September 30, 1980-- The Public Board of Inquiry concludes NutraSweet should not be approved pending further investigations of brain tumors in animals. The board states it "has not been presented with proof of reasonable certainty that aspartame is safe for use as a food additive."
Do you have any idea how much aspartame they force-fed those animals to provoke a (possible) carcinogenic response?
Do you care?
Do you have any idea how small a dose of aspartame it takes to make me sick for a week? Do you care?
I know I'm hypersensitive, but poison is poison: when the canary bites it, you better get out of the pit.
There is no convincing evidence that moderate consumption of aspartame causes harm.
September 30, 1980-- The Public Board of Inquiry concludes NutraSweet should not be approved pending further investigations of brain tumors in animals. The board states it "has not been presented with proof of reasonable certainty that aspartame is safe for use as a food additive."
January 1981-- Donald Rumsfeld, CEO of Searle, states in a sales meeting that he is going to make a big push to get aspartame approved within the year. Rumsfeld says he will use his political pull in Washington, rather than scientific means, to make sure it gets approved.
January 21, 1981-- Ronald Reagan is sworn in as President of the United States. Reagan's transition team, which includes Donald Rumsfeld, CEO of G. D. Searle, hand picks Dr. Arthur Hull Hayes Jr. to be the new FDA Commissioner.
March, 1981-- An FDA commissioner's panel is established to review issues raised by the Public Board of Inquiry.
July 15, 1981-- In one of his first official acts, Dr. Arthur Hayes Jr., the new FDA commissioner, overrules the Public Board of Inquiry, ignores the recommendations of his own internal FDA team and approves NutraSweet for dry products.
Isn't it rather scary that while scientists are getting excited over this 47 million year old fossil that there are fossils in Congress who will swear on a stack of Bibles that the earth is only 6000 years old and that evolution is bunk.
Frankly, I find it more frightening that most of our leaders and most of the population in general have all bought into the idea that morality is just convention and that there is no higher power to answer to. I suppose they think we're more "evolved" now.
Yes! Lets go back to a time of morality such as the Salem witch hunts, or the inquisition!
God fearing folk sure know how to be moral! Oh boy! We'll burn books, brand people with red hot iron warmed over those bonfires, it'll be swell!
I think the worst thing the white man did to the indians was to not totally destroy their society and integrate them into ours. Their culture failed so why let them hang on to it and remain weak.
If you're caucasian and not Italian, do you think it was wrong of the Romans to allow your defeated ancestors to live? Clearly, non-Roman cultures were weak and failed, so the victors should have done the weak a favor and wiped them out?
You wouldn't also happen to believe that all but the gold winners at the Olympics should be slaughtered on site, would you?
looked the other way when Saddam cheated the sanctions
You were only looking the other way so as not to get the dust from the repeated bombings in your eyes.
let Pakistan become completely islamified
How and why would you go about denying freedom of religion to another country?
It's not you lack of intervention in their lives that makes these people hate you, it's the fact that you keep bombing the fuck out of their families and acting as though you're somehow justified in all these killings.
Want to see where the money trail leads in the bank bailouts? You'll have to subscribe to our premium service. Want to hear which of your local politicians is taking kickbacks from government contractors? That'll be a one time fee, or free to our subscribers.
Want to keep us quiet about where the money trail leads? Just give us a cut of that kickback larger than the sum of one-time fees we'd collect to spill the beans.
In Hiroshima, they have that quote on a plaque at the foot of a tree, scorched from the bottom up to a point where it had been broken by the blast, and with the trunk having re-sprouted there and having grown into a full canopy since.
Scientists are sometimes wrong in their assumptions.
Simple versus advanced, which is the way most people use the word, is plainly wrong when talking about biology. The myth of the "higher" and "lower" forms of life is one that persists in the public consciousness, but it's been rejected in scientific circles for the better part a century. Simple versus complex is a slightly different story.
No matter which words you try to use, it will still boil down in people's minds as "which is the best?". That and the obsession with "the first" are things that you can't seem to educate out of people (probably because the education system is obsessed with the bests and the firsts).
The thing about "lower" life is that it has been perfecting that simple form for longer than our advanced kind has existed. We may look at those immobile plants and think "ah! We can easily run circles around you!", but they have this "stay in place and bask in the sun" deal down. We adapt to radiation by running away, lest we get sick and die, they sit there and take it.
We may be more "advanced", but they were here "first".
After working at my office all day, I started work on the survey project in my basement around 5pm on a Friday night and worked on it for a while and had a wonderful time
This guy should talk to his own people more often--Sony's CEO and chairman Howard Stringer said in a recent interview:
Customers will refuse to accept it unless the technology is open. Youth in particular really dislikes closed technologies, closed systems and the like. I think the failure of AOL LLC of the US is good evidence of this. When the Internet was just beginning to spread, AOL boosted its subscriber base by providing special services only to its customers. After a while, though, customers began rebelling, complaining that they weren't children. Because AOL wanted to keep them locked up in a narrow portion of the immense Internet cosmos
Instead of that kind of level headed talk we get to hear from Mr. All-My-Customers-Are-Criminals.
Ride that ship to the bottom of the sea, Michael Lynton.
Previously, Lynton had worked extensively on internet related matters. He was President, AOL International, and CEO, AOL Europe starting in 2000, where he was responsible for AOL Europe as well as for AOL operations in Asia and Latin America.
In 2000, Pope John Paul II issued a formal apology for all the errors of the Church over the last 2000 years including the trial of Galileo among others.
Thats why I never accept apologies. If they were really sorry they wouldn't have done it in the first place.
I'm pretty sure JP there wasn't the one who dunn it to begin with...
Although if Ratzi had the opportunity to fuck over Galileo, I'm sure he would. He's a bit of a jerk, you see. Anyhoo, the important part is that the Church officially admitted that they were wrong. That's a good thing, it puts a stop to the wrongness, even if it had been better never to have been wrong at all.
You can't tell me beating up prostitutes in Grand Theft Auto is better than a modern day war simulation.
There are no real prostitutes in the fake cities where GTA takes place. There are real people getting really killed in the real cities depicted in modern war games. That's a real difference.
I'm Catholic you insensitive clod! I can't use it!
Get with the times, you anachronistic clod!
Thanks to his intuition as a brilliant physicist and by relying on different arguments, Galileo, who practically invented the experimental method, understood why only the sun could function as the centre of the world, as it was then known, that is to say, as a planetary system. The error of the theologians of the time, when they maintained the centrality of the Earth, was to think that our understanding of the physical world's structure was, in some way, imposed by the literal sense of Sacred Scripture.... â" Pope John Paul II, L'Osservatore Romano N. 44 (1264) - November 4, 1992
In 2000, Pope John Paul II issued a formal apology for all the errors of the Church over the last 2000 years including the trial of Galileo among others.
I have a sneaking suspicion that you are right - this isn't about the gene itself, but how to isolate/observe, etc. That process could very well be an invention
A normal person would say "I went to REI and had to go to Customer Service because what I needed wasn't there..." A douchebag would go into the detail he did.
A douchebag would pick apart his blog post in great detail and make unsupported assumptions about how a normal person would explain the situation.
For people who use these plug-ins, do you ever whitelist ads for sites you use a lot for free, or do you block everything? If the latter, can you give me the dime tour of your justification for doing so?
Short story: It was too much trouble to maintain my own filter that only blocked the evil ads, so I got lazy and got a ready-made filter set that blocks everything.
The ad that pushed me too far was a sidebar on the Incredibles page on IMDB (I wanted to know the 'real' name of Elastigirl... it was Helen) that loaded a video for a competing CGI movie and it FROZE MY BROWSER for THREE MINUTES while it loaded its useless waste of bandwidth. I remember which movie that was, and I will never pay to see it.
Ads with sounds, pop-ups, pop-unders, flash horrors that get on top of the text I'm trying to read, blinking ads that distract the eye away from the text, etc, etc, etc. If there were none of those, if every site was as ethical as google in their ad placement, then I wouldn't need adBlock.
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The main reason they did not approve was not due to REAL danger , it was due to the absence of proper documentation.
The real reason it was approved was not due to real science, it was due to political connections.
September 30, 1980-- The Public Board of Inquiry concludes NutraSweet should not be approved pending further investigations of brain tumors in animals. The board states it "has not been presented with proof of reasonable certainty that aspartame is safe for use as a food additive."
Do you have any idea how much aspartame they force-fed those animals to provoke a (possible) carcinogenic response?
Do you care?
Do you have any idea how small a dose of aspartame it takes to make me sick for a week?
Do you care?
I know I'm hypersensitive, but poison is poison: when the canary bites it, you better get out of the pit.
There is no convincing evidence that moderate consumption of aspartame causes harm.
September 30, 1980-- The Public Board of Inquiry concludes NutraSweet should not be approved pending further investigations of brain tumors in animals. The board states it "has not been presented with proof of reasonable certainty that aspartame is safe for use as a food additive."
January 1981-- Donald Rumsfeld, CEO of Searle, states in a sales meeting that he is going to make a big push to get aspartame approved within the year. Rumsfeld says he will use his political pull in Washington, rather than scientific means, to make sure it gets approved.
January 21, 1981-- Ronald Reagan is sworn in as President of the United States. Reagan's transition team, which includes Donald Rumsfeld, CEO of G. D. Searle, hand picks Dr. Arthur Hull Hayes Jr. to be the new FDA Commissioner.
March, 1981-- An FDA commissioner's panel is established to review issues raised by the Public Board of Inquiry.
May 19, 1981-- Three of six in-house FDA scientists who were responsible for reviewing the brain tumor issues, Dr. Robert Condon, Dr. Satya Dubey, and Dr. Douglas Park, advise against approval of NutraSweet, stating on the record that the Searle tests are unreliable and not adequate to determine the safety of aspartame.
July 15, 1981-- In one of his first official acts, Dr. Arthur Hayes Jr., the new FDA commissioner, overrules the Public Board of Inquiry, ignores the recommendations of his own internal FDA team and approves NutraSweet for dry products.
You watched these pigs, where?
Mexico.
People throw their garbage in the ditch next to the road, feral pigs eat the garbage, sharp metal bits and all.
Technically speaking, a homing missile or torpedo could count as a robot weapon.
The difference is that the new kind isn't kamikaze.
Oh yeah. Pigs don't eat garbage, unless it is supplied to them. Wild boar just don't hang around dumpsters, in my experience
I have watched pigs eat garbage, the plastic bags, even the metal cans.
Your experience is sadly limited.
Isn't it rather scary that while scientists are getting excited over this 47 million year old fossil that there are fossils in Congress who will swear on a stack of Bibles that the earth is only 6000 years old and that evolution is bunk.
Frankly, I find it more frightening that most of our leaders and most of the population in general have all bought into the idea that morality is just convention and that there is no higher power to answer to. I suppose they think we're more "evolved" now.
Yes! Lets go back to a time of morality such as the Salem witch hunts, or the inquisition!
God fearing folk sure know how to be moral! Oh boy! We'll burn books, brand people with red hot iron warmed over those bonfires, it'll be swell!
I think the worst thing the white man did to the indians was to not totally destroy their society and integrate them into ours. Their culture failed so why let them hang on to it and remain weak.
If you're caucasian and not Italian, do you think it was wrong of the Romans to allow your defeated ancestors to live? Clearly, non-Roman cultures were weak and failed, so the victors should have done the weak a favor and wiped them out?
You wouldn't also happen to believe that all but the gold winners at the Olympics should be slaughtered on site, would you?
Neanderthals are not the same species, eating them is on par with eating a great ape.
Great apes don't make fire, art, tools, clothing...
Ask a 1940's German doctor who's in the same species as them: You might not like the answer.
I often wonder if that fact has anything to do with Islamic and Jewish prohibitions against pork - it tastes to much like human?
Pigs eat garbage.
Cannibalism: The act or practice of eating human flesh by mankind
H. neanderthalensis != H. sapiens
Neanderthals were human.
Bigger, rougher, but still. They made fire, they made art, they did everything we do that makes us think we're special.
It is not "denying freedom of religion" to prevent the typical Muslim practice of murdering its opponents. The why is obvious.
How many bombings will it take to put a stop to that practice?
looked the other way when Saddam cheated the sanctions
You were only looking the other way so as not to get the dust from the repeated bombings in your eyes.
let Pakistan become completely islamified
How and why would you go about denying freedom of religion to another country?
It's not you lack of intervention in their lives that makes these people hate you, it's the fact that you keep bombing the fuck out of their families and acting as though you're somehow justified in all these killings.
Want to see where the money trail leads in the bank bailouts? You'll have to subscribe to our premium service. Want to hear which of your local politicians is taking kickbacks from government contractors? That'll be a one time fee, or free to our subscribers.
Want to keep us quiet about where the money trail leads? Just give us a cut of that kickback larger than the sum of one-time fees we'd collect to spill the beans.
Many people believe that any radioactive event will render an area lifeless for tens of thousands of years.
"Hiroshima is contaminated with radiation. It will be barren of life and nothing will grow for 75 years." These words were spoken in an interview with Dr. Harold Jacobsen, a scientist with the Manhattan Project (the A-bomb development project), and printed in the Washington Post on August 8, 1945.
In Hiroshima, they have that quote on a plaque at the foot of a tree, scorched from the bottom up to a point where it had been broken by the blast, and with the trunk having re-sprouted there and having grown into a full canopy since.
Scientists are sometimes wrong in their assumptions.
Simple versus advanced, which is the way most people use the word, is plainly wrong when talking about biology. The myth of the "higher" and "lower" forms of life is one that persists in the public consciousness, but it's been rejected in scientific circles for the better part a century.
Simple versus complex is a slightly different story.
No matter which words you try to use, it will still boil down in people's minds as "which is the best?". That and the obsession with "the first" are things that you can't seem to educate out of people (probably because the education system is obsessed with the bests and the firsts).
The thing about "lower" life is that it has been perfecting that simple form for longer than our advanced kind has existed. We may look at those immobile plants and think "ah! We can easily run circles around you!", but they have this "stay in place and bask in the sun" deal down. We adapt to radiation by running away, lest we get sick and die, they sit there and take it.
We may be more "advanced", but they were here "first".
After working at my office all day, I started work on the survey project in my basement around 5pm on a Friday night and worked on it for a while and had a wonderful time
You make slashdot proud.
This guy should talk to his own people more often--Sony's CEO and chairman Howard Stringer said in a recent interview:
Customers will refuse to accept it unless the technology is open. Youth in particular really dislikes closed technologies, closed systems and the like. I think the failure of AOL LLC of the US is good evidence of this. When the Internet was just beginning to spread, AOL boosted its subscriber base by providing special services only to its customers. After a while, though, customers began rebelling, complaining that they weren't children. Because AOL wanted to keep them locked up in a narrow portion of the immense Internet cosmos
Instead of that kind of level headed talk we get to hear from Mr. All-My-Customers-Are-Criminals.
Ride that ship to the bottom of the sea, Michael Lynton.
Previously, Lynton had worked extensively on internet related matters. He was President, AOL International, and CEO, AOL Europe starting in 2000, where he was responsible for AOL Europe as well as for AOL operations in Asia and Latin America.
Can't decide if this is hilarious or depressing :)
Is that really this guy's name? Wow! The Christian Right is going to love this!!!! I smell a flame war brewing! ;-)
The scientists turned him into a newt!
In 2000, Pope John Paul II issued a formal apology for all the errors of the Church over the last 2000 years including the trial of Galileo among others.
Thats why I never accept apologies. If they were really sorry they wouldn't have done it in the first place.
I'm pretty sure JP there wasn't the one who dunn it to begin with...
Although if Ratzi had the opportunity to fuck over Galileo, I'm sure he would. He's a bit of a jerk, you see. Anyhoo, the important part is that the Church officially admitted that they were wrong. That's a good thing, it puts a stop to the wrongness, even if it had been better never to have been wrong at all.
You can't tell me beating up prostitutes in Grand Theft Auto is better than a modern day war simulation.
There are no real prostitutes in the fake cities where GTA takes place.
There are real people getting really killed in the real cities depicted in modern war games. That's a real difference.
I'm Catholic you insensitive clod! I can't use it!
Get with the times, you anachronistic clod!
Thanks to his intuition as a brilliant physicist and by relying on different arguments, Galileo, who practically invented the experimental method, understood why only the sun could function as the centre of the world, as it was then known, that is to say, as a planetary system. The error of the theologians of the time, when they maintained the centrality of the Earth, was to think that our understanding of the physical world's structure was, in some way, imposed by the literal sense of Sacred Scripture....
â" Pope John Paul II, L'Osservatore Romano N. 44 (1264) - November 4, 1992
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_affair#Modern_church_views
In 2000, Pope John Paul II issued a formal apology for all the errors of the Church over the last 2000 years including the trial of Galileo among others.
I have a sneaking suspicion that you are right - this isn't about the gene itself, but how to isolate/observe, etc. That process could very well be an invention
Everything I read says the patent is on the gene.
http://www.wipo.int/wipo_magazine/en/2006/04/article_0003.html
"Myriad holds U.S. patents 5747282 and 5710001 on the isolated DNA coding for a BRCA-1 polypeptide and on a screening method."
Ah, AND on a screening method. Patents on human genes (isolated DNA coding) make me confused; wary.
A normal person would say "I went to REI and had to go to Customer Service because what I needed wasn't there..." A douchebag would go into the detail he did.
A douchebag would pick apart his blog post in great detail and make unsupported assumptions about how a normal person would explain the situation.
For people who use these plug-ins, do you ever whitelist ads for sites you use a lot for free, or do you block everything? If the latter, can you give me the dime tour of your justification for doing so?
Short story: It was too much trouble to maintain my own filter that only blocked the evil ads, so I got lazy and got a ready-made filter set that blocks everything.
The ad that pushed me too far was a sidebar on the Incredibles page on IMDB (I wanted to know the 'real' name of Elastigirl... it was Helen) that loaded a video for a competing CGI movie and it FROZE MY BROWSER for THREE MINUTES while it loaded its useless waste of bandwidth. I remember which movie that was, and I will never pay to see it.
Ads with sounds, pop-ups, pop-unders, flash horrors that get on top of the text I'm trying to read, blinking ads that distract the eye away from the text, etc, etc, etc. If there were none of those, if every site was as ethical as google in their ad placement, then I wouldn't need adBlock.