This is largely based on the fact that so much falsehood has been presented to individuals.
The irony, is the number of conspiracies that have born out to be true. Bilderbergs, Tuscagy experiments, NSA monitoring and recording of phone conversations, CIA drug trafficking, modern art, putting the Shah in power in Iran, government poisoning of alcohol during prohibition, fats aren't as bad as the sugar industry wanted us to believe...and so many others.
So of course, folks are going to be more inclined. Especially when so many lies are told, politicians get caught in them all the time (*cough* Hillary)
But as a computer programmer, I am also very much aware of when the requirements constantly change, and shift, and we have to repeatedly modify the code to meet what the client claims they wanted all along.;-)
We also fix our bugs, and don't claim they never existed.
How about, a warm weak in February, followed by an unusually long and cool spring. Extremely late frosts. Everyone in the region wondering if Summer is every coming. And then I joke that no worries, the media will report that it was the hottest spring on record.
Sure enough, they do just that. The irony of course....is that I exclaimed, hey, regional != global. So I expected to look at the temperature map and see my region slightly cool, and the rest of North America and the northern hemisphere warmer. Lo, and behold, my region was listed as unusually warm.
That's when I call bullshit. But the sad thing, I predicted the bullshit. So who's agenda is being pushed that false information needs to be purported in the name of science?
And it sure sucked having half my fruit crops wiped out by late frosts. Did I mention, one of my crops is an Siberian kiwi?
Every time a global warming advocate exclaims "Weather isn't Climate" a moron is born.
Sorry, can you STFU with that line. We understand it far better than you all, who use every weather incident as an argument to your case. And the irony, is that I see this argument pitched repeatedly, when a skeptic or critic hasn't even made a claim about weather. You want a reason why people disbelieve, it's because of idiots like you who always retort "Weather isn't Climate" but then ignore the fact that well gee....critics are blasted repeatedly everytime weather occurs. Too many hurricanes, too few hurricanes, too much snow, too little snow, too much rain, not enough rain, heck.....I even heard the lack of sunspots was do to global warming.
At worst, Global Warming wipes out humanity, frankly, this would be a good thing for the planet.
You're confusing "concepts" with "predictive models". Yes, you can understand the greenhouse effect easily with an aquarium and a small plant. But trying to correlate disparate data across historical eras and fabricate that into an accurate predictive model is extremely complicated. And interestingly enough, something the Global Warming advocates have not succeeded in doing.
And when others point out flaws in your data collection and highlight bias in your attempts to correlate different temperature records, rather than honestly reviewing and adjusting those scientifically. You lash out in a political spectrum. Hmm....who is being scientific and who is not.
There is a site that documents thousands of temperature recording devices throughout the U.S. That site, scientifically, with accurate observation, demonstrated that a huge number of the locations had been affected by urban development. And yet, every global warming advocate I know, seems to trash and dismiss that. But that is sound scientifically documented information. So when we see crap like that, we understand that most folks here on Slashdot, are not about science but rather are enraptured by religion. Their belief is in the name of science, not the application of it.
Honestly, I think if such were taken into account and more of the critics were accepted into the scientific process, that we would succeed in developing a more accurate model. That model would likely show that yes, the world is warming, in part by a combination of the solar and manmade activities. And that the warming isn't quite as alarming but does require addressing mankind's general nature of polluting.
The truth is, that those who politicized Global Warming are the #1 reason it is questions.
1. Scientific Consensus - dumbest claim, there has been a consensus about nearly every wrong belief in science. Until it was disproved. A claim of consensus is NOT a scientific argument.
2. Scientific studies - the track record of many, if not most, scientific studies is very poor.
> The amount of financially influenced studies. > Incorrect studies. > Out-and-out fraudulent studies
All lead to skepticism. Remember, this is the generation in which every dietary instruction of the 80's all derived from so-called scientific studies, have no essentially been disproven.
Furthermore, the science of studying studies has some interesting results. The fact that bad studies often are more influencing. The fact that most studies, even those purported to use proper techniques, cannot be reproduced. And it's not just limited to psychology studies.
3. Bad and untrustworthy science. The big problem that GW has is that they burned a lot of credibility. They did this by seeking a desired result and bending data to their expectations - that's bad science.
a. Most of the climate science involved taking multiple divergent data sets (satellite records, mercury records, tree ring records, ice records, etc) and merge them into one large pan-historic set. The problem is, there really is NO WAY to truly do that. And a certain part of that requires guesswork.
Rather than be honest about the guess work, they erred by choosing what best fit their goals. When you're debating an increase in a degree or two, yet are dealing with that much variability. The guesswork often exceeds the statistical data.
b) There has been criticism of the "recording centers" and strong, scientific based observation that many of those record keeping centers have been compromised.
c) Statements made directly contradicted with historical evidence. While they later made adjustments to correct, it wasn't until they were pressed hard publicly and politically.
d) Scientific models used for predictions, but fail to correlate. When ALL the models used fail to properly predict, it is clear that the models are not accurate. I believe the Russian model which was far less extreme was the only one that came close to being on track.
e) Media claims. Weather NOT Climate. Dumb BS. How many times have I been told weather isn't climate. And I am told this, in debates discussing weather being used to claim climatic warming. *facepalm*
Recently, there was a report that a spring was hottest on record. I laughed, because we had one of the coldest springs and I joked that the media would still claim it was the hottest on record. I said that as a joke, not expecting it to be true. Okay, so it was....and my thought was regional vs continental vs global. I expected the data to show that my region was cooler than average, but that the continent overall was warmer, and so was the globe. But then I looked at the temperature index maps. And my region was listed as above average temps for the spring. Okay, gotta call BS....when we're having one of the coldest springs, everyone is wondering if summer is even going to come, and I've lost a ton of crops due to extremely late frosts. And you are trying to tell me that I had an above average temperature spring. Bullshit. And that is the crap pe
The same claims are true of many colleges, especially community colleges. Furthermore, can we nix the non-profit vs profit criticism. ITT, Phoenix, etc. Sure, they're for-profit learning centers....how about we just call them "honest".
Yale University sits on a $20-$25 billion savings. They earn something close to $1.5 billion a year. How is that not profit?
How many universities force transfer students to take classes over, just for added revenue. In fact, one of the biggest nightmares is dealing with credits and credit programs. Folks like me have 5 years of college credits, but no degree....you can look to transfer, but your 5 years of college credit boils down to 1 1/2 years of their program. Your 4 biology classes don't count, they want you to take a different biology. Oh, and you have to re-do freshmen chemistry...again...mandatory.
It's ridiculous. And the truth is, the entire university model is going extinct. It used to be the place to learn, the gatekeeper per say. But now, the internet can teach you almost everything you'd learn in basic 4 year college, and likely do a better job. In 20-30 years, 80% of colleges will be gone. The premiere colleges like Yale, Harvard, etc. will remain. But they will educate differently. Degrees will be cheaper, largerly online, and on the crème of the crop will be invited to actually reside on prestigious campuses.
That is the future.....it'll arrive in a couple decades.
What this was, was a psychologist who interfered in medical treatment of a present diagnosis. Ceased medical case, while patient's condition rapidly deteriorated. And who's objection to parent for giving advice, in fact, said hospital had to within 24 hours do exactly what the parent had stated was necessary based on numerous prior medical experiences.
No, had this been my child. There would of been a lot of dead doctors....
Justina wasn't the first BCH did this too. Actions toward a prior one cost a mother the life of her child. This isn't to avenge, so much as to raises awareness and inhibit future transgressions against children and their families.
That was way later.....towards the end of the 6 months
WAY WAY WAY LATER...
That was when BCH and Mass CPS were trying to save their asses, and transfer the problem to Connecticut to deal with. But still didn't want to relinquish custody.
BCH refused to do so with another child. When after months of fighting and attempting to seize custody. They finally relented. Conducted the biopsy, which revealed....strong possibilities of mitochondrial disease.
So this isn't even BCH's first foray in killing kids because of egos.
It is not a single doctor. It is the head of the metabolic department at Tufts University Medical Center. Oh, guess what....this isn't the first incident of this situation at Boston Children's Hospital. The last incident, led to the death of a child. Who's sibling also has the same problem but has done extremely well under the Tuft medical teams care.
This case occurred about 2 years ago. Their medical experts were not "alternative". In fact, their main physician was the department head of metabolic medicine at Tufts University. So far far from it.
Like "fibromyalgia", which many doctors felt was a non-existent disease. (Which has now been disproven as the cause of many fibro cases has been identified.) The doctor at Boston Children's Hospital did not believe "mitochondria" disease to be real. So he determined that it was all psycho-somatic, that her illness was just in her head. When Justina was brought to the hospital, the mother insisted that she needed a feeding tube. The doctors objected to this, used it in court to argue that the mother was pushing false illness and unnecessary treatments upon her daughter. Oh, they failed to mention that the very next day they had to give Justina a feeding tube.
This became a big toodoo... and the truth is, the state of Mass and Boston Children's Hospital uber fucked up. The issue was, that once they did, they committed fiercely to remaining in their position instead of admitting fault for fear of lawsuits. They essentially moved Justina to a psychological ward, ceased medical treatment, and her health condition plunged.
Also of note, this is NOT the first incident like this on the part of Boston Children's Hospital. They did a similar thing to another parent. The difference was she used to work for Child Protective Services. So they did not substantiate the charges. That parent in fact loss a child because of BCH's actions. A second child developed the same genetic mitochondria disease. And has since done significantly better after have been removed from BCH care and received treatment from the same far more knowledgeable expert at Tufts that was treating Justina.
In other words, BCH is hurting and even killing children by their actions. The sum of it being that egotistical doctors harming children because of their egos.
Oh, mind you, most of us have bought the same album in different formats repeatedly. So if you bought that album on vinyl, cassette, and CD. You didn't buy it, per the record labels you just bought a license.
Well, fine....where the hell is my damn license? And if I have a license, why does the media matter?
I bought a 2014 Nissan Rogue, equipped with a 3rd row, rated at 32MPG HWY/25CITY. I expected to at least get around 27-28MPG. I do not get anywhere close to that. I recently drove a Jeep Cherokee rental. It got equivalent gas mileage. So ya, not happy with Nissan, as I sacrificed ability to "tow" for better gas MPG. And it hasn't been even close to the rating. And as you can see, my 23.5MPG is pretty typical. That's a "big" miss. http://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg...
If that wasn't bad enough, my HVAC system has not worked properly since the vehicle was 13 months old. (But was out of warranty because I had just passed the 36,000 mile mark.)
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This is largely based on the fact that so much falsehood has been presented to individuals.
The irony, is the number of conspiracies that have born out to be true. Bilderbergs, Tuscagy experiments, NSA monitoring and recording of phone conversations, CIA drug trafficking, modern art, putting the Shah in power in Iran, government poisoning of alcohol during prohibition, fats aren't as bad as the sugar industry wanted us to believe...and so many others.
So of course, folks are going to be more inclined. Especially when so many lies are told, politicians get caught in them all the time (*cough* Hillary)
But as a computer programmer, I am also very much aware of when the requirements constantly change, and shift, and we have to repeatedly modify the code to meet what the client claims they wanted all along. ;-)
We also fix our bugs, and don't claim they never existed.
And the number one group to confuse the two are Global Warming advocates who use every weather incident as backing.
How about, a warm weak in February, followed by an unusually long and cool spring. Extremely late frosts. Everyone in the region wondering if Summer is every coming. And then I joke that no worries, the media will report that it was the hottest spring on record.
Sure enough, they do just that. The irony of course....is that I exclaimed, hey, regional != global. So I expected to look at the temperature map and see my region slightly cool, and the rest of North America and the northern hemisphere warmer. Lo, and behold, my region was listed as unusually warm.
That's when I call bullshit. But the sad thing, I predicted the bullshit. So who's agenda is being pushed that false information needs to be purported in the name of science?
And it sure sucked having half my fruit crops wiped out by late frosts. Did I mention, one of my crops is an Siberian kiwi?
For those collections exceeds the temperature increase in question. Your point?
Every time a global warming advocate exclaims "Weather isn't Climate" a moron is born.
Sorry, can you STFU with that line. We understand it far better than you all, who use every weather incident as an argument to your case. And the irony, is that I see this argument pitched repeatedly, when a skeptic or critic hasn't even made a claim about weather. You want a reason why people disbelieve, it's because of idiots like you who always retort "Weather isn't Climate" but then ignore the fact that well gee....critics are blasted repeatedly everytime weather occurs. Too many hurricanes, too few hurricanes, too much snow, too little snow, too much rain, not enough rain, heck.....I even heard the lack of sunspots was do to global warming.
At worst, Global Warming wipes out humanity, frankly, this would be a good thing for the planet.
You're confusing "concepts" with "predictive models". Yes, you can understand the greenhouse effect easily with an aquarium and a small plant. But trying to correlate disparate data across historical eras and fabricate that into an accurate predictive model is extremely complicated. And interestingly enough, something the Global Warming advocates have not succeeded in doing.
And when others point out flaws in your data collection and highlight bias in your attempts to correlate different temperature records, rather than honestly reviewing and adjusting those scientifically. You lash out in a political spectrum. Hmm....who is being scientific and who is not.
There is a site that documents thousands of temperature recording devices throughout the U.S. That site, scientifically, with accurate observation, demonstrated that a huge number of the locations had been affected by urban development. And yet, every global warming advocate I know, seems to trash and dismiss that. But that is sound scientifically documented information. So when we see crap like that, we understand that most folks here on Slashdot, are not about science but rather are enraptured by religion. Their belief is in the name of science, not the application of it.
Honestly, I think if such were taken into account and more of the critics were accepted into the scientific process, that we would succeed in developing a more accurate model. That model would likely show that yes, the world is warming, in part by a combination of the solar and manmade activities. And that the warming isn't quite as alarming but does require addressing mankind's general nature of polluting.
How about a little bit of intellectual honesty...
The truth is, that those who politicized Global Warming are the #1 reason it is questions.
1. Scientific Consensus - dumbest claim, there has been a consensus about nearly every wrong belief in science. Until it was disproved. A claim of consensus is NOT a scientific argument.
2. Scientific studies - the track record of many, if not most, scientific studies is very poor.
> The amount of financially influenced studies.
> Incorrect studies.
> Out-and-out fraudulent studies
All lead to skepticism. Remember, this is the generation in which every dietary instruction of the 80's all derived from so-called scientific studies, have no essentially been disproven.
Furthermore, the science of studying studies has some interesting results. The fact that bad studies often are more influencing. The fact that most studies, even those purported to use proper techniques, cannot be reproduced. And it's not just limited to psychology studies.
http://www.economist.com/news/...
https://www.washingtonpost.com...
https://www.jove.com/blog/2012...
3. Bad and untrustworthy science. The big problem that GW has is that they burned a lot of credibility. They did this by seeking a desired result and bending data to their expectations - that's bad science.
a. Most of the climate science involved taking multiple divergent data sets (satellite records, mercury records, tree ring records, ice records, etc) and merge them into one large pan-historic set. The problem is, there really is NO WAY to truly do that. And a certain part of that requires guesswork.
Rather than be honest about the guess work, they erred by choosing what best fit their goals. When you're debating an increase in a degree or two, yet are dealing with that much variability. The guesswork often exceeds the statistical data.
b) There has been criticism of the "recording centers" and strong, scientific based observation that many of those record keeping centers have been compromised.
c) Statements made directly contradicted with historical evidence. While they later made adjustments to correct, it wasn't until they were pressed hard publicly and politically.
d) Scientific models used for predictions, but fail to correlate. When ALL the models used fail to properly predict, it is clear that the models are not accurate. I believe the Russian model which was far less extreme was the only one that came close to being on track.
e) Media claims. Weather NOT Climate. Dumb BS. How many times have I been told weather isn't climate. And I am told this, in debates discussing weather being used to claim climatic warming. *facepalm*
Recently, there was a report that a spring was hottest on record. I laughed, because we had one of the coldest springs and I joked that the media would still claim it was the hottest on record. I said that as a joke, not expecting it to be true. Okay, so it was....and my thought was regional vs continental vs global. I expected the data to show that my region was cooler than average, but that the continent overall was warmer, and so was the globe. But then I looked at the temperature index maps. And my region was listed as above average temps for the spring. Okay, gotta call BS....when we're having one of the coldest springs, everyone is wondering if summer is even going to come, and I've lost a ton of crops due to extremely late frosts. And you are trying to tell me that I had an above average temperature spring. Bullshit. And that is the crap pe
The same claims are true of many colleges, especially community colleges. Furthermore, can we nix the non-profit vs profit criticism. ITT, Phoenix, etc. Sure, they're for-profit learning centers....how about we just call them "honest".
Yale University sits on a $20-$25 billion savings. They earn something close to $1.5 billion a year. How is that not profit?
How many universities force transfer students to take classes over, just for added revenue. In fact, one of the biggest nightmares is dealing with credits and credit programs. Folks like me have 5 years of college credits, but no degree....you can look to transfer, but your 5 years of college credit boils down to 1 1/2 years of their program. Your 4 biology classes don't count, they want you to take a different biology. Oh, and you have to re-do freshmen chemistry...again...mandatory.
It's ridiculous. And the truth is, the entire university model is going extinct. It used to be the place to learn, the gatekeeper per say. But now, the internet can teach you almost everything you'd learn in basic 4 year college, and likely do a better job. In 20-30 years, 80% of colleges will be gone. The premiere colleges like Yale, Harvard, etc. will remain. But they will educate differently. Degrees will be cheaper, largerly online, and on the crème of the crop will be invited to actually reside on prestigious campuses.
That is the future.....it'll arrive in a couple decades.
So ya.... no one sees the conflict of interest in this?
Comcast and Verizon in bed together? Any wonder you can't get FiOS ANYWHERE!!!
Ya, I am so sick of this crap....
Is allowing the egos of doctors to kill children.
What this was, was a psychologist who interfered in medical treatment of a present diagnosis. Ceased medical case, while patient's condition rapidly deteriorated. And who's objection to parent for giving advice, in fact, said hospital had to within 24 hours do exactly what the parent had stated was necessary based on numerous prior medical experiences.
No, had this been my child. There would of been a lot of dead doctors....
Justina wasn't the first BCH did this too. Actions toward a prior one cost a mother the life of her child. This isn't to avenge, so much as to raises awareness and inhibit future transgressions against children and their families.
As to the mitochondrial disease, it is a new area that is hard to assess. Similar to fibromyalgia.
That was way later.....towards the end of the 6 months
WAY WAY WAY LATER...
That was when BCH and Mass CPS were trying to save their asses, and transfer the problem to Connecticut to deal with. But still didn't want to relinquish custody.
Of course a hospital doesn't have the authority to do so, that's why they call CPS.
Right, it's not like the guy in question was trying to kill anyone.
Which you can argue the BCH doctors were doing.
It the recipe for liberty.
BCH refused to do so with another child. When after months of fighting and attempting to seize custody. They finally relented. Conducted the biopsy, which revealed....strong possibilities of mitochondrial disease.
So this isn't even BCH's first foray in killing kids because of egos.
It is not a single doctor. It is the head of the metabolic department at Tufts University Medical Center. Oh, guess what....this isn't the first incident of this situation at Boston Children's Hospital. The last incident, led to the death of a child. Who's sibling also has the same problem but has done extremely well under the Tuft medical teams care.
Egos, and it is quite common. More common than you would believe. And this is from nurses and doctors I know.
This case occurred about 2 years ago. Their medical experts were not "alternative". In fact, their main physician was the department head of metabolic medicine at Tufts University. So far far from it.
Like "fibromyalgia", which many doctors felt was a non-existent disease. (Which has now been disproven as the cause of many fibro cases has been identified.) The doctor at Boston Children's Hospital did not believe "mitochondria" disease to be real. So he determined that it was all psycho-somatic, that her illness was just in her head. When Justina was brought to the hospital, the mother insisted that she needed a feeding tube. The doctors objected to this, used it in court to argue that the mother was pushing false illness and unnecessary treatments upon her daughter. Oh, they failed to mention that the very next day they had to give Justina a feeding tube.
This became a big toodoo... and the truth is, the state of Mass and Boston Children's Hospital uber fucked up. The issue was, that once they did, they committed fiercely to remaining in their position instead of admitting fault for fear of lawsuits. They essentially moved Justina to a psychological ward, ceased medical treatment, and her health condition plunged.
Also of note, this is NOT the first incident like this on the part of Boston Children's Hospital. They did a similar thing to another parent. The difference was she used to work for Child Protective Services. So they did not substantiate the charges. That parent in fact loss a child because of BCH's actions. A second child developed the same genetic mitochondria disease. And has since done significantly better after have been removed from BCH care and received treatment from the same far more knowledgeable expert at Tufts that was treating Justina.
In other words, BCH is hurting and even killing children by their actions. The sum of it being that egotistical doctors harming children because of their egos.
View a video or song, and 10 years.
Oh, mind you, most of us have bought the same album in different formats repeatedly. So if you bought that album on vinyl, cassette, and CD. You didn't buy it, per the record labels you just bought a license.
Well, fine....where the hell is my damn license? And if I have a license, why does the media matter?
There is NOTHING that the Russians can do that can even come close to sewing 1% of the distrust that Hillary Clinton generated.
I bought a 2014 Nissan Rogue, equipped with a 3rd row, rated at 32MPG HWY/25CITY. I expected to at least get around 27-28MPG. I do not get anywhere close to that. I recently drove a Jeep Cherokee rental. It got equivalent gas mileage. So ya, not happy with Nissan, as I sacrificed ability to "tow" for better gas MPG. And it hasn't been even close to the rating. And as you can see, my 23.5MPG is pretty typical. That's a "big" miss.
http://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg...
If that wasn't bad enough, my HVAC system has not worked properly since the vehicle was 13 months old. (But was out of warranty because I had just passed the 36,000 mile mark.)
So sick and tired of cars.