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NoNukes Inactive Member
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Experts are obviously biased towards thinking that the things they've discovered are true. This is, so far as I can see, the actual rationale for the law. Perhaps the law has some non nefarious purpose, and it is merely the execution of the law that is flawed.
quote: I think the problem here is "indirectly involve review or evaluation of their own work". Commenting on a paper whose contents you have also written about would seem to be a prohibited activity, regardless of whether you agree or disagree. That's pretty much inane. Scientists who have done basic work on a topic might not be able to participate at all. Edited by NoNukes, : No reason given.Je Suis Charlie Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also in prison. Thoreau: Civil Disobedience (1846) If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning. Frederick Douglass
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Dr Adequate Member (Idle past 311 days) Posts: 16113 Joined:
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An assemblywoman from my own great state of Nevada ...
If you have cancer, which I believe is a fungus, and we can put a pic line into your body and we’re flushing with, say, salt water, sodium cardonate through that line and flushing out the fungus. These are some procedures that are not FDA-approved in America that are very inexpensive, cost-effective. (R), but you don't need me to tell you that.
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Dr Adequate Member (Idle past 311 days) Posts: 16113 Joined:
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And representing the UK, a Conservative MP has some wise words about astrology.
David Tredinnick said consulting the stars would "take huge pressure off doctors" and predicts astrology will "have a role to play in healthcare." The MP for Bosworth in Leicestershire also admitted he had prepared astrological charts for fellow MPs. In an interview with this month's Astrological Journal, the controversial MP said: "There would be a huge row over resources. "However, I do believe that astrology and complementary medicine would help take the huge pressure off doctors. [...] He added that opponents to astrology were "bullies", saying: "Astrology offers self-understanding to people. "People who oppose what I say are usually bullies who have never studied astrology. "They never look at it. They are absolutely dismissive. Astrology may not be capable of passing double-blind tests but it is based on thousands of years of observation. "Hippocrates said, 'A physician without a knowledge of astrology has no right to call himself a physician,' "Astrology was until modern times part of the tradition of medicine. I think it is a great pity that so many scientists today are dismissive of right-side brain energy, such as intuition. "People such as Professor Brian Cox, who called astrology 'rubbish' have simply not studied the subject. "The BBC is quite dismissive of astrology and seeks to promote the science perspective and seems always keen to broadcast criticisms of astrology." Bizarrely, Tredinnick, 65, who is chairman of the All-Party Group for Integrated Healthcare, went on to say people who opposed astrology were "racist". He said: "The opposition (to astrology) is based on what I call the SIP formula - superstition, ignorance, and prejudice. "It tends to be based on superstition, with scientists reacting emotionally, which is always a great irony. "They are also ignorant, because they never study the subject and just say that it is all to do with what appears in the newspapers, which it is not, and they are deeply prejudiced, and racially prejudiced, which is troubling." Edited by Dr Adequate, : No reason given.
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Dr Adequate Member (Idle past 311 days) Posts: 16113 Joined:
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It makes me think of this ...
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RAZD Member (Idle past 1432 days) Posts: 20714 From: the other end of the sidewalk Joined: |
Star Tribune Error: 404
quote: Or the uterus for that matter. The fetus does not grow in the "tummy" ... I wonder if you can get a degree in "republican science" ... ? by our ability to understand Rebel☮American☆Zen☯Deist ... to learn ... to think ... to live ... to laugh ... to share. Join the effort to solve medical problems, AIDS/HIV, Cancer and more with Team EvC! (click)
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caffeine Member (Idle past 1051 days) Posts: 1800 From: Prague, Czech Republic Joined: |
The most worrying thing about Tredinnick is that this isn't a sudden odd statement of his. Here's him speaking in Parliament in 2009:
quote: Note that he refers back to saying the same things in 2001. He has won a seat in every election since 1987, despite not only spouting this nonsense continually, but having to resign from government in 1994 for having accepted payment from an undercover journalist to ask questions in Parliament. Sad reflection on the electorate.
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caffeine Member (Idle past 1051 days) Posts: 1800 From: Prague, Czech Republic Joined: |
Or the uterus for that matter. The fetus does not grow in the "tummy" ... I wonder if you can get a degree in "republican science" ... ? Reluctantly, I have to come to this chap's defence. Look at the context. He is arguing in favour of a law prohibiting doctors from prescribing the morning after pill without seeing a patient face-to-face. A doctor makes a point about remote colonoscopies. He asks 'can you do that with a pregnancy', to which the answer is no. His point being that therefore this is not the same situation. It's not that difficult to understand if you look past the urge to paint your political opponents as scientific illiterates.
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Theodoric Member Posts: 9197 From: Northwest, WI, USA Joined: Member Rating: 3.2 |
If you look at the context he was not asking it in that manner.
Facts don't lie or have an agenda. Facts are just facts "God did it" is not an argument. It is an excuse for intellectual laziness.
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Omnivorous Member Posts: 3990 From: Adirondackia Joined: Member Rating: 6.9 |
Caffeine may have a point.
The Virginia House of Delegates voted two weeks ago to require women seeking abortions to undergo intravaginal ultrasounds: they know where the fetus is. He was more likely contemplating that bit of government-mandated instrumental rape than any shortcoming of telemedicine. So he's more rapist than dufus. But loony all the way down."If you can keep your head while those around you are losing theirs, you can collect a lot of heads."
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AZPaul3 Member Posts: 8556 From: Phoenix Joined: Member Rating: 4.9 |
The Virginia House of Delegates voted two weeks ago to require women seeking abortions to undergo intravaginal ultrasounds: they know where the fetus is. He was more likely contemplating that bit of government-mandated instrumental rape than any shortcoming of telemedicine. Was he? Maybe it was a situation where his conservative colleagues who may have an inkling about how this stuff works, in theory, told him the ultrasound bill was against liberal feminist women and was in favor of god so he said "OK" without any understanding at all. But, then, you might be right. Edited by AZPaul3, : No reason given.
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Dr Adequate Member (Idle past 311 days) Posts: 16113 Joined: |
Yeah, caffeine is right. The guy may have been making a rhetorical point. If so, never mind, we can find another Republican demonstrating actual gross scientific illiteracy in 5 ... 4 ... 3 ...
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Omnivorous Member Posts: 3990 From: Adirondackia Joined: Member Rating: 6.9
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AZPaul3 writes: Was he? Maybe it was a situation where his conservative colleagues who may have an inkling about how this stuff works, in theory, told him the ultrasound bill was against liberal feminist women and was in favor of god so he said "OK" without any understanding at all. But, then, you might be right. I prefer to overestimate the feral."If you can keep your head while those around you are losing theirs, you can collect a lot of heads."
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AZPaul3 Member Posts: 8556 From: Phoenix Joined: Member Rating: 4.9 |
Though I may have overestimated the intellect.
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1.61803 Member (Idle past 1531 days) Posts: 2928 From: Lone Star State USA Joined: |
Caffeine writes:
Your right. But whats the fun in that? (kidding) It's not that difficult to understand if you look past the urge to paint your political opponents as scientific illiterates."You were not there for the beginning. You will not be there for the end. Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative" William S. Burroughs
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subbie Member (Idle past 1282 days) Posts: 3509 Joined: |
How about this numbskull:
Idaho Republican backs faith-healer parents: ‘If I want to let my child be with God, why is that wrong?’ and
Children do die, Perry said. I’m not trying to sound callous, but (reformers) want to act as if death is an anomaly. But it’s not it’s a way of life. Edited by subbie, : SubtitleRidicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions. -- Thomas Jefferson We see monsters where science shows us windmills. -- Phat It has always struck me as odd that fundies devote so much time and effort into trying to find a naturalistic explanation for their mythical flood, while looking for magical explanations for things that actually happened. -- Dr. Adequate Howling about evidence is a conversation stopper, and it never stops to think if the claim could possibly be true -- foreveryoung
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