That should change, at least to be updated with a list of countries whom we have found to be rigorous and accurate with their trials (probably most of Western Europe, Australia, etc.) and there should be an automatic investigation triggered in the US if ANY study found medicinal value in a naturally occurring substance. This is actually what people want their tax dollars funding...
The root problem though is this is not a drug, this is a plant. Phara companies arent interested in plants because they can't patent naturally occurring compounds. This plant could turn out to be a 100% safe and effective cure for opoid addiction, but without someone to do the research, the FDA has just shafted thousands of addicts.
This is obviously speculation, but it is a real problem with the FDA and why growing numbers of Americans are ready to see the agency gutted and totally re-organized with a mandate to improve the health, quality of life and life expectancy of Americans, rather than churning out approvals for dangerous drugs that bring in the ever critical FDA funding.
"suggesting he is a sexual criminal." And that is the problem right there. There is no actual proof that would stand up in a court of law (or the statue of limitations has long since expired) so all you are engaging in is character assassination, and that is total bullshit and a travesty of legal fairness. This is exactly the reason we have a statue of limitations, but it doesn't go far enough since public persons cannot sue for libel or slander. We MUST make it illegal to make criminal allegations after the statue of limitations has expired (at the least) or fix the damn law regarding liability for libel and slander so that this can actually go to court.
I am not saying that some women may not chose to come forward, that is entirely possible, but that is their choice. They are making a choice, and like the rest of us they have to live with that choice the rest of their lives. If they make that choice, the can't wait 30 years and then come back with totally un-substantiateable, at that point baseless accusations, because at that point it is un-knowable and un-provable if they are true or false, and to have a society based on justice, we can't have that shit.
Trump has had 3 wives and a number of affairs. No one is disputing that. But for women to come out years later to complain is just character assassination by weaponizing past lovers.
Your atl left media sources are showing. Trump, the PRESIDENT (the leader of the entire country, regardless if you like it or not) is reacting to shameless corrupt partisanship within the corrupt Obama FBI and DOJ leadership and top brass. Trump was actually non-partisan for a long time, which is why he left in and appointed many Obama holdovers (a clear misjudgment in retrospect).
Your conflation of the FBI rank and file with the corrupt top brass is straight from the alt left MSM and Dims who are apoplectic that their criminality has been found out.
I suspect that in 6 months, it will be clear to everyone but the 15% alt left fringe that the alt left has completely lost their minds, along with all credibility. I can already see it in your response. You all will be screaming about abuse of power by Trump as the 15 actually corrupt FBI and DOJ officials are frog marched out, tried and convicted of actual crimes. The alt left and the democrat party will be unhinged for the next 10 years, and out of power for the next 25, until the main stream of America forgets how corrupt and crazy the alt left was.
You had better strap in, take a chill pill and prepare for MAGA (or move to Canada, that works too).
I did answer that, but let me say it again even more slowly:
If after a thorough investigation in a year or two no one is charged and convicted for fabricating the Trump Russia collusion story, then I will assume that there was at least enough evidence to justify the investigation and it was not an abuse of power.
Furthermore, I don't have ANY allegiance to the Republicans, I am a registered independent conservative with strong libertarian leanings (you know, people who used to be the mainstay of the Democratic party back in the 1950s). There are plenty of big government, establishment Republicans that are a problem too. I have principles and ideals I follow, not people or parties. If the Democrats tomorrow switched from their fascist progressive positions to strong libertarian positions, I would probably start voting for them.
Lastly, I don't hate anyone politically. I am sure that Obama was probably a nice guy to have a beer with, and if you don't talk politics, most citizens who identify as left wing are decent enough human beings. However, I have a very dim view of the radical fascist alt left progressives (who are actually totalitarianists, not liberals in the accurate meaning of the word). On a political level I view them as cynical man/woman-childs who are driven by emotion and virtue signaling and group-think within their insular bubbles. I don't want them in government or in power for the same reason I don't want a 6 year old walking around with a gun.
It means they are more viewed, and you are conflating entertainment with news, two completely different genres with different importance and different purposes...
Consistently falling and low ratings for MSM outlets other than Fox news http://static4.businessinsider... indicate people are voting with their feet and leaving MSM for the simple reason that news outlets are supposed to get you as many facts, as accurately and quickly as possible. It only takes a few conversations with others/viewing sessions of Fox/other alternative news outlets where it is clear you have been mislead by the MSM via withholding key facts for most people to switch their primary source of news (assuming that they are truth seekers and not rabid partisans).
Paying attention for 30 years, and enjoying Fox news since it was started in 1996. Before that I was referring to talk radio, assuming you were genuinely confused and not just being pedantic.
Fox is actually extremely accurate, but they have for many years had two sides, their hard news (which is very rarely wrong) and their news commentators (something that is always conflated by the alt left fact checkers). The news commentators very often engage guests who are willing to come on and debate the issue of the day, one on each side of the issue. This can lead to one side or the other getting a fact wrong in the heat of the discussion, which is often corrected after the segment, if not by the opposing debater but has no bearing on the hard news. These segments are not news, they are discussion, and to conflate them with news is dishonest and deceptive, you shouldn't fall for it.
Get off your pedantic high horse, you are either completely ignorant or trying to get my goat, neither of which will fly.
I am a yank and not terribly familiar with Oxford, other than respecting it's historical role and many of it's graduates of the last century. However, I am intimately familiar with the university system and environment. Aggressive alt left liberals outnumber conservatives on virtually every university campus in Western Civilization by a huge margin.
From the selection bias of this study to it's classifying legitimate news stories that were 100% true as "junk news" https://politics.slashdot.org/... they have lost a lot of credibility for putting out what is clearly a fake news story themselves. It is unfortunate for the reputation of Oxford.
Their statement "There is no evidence to indicate that kratom is safe or effective for any medical use." is 100% a lie.
The actual true statement would be: "There is no FDA backed/approved studies to indicate that kratom is safe or effective for any medical use." Two very different things, as the FDA does not have exclusive rights to objective reality.
This study is just utter garbage. As you indicate, they have rampant selection bias and that is part of the problem, but the stories that they cite to classify Breitbart and Hannity.com (as just a random sampling) are 100% true and accurate https://politics.slashdot.org/... revealing that this study it'self is fake news, which is highly ironic considering every alt leftie on the planet likely believes adamantly it is accurate.
The study is just a fake news alt left hit piece to try to portray their opposition as stupid and themselves as intelligent.
I am content to give it time. There is a new special prosecutor investigating this entire corrupt Obama group. If in 2 years (the current duration of the fraudulent Trump-Russian collusion investigation) there are no indictments or convictions, and the allegations about still classified evidence turn out to be inaccurate, then clearly there was no there there.
Unlike the rabid alt left, conservatives are not losing our collective shit and putting on black masks to go beat up those we disagree with (Antifa anyone?) We believe in the rule of law and the integrity of the rank and file at the FBI and DOJ to do their job to faithfully uphold the law.
I along with most conservatives have no illusions about Trump. He has had multiple affairs and slept around quite a bit. However, I give exactly zero credence to any women who were happy to say nothing for years after the event (even though it was consentual, many women regret one night stands after the fact and there are tens of thousands of cases where they have falsely accused rape to varying degrees of success for myriad reasons including regret, revenge, mental instability, etc.)
However, to wait until someone from the alt left came by with a monetary offer (or until your partner is president) to claim sexual assault taints any the claims beyond credibility. To be fair minded, men and women have sex, a lot more than most people want to admit, and if you don't go to the police immediately (assuming you are not physically restrained from doing so), IMO you had a consentual sexual relationship and you should be barred from ever making a claim.
Classical feminism wanted parity between men and women, that also means equal responsibility for having consentual sex, regardless of how you feel about it or the other person the next day, week, year or decade.
It is so bad these days that most college campuses require some kind of recorded consent to prevent this kind of baseless after the fact accusation.
Allegations years later any reason should be suspect by critical thinkers and should be made illegal if made for monetary gain. http://thehill.com/homenews/ad...
With Bill Clinton, several of the sexual assault and misconduct allegations were made and confirmed shortly after the act.
Except there is this thing called objective truth and actual facts as well as actual history and context.
When politifact first came out, they were pretty good, but a few years in, they were infiltrated by either Sorros money or just an alt left mentality.
I personally have caught politifact on numerous occasions taking a perfectly legitimate statement by a conservative, twisting the meaning out of context to create a straw man argument that was neither stated nor intended explicitly or in context and then rating that straw man mostly false. After they did that a few times, they lost all credibility in the eyes of those who pay attention including me.
This really gets to a basic question of who owns the rights to your likeness, your face, your identity and so on. If no one owns their appearance, then these so called deep fakes are free speech and can't be blacklisted. However, if each person owns their likeness and has a say on what can be done with it, then it is truly a form of identity theft and should be not only banned by Redit, but treated as a crime.
On the flip side, now when a celebrity sex tape or some other revealing personal content gets dropped on the web, the actor/actress can now claim it is just an AI deep fake.
Except for alcohol (a glass of wine a day demonstrably reduces your chances of heart disease and stroke)?
More recently there have been studies that show schizophrenics may have been self medicating with nicotine for generations, and it actually helps? http://www.schizophrenia.com/n...
Pot (THC) is also still good for glaucoma, anorexia and medication related nausea and to facilitate weight gain.
All the games will be free to play, but the console will come equipped with a 360 degree camera and microphone that are always on and are required to be unobstructed 24/7 in order for the console to work so Google can spy on you, on top of all the metrics and personal info they will collect on you and ads they will push in your face on the console itself....
The evidence is unofficial at this point and it has not yet been officially declassified, so we will have to wait a few weeks as the Dems drag their feet and obstruct, but the sources I pay attention to on Fox news and online sources are rarely wrong (I pay attention to that specifically and have been for 30 years) so I have no qualms that the truth will eventually become officially known.
Read through the rest of the +5 posts (assuming it hasn't been mod bombed by the alt left sock puppet accounts like I have), one of those has several of the articles that were cited as the reason mainstream conservative news sites were added to the junk news list, and they are 100% true and accurate, so no, the Oxford study was not being honest or accurate at quantifying fake news. Sorry.
The first part of the finding, that Kratom acts similarly to an opioid, is a reasonable, scientific discovery. The next step, stating that it is not useful in treating any medical conditions, is complete bullshit. From WebMD: "Advocates say the herb kratom offers relief from pain, depression, and anxiety. Scientists say it may hold the key to treating chronic pain and may even be a tool to combat addiction to opioid medications." https://www.webmd.com/mental-h...
The FDA has no damn clue if Kratom is medicinally useful. If the FDA were reasonably interested in promoting the general health and welfare of the population, the next step would be to temporarily ban Kratom while THEY perform historic investigation, investigate anecdotal accounts of medicinal properties, and then if warranted perform voluntary double blind clinical trials to validate or refute the historical and anecdotal evidence. I have never heard of this herb, let alone taken it, but many naturally occurring plant components have medicinal properties.
All drugs have side effects, all drugs can be dangerous. To pull a medicinal herb without any plans to properly study it while giving blanket statements condemning its use is dishonest and fuels the antivaxers and alternative medicine movements that have been steadily growing in the US.
The problem is two fold. First, we would run out of Democrat voters, and second, those stupid enough to take themselves out are often stupid enough not to do it right and end up drooling vegetables for the rest of their lives that then society has to pay to care for to the tune of millions of dollars.
So by your logic, if we caught every criminal and then gave them a stern warning, that would deter all crime... That makes no sense.
The truth is that serious penalties combined with a high likelihood of getting caught are what deters crime. Additionally, life sentences and death penalties eliminate RECIDIVISM which at least in the US pushes above 70% in 5 years, meaning we could significantly reduce crime rates with more life sentences for serious crimes.
His political affiliation is irrelevant, he presided over a dumpster fire at the FBI and did nothing to stop it. It is entirely possible that he is an incompetent PHB who didn't know WTF he was doing, also possible that he was convinced that Hillary was going to get elected and wanted to keep his job and didn't give a shit about breaking the law to make sure that happened. R or D politicians in many cases are just as bad (have you seen the traitor John McCain?)
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Interesting premise, I've never heard of the story, and I"m a pretty avid consumer of Scifi literature.
That should change, at least to be updated with a list of countries whom we have found to be rigorous and accurate with their trials (probably most of Western Europe, Australia, etc.) and there should be an automatic investigation triggered in the US if ANY study found medicinal value in a naturally occurring substance. This is actually what people want their tax dollars funding...
The root problem though is this is not a drug, this is a plant. Phara companies arent interested in plants because they can't patent naturally occurring compounds. This plant could turn out to be a 100% safe and effective cure for opoid addiction, but without someone to do the research, the FDA has just shafted thousands of addicts.
This is obviously speculation, but it is a real problem with the FDA and why growing numbers of Americans are ready to see the agency gutted and totally re-organized with a mandate to improve the health, quality of life and life expectancy of Americans, rather than churning out approvals for dangerous drugs that bring in the ever critical FDA funding.
"suggesting he is a sexual criminal." And that is the problem right there. There is no actual proof that would stand up in a court of law (or the statue of limitations has long since expired) so all you are engaging in is character assassination, and that is total bullshit and a travesty of legal fairness. This is exactly the reason we have a statue of limitations, but it doesn't go far enough since public persons cannot sue for libel or slander. We MUST make it illegal to make criminal allegations after the statue of limitations has expired (at the least) or fix the damn law regarding liability for libel and slander so that this can actually go to court.
I am not saying that some women may not chose to come forward, that is entirely possible, but that is their choice. They are making a choice, and like the rest of us they have to live with that choice the rest of their lives. If they make that choice, the can't wait 30 years and then come back with totally un-substantiateable, at that point baseless accusations, because at that point it is un-knowable and un-provable if they are true or false, and to have a society based on justice, we can't have that shit.
Trump has had 3 wives and a number of affairs. No one is disputing that. But for women to come out years later to complain is just character assassination by weaponizing past lovers.
And you are at least partly wrong: http://time.com/5019182/george...
Your atl left media sources are showing. Trump, the PRESIDENT (the leader of the entire country, regardless if you like it or not) is reacting to shameless corrupt partisanship within the corrupt Obama FBI and DOJ leadership and top brass. Trump was actually non-partisan for a long time, which is why he left in and appointed many Obama holdovers (a clear misjudgment in retrospect).
Your conflation of the FBI rank and file with the corrupt top brass is straight from the alt left MSM and Dims who are apoplectic that their criminality has been found out.
I suspect that in 6 months, it will be clear to everyone but the 15% alt left fringe that the alt left has completely lost their minds, along with all credibility. I can already see it in your response. You all will be screaming about abuse of power by Trump as the 15 actually corrupt FBI and DOJ officials are frog marched out, tried and convicted of actual crimes. The alt left and the democrat party will be unhinged for the next 10 years, and out of power for the next 25, until the main stream of America forgets how corrupt and crazy the alt left was.
You had better strap in, take a chill pill and prepare for MAGA (or move to Canada, that works too).
I did answer that, but let me say it again even more slowly:
If after a thorough investigation in a year or two no one is charged and convicted for fabricating the Trump Russia collusion story, then I will assume that there was at least enough evidence to justify the investigation and it was not an abuse of power.
Furthermore, I don't have ANY allegiance to the Republicans, I am a registered independent conservative with strong libertarian leanings (you know, people who used to be the mainstay of the Democratic party back in the 1950s). There are plenty of big government, establishment Republicans that are a problem too. I have principles and ideals I follow, not people or parties. If the Democrats tomorrow switched from their fascist progressive positions to strong libertarian positions, I would probably start voting for them.
Lastly, I don't hate anyone politically. I am sure that Obama was probably a nice guy to have a beer with, and if you don't talk politics, most citizens who identify as left wing are decent enough human beings. However, I have a very dim view of the radical fascist alt left progressives (who are actually totalitarianists, not liberals in the accurate meaning of the word). On a political level I view them as cynical man/woman-childs who are driven by emotion and virtue signaling and group-think within their insular bubbles. I don't want them in government or in power for the same reason I don't want a 6 year old walking around with a gun.
It means they are more viewed, and you are conflating entertainment with news, two completely different genres with different importance and different purposes...
Consistently falling and low ratings for MSM outlets other than Fox news http://static4.businessinsider... indicate people are voting with their feet and leaving MSM for the simple reason that news outlets are supposed to get you as many facts, as accurately and quickly as possible. It only takes a few conversations with others/viewing sessions of Fox/other alternative news outlets where it is clear you have been mislead by the MSM via withholding key facts for most people to switch their primary source of news (assuming that they are truth seekers and not rabid partisans).
Paying attention for 30 years, and enjoying Fox news since it was started in 1996. Before that I was referring to talk radio, assuming you were genuinely confused and not just being pedantic.
Fox is actually extremely accurate, but they have for many years had two sides, their hard news (which is very rarely wrong) and their news commentators (something that is always conflated by the alt left fact checkers). The news commentators very often engage guests who are willing to come on and debate the issue of the day, one on each side of the issue. This can lead to one side or the other getting a fact wrong in the heat of the discussion, which is often corrected after the segment, if not by the opposing debater but has no bearing on the hard news. These segments are not news, they are discussion, and to conflate them with news is dishonest and deceptive, you shouldn't fall for it.
Get off your pedantic high horse, you are either completely ignorant or trying to get my goat, neither of which will fly.
I am a yank and not terribly familiar with Oxford, other than respecting it's historical role and many of it's graduates of the last century. However, I am intimately familiar with the university system and environment. Aggressive alt left liberals outnumber conservatives on virtually every university campus in Western Civilization by a huge margin.
From the selection bias of this study to it's classifying legitimate news stories that were 100% true as "junk news" https://politics.slashdot.org/... they have lost a lot of credibility for putting out what is clearly a fake news story themselves. It is unfortunate for the reputation of Oxford.
But the motive of the ban is likely fear of being sued by the victims of identity theft and abuse.
Their statement "There is no evidence to indicate that kratom is safe or effective for any medical use." is 100% a lie.
The actual true statement would be: "There is no FDA backed/approved studies to indicate that kratom is safe or effective for any medical use." Two very different things, as the FDA does not have exclusive rights to objective reality.
This study is just utter garbage. As you indicate, they have rampant selection bias and that is part of the problem, but the stories that they cite to classify Breitbart and Hannity.com (as just a random sampling) are 100% true and accurate https://politics.slashdot.org/... revealing that this study it'self is fake news, which is highly ironic considering every alt leftie on the planet likely believes adamantly it is accurate.
The study is just a fake news alt left hit piece to try to portray their opposition as stupid and themselves as intelligent.
I am content to give it time. There is a new special prosecutor investigating this entire corrupt Obama group. If in 2 years (the current duration of the fraudulent Trump-Russian collusion investigation) there are no indictments or convictions, and the allegations about still classified evidence turn out to be inaccurate, then clearly there was no there there.
Unlike the rabid alt left, conservatives are not losing our collective shit and putting on black masks to go beat up those we disagree with (Antifa anyone?) We believe in the rule of law and the integrity of the rank and file at the FBI and DOJ to do their job to faithfully uphold the law.
It will be interesting to see how things develop.
I along with most conservatives have no illusions about Trump. He has had multiple affairs and slept around quite a bit. However, I give exactly zero credence to any women who were happy to say nothing for years after the event (even though it was consentual, many women regret one night stands after the fact and there are tens of thousands of cases where they have falsely accused rape to varying degrees of success for myriad reasons including regret, revenge, mental instability, etc.)
However, to wait until someone from the alt left came by with a monetary offer (or until your partner is president) to claim sexual assault taints any the claims beyond credibility. To be fair minded, men and women have sex, a lot more than most people want to admit, and if you don't go to the police immediately (assuming you are not physically restrained from doing so), IMO you had a consentual sexual relationship and you should be barred from ever making a claim.
Classical feminism wanted parity between men and women, that also means equal responsibility for having consentual sex, regardless of how you feel about it or the other person the next day, week, year or decade.
It is so bad these days that most college campuses require some kind of recorded consent to prevent this kind of baseless after the fact accusation.
Allegations years later any reason should be suspect by critical thinkers and should be made illegal if made for monetary gain. http://thehill.com/homenews/ad...
With Bill Clinton, several of the sexual assault and misconduct allegations were made and confirmed shortly after the act.
Except there is this thing called objective truth and actual facts as well as actual history and context.
When politifact first came out, they were pretty good, but a few years in, they were infiltrated by either Sorros money or just an alt left mentality.
I personally have caught politifact on numerous occasions taking a perfectly legitimate statement by a conservative, twisting the meaning out of context to create a straw man argument that was neither stated nor intended explicitly or in context and then rating that straw man mostly false. After they did that a few times, they lost all credibility in the eyes of those who pay attention including me.
RIP John, your legacy lives on and continues to do good. May more of us leave that kind of a positive impact on the world we leave behind.
This really gets to a basic question of who owns the rights to your likeness, your face, your identity and so on. If no one owns their appearance, then these so called deep fakes are free speech and can't be blacklisted. However, if each person owns their likeness and has a say on what can be done with it, then it is truly a form of identity theft and should be not only banned by Redit, but treated as a crime.
On the flip side, now when a celebrity sex tape or some other revealing personal content gets dropped on the web, the actor/actress can now claim it is just an AI deep fake.
Except for alcohol (a glass of wine a day demonstrably reduces your chances of heart disease and stroke)?
More recently there have been studies that show schizophrenics may have been self medicating with nicotine for generations, and it actually helps? http://www.schizophrenia.com/n...
Pot (THC) is also still good for glaucoma, anorexia and medication related nausea and to facilitate weight gain.
All the games will be free to play, but the console will come equipped with a 360 degree camera and microphone that are always on and are required to be unobstructed 24/7 in order for the console to work so Google can spy on you, on top of all the metrics and personal info they will collect on you and ads they will push in your face on the console itself....
The evidence is unofficial at this point and it has not yet been officially declassified, so we will have to wait a few weeks as the Dems drag their feet and obstruct, but the sources I pay attention to on Fox news and online sources are rarely wrong (I pay attention to that specifically and have been for 30 years) so I have no qualms that the truth will eventually become officially known.
Read through the rest of the +5 posts (assuming it hasn't been mod bombed by the alt left sock puppet accounts like I have), one of those has several of the articles that were cited as the reason mainstream conservative news sites were added to the junk news list, and they are 100% true and accurate, so no, the Oxford study was not being honest or accurate at quantifying fake news. Sorry.
The first part of the finding, that Kratom acts similarly to an opioid, is a reasonable, scientific discovery. The next step, stating that it is not useful in treating any medical conditions, is complete bullshit. From WebMD: "Advocates say the herb kratom offers relief from pain, depression, and anxiety. Scientists say it may hold the key to treating chronic pain and may even be a tool to combat addiction to opioid medications." https://www.webmd.com/mental-h...
The FDA has no damn clue if Kratom is medicinally useful. If the FDA were reasonably interested in promoting the general health and welfare of the population, the next step would be to temporarily ban Kratom while THEY perform historic investigation, investigate anecdotal accounts of medicinal properties, and then if warranted perform voluntary double blind clinical trials to validate or refute the historical and anecdotal evidence. I have never heard of this herb, let alone taken it, but many naturally occurring plant components have medicinal properties.
All drugs have side effects, all drugs can be dangerous. To pull a medicinal herb without any plans to properly study it while giving blanket statements condemning its use is dishonest and fuels the antivaxers and alternative medicine movements that have been steadily growing in the US.
The problem is two fold. First, we would run out of Democrat voters, and second, those stupid enough to take themselves out are often stupid enough not to do it right and end up drooling vegetables for the rest of their lives that then society has to pay to care for to the tune of millions of dollars.
So by your logic, if we caught every criminal and then gave them a stern warning, that would deter all crime... That makes no sense.
The truth is that serious penalties combined with a high likelihood of getting caught are what deters crime. Additionally, life sentences and death penalties eliminate RECIDIVISM which at least in the US pushes above 70% in 5 years, meaning we could significantly reduce crime rates with more life sentences for serious crimes.
His political affiliation is irrelevant, he presided over a dumpster fire at the FBI and did nothing to stop it. It is entirely possible that he is an incompetent PHB who didn't know WTF he was doing, also possible that he was convinced that Hillary was going to get elected and wanted to keep his job and didn't give a shit about breaking the law to make sure that happened. R or D politicians in many cases are just as bad (have you seen the traitor John McCain?)