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Comment Re:The right to be wrong (Score 1) 324

The only reason that these quacks publish videos on Amazon instead of making them freely available is because they want to profit off of their quackery. Nobody is censoring anyone by making you pay to see hear their speech. In fact, publishing it in a paid medium versus for free on a website is *restricting* your access to their speech.

Comment Re:Common (Score 0) 443

And the first is what she did in this case. Saying "we didn't make this movie for white dudes" is not saying they don't want their business - it's saying they're not the primary motivator for the movie being made. Y'all already love to take ownership of everything minorities make for themselves; why not this, too?

Comment Re:No humans are weird (Score 0) 239

"Placebo effect can also boost or lower natural immunity"? Seriously? No. A boosted or lowered level of immune system function is an autoimmune disorder. Placebos and nocebos have only EVER been shown to affect SUBJECTIVE factors.

Comment Re:The 100% claim is essentially correct (Score 1) 409

Ah, yes, the God of The Gaps. Your argument is identical to the "we don't know how it was done. so God done it" argument of the creationist crowd (whatever they call them selves this week). It's a bad argument, and it should certainly not be used to make drastic, and very, very expensive change.

It's not even remotely the same. His argument is based on evidence and data, not ignorance. He's asking for an alternate hypothesis that has as much explanatory power as his evidence-based model.

Comment Re:The 100% claim is essentially correct (Score 1) 409

Oh, that's cute. Take a graph where a single pixel is millions of years, and use it to assert that historical CO2 levels were higher than current. There's just one problem, though. See the right-hand edge of the graph? See how it's a thick black line? THAT'S THE CONTINUATION OF THE ATMOSPHERIC CO2 LINE INTO THE LAST SEVERAL MILLION YEARS. All other lines in the graph are *thin* or *dotted* black lines, except for the atmospheric CO2 line. Increase the resolution on that data so that it's even just one pixel per decade and I'm damn sure that you'd see higher atmospheric CO2 levels in the last 200 years than *ever* before.

Comment Re:Wrong assessment (Score 1) 1345

I ecourage you to review Genesis 22:7,8.

Isaac spoke up and said to his father Abraham, "Father?" "Yes, my son?" Abraham replied. "The fire and wood are here," Isaac said, "but where is the lamb for the burnt offering?"

Abraham answered, "God himself will provide the lamb for the burnt offering, my son." And the two of them went on together.

God WILL provide, not God HAS provided. Abraham knew God was not evil and therefore God would not allow Isacc to be killed. Maybe he would resurect him. Maybe the knife wouldn't hurt Isacc. He had no idea how god would resolve the issue, but he knew he would be returning with Isacc.

Okay. So... in essence... what we have is this:

"Daddy, why are you taking me out into the woods with a knife?"

"Well, son, we're going to go sacrifice an animal to God together."

"But daddy, I don't see a sheep or a goat; where's the animal we're going to sacrifice?"

(knowing full well that the plan is to kill his son) "Oh, don't worry about it, kiddo. I'm sure we'll find something we can sacrifice."

This is called "lying to your son so you can obey your god," not having faith that God will provide. There's no evidence at all that Abraham thought God would save Isaac.

Comment Re:Just what WVa needs, a new variety of crazy (Score 1) 627

TFA says some scientists have done such an experiment and it appeared to indicate the subject actually could detect radio waves.

A couple problems: first, a study with a single test subject is not at all scientific (what were the controls?); second, how many people did they go through with negative results before they hit on one with "positive" results?

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