"Every culture that has depended on annual plants for their staple food crops has collapsed."
Oh come on, now that's just a huge non sequitur, and you know it. There are plenty of reasons cultures collapse, and most of them it's not because of their dependence on annual plants for food.
Furthermore it's completely false. There are plenty of cultures around right now that depend on annual plants as a staple food crop. America as one example.
I seriously recommend you stop listening to that guy because he just spews nonsense.
The papers (I've read a few of them when the story went public) are a clear sign that something is very, very wrong with whoever accepted them for publication
Students asking for trigger warnings, the biology professor who didn't leave campus for being white was forced out of the university/quote.
What do these have to do with the current story, where a guy was making up data for papers and submitting them to journals?
The problem is they made up data. If you write a paper that says 90% of people surveyed prefer the taste of water retrieved from a toilet in San Francisco over that retrieved from a sink in San Jose, then the only way to prove that wrong would be to do your own survey. Peer review won't catch that, which is the problem.
If you really want to stop unscientific behavior in the social sciences, the best way would be to actually run your own tests to see. Because there are a lot of unscientific hypotheses that need to be tested.
To know if a rice field increases diversity or decreases diversity, you need to know what was there before. To say that it can only decrease diversity is unscientific.
In America it's improved dramatically. Remember when rivers actually used to catch fire? Our air quality is so much better than it used to be, we used to pump so much lead into the air that it caused mental problems.
There are some issues in the developing world, but overall they've learned to move through the developing phase much more cleanly than we did (of course, they learned lessons from our mistakes, which is a good thing).
The point isn't to patch the backdoor. The point is to exploit it. This is a company that sells exploits to government agencies (presumably. They don't tell who their customers are, so it could be to the mafia, too).
Moreover, why exactly are the guys losing their jobs to "illegals?" It's already illegal to hire people not allowed to be in the country, so why are their employers firing the US citizens and hiring undocumented workers to take their place?
Because the Americans are lazy and do poor work in comparison. That's how it was when I worked at a place that hired illegals.
Anyway, the end is in sight. Trump will get the wall, Pelosi etc will get an "infrastructure" package that will mostly be a giveaway package to their friends, and the budget will be passed.
I'll be honest, that's not an area where logic is effective. Just call Trump a liar and be done with it, everyone will agree. Enough people will still support him, though.
Republicans need their own Nancy Pelosi to keep everyone in line. Last time Dems had that much power, Pelosi ramrodded Obamacare through.
Pelosi is very skillful but in fairness, Democrat leadership was more unified about the need for healthcare than Republicans were for the wall. Paul Ryan just didn't care about the wall or what Trump wanted.
It's kind of amazing how quickly this turned into a "Trump vs Democrats" issue when Republicans still hold the Senate and also the house when the budget impasse started. It's a theater, and someone is playing their part very well, to shift the blame in that way.
Other countries have their own pop cultures (their own folklore, their own values, etc).
Folklore and values largely are not pop culture. Pop culture is only aware of "right now," the latest sound, the latest CGI, the latest cause celebre. Values and folklore typically try to be more universal.
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Are you just as hard on the people in the field being criticized, who pass the same "peer review" process?
Yes, if they make up data, they have serious problems.
Hard to feel sympathy when he was making up data. If you want to show flaws in the system, do it with real data, don't make stuff up..
"Every culture that has depended on annual plants for their staple food crops has collapsed."
Oh come on, now that's just a huge non sequitur, and you know it. There are plenty of reasons cultures collapse, and most of them it's not because of their dependence on annual plants for food.
Furthermore it's completely false. There are plenty of cultures around right now that depend on annual plants as a staple food crop. America as one example.
I seriously recommend you stop listening to that guy because he just spews nonsense.
Abundance of Ohio River Valley during Jefferson administration
Is cool but kind of irrelevant
The papers (I've read a few of them when the story went public) are a clear sign that something is very, very wrong with whoever accepted them for publication
Which ones?
I don't see that he exposed any real problems at all. He falsified data and then got it published. What does that expose?
Students asking for trigger warnings, the biology professor who didn't leave campus for being white was forced out of the university/quote. What do these have to do with the current story, where a guy was making up data for papers and submitting them to journals?
The problem is they made up data. If you write a paper that says 90% of people surveyed prefer the taste of water retrieved from a toilet in San Francisco over that retrieved from a sink in San Jose, then the only way to prove that wrong would be to do your own survey. Peer review won't catch that, which is the problem.
If you really want to stop unscientific behavior in the social sciences, the best way would be to actually run your own tests to see. Because there are a lot of unscientific hypotheses that need to be tested.
I'm not really sure what your point is.
To know if a rice field increases diversity or decreases diversity, you need to know what was there before. To say that it can only decrease diversity is unscientific.
Our planetwide ecosystem is collapsing
In America it's improved dramatically. Remember when rivers actually used to catch fire? Our air quality is so much better than it used to be, we used to pump so much lead into the air that it caused mental problems.
There are some issues in the developing world, but overall they've learned to move through the developing phase much more cleanly than we did (of course, they learned lessons from our mistakes, which is a good thing).
Rice fields are pretty great for ecosystems. They help migrating birds, for example, and walking through them you see all kinds of wildlife.
The point isn't to patch the backdoor. The point is to exploit it. This is a company that sells exploits to government agencies (presumably. They don't tell who their customers are, so it could be to the mafia, too).
Moreover, why exactly are the guys losing their jobs to "illegals?" It's already illegal to hire people not allowed to be in the country, so why are their employers firing the US citizens and hiring undocumented workers to take their place?
Because the Americans are lazy and do poor work in comparison. That's how it was when I worked at a place that hired illegals.
Because they didn't believe him in the first place. They think the wall is a good idea, no matter who pays for it.
Anyway, the end is in sight. Trump will get the wall, Pelosi etc will get an "infrastructure" package that will mostly be a giveaway package to their friends, and the budget will be passed.
Wtf are you talking about with your last sentence there?
I'll be honest, that's not an area where logic is effective. Just call Trump a liar and be done with it, everyone will agree. Enough people will still support him, though.
Republicans need their own Nancy Pelosi to keep everyone in line. Last time Dems had that much power, Pelosi ramrodded Obamacare through.
Pelosi is very skillful but in fairness, Democrat leadership was more unified about the need for healthcare than Republicans were for the wall. Paul Ryan just didn't care about the wall or what Trump wanted.
It's kind of amazing how quickly this turned into a "Trump vs Democrats" issue when Republicans still hold the Senate and also the house when the budget impasse started. It's a theater, and someone is playing their part very well, to shift the blame in that way.
Other countries have their own pop cultures (their own folklore, their own values, etc).
Folklore and values largely are not pop culture. Pop culture is only aware of "right now," the latest sound, the latest CGI, the latest cause celebre. Values and folklore typically try to be more universal.
I got the Dell XPS 17 inch laptop, and it's been great (on Linux) in terms of battery life and specs, but the case is not very sturdy.
Yet another reason X-men sucks. Don't worry, Wolverine will be back after the next 'reboot'
If that is what you call the pinnacle of American culture then we are in deeper shit than I thought.
Then what do you consider the pinnacle of American culture? America is the king of pop, through and through.
You probably forgot price :D
I'm happy to pay for quality. Macs are solid construction, but underpowered (also, the super bar is weird).