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Comment Re:Bias (Score 1) 194

" But "Is the peer review process at open-access journals acceptable?" is not a scientific question, but one of values and personal preference. Most people would decide that a 50% failure rate is not acceptable, control or no control." The only inference is that the ones that accepted the paper are crap. This says little about the ones who rejected. Your implication is that since 50% failed the group failed.

Comment Re:What else do you expect? (Score 1) 706

by carpefishus (#44848641) Attached to: Student Arrested For Using Phone App To 'Shoot' Classmates
I didn't need to read any further than this to know that what follows is not worth reading. "America is a country which values the right to have high capacity magazines for assault weapons over the freedom of speech." How about we value both as the second protects the first, amendments, that is.
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Submission + - Possible Chemical Weapons Use in Syria

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Hugh Pickens writes writes: "Mike Hoffman reports that Syria’s Assad regime has accused the rebels of launching a chemical weapons attack in Aleppo that killed 25 people — an accusation the rebel fighters have strongly rebuked. A Reuters photographer said victims he had visited in Aleppo hospitals were suffering breathing problems and that people had said they could smell chlorine after the attack. The Russian foreign ministry says it has enough information to confirm the rebels launched a chemical attack while US government leaders say they have not found any evidence of a chemical attack and White House spokesman Jay Carney says the accusations made by Assad could be an attempt to cover up his own potential attacks. “We’ve seen reports from the Assad regime alleging that the opposition has been responsible for use. Let me just say that we have no reason to believe these allegations represent anything more than the regime’s continued attempts to discredit the legitimate opposition and distract from its own atrocities committed against the Syrian people,” said State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland. “We don’t have any evidence to substantiate the regime’s charge that the opposition even has CW (chemical weapons) capability.” President Obama has said the “red line” to which the US would send forces to Syria would be the use of chemical weapons. However, it was assumed the Assad regime would be the ones using their chemical weapons stockpile, not the rebels."

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