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Comment Re:The Varginha mass hysteria incident (Score 2) 31

The parent comment already linked to the refutation and that "Moment of Contact" ignores the actual reports from 1996 to invent a story. For example, the women who reported an alien in 1996 reported that they didn't know of Mudinho, a mentally disabled boy who's behavior and appearance exactly matched their description. Today their story is that they did know Mudinho and the Alien wasn't Mudinho. So their story changed. They are now lying either intentionally or not.

Comment Re: Definitions [Re:ADHD does not exist] (Score 1) 238

20-40 isn't coke bottle glasses. You can pass a state driving vision test with 20-40. Students using fake accommodations is a problem. The system is such that if you don't cheat to be allowed more time on tests you will be at a disadvantage to other students. They will have a higher GPA and get the better job.

Comment Re: "forfeit $11 bn"? (Score 1) 71

It's not a slippery slope to unrealized gains. The issue is if someone steals $1B and looses $100m, you can only recover $900m. But if someone steals $1B and makes $100m (over the the year before you are caught.), you can only recover $1B. The $100m isn't unrealized gains. It's real money the thief keeps. 2 years white collar jail for $100m.

Comment Re: Easy solution (Score 0) 93

Math and physics tests have far more memorization than professors admit to. They will claim you can derive any equations you need from first principles so you don't have to memorize but then the tests are always do long that if you didn't memorize everything, it was impossible to complete the test in time. On almost all tests, the only way to get a A was to have memorized not only the equations but the "algorithm" you follow to solve a particular problem that you can identify because you've already seen something similar before. Math and Physics tests leave no time for reasoning.

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