I used to think fatty food made you fat. Now it seems the opposite is true. Eating lots of peanuts, avocados, and cheese, for example, probably decreases your appetite and keeps you thin. I used to think vitamins had been thoroughly studied for their health trade-offs. They haven’t. The reason you take one multivitamin pill a day is marketing, not science. I used to think the U.S. food pyramid was good science. In the past it was not, and I assume it is not now. I used to think drinking one glass of alcohol a day is good for health, but now I think that idea is probably just a correlation found in studies.
According to Adams, the direct problem of science is that it has been collectively steering an entire generation toward obesity, diabetes, and coronary problems. But the indirect problem might be worse: It is hard to trust science because it has a credibility issue that it earned. "I think science has earned its lack of credibility with the public. If you kick me in the balls for 20-years, how do you expect me to close my eyes and trust you?"
Good question. The link for that showed up at the same time as the search box, but it was disabled in the same way. I didn't notice that it had disappeared when the site actually went live again.
Original submitter, here.
Are you talking about ads on TPB site, or within the
TPB is actually one of the big reasons I first started blocking ad servers at my router. If I was searching for something with the HTPC that the kids HAD TO WATCH NOW, to see if it was available, I didn't want them seeing the various dating and sex site ads that were pretty much all you'd see on TPB.
So, I blocked some of the most notorious ad networks at the DNS level on my router, which solved that problem, and a whole lot of ads on other sites, too. Those overly loud auto play video ads for various pointless crap that show up in forums and such, I never see. Those were done in my second round of blocking after TPB stuff. Every once in a while I go through my squid proxy logs and see what other ad and tracking networks are showing up, and disable them. Best thing is, if I buy a new computer, it's automatically protected, without AdBlock/FlashBlock/CrapBlock/etc being installed.
I guess what I'm trying to say it is, if there are ads on TPB, then I didn't see them before submitting. And if there are ads on the
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