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Re:Would it even be wrong?
Perhaps there's a force that hasn't been taken into account in his calculations...
What kind of force? A bangy force? A pushy force? A growy force? A forcy force force? A magic man dunnit. -
Re:Who cares - my gas comes from petroleumYou can choose a "side", but think about it a bit first.
That is indeed good advice. You should know that there has come some rebuttals to "The Great Global Warming Swindle", and at least one person who participated has since come out with a public letter where he explains that he is the one who feels swindled by the makers."As I made clear, both in the
preliminary discussions, and in the interview itself, I believe that
global warming is a very serious threat that needs equally serious
discussion and no one seeing this film could possibly deduce that.
What we now have is an out-and-out propaganda piece, in which
there is not even a gesture toward balance or explanation of why
many of the extended inferences drawn in the film are not widely
accepted by the scientific community. "
It is also interested to note how the makers react when a couple of noted scientists try to engage him in debate. -
Let the energy graphs begin!
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Don't talk about it (Bush gags Climatologists)
http://scienceblogs.com/grrlscientist/2007/03/bus
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Bush To Gag Climate Scientists -- Again
Category: Global Warming Politics Weather
Posted on: March 11, 2007 1:24 PM, by "GrrlScientist"
According to a recently leaked memorandum, the Bush Administration is once again up to their dirty tricks; they are trying to gag government scientists by demanding they not to talk about polar bears, sea ice and climate change during official overseas trips.
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Re:I Don't Buy It
Timothy Ball and Richard Lindzen are idiots. Lindzen argues against Global Warming the same way Intelligent Design supporters argue against evolution. Timothy Ball uses the tired "1970's global cooling consensus" argument (see here and see here), specifically quoting Lowell Ponte, and he also overstates his qualifications. I also found another article by Ball where he lists reasons why global warming is good for Canada and actually says "Thank goodness for global warming."
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NOT "A former professor of climatology"He's just a liar.
TWW
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Re:More denial crapola on slashdot
Landsea is the only one of your sources under 65. I think he's a credible scientist, but he only works on hurricanes and isn't skeptical about the overall phenomenon of global warming. Even if he's 100% right, the other impacts of global warming (sea level rise, drought, famine) are worse.
The fact that you're bringing out Seitz, who was completely senile by the time the oil companies were putting his name on press releases, discredits you completely.
Lindzen thinks that the earth's climate is warming with 98% certainty. He would only take a 50-1 bet against it.
Tim Ball has never worked on climate change, has no quantitative ability, and is basically obsolete. He sues his critics for telling the truth about him.
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No, actually it does contribute!
I read a recent blog where a real scientist showed that hydrothermal vents could contribute as much as 0.0000343 K!
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What went on behind the closed doors?
Apparently, Purdue refused to state what the exact allegations investigated were, how many inquiries it conducted, or what its conclusions were based on. Hard to tell if the investigation's conclusions were arrived at fairly or were politically motivated. More details in this NYT article which I found from this blog entry.
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Economics of interstellar travel
Does anyone think we can afford that? The U.S.'s manned space and Moon/Mars initiative is strangling NASA and forcing it to shut down many of its science programs (here, here, here, here, here). It hasn't even started to get into the real spending for a Moon mission, let alone a Mars mission.
An interstellar mission would cost orders of magnitude more than an interplanetary mission. Who would ever fund it? Even an international collaboration would be hard pressed to put together much more than the currently planned Mars mission. And governments wouldn't be too keen to start a mission that can outlive entire nations before we hear the results.
"Frontier spirit" just doesn't cut it against those scales of money and time.
The only thing that likely could spur a manned interstellar mission, barring drastic improvements in technology, is the impending destruction of human civilization — and who would see that coming in time, with enough certainty, to spur the development of a crash program like that? (Especially given the wars likely to ensue if people are that sure of the annihilation of the human race.)
No, I don't see it happening unless we get much, much better technology. It costs enough just to lift things off Earth, let alone build and launch a working intergenerational starship. (The economics of space development given launch costs and the absence of space industry is an extra can of worms... and I am also not economically optimistic of the development of orbital factories or space elevators or the like.) -
Economics of interstellar travel
Does anyone think we can afford that? The U.S.'s manned space and Moon/Mars initiative is strangling NASA and forcing it to shut down many of its science programs (here, here, here, here, here). It hasn't even started to get into the real spending for a Moon mission, let alone a Mars mission.
An interstellar mission would cost orders of magnitude more than an interplanetary mission. Who would ever fund it? Even an international collaboration would be hard pressed to put together much more than the currently planned Mars mission. And governments wouldn't be too keen to start a mission that can outlive entire nations before we hear the results.
"Frontier spirit" just doesn't cut it against those scales of money and time.
The only thing that likely could spur a manned interstellar mission, barring drastic improvements in technology, is the impending destruction of human civilization — and who would see that coming in time, with enough certainty, to spur the development of a crash program like that? (Especially given the wars likely to ensue if people are that sure of the annihilation of the human race.)
No, I don't see it happening unless we get much, much better technology. It costs enough just to lift things off Earth, let alone build and launch a working intergenerational starship. (The economics of space development given launch costs and the absence of space industry is an extra can of worms... and I am also not economically optimistic of the development of orbital factories or space elevators or the like.) -
Re:The HIV virus has been sequenced
> If you explore these areas, and find out that the HIV has actually never been seen, just the antibodies...
Uh, right. You know that the we've sequenced the HIV virus, right? Not only has it been sequenced, but it's been sequenced so many times that we can see the evolution of it's genetic code over time, and can tell which people infected which people. We can tell that the "Libyan seven" are innocent. We can tell that HIV evolved from SIV (the simian version of HIV) multiple times.
Re: Libyan Seven
"By looking at the genome sequence of the virus found in children at Bambino Gesu hospital, we established that the estimated date of the most common recent ancestor for each cluster predated March 1998, sometimes by several years."
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/world/story/0,,1974 040,00.html
"The story revolves around Dr. David Acer, a Florida dentist who died in 1990 from complications of AIDS. Dr. Acer's death would have been far from remarkable at the time -- the AIDS epidemic was quite visible by the late 1980s, and one death earned no more attention than any other. Dr. Acer's story, however, extends beyond his private life and into his practice. You see, Dr. Acer had multiple patients that had been diagnosed as infected with HIV within a couple of years of his death." Sequence analysis of HIV in his patients shows that he infected his patients.
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Re:Right, so...Apparently, this guy: That link does not contain any discussion of AGW proponents suing heretics to get them to stop teaching. In fact, it describes the opposite: denialist Tim Ball threatening to sue AGW proponents. (He has in fact sued Dan Johnson; see here.)
I am still waiting for evidence of brave global warming skeptics being sued to force them from teaching their heresy. All I see is them suing other people, as in this case and in the other two cases I mentioned earlier. IPPC has had to change it's predictions since the last "study." Duh. Every new scientific study in every field ever has changed its predictions from previous studies. That's what happens when science improves. This new summary does not have predictions. You obviously did not read it. Try again. Look at pages 10-21. They are going to wait until policy is in place and everyone buys into their hype, then they will release the predictions that won't come true. What the hell are you talking about? They've already released the most important predictions, like temperature change. More detailed predictions will follow in a few months. None of these predictions are new; they are just a summary of the range of predictions that already exist in the literature. Name the papers that had predictions that were made 10 years ago that have come true? Rahmstorf et al.'s survey in the latest issue of Science is a good place to start. I am not against a market approach for dealing with all major emissions (even if they aren't considered pollution). This is common sense. What I am against is a larger government, more taxes, a negative effect on our great Capitalistic economy, etc. A carbon tax may be the best solution, actually. However, there is room for reasonable people to disagree on economic policy. As for the effect on our economy, there will most likely be a negative short term impact on it no matter which solution is used, but that should be weighed against the longer term damages that may accrue under the business-as-usual alternative. I am definitely against the socialist and dictator jokers at the UN deciding these things. In fact, we should show that it is possible and pain free first, then help other countries do it by using our example rather than some treaty. There is nothing wrong with solutions being proposed by people outside of the US (and the US certainly plays a role in any UN decision-making, for that matter). It is up to the US, of course, to decide whether those solutions are proper or not.
I think it is interesting that you apparently feel there is no political or economic advantage in binding international agreements. Although perhaps you were criticizing some specific treaty (e.g., the Kyoto Protocol), not the idea of treaties in general. -
not this shiat again
"A couple of more cluesticks on dichloroacetate (DCA) and cancer" (5 February 2007)
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Re:Yes besause...GP is simply asking for a bit more than speculation before making trillion dollar policy decisions. There is more than "speculation" on the matter, but there are still deep uncertainties regarding the extent and impact of future warming. The existence of current warming, and man's contribution to it, is not however in doubt.
Yet, CO2 was an order of magnitude higher 450 million years ago and temperatures were roughly the same as they are today. Climate isn't correlated with absolute concentrations of CO2, because of all of the other climate factors in effect. Changes in climate are correlated with changes in CO2, however. In fact, the Ordovician temperatures and CO2 concentrations to which you refer support our picture of the influence of CO2 on the climate, rather than contradicting it. The evidence suggests that a drop in CO2 precipitated the ice age, and a rise in CO2 may have ended it. CO2 concentrations are about 20% higher today than they have been any time in the last 400,000 years yet drastic temperature increases have not followed suit. They're not drastic on the scale of "an ending ice age", but they have produced an unusually rapid temperature change, temperature increases are related nonlinearly to CO2 concentration, and we are still in for a lot of CO2 increase over the next century, which is the real worry. In the mid 90's, Dr. Patrick Michaels called bullshit in front of Congress when predictions of higher temperatures made by computer models did not materialize. Micahels' analysis was, shall we say, dodgy at best. "climate scientists" once again were eating humble pie when computer models that generated gloom and doom "hockey stick" graphs were shown to spit out hockey sticks with random input by people who were not climate scientists McKitrick & McIntyre's analysis is also not without its flaws (here and here). -
Re:All direct Federal taxes are unconstitutional.
No, you just tapped into a popular sentiment, much as Russo does. His arguments don't withstand scrutiny, however, and there are several websites on tax protesters that illustrate why they are flawed.
That said, I'm not going to argue with a person who still thinks John Lott is credible. -
Re:Flying to US? Take off your tin foil hat.
Don't be silly, government is not after you.
Tell that to Mahad Arar.
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Re:Let them squabble
However, the key to the validity of cluster sampling is to use enough cluster points. In their 2006 report, "Mortality after the 2003 invasion of Iraq: a cross-sectional sample survey," the Johns Hopkins team says it used 47 cluster points for their sample of 1,849 interviews. This is astonishing: I wouldn't survey a junior high school, no less an entire country, using only 47 cluster points.
Intrestingly, the author doesn't take the time to suggest a better number. Even more telling, the author seems to ignore the fact that when taking a statistical sample like this, there is little effective difference between sampling a middle school and an entire country. Nor does he mention that the confidence interval should reflect the small number of cluster points unless there's actually something wrong with the methodology. In fact, I haven't seen anybody do a good job of actually tackling the numbers and the methodology beyond the basic hand waving "Look at how small the sample is!" No calculations as to how big a proper sample is. No suggestion of why the confidence interval would reflect a tighter interval than it should. Just lots of wailing and gnashing of teeth.
The Iraq Body Count project strongly rejects the 650,000 number as well.
I can't see how Iraq Body Count could be anything other than an absolute lower limit on the number of deaths. In fact, the two projects are measuring very different things.
As far as I can see, the methodology is sound. It's used all over the place and it's only generating complaints here. If somebody has a serious objection that can be backed up with real statistics instead of a gut feeling about sample size, please let me know. Lots of interesting study on the topic over at Good Math, Bad Math here and here. -
Re:Let them squabble
However, the key to the validity of cluster sampling is to use enough cluster points. In their 2006 report, "Mortality after the 2003 invasion of Iraq: a cross-sectional sample survey," the Johns Hopkins team says it used 47 cluster points for their sample of 1,849 interviews. This is astonishing: I wouldn't survey a junior high school, no less an entire country, using only 47 cluster points.
Intrestingly, the author doesn't take the time to suggest a better number. Even more telling, the author seems to ignore the fact that when taking a statistical sample like this, there is little effective difference between sampling a middle school and an entire country. Nor does he mention that the confidence interval should reflect the small number of cluster points unless there's actually something wrong with the methodology. In fact, I haven't seen anybody do a good job of actually tackling the numbers and the methodology beyond the basic hand waving "Look at how small the sample is!" No calculations as to how big a proper sample is. No suggestion of why the confidence interval would reflect a tighter interval than it should. Just lots of wailing and gnashing of teeth.
The Iraq Body Count project strongly rejects the 650,000 number as well.
I can't see how Iraq Body Count could be anything other than an absolute lower limit on the number of deaths. In fact, the two projects are measuring very different things.
As far as I can see, the methodology is sound. It's used all over the place and it's only generating complaints here. If somebody has a serious objection that can be backed up with real statistics instead of a gut feeling about sample size, please let me know. Lots of interesting study on the topic over at Good Math, Bad Math here and here. -
How chromosome count changes.Chromosome count in humans is 2n=46; count in our fellow great apes (gorilla, chimp, bonobo) is 2n=48. Here's a picture. You can see how the human chromosome 2 looks suspiciously like the chimp chromosome 2p and 2q tacked together. It doesn't show it there, but remnants of the telomeres that were previously at the top of 2q and the bottom of 2p are seen in the modern human chromosome 2; there's also the remnants of a centromere further down where the one on 2q used to be. In short, it looks exactly as you'd expect two chromosomes tacked together to look.
In addition, PZ Myers has a pretty fascinating account of how chromosome counts change over time, by a mechanism called Robersonian translocation, an instance of which is described above. One in 900 humans has one of these, and (from the Wikipedia):People with Robertsonian translocations have only 45 chromosomes in each of their cells, yet all essential genetic material is present, and they appear normal. Their children, however, may either be normal and carry the fusion chromosome (depending which chromosome is represented in the gamete), or they may inherit a missing or extra long arm of an acrocentric chromosome.
I used to wonder about this, too, and was quite pleased when the explanation was this interesting.
So: (a) chromosome number can change without any change in the actual complement of genetic material carried around. (b) It happens all the time.
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Re:Athiest or Agnostic?
The definitions of "agnostic" and "atheist" are hotly debated. The common definition of atheism being the denial of the existence of gods is inadequate for most people who call themselves atheists. Basically "atheist" should mean the person is a non-theist. In that sense there is no middle ground. Since Gates doesn't have a belief in a particular deity, by that definition he is an atheist. (It's like being pregnant, you either are or you aren't). "Agnosticism" is about knowledge, not belief, so Gates could be both an agnostic and an atheist, just like you could be an agnostic and a theist. What most people think "atheist" means is actually the definition of "strong atheism." I think most people who call themselves "agnostics" by the common definition, are actually "weak atheists". Wikipedia has plenty of information here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atheism
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Deltoid the debunker
Here's an article from Tim Lambert that says nasty things about Monckton's sources: http://scienceblogs.com/deltoid/2006/11/chinese_n
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bunk
http://scienceblogs.com/deltoid/2006/11/chinese_n
a vy_disproves_global.php#more
"... The main problem with his article is that he doesn't know what he's writing about it. He offers up an untidy pile of factoids, some of which are true but out of context, some of which are not at all true, and some of which he seems to have conjured up out of thin air. What they all have in common is that they support his position. Monckton seems to be unable to separate the wheat from the chaff...." -
See Tim Lambert's blog, Deltoid.
Tim Lambert's blog, Deltoid, addresses this directly. http://scienceblogs.com/deltoid/2006/11/chinese_n
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Check the sources
The article includes some things which are completely discredited and some things which are merely out of context. Once again, a randomly assembly of data in a popular newspaper has failed to overturn years of peer-reviewed science.
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That would be Tim LambertTim Lambert has made a good start on this one.
There's also some discussion of it on a recent thread at RealClimate.
Monckton's rant is just the usual background noise. It's not hard to make up a story by selecting evidence carefully. The hard job is finding a story that is consistent with all the evidence. While we eagerly await the fourth IPCC assessment, the third IPCC assessment, the consensus of leading scientists in the relevant fields from 2001, is the best big picture we've got.
What some gadfly has to say should always be given due consideration, not less, but certainly not more. In the present case, not much.
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Debunking debunked
It's hardly surprising to learn that the author of this 'debunking' doesn't even understand basic thermodynamics, and who invokes a discredited claim about the Chinese navy sailing through the north pole in 1421:
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Re:tapeworms
Ah, but parasites also can have an effect on an entire parts of the world. http://scienceblogs.com/loom/2006/08/01/a_nation_
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Re:Another theory is ethyl mercury in vaccines
The Mercury hypothesis for autism is the vaccination equivalent of Intelligent Design. The Geiers are not credible scientists, their statistical analysis is questionable and they appear to be exploiting concern over autism for personal gain. http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2006/06/mercury
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sudo make me a sammich
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Re:Horrible promptGrandparent: "Given that people with no memories demonstrably fail to learn anything, including simple things like where they are or what day it is, clearly they help."
Thank you, thank you, thank you! That was my first reaction as well. The blogger challenge question was so very much better.
Parent: Without memories and learning, would our species really worse off? We would be unable to develop the technologies that will ultimately destroying our entire species, and we would share the more common characteristics of other (less burdened) species without these things. "Where one is" has absolutely nothing to do with memory. Where am I right now?
Arguably, long-term memory can carry harmful psychological baggage. However, without memory, not only would you not know the name of the place you are now, but you would not remember:Where is the food in relation to you?
What is good to eat and what is not?
Or even, what does that tightness in your stomach mean?
On a species level, without technologies like fire and agriculture, this planet does not support 6.5 billion humans. You may have some difficulty explaining to the surplus that they are not better off with learning and technology. Further, without learning and technology, your life expectancy will fall back to about 1/4 of what it is now. Good luck acheiving true enlightenment and fulfillment in that time!
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Re:Mirror NeuronsThe mirror neuron, scientists tell us, takes things that we see others do and makes us feel like we're doing it ourselves. It's why we like watching things like TV and dancing. It's how we learn to imitate.
Well, some scientists are claiming that. However, like in the previous cases of finding the "Holy Grail of the mind", the theory is far from perfect, completed or even generally supported. Yes, mirror neurons might have a lot of significance in motor functions and association, especially in language learning, but they're not the only thing contributing to our sense of 'being there' or imitation. Sadly, at the moment, they seem to be the latest media-hyped neuropsychology buzzword that is getting used way out of context in a lot of pseudo-research.
See this for a good debate about the original article written by Ramachandran: http://www.edge.org/discourse/mirror_neurons.html
Another excellent critique (read the replies as well) here: http://scienceblogs.com/mixingmemory/2006/07/mirr
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Author's blog:
For more information, see the blog entry of Penn State astronomy professor Steinn Sigurðsson, one of the coauthors of this paper.
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Re:Sigh.
Incidentally, just ran across an article on Earthlike planets today.
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Re:Our laws, your country...And the reason he wasn't arrested during the previous ten years of the gambling site's existence? He has passed through the United States multiple times in the past decade while participating in this orgy of criminal vice. He has even held press conferences in the United States during this time. Officials in the federal government were well aware Carruthers was in their jurisdiction yet have done nothing.
Could it have something to do with a vote dealing with a ban on Internet gambling coming up in the legislature in the next couple weeks? Could it have something to do with the fact Carruthers has been a vocal opponent of the upcoming bill. Strange that. The man is arrested based on his involvement in running an Internet gambling company. Yet referencing the vote on banning Internet gambling requires using the future tense.
Perhaps using a 1961 law that only questionably relates to the Internet and even more questionably relates to an individual operating out of a different country is not quite so sound...
http://www.reason.com/sullum/072606.shtml
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Seed & Sciencenblogs
I like Seed and Scienceblogs myself.
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Some sources I use
Here's some of the sources I use...
For general stuff, News@Nature is fairly good, although much of their content requires a subscription.
There's also a few blogs I regularly read which are quite good at offering in-depth analysis of recent scientific news in specific fields:
* Space science: Planetary Society's blog (note that the main author, Emily Lakdawalla, is on maternity leave, so at the moment there's some guest-authors of varying quality)
* Biology/evolution: Carl Zimmer's The Loom
* Pharmaceuticals: In The Pipline
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Panda's Thumb has an entry on this
The Panda's Thumb also has a small write-up on this. Although their site seems to be down right now. For those of you who like charts and graphs, PZ Myers has one here. I wish they had of surveyed Canada, I suspect we would rank higher than the US, but not as high as some of the mainland European countries. Perhaps around the same as the UK.
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Some Informative Links
A Readable Technical Discussion of Stickers Sarcoma and Canine TVT - 2004 to Congress.
Excerpt on Geographical Distribution from the latter: TVT is seldom or no more detected in North and Central Europe and in North America, mainly due to the population control of stray animals, the preventive pre-breeding examination and the effective treatment of clinical cases. With a few exceptions, TVT remains endemic in the rest of the world, obviously because of the uncontrolled population of stray dogs and the inadequacies of exerting effective treatments.
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Re:For that matter...From the article linked from elsewhere in the comments:
The scientists found that the Sticker sarcoma cells make very few of the surface proteins that vertebrates use to distinguish self from non-self. It appears that the tumor cells can avoid an all-out attack from the immune system. Instead, the immune system reins in the cancer cells, which can survive in the dogs even after their tumor disappears.
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Re:It happens in humans, too.
Carl Zimmer has a great post on this:
http://scienceblogs.com/loom/2006/08/09/an_old_dog _lives_on_inside_new.php
FTP:
"The scientists propose that several centuries ago, a histiocyte cell in a dog or a wolf turned cancerous. A mutation may have caused the cell to become abnormal--perhaps that LINE-1 element that marks Sticker's sarcoma cells today. But natural selection would have favored other mutations as well that allowed its descendants to become more effective at growing into a tumor. During mating, some of the cancer cells managed to spread to the dog's partner, where they could continue to proliferate."
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Drug War is a sham
The US War on Drugs is a sham and the politicians know it. But the constant barrage of absolutist demonization has left no feasible opening to seriously suggest the alternative: legalization.
The UK isn't so bad. Atleast they have had the courage to allow medical marijuana research, which has resulted in the legal Sativex. Cannabis is classified as Class C, resulting in warnings & fine for possession. And very recently, a parliamentary committee lambasted the whole classification system. Even many senior politicians (like David Cameron) and police chiefs have called for considering legalization. The US does have an equivalent movement in LEAP (Law Enforcement Against Prohibition) with about 5,000 officers, but getting the word out relies on media accomodation, and unlike the UK, the US is not a very tolerant venue.
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Drug War is a sham
The US War on Drugs is a sham and the politicians know it. But the constant barrage of absolutist demonization has left no feasible opening to seriously suggest the alternative: legalization.
The UK isn't so bad. Atleast they have had the courage to allow medical marijuana research, which has resulted in the legal Sativex. Cannabis is classified as Class C, resulting in warnings & fine for possession. And very recently, A parliamentary committee has lambasted the whole classification system. Even many senior politicians (like David Cameron) and police chiefs have called for considering legalization. The US does have an equivalent movement in LEAP (Law Enforcement Against Prohibition) with about 5,000 officers, but getting the word out relies on media accomodation, and unlike the UK, the US is not a very tolerant venue. -
Re:Tax payer money at work
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Re:Viable?
It was an unusual technique. The female hybrids were sterile; the males could interbreed with one of the parent species. After multiple crosses, the resulting hybrids of both genders were fertile, and preferred to interbreed rather than cross-breed with the original parent species. Link here.
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I Never Thought I'd Say this But...
Bush was right!
Now if we could just figureout how to make a human-chimpanzee hybrid with four butts.
