Totally agreeâ" who the hell is going to unload all the merchandise? That used to be the truckerâ(TM)s job, am I right? Now stores are going to have to employ someone to unload the trucks because theyâ(TM)re driverless.

I hope you never need a liver transplant! Research costs money, yes, and researchers are not going to re-allocate their funds to help the homeless, nor should they.

Just popped in to remind everybody that this isnâ(TM)t science â" â" observational studies cannot prove causal hypotheses, because residual confounding cannot be excluded without a prospective randomized trial. I know that the authors of retrospective studies really want you to believe that their âoelinksâ are important, but they mean nothing. Iâ(TM)m not convinced by âoelinksâoe discovered from retrospective data. For example, who is drinking twice the recommended limit of fluoride in their water? Probably low income communities, where the effects of other environmental, social, and dare I say biological factors are at play which may also have effects on peopleâ(TM)s IQ.

Absence of evidence does not prove that lab leak is false. The CCP acted deceitfully and in bad faith early in the pandemic to block access to WIV researchers and data, which easily could have put this question to bed. The US State Dept documented this and several troubling factors that needed to be addressed before a lab leak could be excludedâ" these never happened: https://2017-2021.state.gov/fa... No, that information will never be availableâ" but that doesnt reduce the likelihood of lab leak. If I killed Einstein before he published his theories of relativity, those insights may also never be forthcoming, but it wouldnt make them any less true, and possibly discoverable. Stop trying to silence open debate and start being more convincing in your arguments. These scientists have financial conflicts of interest â" theyâ(TM)re virologists, whose reputations would suffer if lab leak were true, and whose funding sources will be throttled by legislators. So for Godâ(TM)s sake, just assume it is trueâ" and learn from it. How come no one can simply say âoeletâ(TM)s act as though it had happened, in which case we need to stop doing X, Y, Zâ â" for example, stop using US funding for research in foreign laboratories controlled by hostile powers like the CCP, who acted with contempt to the interests of communities around the globe in providing information on the origin of SARS-CoV2? How about just that? The zoonosis theory needs no additional supportâ" it is true for so many other viral spillover events, that the motivation for closing wet markets stands on its own. No US regulatory or funding bodies are âoediverting resourcesâ away from this goalâ" the truth of lab leak in no way threatens this, as much as it does their livelihoods.

Now everytime a conservative political meme goes viral on social media weâ(TM)ll have to hear MSNBC tell us how itâ(TM)s ruining the environment, and justifies censoring.

So this guy blew the whistle years ago, despite telling family that he viewed the possibility of being âoesuicidedâ as very real. The case is finally moving to trial, he leaves his home to give testimony in South Carolina, and brings a handgun gun with him. Then after the 1st day of testimony, he offs himself, having had this plan all along? The timing seems strange. If it was spontaneous, whereâ(TM)d he get the gun? Was it registered to him? Was he CHL and always had it, or did he just happen to bring it? I would think that these answers should be known, at a minimum, before concluding whether a key witnessâ(TM)s death was orchestrated or not.

Thatâ(TM)s a lot of damning research to release all at once. These reporters detected multiple websites with different names/branding serving normal news articles and at least one article described as being âoecrude fakeâ confirmed by an unknown member of the administration â" and they âoeknowâ the source is Russia, somehow. And where are these sites? I Googled âoeMiami Dailyâ and did not find it

I understand the concern re: black box algorithms / AI producing systematically biased recommendations for hiring decisions, but it doesnt follow that a good and reasonable algorithm must produce recommendations that are âoefairâ with respect to equal outcomes. Even the simplest and most reasonable algorithm âoeif X has 5+ years experience then hireâ will probably cut differently across different socioeconomic and demographic segments. itâ(TM)s not appropriate for the law to fine companies based on hiring practices that reflect differences in the population relative to a defined job requirement. This looks like another step towards having all hiring decisions being ideologically reviewed by the state, linking embedded DEI commissars in the HR departments now to a state-controlled apparatus that can assess fines. Today it will review only âoeAI algorithmsâ, tomorrow it will review anything it wants.

I had the same reaction to the number of offices â" 60??

Just make sure the patient sleeps alone I guess, or else the signal will be confounded by the unaffected spouse and the family dog

Itâ(TM)s sarcasm, but still true. Many examples of Russians being formally discriminated against in the US during the events of the last weeks, perhaps as a nod to the new cultural ethos that institutions should take pro-active political stances instead of remaining neutral. Dont believe it? Explain this: https://www.npr.org/2022/04/07...

There is no evidence that this is a real syndrome. As a neurologist, I thought the symptoms are all non-specific and consistent with migraine. Episodes can be triggered by environmental exposures, and often is associated with (pre-existing) MRI abnormalities. Thereâ(TM)s no smoking gun here.

Here are similar statements that are true but nevertheless wrong: We analyzed the genomes of gorillas and humans and they are only 0.0001% differentâ" therefore there is no meaningful difference. We measured the exact amount of carbon, H20, and minerals found in this recipe as prepared by an amateur versus a world-renowned Michelin star chef and they were 99.999% similar â" therefore, there is no meaningful difference between the two. In all arguments of this nature, the interpretations hinge on what was measured and what was not measured, and the sophistry arises when someone tries to convince you that what he or she measured is the only thing worth measuring, and makes no attempt to explain why his or her conclusion does not comport with common sense. And yet we are meant to believe that somehow insufficient measurements should *override* our intuitions about the nature of reality. Clearly, theyâ(TM)re not measuring the right things.... THAT could be one explanation for a lack of differences.

This conversation is disappointing. From the very beginning of UFO sightings in the modern era, the stories that have been the most convincing with respect to the veracity of claims and sincerity of the witnesses have been pilots. There is a lot of recorded audio transmissions from pilots observing, in some cases tracking, UFOs. The idea that these professionals would take time out of their work day to goof off and pretend they were seeing something that was not there has always seemed a bit beyond the pale. And if a professional pilot cannot identify what he is seeing in the air, by definition the object is a UFO. This audio has been available for years, so I dont understand why any formal acknowledgement by the US Navy should somehow strengthen the credibility of what was already strong evidence for the existence of UFOs. Or is it the case that very few of the people commenting here are actually aware of the extant evidence base? The more interesting question really is: what are these objects? Letâ(TM)s be honest â" if UFOs as sighted by pilots are simply pieces of trash or weather-phenomenon, I doubt pilots would have been mystified enough by their behavior to report it. Please explain how trash or weather can give rise to large discrete objects (sometimes detectable on radar) that reportedly manuever with acceleration patterns that existing aircraft are not known to be capable of? Iâ(TM)m not saying thereâ(TM)s any proof that they are extra-terrestrial, but if they were, would this be inconsistent? And if they are not, what is the next best hypothesis? Which government is capable of this technology and if it was ours, wouldnt we take credit for it?

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