Drug trials test against placebo for safety, but not necessarily for effectiveness. This is especially true in cases where withholding treatment would be unethical, such as HIV/AIDS. New drugs in these cases are tested as to whether they are better than existing treatments, rather than better than placebo.

cf. chemotherapy, which makes the cancer go away, but makes the patient feel worse.

Sometimes "cure" means different things to different people.

Good points. These are two assumptions inherent in the experimental design. These two concerns could easily have been dismissed with a short literature review, showing how other researchers had proven that bees have sophisticated color vision and that they use their vision more than scent while foraging (both of these are true, IIRC).

If you could, perhaps, tell this to my advisor/coauthor, that would be great, because I've got a couple of manuscripts that we've been passing back and forth that I'm really sick of and would like to just submit now.

My mom is one of the best mathematics teachers I've ever met. She teachers middle school special education and her kids with learning disabilities often jump up to grade level in her class.
She's terrible at math. Barely passed it as a student. She's a better teacher for it because she understands what it means to not understand.

I'll bet they use those words now, though.

My manuscripts are full of words I never use. (I try to avoid the word "construct" whenever possible, for example). They creep in as my collaborators suggest things. If it's the right word for the concept that needs to be expressed, then that's what you use.

It's in kids' voice more for sentence structure and the manner of description more than the vocabulary.

Shit, the average scientist can't evaluate the importance of someone else's research. If I were to summarize my study to a brief paragraph (something teabaggers reading a website can absorb) it wouldn't sound like much. That's why NSF (although my stuff is more likely to be funded through NIH or ED) makes you write long, boring tl;dr grant applications about it (that YouCut visitors certainly won't bother to read).

Therapy methods and assistive technologies that allow people with developmental disabilities to become educated and employable, thus making many of them contributing members of the economy rather than 100% welfare-dependent wards of the state.

Acquit. The jury has reasonable doubts.

What you don't know is whether and how the prosecution and defense argued about that definition while you weren't around. All you get to hear is the final decision. If the judge was wrong about that decision, that's a matter for appeal, not the jury.

It's even more of a shame that Palm had BeOS and pissed it away along with their market lead. A souped-up Palm PDA running BeOS could have been an iPhone/Touch a couple years ahead of Apple's.

Wall Street 2 didn't have a Daft Punk score, however.

...and the TV show Reboot was obviously heavily influenced by TRON itself. It was a cartoon about anthropomorphic programs running around inside a computer where they had to play life-or-death games. No, you definitely wouldn't want to call a TRON movie Reboot.

Two issues with this:
1. I'm pretty sure that the Gap commercial with the swing dancers used essentially the same effect as bullet time a year before The Matrix came out.
2. My parents' parents' parents saw movies to distract them from how fucked up the world was then and, taken on the whole, things are better now than then so I'm confident that this is not the end of the world.

I've seen two Buster Keaton films (The Cameraman and Steamboat Bill Jr) in theaters with a good orchestra and they left me in awe. How the hell did they do that?