That the trigger for the condition is related to gastro-intestinal problems, like the ones that mercury based preservatives in some of the vaccines causes. Hmm, interesting...
Wow... so many flaws... where to begin. And I feed this troll only because we've been not-feeding it for a decade and that has only led to kids dying of measles and other beaten diseases.
"trigger for the condition"
Nowhere in TFA do they say the GI problems are the trigger for the condition, only that there is a positive correlation that may be used as a clinical indicator.
like the ones that mercury based preservatives
Wholly, and thoroughly repudiated. With replication conducted ad nauseum all over the world with high levels of scientific rigor. Furthermore, the positive evidence that started this whole thing in the first place has been retracted because of undisclosed financial stakes in the outcome coupled with outright falsified data.
in some of the vaccines causes.
Thimerosol was removed from the vaccines that kids get a long time ago. Autism incidence did not change. Given the large n involved, we should have been able to see the effect in the population. Thimerosol is still used in vaccines that adults get and there is no epidemic of intestinal flora changes in people who receive those vaccines.
That refers specifically to the link to vaccines, and Wakefield faked the intestinal data in his subjects, but there are still others who think that there is something to the gut symptom correlation. Erikson et al (2005) http://www.springerlink.com/content/l13786n2151314t6/ looked at all the evidence and found lots of people looking at it, but the stuff that was published has a wide range in the level of scientific rigor. If there is a correlation (and there really might be one), it's a whole lot more complicated than a simple cause-effect one.
See, this is why junk science is so damaging-- one fraud can send many other researchers down dead ends for years trying to build on or replicate those results. There are scarce resources to devote to research and autism is a real thing that needs to be addressed and so much time and money has been pissed* away chasing fake leads. This directly affects my colleagues in my lab who, instead of advancing the state of the art, are stuck trying to undo Wakefield's bullshit. And my poor students who are going to have to go out and treat kids with autism while explaining to confused parents why we aren't doing this-that-and-some-other thing that sounds good on the Internet, but has no evidence to back it.
*(I swear I didn't intend that to be a pun referencing TFA when I typed it, but I'm not changing it now.)
Well if it ever comes to choosing which humans to keep alive and which to kill, I'll make sure to put my vote in for killing you... because you'd do the same for me.
Hey, OeLeWaPpErKe, I'll vote with you if you promise not to vote for me. (Wow. The value of other people is starting to become clearer.)
I'd much rather have a positive effect from a placebo than from a drug that usually has nasty side-effects.
I've wondered about this. If there is an actual placebo effect, we're drastically underutilizing it in the practice of medicine. As a result, there's a whole snake-oil industry overcharging for it and misleading people about it.
I was all ready to buy Portal with real money, but if they want to give it to me for free, so much the better.
I am going to n00b up TF2 when it comes out until I get some practice in. My apologies to my teammates in advance.
If you don't want to wait until the Linux client comes out, borrow somebody's computer, make yourself a Steam account, and "buy" the free Portal. Then use that same account on your Linux machine and redownload it.
If you're a well-to-do ivy league educated white liberal, you'll be fine. Only undesirables will be targeted.
There are several groups in the US that find well-to-do ivy league educated liberals quite undesirable, and they seem to be the ones with excess firepower...
...and excess kids compared the ivy-league liberal, too. (Unfortunately for them, those kids get sick of the bullshit, move to the coasts upon graduation to attend college--perhaps an ivy--and only return on Thanksgiving and Christmas. The liberal world can repopulate itself from outside just fine.)
...or it could be discovered that the well head is on a major fault line and the nuke triggers a volcano raising an island that could be used as a base of operations for Cobra.
Oh, who the hell am I kidding? I'm already on Slashdot. (If they let me post instead of waiting 30 more seconds I could get back to that actual work I wasn't doing).
I know it's popular to rag on that, but it's actually plausible:
1) They studied the system for years. 2) The system might not have been a Mac. Could have been a custom OS. 3) There a hive mind race. they would not have any really need for security. 4) Electronics are electronics faster smaller. But from a black box approach, no different. 5) You Assume that the system would some how be perfect. 6) He exploited a trusted system by exploiting another trusted system.
I've always thought the same thing. I go through similar rationalization for The Matrix, in that all the stuff Morpheus tells Neo about humans being a power source is just wrong, and that he doesn't really know why or how the Matrix exists. All he knows is what the last One was allowed to learn before he escaped a century ago. However, like Independence Day, the Matrix sequels are too crappy to really deserve that much benefit-of-the-doubt.
People seem to be missing that. BP is stepping up and taking care of another companies fuck up. Now, I have no idea -- perhaps they have a contractual obligation to do so... but BP and the people who work there are not the ones who deserve the blame here.
Nobody's missing that. They reiterate it in every news report I've seen about the accident. I'm actually suspicious about how emphatic BP have been about reminding everyone of it--almost as though they were setting up a legal defense groundwork already.
You certainly can use Prezi as merely an animated Powerpoint. That was what people were doing with it when I first saw it. What it excels at is turning the spaghetti chart into something meaningful. Show the big picture, then peel away some points to focus on and discuss one thing at a time, without giving the audience a false sense of simplicity. The audience continues to be reminded of the overall structure.
Final Cut Studio is a great example of how the two markets are different. The iGadgets are for the consumption of media content. Macintoshes are for the creation of media. What could possibly be gained by locking down the latter like is done on the former?
So neighbors helping fellow citizens is okay and expected, but it's not the "responsibility of government" to do so? How are you reconciling these two things since they are actually the same thing?
I'm a speech therapist, not an audiologist (and certainly no neurosurgeon) so I can't say for certain, but I think there are twin technical challenges: One is the silicon and the other is the surgical implantation.
Who the fuck is dumb enough to look for advice from advertising?
Suggestible people.. They will be along any minute claiming that advertising prescription drugs is essential for the free market to survive.
I love how everybody on Slashdot thinks they're one of the rational people who aren't suggestible. All they have to do is make a name ubiquitous enough that you associate it with something else (that "something else" being decided by their marketing strategy and focus tests) and they've affected you too. It doesn't have to work on a conscious level; in fact it often doesn't.
The other thing you should know about cochlear implants is that even if the surgery goes perfectly, you will probably lose any residual hearing you have in that ear. Threading the wire with the electrodes through the cochlea mostly destroys your ability to hear out of that ear. (Although they are getting better: http://www.springerlink.com/content/b006u72218767748/ ) For people who are completely deaf, this "loss" isn't a big deal, but if amplification can work, go with that!
The limit on how things sound is based on how densely they can pack the electrodes on the implant. Each electrode corresponds to a frequency, so the world sounds a bit like it's on autotune. As with Moore's Law, every generation, the engineers can get more electrodes closer together, which means more targeted frequencies. But you can't easily upgrade the implant without another surgery. There are some cool software tricks that I've heard about that can simulate the in-between frequencies and reduce the T-Pain effect.
Network tv used to use red for the incumbent/majority party, blue for the other (or maybe the other way around). At some point (possibly 2004), the colors were attached to the party/ideology rather than the incumbency or majority/minority status.
I think it was the 2000 election when, instead of the map colors being used one day every four years, they were on the screen every day for weeks while the Bush-Gore recount was underway. The terms "red state-blue state" was coined and it stuck.
Awesome. There will be an entire new population of n00bs for me to pwn. And these aren't just any noobs--they've never even been exposed to a real FPS experience of any sort. Hell, they don't even have a secondary-fire button!
Mwuhahahaha... Dominating!
I was thinking just that... and I am that n00b. I'm looking forward to Team Fortress 2, but everyone has a couple years of head start on me. I'm pretty sure I'm about to die a lot.
(I've been using a normal mouse for some years now, though).
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That the trigger for the condition is related to gastro-intestinal problems, like the ones that mercury based preservatives in some of the vaccines causes.
Hmm, interesting...
Wow... so many flaws... where to begin. And I feed this troll only because we've been not-feeding it for a decade and that has only led to kids dying of measles and other beaten diseases.
"trigger for the condition"
Nowhere in TFA do they say the GI problems are the trigger for the condition, only that there is a positive correlation that may be used as a clinical indicator.
like the ones that mercury based preservatives
Wholly, and thoroughly repudiated. With replication conducted ad nauseum all over the world with high levels of scientific rigor. Furthermore, the positive evidence that started this whole thing in the first place has been retracted because of undisclosed financial stakes in the outcome coupled with outright falsified data.
in some of the vaccines causes.
Thimerosol was removed from the vaccines that kids get a long time ago. Autism incidence did not change. Given the large n involved, we should have been able to see the effect in the population.
Thimerosol is still used in vaccines that adults get and there is no epidemic of intestinal flora changes in people who receive those vaccines.
That refers specifically to the link to vaccines, and Wakefield faked the intestinal data in his subjects, but there are still others who think that there is something to the gut symptom correlation.
Erikson et al (2005) http://www.springerlink.com/content/l13786n2151314t6/ looked at all the evidence and found lots of people looking at it, but the stuff that was published has a wide range in the level of scientific rigor.
If there is a correlation (and there really might be one), it's a whole lot more complicated than a simple cause-effect one.
See, this is why junk science is so damaging-- one fraud can send many other researchers down dead ends for years trying to build on or replicate those results. There are scarce resources to devote to research and autism is a real thing that needs to be addressed and so much time and money has been pissed* away chasing fake leads. This directly affects my colleagues in my lab who, instead of advancing the state of the art, are stuck trying to undo Wakefield's bullshit. And my poor students who are going to have to go out and treat kids with autism while explaining to confused parents why we aren't doing this-that-and-some-other thing that sounds good on the Internet, but has no evidence to back it.
*(I swear I didn't intend that to be a pun referencing TFA when I typed it, but I'm not changing it now.)
Well if it ever comes to choosing which humans to keep alive and which to kill, I'll make sure to put my vote in for killing you ... because you'd do the same for me.
Hey, OeLeWaPpErKe, I'll vote with you if you promise not to vote for me. (Wow. The value of other people is starting to become clearer.)
I'd much rather have a positive effect from a placebo than from a drug that usually has nasty side-effects.
I've wondered about this. If there is an actual placebo effect, we're drastically underutilizing it in the practice of medicine. As a result, there's a whole snake-oil industry overcharging for it and misleading people about it.
I don't even need to be asleep for this to happen. After a while playing, just closing my eyes is enough.
I was all ready to buy Portal with real money, but if they want to give it to me for free, so much the better.
I am going to n00b up TF2 when it comes out until I get some practice in. My apologies to my teammates in advance.
If you don't want to wait until the Linux client comes out, borrow somebody's computer, make yourself a Steam account, and "buy" the free Portal. Then use that same account on your Linux machine and redownload it.
If you're a well-to-do ivy league educated white liberal, you'll be fine. Only undesirables will be targeted.
There are several groups in the US that find well-to-do ivy league educated liberals quite undesirable, and they seem to be the ones with excess firepower...
...and excess kids compared the ivy-league liberal, too. (Unfortunately for them, those kids get sick of the bullshit, move to the coasts upon graduation to attend college--perhaps an ivy--and only return on Thanksgiving and Christmas. The liberal world can repopulate itself from outside just fine.)
Oh, who the hell am I kidding? I'm already on Slashdot. (If they let me post instead of waiting 30 more seconds I could get back to that actual work I wasn't doing).
Shit, I was going to get some work done today.
You pick the one most plausible.
I know it's popular to rag on that, but it's actually plausible:
1) They studied the system for years.
2) The system might not have been a Mac. Could have been a custom OS.
3) There a hive mind race. they would not have any really need for security.
4) Electronics are electronics faster smaller. But from a black box approach, no different.
5) You Assume that the system would some how be perfect.
6) He exploited a trusted system by exploiting another trusted system.
I've always thought the same thing. I go through similar rationalization for The Matrix, in that all the stuff Morpheus tells Neo about humans being a power source is just wrong, and that he doesn't really know why or how the Matrix exists. All he knows is what the last One was allowed to learn before he escaped a century ago. However, like Independence Day, the Matrix sequels are too crappy to really deserve that much benefit-of-the-doubt.
Forget the Gibson, the computer at the school controlled the sprinkler system!
BP neither built, nor owned, nor ran the oil rig.
People seem to be missing that. BP is stepping up and taking care of another companies fuck up. Now, I have no idea -- perhaps they have a contractual obligation to do so... but BP and the people who work there are not the ones who deserve the blame here.
Nobody's missing that. They reiterate it in every news report I've seen about the accident. I'm actually suspicious about how emphatic BP have been about reminding everyone of it--almost as though they were setting up a legal defense groundwork already.
Once upon a time, pet rocks sold hugely.
More sales does not equate to a more useful product.
More useful than what? It's more useful than a Microsoft Courier or a Palm Folio.
You certainly can use Prezi as merely an animated Powerpoint. That was what people were doing with it when I first saw it.
What it excels at is turning the spaghetti chart into something meaningful. Show the big picture, then peel away some points to focus on and discuss one thing at a time, without giving the audience a false sense of simplicity. The audience continues to be reminded of the overall structure.
Final Cut Studio is a great example of how the two markets are different. The iGadgets are for the consumption of media content. Macintoshes are for the creation of media. What could possibly be gained by locking down the latter like is done on the former?
So neighbors helping fellow citizens is okay and expected, but it's not the "responsibility of government" to do so? How are you reconciling these two things since they are actually the same thing?
I'm a speech therapist, not an audiologist (and certainly no neurosurgeon) so I can't say for certain, but I think there are twin technical challenges: One is the silicon and the other is the surgical implantation.
Who the fuck is dumb enough to look for advice from advertising?
Suggestible people.. They will be along any minute claiming that advertising prescription drugs is essential for the free market to survive.
I love how everybody on Slashdot thinks they're one of the rational people who aren't suggestible. All they have to do is make a name ubiquitous enough that you associate it with something else (that "something else" being decided by their marketing strategy and focus tests) and they've affected you too. It doesn't have to work on a conscious level; in fact it often doesn't.
The other thing you should know about cochlear implants is that even if the surgery goes perfectly, you will probably lose any residual hearing you have in that ear. Threading the wire with the electrodes through the cochlea mostly destroys your ability to hear out of that ear. (Although they are getting better: http://www.springerlink.com/content/b006u72218767748/ ) For people who are completely deaf, this "loss" isn't a big deal, but if amplification can work, go with that!
The limit on how things sound is based on how densely they can pack the electrodes on the implant. Each electrode corresponds to a frequency, so the world sounds a bit like it's on autotune. As with Moore's Law, every generation, the engineers can get more electrodes closer together, which means more targeted frequencies. But you can't easily upgrade the implant without another surgery. There are some cool software tricks that I've heard about that can simulate the in-between frequencies and reduce the T-Pain effect.
Network tv used to use red for the incumbent/majority party, blue for the other (or maybe the other way around). At some point (possibly 2004), the colors were attached to the party/ideology rather than the incumbency or majority/minority status.
I think it was the 2000 election when, instead of the map colors being used one day every four years, they were on the screen every day for weeks while the Bush-Gore recount was underway. The terms "red state-blue state" was coined and it stuck.
Awesome. There will be an entire new population of n00bs for me to pwn. And these aren't just any noobs--they've never even been exposed to a real FPS experience of any sort. Hell, they don't even have a secondary-fire button!
Mwuhahahaha... Dominating!
I was thinking just that... and I am that n00b. I'm looking forward to Team Fortress 2, but everyone has a couple years of head start on me. I'm pretty sure I'm about to die a lot.
(I've been using a normal mouse for some years now, though).
I have the Dilbert comic with this punchline taped up next to all my statistics books:
http://www.testblog.net/gallery2/d/2362-1/dilbert2001182781025.png
+1 Informative. Thank you for your reply.