Conspiracy junkies? Paranoia is rampant, and often foolish.... although once in a while it's rewarded.

Mercury in vaccines causes autism.

WiFi boils the brain and causes cancer.

Obama is the Anti-Christ.

You will never stop stupid people because stupid can't be fixed. Once that one realizes that correlation != causation, you have a chance. Until then, you can only introduce the facts and hope for the best. It's tough to stanch meme propagation when the propagators are teary-eyed mothers with dead children. But it has to be done.

I remember when cellphones base-stations were being maligned as being totally cancerific (that's a mother-of-schoolchildren science term), the response to a "there's no connection, all published results say so" claim by the big companies was "therefore they're not publishing the stuff that proves our claims - it's a coverup" from the anti-sciencoids (that's a worked-for-a-basestation-manufacturer mild insult).

These mothers were unable to explain why the local Nokia R&D site had a massive base-station *right in the middle of it*, and how that would fit in with their consipiracy coverup theorem.

You can't argue with idiots whose minds are already made up using *any* language.

What he really needs to to is to grow a pair and tell them not to be so fucking stupid (or words to that effect).

Anything with potassium in it is radioactive.

(Wikipedia)

Gee, I hope the "parents" never find out. This is real radioactivity, not the wussy WiFi sort.

OTOH a banana panic would lower the price of one of my favorite fruits, so .... maybe somebody should warn them - they might be feeding their kids cancer-causing bananas right now in their ignorance!

You think that's bad? I just ate a banana...

My apologies for not remembering the show, but there was the show that featured somebody that actually worked in India as something (working in a call center, methinks).

What is and is not unprofessional is subjective. You're trying to rationalize your illogical discrimination; in reality, you're just a shallow person.

"Master's degree in information systems and 17 years of experience" does not tell us that she was more qualified than the Bangladeshi hired. I have interviewed too many people who look good on paper only.

In which case wouldn't that mean the natural order of things would cause this to either come around and bite them in the ass with low rate and low quality or work out just fine and show that the lower rate provided a perfectly acceptable level of quality?

All to common of a problem. H1 Visa applicants are way cheeper than Americans. I was replaced a few years ago because they "could not find anyone in america that could do my job". No one asked if I would like to apply.

Even if the Bangladeshi was perfectly qualified, you can't just bring him in on an H1-B visa in preference to a citizen who also fits the requirements. To get an H1-B, you have to certify that no currently allowed workers exist that can do that job for you.

Now if this woman was ill qualified to do the job, and was suing, that would be different, because they do have the right to find people who can actually do the job. However, they can't just go find the cheapest qualified person available and import them, putting citizens at disadvantage. The law doesn't allow that, and for good reason.