Wikipedia is an ad, for "our" monumental, failing medical industrial complex.
WP tows AMA-pharmaceutically friendly lines on drugs and medicine. Wikipedia routinely disses (super)nutrition and functional medicine, science and clinically based parts of "alternative medicine." Wikipedia is strongly biased by conventional medical quackery and pseudoscepticism, that studiously avoid acknowledgement of important conflicting facts and cheaper, safer, more effective methods.
If you think Wikipedia is a reliable source of information about nutrition and medicine, alternative or conventional, remember, there was man named Charles Darwin. He's got an award waiting for you.
This brings to mind Feynman's warning about not fooling your self and brutal honesty.
" 'One of my mentors told me that my real mistake was trying to replicate my work,'...'He told me doing that was just setting myself up for disappointment.' "
A lament of the politically correct, post modern age. Many "scientists" are lapdogs for vested interests or academic gamesmanship. Some even find out belatedly, or get found out, that they really aren't scientists.
Changing Places, the movie in real life. It's amazing, the things we used to gasp or laugh about in USSR and third world sh-- holes, are expected to be taken for granted by our new Oberfuhrers. Even in the worst countries, with actual Maoist or Marxist wars going, no stooge ever made a grab for my privates.
Today, many of the former "third world" cities are choked with new, expensive Toyotas bigger than a Suburban, while the US has a bunch of econo boxes. The US is going to hell under a fascist-commie government. Time to leave, if you can. We're 80% out.
Next door Nevada has plenty of pre-excavated sites, where a little nuclear spill would not even be noticed.
So don't worry about California's environemntal demands.
NASA is an expensive suckhole doing poor, often politized, science.
I was raised on NASA hoorah decades. It's totally depleted now. Better to chop all the deadwood out and start over. America's future in space depends on it. If we don't somebody else, leaner and less corrupt, will.
Wikipedia has whole areas of distinct, anti-factual bias, medicine and climate being two large examples where conventional wisdom, and so-called consensus science, ride roughshod over inconvenient hard science and simple facts.
When the laws are not enforced justly or institutionally, the laws return to the hands of the people. Yes, that's revolutionary, it is in the Declaration of Independence and it is messy.
BP's reputation is one of cutting too many corners and not having the skill or acumen to back off critical cuts, and then blaming the victims or "bad luck". BP's corner cutting strategies start from the top, driven straight down, hard. BP has long been one of the larger players in influencing politicians and relevant government officials rather than consistent engineering and operations. Forget excellence.
"Winning the war of tourism" means keeps most of that valuable foreign exchange at home.
No doubt the Feds consider expats to be traitors, even if enviously.
BP is the problem. It is no surprise that it was BP instead of Shell or Exxon. BP did it, AGAIN.
Alternative energy will go forward from high cost applications at the margins, driven by higher oil and gas prices. Not some magic Federal program.
Last time, in the 1970-80s energy crunch, we had that Carl Sagan moment, "billions and billions", for nothing but expensive, abandoned coal liquification plants of the federal Synfuels corp.
Julius Ceasar mucked about the priesthood's proprietary calendar concession. Look what happened to him. Power elite proprietary rental schemes have a long, long history. Ultimately backed by thuggery.
After all, who would want to *plan* to use expensive, crappy malware for a college degree and a profession AND fill out endless forms with possible gotchas? Perhaps a future BP manager [they do use MSFT extensively too]? (imagined ad: "You too can use our software to destroy a chunk of the planet"}
The US government is no longer contained by the Constitution. I feel safer in many ways living in a "3rd world country" now. In the 1930s, smart Germans found means and reason to immigrate to the Americas. Likewise, many Americans may find it better to leave in this decade. The future of the US govt seems to be as a hazard to safety, liberty and prosperity.
What is missing in this discussion is systematic error, which is often very large and often dwarfs the analyzed random error or even the result itself. Systematic error is frequently a basic problem in biological research and in emerging technologies with crude tools and poorly understood cofactors. The human factor can hugely inflate systematic errors where legal, marketing or politics are involved. The systematic error may not be uncovered for years or decades, if ever.
One can design "tests" that are beautifully reproducible and precise, but absolutely, and deliberately, absurdly wrong. And get away with it, nay, be be rewarded handsomely as a salable skill. It happens behind the scenes. I have direct experience in science and engineering where politics have butted in, but I see this as more common in medicine, pharmaceuticals and the medical journals. Multiple, blatant design and interpretation errors in any single article that are extremely hard to assign to mere stupidity and/or ignorance, that involve authors with clear conflicts of interest to victimize cheap (defenseless) generic drugs and supplements, and to promote their product.
How blatant does it get? I have industrial experience where a big name, big $ university consultant was given free reign to do a "political assignment". On a literature comparison of two materials' figure of merit, even after fair warning, he missed reality by 9+ ORDERS of magnitude, over a billion fold by avoiding data in equal test environments. The results of internally published, correct tests were later deliberately ignored. This did eventually lead to his backers' catastrophic failure and his dismissal. Millions wasted. This is one of dozens of such situations I've seen in intercorporate wars with NoAm and European companies (no names here). The pharmaceutical and medicine situation appears blatantly worse in terms of number of fundamental test errors in a given high profile paper, resultant damage and duration. But big profits are made!
The main thing is to what extent the taxpayers are subsidizing IBM and will be asked to cough up in the future. Also any Government consulting contracts, especially military related issues, are important.
Other than that, I would say it is a truth in advertising issue. Corporations lie a lot.
McBride is obviously one of Rand's "Looters" who destroyed or drove out all the producers and innovators, thereby bankrupting the country. Wall Street, government and people like McBride are making a "prophet" out of Rand alright.
The local district attorney on the Duke rape sat on clear, exonerating DNA evidence that the psycho stripper erred or lied. They had 6 or 7 DNA samples from her (and underwear) that failed to match any DNA of the falsely charged Duke kids. Ooops, wrong team!
So why bother with the free DNA?
Of course, the police and DA everywhere else will cluck their tongues and say this never could happen at their place. Today, only a fool considers government and corporate reps as anything but potentially dangerous adversaries, and their promises as anything more valuable than glib promises printed on second hand toilet paper.
The real problem here is that the P2P is effectively a piece of malware. A 14 yo kid wants to listen to the "radio" on the computer and becomes an unwitting distributor because of the less obvious, additional redistributing functions of the malicious (to RIAA) software.
RIAA is contributory to the problem by persisting in broken distribution models that (1) are cumbersome in any case, (2) overpriced per play to the usual alternate sources e.g. radio or even per play jukebox, when the kid shrugs and nevers listens again, (3) alleges charges much higher than the proportionate physical media e.g. a song available on a $5, 50 song CD (4) denies fair uses both by legal harrassment and technical impediments that are deliberate defects (both low quality and DRM) to prevent natural utilization of a single owner to (attempt to) force multiple purchases of favorites.
One has to have reservations about any legal system that would so harrass underage females and students, perhaps for other immoral purposes, over such extortionate trivia. Also such cases interfere with societally important productive development and education of children, for the upset, waste of time and precious funds. ($750 = what part of a semester's tution for playing a song on a computer as if it were the radio?)
The music industry has been well aware of the implications of these things since the 1970s. That is why copyright laws have been in constant modification since the 1970s. That the industry persistently refuses to put forth a reasonable distribution models is a demonstration of anti-trust behavior. The problem isn't that they are stupid and/or can't distribute well, the problem is that they won't, and extortionately attempt to charge full retail price of physical media (or higher) for each repeated ephemeral use, if possible. (I still can play our records from the 60s after a 1000+ plays)
Yeah, nuclear can be safe. France is safer because it shutdown SuperPhoenix, the (explosive) liquid metal fast breeder with leaks. Helium based advanced reactors seem more interesting.
One might observe the very real actions of the FDA, approving EXPENSIVE dangerous new drugs, that should never have been released, and disparging other treatments that still work better (older generics, supplements). Some estimates are that several hundred thousand per year die because of such federally approved/mandated poisoning, millions more are injured.
Had a parent injured by several modern malpractices and pharmacides, turned out the way to survive was doing some older things that made simple biochemical sense. Much, much better now and I have objective measures to demonstrate it.
It is always refreshing to watch a master criminal at work. Microsoft, the company that has made billions by locking users with false promises on knowingly sold defective malware, stolen technology, selling crap EULAs to sell 2, 3, even 4 licenses just get a machine running and compatible, trampling implied warranty into the ground, evading antitrust prosecutions with perjured testimonies and harried, baited judges, and multiples more on jobbed stock.
Sounds like Bill trying to create a market for his simulated, carbon-free nuclear waste burner with assorted nucleotides. Hope it works better than Windows. Otherwise we're going have fun with radioactive, explosive liquid metals every month or two.
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Wikipedia is an ad, for "our" monumental, failing medical industrial complex.
WP tows AMA-pharmaceutically friendly lines on drugs and medicine. Wikipedia routinely disses (super)nutrition and functional medicine, science and clinically based parts of "alternative medicine." Wikipedia is strongly biased by conventional medical quackery and pseudoscepticism, that studiously avoid acknowledgement of important conflicting facts and cheaper, safer, more effective methods.
If you think Wikipedia is a reliable source of information about nutrition and medicine, alternative or conventional, remember, there was man named Charles Darwin. He's got an award waiting for you.
This brings to mind Feynman's warning about not fooling your self and brutal honesty.
" 'One of my mentors told me that my real mistake was trying to replicate my work,'...'He told me doing that was just setting myself up for disappointment.' "
A lament of the politically correct, post modern age. Many "scientists" are lapdogs for vested interests or academic gamesmanship. Some even find out belatedly, or get found out, that they really aren't scientists.
Changing Places, the movie in real life. It's amazing, the things we used to gasp or laugh about in USSR and third world sh-- holes, are expected to be taken for granted by our new Oberfuhrers. Even in the worst countries, with actual Maoist or Marxist wars going, no stooge ever made a grab for my privates.
Today, many of the former "third world" cities are choked with new, expensive Toyotas bigger than a Suburban, while the US has a bunch of econo boxes. The US is going to hell under a fascist-commie government. Time to leave, if you can. We're 80% out.
Next door Nevada has plenty of pre-excavated sites, where a little nuclear spill would not even be noticed. So don't worry about California's environemntal demands.
NASA is an expensive suckhole doing poor, often politized, science. I was raised on NASA hoorah decades. It's totally depleted now. Better to chop all the deadwood out and start over. America's future in space depends on it. If we don't somebody else, leaner and less corrupt, will.
And to think in some countries, wearing a condom is a sin.
Wikipedia has whole areas of distinct, anti-factual bias, medicine and climate being two large examples where conventional wisdom, and so-called consensus science, ride roughshod over inconvenient hard science and simple facts.
When the laws are not enforced justly or institutionally, the laws return to the hands of the people. Yes, that's revolutionary, it is in the Declaration of Independence and it is messy.
BP's reputation is one of cutting too many corners and not having the skill or acumen to back off critical cuts, and then blaming the victims or "bad luck". BP's corner cutting strategies start from the top, driven straight down, hard. BP has long been one of the larger players in influencing politicians and relevant government officials rather than consistent engineering and operations. Forget excellence.
BP has a long record of avarice compounding arrogance compounding ignorance, and setting up pawns like (sub)contractors for the fall.
"Winning the war of tourism" means keeps most of that valuable foreign exchange at home. No doubt the Feds consider expats to be traitors, even if enviously.
BP is the problem. It is no surprise that it was BP instead of Shell or Exxon. BP did it, AGAIN.
Alternative energy will go forward from high cost applications at the margins, driven by higher oil and gas prices. Not some magic Federal program.
Last time, in the 1970-80s energy crunch, we had that Carl Sagan moment, "billions and billions", for nothing but expensive, abandoned coal liquification plants of the federal Synfuels corp.
Julius Ceasar mucked about the priesthood's proprietary calendar concession. Look what happened to him. Power elite proprietary rental schemes have a long, long history. Ultimately backed by thuggery.
After all, who would want to *plan* to use expensive, crappy malware for a college degree and a profession AND fill out endless forms with possible gotchas? Perhaps a future BP manager [they do use MSFT extensively too]? (imagined ad: "You too can use our software to destroy a chunk of the planet"}
Spell "USSA" with SS in runes. The USA is in ruins.
The US government is no longer contained by the Constitution. I feel safer in many ways living in a "3rd world country" now. In the 1930s, smart Germans found means and reason to immigrate to the Americas. Likewise, many Americans may find it better to leave in this decade. The future of the US govt seems to be as a hazard to safety, liberty and prosperity.
What is missing in this discussion is systematic error, which is often very large and often dwarfs the analyzed random error or even the result itself. Systematic error is frequently a basic problem in biological research and in emerging technologies with crude tools and poorly understood cofactors. The human factor can hugely inflate systematic errors where legal, marketing or politics are involved. The systematic error may not be uncovered for years or decades, if ever.
One can design "tests" that are beautifully reproducible and precise, but absolutely, and deliberately, absurdly wrong. And get away with it, nay, be be rewarded handsomely as a salable skill. It happens behind the scenes. I have direct experience in science and engineering where politics have butted in, but I see this as more common in medicine, pharmaceuticals and the medical journals. Multiple, blatant design and interpretation errors in any single article that are extremely hard to assign to mere stupidity and/or ignorance, that involve authors with clear conflicts of interest to victimize cheap (defenseless) generic drugs and supplements, and to promote their product.
How blatant does it get? I have industrial experience where a big name, big $ university consultant was given free reign to do a "political assignment". On a literature comparison of two materials' figure of merit, even after fair warning, he missed reality by 9+ ORDERS of magnitude, over a billion fold by avoiding data in equal test environments. The results of internally published, correct tests were later deliberately ignored. This did eventually lead to his backers' catastrophic failure and his dismissal. Millions wasted. This is one of dozens of such situations I've seen in intercorporate wars with NoAm and European companies (no names here). The pharmaceutical and medicine situation appears blatantly worse in terms of number of fundamental test errors in a given high profile paper, resultant damage and duration. But big profits are made!
The main thing is to what extent the taxpayers are subsidizing IBM and will be asked to cough up in the future. Also any Government consulting contracts, especially military related issues, are important.
Other than that, I would say it is a truth in advertising issue. Corporations lie a lot.
McBride is obviously one of Rand's "Looters" who destroyed or drove out all the producers and innovators, thereby bankrupting the country. Wall Street, government and people like McBride are making a "prophet" out of Rand alright.
The local district attorney on the Duke rape sat on clear, exonerating DNA evidence that the psycho stripper erred or lied. They had 6 or 7 DNA samples from her (and underwear) that failed to match any DNA of the falsely charged Duke kids. Ooops, wrong team!
So why bother with the free DNA?
Of course, the police and DA everywhere else will cluck their tongues and say this never could happen at their place. Today, only a fool considers government and corporate reps as anything but potentially dangerous adversaries, and their promises as anything more valuable than glib promises printed on second hand toilet paper.
The real problem here is that the P2P is effectively a piece of malware. A 14 yo kid wants to listen to the "radio" on the computer and becomes an unwitting distributor because of the less obvious, additional redistributing functions of the malicious (to RIAA) software. RIAA is contributory to the problem by persisting in broken distribution models that (1) are cumbersome in any case, (2) overpriced per play to the usual alternate sources e.g. radio or even per play jukebox, when the kid shrugs and nevers listens again, (3) alleges charges much higher than the proportionate physical media e.g. a song available on a $5, 50 song CD (4) denies fair uses both by legal harrassment and technical impediments that are deliberate defects (both low quality and DRM) to prevent natural utilization of a single owner to (attempt to) force multiple purchases of favorites.
One has to have reservations about any legal system that would so harrass underage females and students, perhaps for other immoral purposes, over such extortionate trivia. Also such cases interfere with societally important productive development and education of children, for the upset, waste of time and precious funds. ($750 = what part of a semester's tution for playing a song on a computer as if it were the radio?)
The music industry has been well aware of the implications of these things since the 1970s. That is why copyright laws have been in constant modification since the 1970s. That the industry persistently refuses to put forth a reasonable distribution models is a demonstration of anti-trust behavior. The problem isn't that they are stupid and/or can't distribute well, the problem is that they won't, and extortionately attempt to charge full retail price of physical media (or higher) for each repeated ephemeral use, if possible. (I still can play our records from the 60s after a 1000+ plays)
Yeah, nuclear can be safe. France is safer because it shutdown SuperPhoenix, the (explosive) liquid metal fast breeder with leaks. Helium based advanced reactors seem more interesting.
One might observe the very real actions of the FDA, approving EXPENSIVE dangerous new drugs, that should never have been released, and disparging other treatments that still work better (older generics, supplements). Some estimates are that several hundred thousand per year die because of such federally approved/mandated poisoning, millions more are injured.
Had a parent injured by several modern malpractices and pharmacides, turned out the way to survive was doing some older things that made simple biochemical sense. Much, much better now and I have objective measures to demonstrate it.
It is always refreshing to watch a master criminal at work. Microsoft, the company that has made billions by locking users with false promises on knowingly sold defective malware, stolen technology, selling crap EULAs to sell 2, 3, even 4 licenses just get a machine running and compatible, trampling implied warranty into the ground, evading antitrust prosecutions with perjured testimonies and harried, baited judges, and multiples more on jobbed stock.
Sounds like Bill trying to create a market for his simulated, carbon-free nuclear waste burner with assorted nucleotides. Hope it works better than Windows. Otherwise we're going have fun with radioactive, explosive liquid metals every month or two.