd call giving someone a plane ticket far over the line either. Let's take the terrorist buzzword out of there. Then you just have someone facilitating travel to territory controlled by someone who isn't currently friendly with our government. If you want to buy your brother a ticket to Cuba because he really believes in communism I don't buy that you should go to prison for it. If he chooses to enter the military and is part of the Cuban missile crisis round two... well that is on HIM. And really, that is giving the whole thing too much credit. Cuba is a nation, capable of threatening hundreds of thousands if not millions of Americans whereas ISIS is merely a relatively new criminal organization that has yet to do as much damage to our nation as the disorganized Somali pirates.

Now, if you knew of actual criminal plans and provided the plane ticket to help them execute them that'd be different. That would be no different than being the driver of the get away vehicle in a bank robbery and if ISIS were not merely a criminal organization but an actual government we could be at war with like Cuba then I suppose the equivalent would be driving a boat to help them paint a target in miami or providing a plane ticket for the same that would be high treason.

Apologies for the mangling.

*the negative connotation wasn't in the word. Any of those using the terms as a slur actually found being black negative

And long after. It was a generic term for a "black person" with the same neutral connotation that "black person" carries today. Later it shifted to "colored" or "spade." Changing the label changes nothing, the negative connotation wasn't the word. Any of those terms used as a slur found actually being black negative and whatever the word was for that would be a slur passing their lips while not being such when spoken by someone who felt otherwise.

For the sexist male, "woman" can be a slur. Saying woman is offensive because of that and saying you must now say "female" would only make "female" a slur to those people.

Because many Christian cults believe in a literal interpretation of the bible and evolution is contradictory to that. Then again the two genesis stories are contradictory as well. *shrug*

I'm 33 and a very outdated concept of evolution was taught, emphasized as just being a theory, followed by watching the ten commandments. We were told that while the class does not teach the bible as factual it remains one of the most useful and accurate historical references to date.