Even pantload is an exaggeration. Handful is stretching it, even. Considering the minuscule fraction represented here, a better term would be "blip" or even just "few". But this is slashdot, and to not put something like this on the front page in a way that excites the conservative base would be considered a disservice. Notice how many people started threads here telling us their feelings about global warming, even though this has absolutely nothing to do with global warming; that shows that this front page story did its job quite well.
The volume of papers published per year in biomed is staggering. Indeed the volume is so high to make 64 papers insignificant.
If we were to assume that all 64 of those papers were published in the same year - which the article does not specify - it still would not be significant. Even if we assumed them to all be in the same year and roughly related - which again we don't see stated in the article - it still would not be significant.
For a good point on this, let's look at one popular field in biomed. A lot of work in done under the term "proteomics" currently. Pubmed shows nearly 6300 papers in 2014 under this term. Hence if all 64 of these papers were published last year and were proteomics papers, that would be barely 1%.
How many industries have recall rates below 1%? Not many. Sure it would be better for it to be zero, but there are bad actors in any industry and academia is not the shangri-la stress-free hippy paradise that conservative commentators make it out to be.
Very few academics submit articles for free, especially in biomedical sciences. Many journals - even open access ones - charge $1-3k for publication. There are some cases where certain academics can submit for free if they are employed at sponsoring institutions, but those are the minority of researchers by a long shot.
Overall, this indicates an incredible amount of sloppiness and laziness in the peer-review field.
That is more anti-science FUD - which is not a surprise coming from the deeply conservative "failure machine" samzenpus. They said that 64 papers were retracted. The volume of papers published in any given year is so high that 64 papers isn't even a rounding error. Yeah, some errors will be made but that is pretty well unavoidable. This kind of error rate is so low that even Toyota looks at it with admiration.
It passed an ethics review because it started from cultured skin cells. Short of implanting them into unwilling participants or using them to attempt human cloning, there is very little that you are prohibited from doing with cultured skin cells. No lives were taken in the process of this experiment.
much to the surprise of one and all, has become the front-runner for the Republican nomination for president
It doesn't surprise me at all that Trump is in the lead. He represents everything that the republicans keep saying they want. Now they have it and they don't know how to get rid of it.
Thank you, "failure machine" samzenpus. I was wondering how long you would make it this week before touting the anti-science agenda. It would certainly be terrible if people on slashdot had an appreciation for how big science works in the 21st century, it is great that they can count on people like you to blindly demonize it instead.
We are in the age of big science. The papers with enormous author lists are often the ones dealing with terabytes of data - think supercolliders and the like - so indeed here are huge numbers of people working on it. This is not the great conspiracy that "failure machine" samzenpus is trying to portray it as here. Rather, the fact of the matter is that very little science is done by individuals any more; the big questions we seek to answer now require more resources and time than what an individual can pull together.
I should have been more specific. I wasn't looking for measurements in imperial units; I can easily convert that myself. I was trying to get to the fact that the average American weighs quite a bit more than a slim 26 year old Japanese engineer. If the mass of the rider is twice what they estimated it by, does the range go down accordingly or is it reduced slightly less so?
The article claims that would be the price, anyways. Granted, I don't have $800 to spend on something I don't have a need for right now, but if I did it would be on my list of things to buy.
They also didn't mention speed and range for an average American...
Update... As a bmp that's 30054 bytes per image (in MS Paint anyway), for a total of 4.478 petabytes of data. So pretty big.:P
You can reduce that pretty quickly, though. A 100x100 image of a face would be only about 70% or so occupied by the face itself, the rest could be black (or white) as it would add nothing of value to the image.
Unfortunately the top-selling Lexus is the ES series, which is anything but an enjoyment to be in. It is not by a long shot the worst car ever, but it is also far away from being the most enjoyable.
I wonder what else could be dropped into a prison yard by drone just to cause unrest? Even with the relatively high value of the cargo, it is still hard to see how the person who delivered it could reasonably expect to be paid for it. Maybe next time they should pack it with flour and sugar instead.
If the goal - as you claim - of the ACA is to destroy the insurance industry so that single payer can rise up, then why is it that every proposed "alternative" to the ACA that has been proposed to date by any elected republican is >90% the same as the ACA bill itself?
Healthcare under ObamaCare is making things much much worse, and much more expensive.
The increase in health care costs are no worse than they were before the ACA passed. This is, of course, because the system is not dramatically different than it was before. Previously, profit for the insurance industry was guaranteed by contract, now profit is guaranteed by law.
Furthermore, look at who in Washington DC is on the payroll of the insurance industry. The majority of our elected officials - of both parties - are receiving sizeable paychecks from the insurance industry. They would be putting their own careers in jeopardy if they were to do anything other than guarantee the continued existence of the insurance industry.
In short, there is no hope for national single payer for at least the next 20 years.
You can talk about conspiracies relating to
the long term problems that will come from [the ACA]
But the reality is that it does not lead to single payer, and the insurance industry has ensured that to be the case for the foreseeable future.
It was designed to fail, so that Americans would jump into single payer, crap healthcare.
You're drinking too much of the Fox News Kool-Aid, there. The ACA is a crappy law, but it is not going to force anyone to single payer. Quite the opposite, in fact; the ACA is actually the largest corporate handout in the history of government. Insurance companies are continuing to screw customers, and now customers don't have an option. Notice how quickly the single payer option was thrown off the table and completely under the bus? The reason for that is simple; the insurance industry owns congress. For that matter, they own the white house as well. Single payer never stood a chance, and never will for at least the next 20 years. The insurance industry is just too profitable and too powerful, and the ACA ensured that nothing will challenge that for a very long time.
But you can rest easy. You clearly are deathly afraid of single payer; I can tell you that it won't come any time soon. I'd be first in line to sign up for it if it did, but it won't.
Like it, hate it, or be indifferent to it - your choice. But don't lie about it and claim that it is a total failure at this point. It does still exist, and people still post to it. Just because people don't jump to it with updates every femtosecond on which coffee shop has the best bathroom or other such useless bullshit doesn't mean it has failed.
Quite the contrary, in fact. That people don't post such meaningless garbage is one of the main reasons behind the high quality of content on Google+.
That is pretty much my point. I don't exist on facebook - I am told repeatedly I am the last such person in the world - because I don't care about trivial bullshit that people I haven't spoken with in decades have to say about places I don't wish to see. I am on google+, and indeed I do prefer the content there.
unfortunately you'll need to buy sourceforge in the same offer which is worth vastly more.
Is it still? I thought the new owners were eagerly working on ruining it.
Well, it is rather hard to be worth less than slashdot after what has happened here in the past 5-10 years.
That is the only explanation for "Failure Machine" Samzenpus posting something that does not trash the democrats or actively spread conservative FUD here. Nevermind that the summary is of such awful grammar that it makes me gnash my teeth, the fact that this article somehow earned his approval may actually be a sign of the end of times (at least, for slashdot).
Like it, hate it, or be indifferent to it - your choice. But don't lie about it and claim that it is a total failure at this point. It does still exist, and people still post to it. Just because people don't jump to it with updates every femtosecond on which coffee shop has the best bathroom or other such useless bullshit doesn't mean it has failed.
And really, if anyone should know failure, it's slashdot. This site is vastly closer to 100% complete failure than google plus has ever been. For those who didn't see it last week, slashdot is up for sale, again. I suspect DHI might have change for a $20 if you want to make an offer; unfortunately you'll need to buy sourceforge in the same offer which is worth vastly more.
If they could identify the source of the money, could they work it back a little further to figure out where that source got its money from? That could be useful information. I rather doubt that ISIS is getting most of its funding through a kickstarter page or other such structure involving lots of small contributions.
There have been studies done before asking average people to estimate how high an object is in the sky (generally balloons or kites) and the estimates were generally awful. Even judging the difference between 60 and 200 feet is generally beyond the range of what most humans can comprehend in vertical distance.
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Even pantload is an exaggeration. Handful is stretching it, even. Considering the minuscule fraction represented here, a better term would be "blip" or even just "few". But this is slashdot, and to not put something like this on the front page in a way that excites the conservative base would be considered a disservice. Notice how many people started threads here telling us their feelings about global warming, even though this has absolutely nothing to do with global warming; that shows that this front page story did its job quite well.
The volume of papers published per year in biomed is staggering. Indeed the volume is so high to make 64 papers insignificant.
If we were to assume that all 64 of those papers were published in the same year - which the article does not specify - it still would not be significant. Even if we assumed them to all be in the same year and roughly related - which again we don't see stated in the article - it still would not be significant.
For a good point on this, let's look at one popular field in biomed. A lot of work in done under the term "proteomics" currently. Pubmed shows nearly 6300 papers in 2014 under this term. Hence if all 64 of these papers were published last year and were proteomics papers, that would be barely 1%.
How many industries have recall rates below 1%? Not many. Sure it would be better for it to be zero, but there are bad actors in any industry and academia is not the shangri-la stress-free hippy paradise that conservative commentators make it out to be.
Academics submit articles to journals for free
Very few academics submit articles for free, especially in biomedical sciences. Many journals - even open access ones - charge $1-3k for publication. There are some cases where certain academics can submit for free if they are employed at sponsoring institutions, but those are the minority of researchers by a long shot.
Overall, this indicates an incredible amount of sloppiness and laziness in the peer-review field.
That is more anti-science FUD - which is not a surprise coming from the deeply conservative "failure machine" samzenpus. They said that 64 papers were retracted. The volume of papers published in any given year is so high that 64 papers isn't even a rounding error. Yeah, some errors will be made but that is pretty well unavoidable. This kind of error rate is so low that even Toyota looks at it with admiration.
We have enough small-brained comments on slashdot already. Unfortunately some people likely wouldn't be able to tell the difference around here.
It passed an ethics review because it started from cultured skin cells. Short of implanting them into unwilling participants or using them to attempt human cloning, there is very little that you are prohibited from doing with cultured skin cells. No lives were taken in the process of this experiment.
The project is only available in San Francisco, Boston, and Fresno for now.
Granted, I think our dear slashdot editors could have been a little more explicit with that constraint but it is there...
who bites the heads off doves
Ozzy Osbourne bit the head off a bat
Alice Cooper did not decapitate a chicken, but was savvy enough to make sure nobody said otherwise.
There was not dove, though.
much to the surprise of one and all, has become the front-runner for the Republican nomination for president
It doesn't surprise me at all that Trump is in the lead. He represents everything that the republicans keep saying they want. Now they have it and they don't know how to get rid of it.
There they go, creating tech jobs and all that. Terrible people, they are.
Yep, it's all there. We'll see 'em all soon, for sure.
Thank you, "failure machine" samzenpus. I was wondering how long you would make it this week before touting the anti-science agenda. It would certainly be terrible if people on slashdot had an appreciation for how big science works in the 21st century, it is great that they can count on people like you to blindly demonize it instead.
We are in the age of big science. The papers with enormous author lists are often the ones dealing with terabytes of data - think supercolliders and the like - so indeed here are huge numbers of people working on it. This is not the great conspiracy that "failure machine" samzenpus is trying to portray it as here. Rather, the fact of the matter is that very little science is done by individuals any more; the big questions we seek to answer now require more resources and time than what an individual can pull together.
6.25 mph and range 7.5 miles.
I should have been more specific. I wasn't looking for measurements in imperial units; I can easily convert that myself. I was trying to get to the fact that the average American weighs quite a bit more than a slim 26 year old Japanese engineer. If the mass of the rider is twice what they estimated it by, does the range go down accordingly or is it reduced slightly less so?
The article claims that would be the price, anyways. Granted, I don't have $800 to spend on something I don't have a need for right now, but if I did it would be on my list of things to buy.
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They also didn't mention speed and range for an average American
Update... As a bmp that's 30054 bytes per image (in MS Paint anyway), for a total of 4.478 petabytes of data. So pretty big. :P
You can reduce that pretty quickly, though. A 100x100 image of a face would be only about 70% or so occupied by the face itself, the rest could be black (or white) as it would add nothing of value to the image.
creating enjoyment out of motion.
Unfortunately the top-selling Lexus is the ES series, which is anything but an enjoyment to be in. It is not by a long shot the worst car ever, but it is also far away from being the most enjoyable.
Another Lexus was also chosen by the Top Gear guys as The Worst Car in the History of the World, as well.
I wonder what else could be dropped into a prison yard by drone just to cause unrest? Even with the relatively high value of the cargo, it is still hard to see how the person who delivered it could reasonably expect to be paid for it. Maybe next time they should pack it with flour and sugar instead.
Healthcare under ObamaCare is making things much much worse, and much more expensive.
The increase in health care costs are no worse than they were before the ACA passed. This is, of course, because the system is not dramatically different than it was before. Previously, profit for the insurance industry was guaranteed by contract, now profit is guaranteed by law.
Furthermore, look at who in Washington DC is on the payroll of the insurance industry. The majority of our elected officials - of both parties - are receiving sizeable paychecks from the insurance industry. They would be putting their own careers in jeopardy if they were to do anything other than guarantee the continued existence of the insurance industry.
In short, there is no hope for national single payer for at least the next 20 years.
You can talk about conspiracies relating to
the long term problems that will come from [the ACA]
But the reality is that it does not lead to single payer, and the insurance industry has ensured that to be the case for the foreseeable future.
It was designed to fail, so that Americans would jump into single payer, crap healthcare.
You're drinking too much of the Fox News Kool-Aid, there. The ACA is a crappy law, but it is not going to force anyone to single payer. Quite the opposite, in fact; the ACA is actually the largest corporate handout in the history of government. Insurance companies are continuing to screw customers, and now customers don't have an option. Notice how quickly the single payer option was thrown off the table and completely under the bus? The reason for that is simple; the insurance industry owns congress. For that matter, they own the white house as well. Single payer never stood a chance, and never will for at least the next 20 years. The insurance industry is just too profitable and too powerful, and the ACA ensured that nothing will challenge that for a very long time.
But you can rest easy. You clearly are deathly afraid of single payer; I can tell you that it won't come any time soon. I'd be first in line to sign up for it if it did, but it won't.
Like it, hate it, or be indifferent to it - your choice. But don't lie about it and claim that it is a total failure at this point. It does still exist, and people still post to it. Just because people don't jump to it with updates every femtosecond on which coffee shop has the best bathroom or other such useless bullshit doesn't mean it has failed.
Quite the contrary, in fact. That people don't post such meaningless garbage is one of the main reasons behind the high quality of content on Google+.
That is pretty much my point. I don't exist on facebook - I am told repeatedly I am the last such person in the world - because I don't care about trivial bullshit that people I haven't spoken with in decades have to say about places I don't wish to see. I am on google+, and indeed I do prefer the content there.
unfortunately you'll need to buy sourceforge in the same offer which is worth vastly more.
Is it still? I thought the new owners were eagerly working on ruining it.
Well, it is rather hard to be worth less than slashdot after what has happened here in the past 5-10 years.
That is the only explanation for "Failure Machine" Samzenpus posting something that does not trash the democrats or actively spread conservative FUD here. Nevermind that the summary is of such awful grammar that it makes me gnash my teeth, the fact that this article somehow earned his approval may actually be a sign of the end of times (at least, for slashdot).
Like it, hate it, or be indifferent to it - your choice. But don't lie about it and claim that it is a total failure at this point. It does still exist, and people still post to it. Just because people don't jump to it with updates every femtosecond on which coffee shop has the best bathroom or other such useless bullshit doesn't mean it has failed.
And really, if anyone should know failure, it's slashdot. This site is vastly closer to 100% complete failure than google plus has ever been. For those who didn't see it last week, slashdot is up for sale, again. I suspect DHI might have change for a $20 if you want to make an offer; unfortunately you'll need to buy sourceforge in the same offer which is worth vastly more.
If they could identify the source of the money, could they work it back a little further to figure out where that source got its money from? That could be useful information. I rather doubt that ISIS is getting most of its funding through a kickstarter page or other such structure involving lots of small contributions.
There have been studies done before asking average people to estimate how high an object is in the sky (generally balloons or kites) and the estimates were generally awful. Even judging the difference between 60 and 200 feet is generally beyond the range of what most humans can comprehend in vertical distance.