Comment Re: Typical (Score 1) 329
It's called "Clownworld". Everything is upside down and turning all around.
Comment Re:Statistics and lies (Score 1) 337
We are too reliant on data in our decision making. This severely limits our perspective.
Comment Re:Immortal (Score 1) 337
Yeah, I am nostalgic for the times before 2020, when nobody ever died.
Comment It never worked historically (Score 1) 88
Controlling the spread of a disease that hardly ever has any serious symptoms is just very difficult. Most people will get it without noticing.
Comment Literally his head on a spike? (Score 2) 153
Isn't it common in the American use of the English language to exaggerate? I read something about that in "Once There Was a War" by John Steinbeck, so maybe these days Americans don't do that anymore.
Comment Re:Re (Score 1) 1342
Make the parent observe while you terminate its children.
Comment Dwarves (Score 1) 152
Maybe there is no coal, but with all those trees, magma, and limestone this park would make a perfect location to start a steel producing fortress.
Comment Re:Calling Pons and Fleischmann... (Score 1) 1747
There are only about 1000 thousand e-mails released. This cannot possibly be all there is send in over 10 years. I don't think there is a massive conspiracy, only a lot of people with the same interrests and a "the end justifies the means" mentality.
Could it be possible that the more inciminating e-mails were deleted upon being read? Or that there is a silent understanding of what is important so there is no need to talk all the time about the nasty stuff? So the absence of that does not prove anything.
Please read the emails for yourself. The most important piece of information in there is that the top climate scientists are anything but sure about the theories by which we get scared into accepting big impact measures.
Could it be possible that the more inciminating e-mails were deleted upon being read? Or that there is a silent understanding of what is important so there is no need to talk all the time about the nasty stuff? So the absence of that does not prove anything.
Please read the emails for yourself. The most important piece of information in there is that the top climate scientists are anything but sure about the theories by which we get scared into accepting big impact measures.
Comment Re:Calling Pons and Fleischmann... (Score 1) 1747
"Trick" is frequently used in scientific context to mean "clever method" or "correction".
Please click your link and actually read the search results. Trick is a surname. Try http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=trick+-autor%3Atrick&btnG=Search&as_sdt=2000&as_ylo=&as_vis=0 and see how much "trick" is used as "clever method" or "correction". If the tree ring data is wrong recently, and there is no verifyable explanation, it is a bad idea to use that data to describe the temperature in the past. It is a bad sign that data has to be adjusted to be convincing enough. Especially while keeping part of the source data closed. Some people don't like to be manipulated, even if it is for the greater good.
Comment Re:Real skepticism has criteria (Score 1) 1747
Real skepticism provides criteria by which it can be satisfied. Unchanging skepticism in the face of evidence is not scientific.
Real science makes predictions about the results of experiments or future developments. Ignoring evidence when it does not fit the theory is not science either.
Comment Re:Politics (Score 1) 874
Greenland was never named as such because it was "green." It was named in order to lure colonists who would hear the name and think "Sounds like a nice place. When's the next boat?"
Yes and those colonists came there and stayed for 500 years. Longer than the European colonists in America or Australia so far. They died because the climate got colder. We don't know why it was called Greenland but they were able to herd cows and sheep.
Comment Re:personally (Score 1) 1721
Maybe I've missed the food and medicine packets from Somalia being dropped on poor areas of our country.
Although i agree with most of your post, this is not strictly fair. My parents visited a small factory in Kenya a few years ago. It was run by HIV infected women, and they were proud to save money for hurricane Katrina victims, to give something back. (i know, citation needed, and i don't know what came of it). Also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_response_to_Hurricane_Katrina
FDA OKs First Human Trial of Neural Stem Cell Therapy 149
An anonymous reader sends word that the FDA has approved a phase 1 trial for Neuralstem, a company with a patented stem cell procedure targeting ALS (Lou Gehrig's disease) and other spinal conditions. The company's CEO said in a press release, "While this trial aims to primarily establish safety and feasibility data in treating ALS patients, we also hope to be able to measure a slowing down of the ALS degenerative process." Results are expected in 2 years. The trial will involve 12 ALS patients who will receive stem cell injections in the lumbar area of the spinal cord. An information site for the disabled community adds hopefully: "If it makes it through all stages of testing, we will see if doctors are willing to [use] it on subjects that have injuries coming from physical injuries like diving accidents."
Comment Re:Wow. (Score 1) 197
It is the only effective way to save their server from being slashdotted, nobody else is going to RTFA.
