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  1. Re:supplementing the diet of well-nourished adults on Multivitamin Researchers Say 'Case Is Closed' As Studies Find No Health Benefits · · Score: 1

    When researchers deliberately avoid formulas best known to work for various conditions, it is called "competitive advertising" not scientific research. Basically just a bunch of (pharma) shills sh|tting in others' yards.

  2. advanced nutrition on Multivitamin Researchers Say 'Case Is Closed' As Studies Find No Health Benefits · · Score: 1

    Specific supernutritional means can address specific heart risks. Typical multivitamins are not quite a BB gun in that therapeutic arena, often poorly formulated for even the basic mission. Some typical, common brand multivitamin components use poor, obsolete model molecules, kind of like having rusty muskets for a modern infantry unit.

  3. astroturfr on Red Light Camera Use Declined In 2013 For the First Time · · Score: 0

    Do you work for American Traffic Solutions, Redflex Traffic System or one of the others?

  4. civil "servants" need... on Gov't Puts Witness On No Fly List, Then Denies Having Done So · · Score: 1

    Works even better when you disbar them, and permanently fire them from govt service and remove their pension...

  5. liq N2 option on Retail Radeon R9 290X Graphics Cards Slower Than AMD's Press Samples · · Score: 4, Funny

    Someone obviously didn't buy the turbo liquid nitrogen supply option.

  6. Re:The CAGW mafia on Why Competing For Tenure Is Like Trying To Become a Drug Lord · · Score: 1

    Many "environmental" hoi polloi are so innumerate and scientifically illiterate that they don't understand what the verb "investigate" means. Dream/scam on.

  7. The CAGW mafia on Why Competing For Tenure Is Like Trying To Become a Drug Lord · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    ...is a possible example to explore this thesis. Look at the samples like the piltdown man at Penn State and the tripe emanating from the wizards of odd at East Anglia.

  8. I smell... on Image Lifted From Twitter Leads to $1.2M Payout For Haitian Photog · · Score: 1

    ...an appeal. AFP is not going to take a 1.2m verdict lying down. I might feel a little sorry for the AFP if AFP hadn't filedthe first suit that sounds like they were pre-emptively stripping the photographer of his copyright with an aggressive lawsuit. I worry more that this verdict will ultimately be used by corporations on little people.

  9. tough luck when... on Users Identified Through Typing, Mouse Movements · · Score: 3, Interesting

    ...your hand gets caught in the car door and your cash/food/alcohol supply shuts down for 3 weeks.

  10. design patent? on Samsung Ordered To Pay Apple $290M In Patent Case · · Score: 0

    No telling which a 5 year design patent for a hand sized rectangle with rounded corners was involved. Again,

  11. ....business death penalties on Woman Facing $3,500 Fine For Posting Online Review · · Score: 1

    ...or being allowed to file [presumably false] credit reports. Likewise, need small claims court action on false credit reports.

  12. .... jailing a MS patients -true role of FDA & on Sweden Is Closing Many Prisons Due to Lack of Prisoners · · Score: 1

    The FDA and DEA are tools to keep drugs controlled with prices high. Otherwise, people would pay perhaps $200-$300 per month for advanced cancer treatments off patent, sourced globally, instead of $40,000-$50,000 snake venom and oil. I have personal experience - turned down the $40,000+ per month offer - too little benefit, too short a result, and too painful. Fortunately I have some science and resource advantages over the normal MDs. Although I know I still pay too much, it is still only about $500-600 per month. I called the FDA about doing it in the US (35 yr old drugs overseas) and they chewed on me, but then I explained we were doing it all outside the US, corrupt fuckwits.

  13. now, China... on World War II's Last Surviving Doolittle Raiders Make Their Final Toast · · Score: 1

    China's aggressive govt is looking a lot like Japan's aggressiveness 90 years earlier...

  14. Hell is a local call... on Oil Recovery May Have Triggered Texas Tremors · · Score: 1

    If you ever go through West Texas, perhaps on the way to Arizona or Colorado, much of it is a barren wasteland. In some places, the only green growth was around degraded oil spills.

  15. 600 million yrs... on 10-Year-Old Boy Discovers 600-Million-Year-Old Supernova · · Score: 1

    In a galaxy far, far away, somebody else's kid probably saw it first.

  16. govt kiss projects today... on How Kentucky Built the Country's Best ACA Exchange · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    1. Kiss my ass (D-->R)
    2. How much do you have in your wallet? Send it in.
    3. Omerta (code of silence, kiss of death for talkers)

  17. Re:academic redundancy on Nebraska Scientists Refuse To Carry Out Climate Change-Denying Study · · Score: 1

    Helps identify people like you as illiterate and innumerate.

    There is no 'debate' about man made climate change.
    I can clearly see you and your ilk try to shut debate down

  18. can get worse on Even the Author of the Patriot Act Is Trying To Stop the NSA · · Score: 2

    Wait until Merkel, Kristina and half a billion women find out about any upskirt pics...

  19. academic redundancy on Nebraska Scientists Refuse To Carry Out Climate Change-Denying Study · · Score: -1, Troll

    Climate change academics in the 1980-2010 period are an extreme example of why publicly funded research can be a huge waste of money, for swindling fakes like algore, academic band wagons, and rich fascists on a power grab. Ad homenim and mobocracy seem to their scientific stock in trade, led by Hansen and the Piltdown Mann.

    Tasked with a subject that can be interpreted broadly for some productive result, these academic clowns simply make a political scene. Fire 'em, the country is broke - make an example.

  20. Re:loyal shills on Wikipedia Actively Battling PR Sockpuppets · · Score: 1

    There are still differences in benefits and risks. Vioxx had more risks. Celebrex appears less deadly, and for some advanced cancers, very beneficial for the specific molecule. 1/4 aspirin has interesting benefits for less risk, too. It is not the existence or presence on the shelf that I object so much, but the lies and hype for an high priced fantasy with extra, unadmitted dangers that I object.

  21. loyal shills on Wikipedia Actively Battling PR Sockpuppets · · Score: 2

    Pharmaceutical shills pushing dangerous "standard" medicines is a huge problem. I ran into an outside Vioxx lawyer with COI and a lot of "company loyalty". Pretty tough sledding to set it straight. Worse are the Quackwatch trolls. These contribute a lot to the bankrupting of America, and some unpleasant deaths.

  22. relief on Simple Bug Exposed Verizon Users' SMS Histories · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I am so relieved that an experienced organization like Verizon is riding to the rescue on Obamacare.

  23. Re:China and Russia continue to modernize.... on US Should Cancel Plutonium Plant, Say Scientists · · Score: 1

    How many at the dock semipermanently?

  24. More intimidation on US Should Cancel Plutonium Plant, Say Scientists · · Score: 1

    Why? To intimidate more of the Middle East countries from geopolitical blackmail to buffering more terrorism.

  25. slowth on How Science Goes Wrong · · Score: 1

    The US spends too much time dithering on "proving" new discoveries and processes before taking useful, competitive actions. There is period between discovery and generally agreed development, before extensive verifications that used to be a tremendous competitive advantage for successful companies in the US. You're first, making billions with something cheaper, faster and better, while the competition's politico-bs "proovers" enjoy their sinecure 10-20-30 years. Now the proovers have everything stopped out in the economy. Enforcing excess verifications is one means that slower, technologically impaired companies steal from innovative individuals, either by forced co-option, "an offer you can't refuse," or bankruptcy. Grinding, pettifogging verification often needs to occur, but often later in the ramp up and production cycles.