Would you suggest they cut down their intake so that they're balanced perfectly on the gain weight/lose weight threshold and end up starving to death?
Well you've got me there. It would be a natural and tragic consequence of what I said. Silly me for forgotting to take into account that the only foods that contain vitamins are pies, chips and chocolate triple fudge icecream.
Sometimes things are found that don't fit exactly with a theory, and it has to be modified, sometimes a theory is completely found to be wrong, even though it had worked for many other cases beforehand
What I find amusing is when the anti-science crowd claim this is a weakness of science - as if it would be somehow better to cling to things that you know are wrong. I was going to say that flexibility & re-evaluation is a strength of the scientific method - but on second thoughts, it pretty much defines it.
So if I offer my guest a drink knowing he'll probably refuse, I'm evil?
It's more like offering someone a drink and then not giving him one because, because there's no clean glasses... er, I can't find the corkscrew... er, we've run out of that...
The genitic DNA difference between you and me, or me and the bloke in the cube in front, is equal to the genetic DNA difference between me and an outback Ethiopian.
Pretty unlikely, to be honest. Unless you, me, your co-worker and this ethipian chap are quadruplets.
The probability of all the parameters needed to have a place where the CONDITIONS are met for life to happen are absurdly low, if chance is the designer
True, but then it's had plenty of time, and it only needed to happen once.
Quoth Albert Einstein (again): "God does not play dice".
And quoth I: "Jean-Luc Picard did not play zero-gravity cricket on planet Qknak'h III". Now, does that imply that Jean-Luc Picard exists? That zero-gravity cricket does? That the unpronounceable celestial body does?
Does it prove or imply that I believe that any of them do?
Well, if tachyon beams had a chronotronic pulse that you could hyperdynamically remodulate with a positronic matrix, it might be science. But as they don't, then I guess the nearest you can get is science fiction.
Personally, I don't believe in Evolution. That doesn't make me an idiot. I simply disagree with the theory.
Personally, I don't believe that the square on the hypotenuse of a right-agnled triangle is equal to the sum of the squares on the other two sides. That doesn't make me innumerate. I simply disagree with the theorem.
I read something along similar lines concerning New Mexico. And it was probably true - I read it on paper, before there were all those intarwebs and stuff.
The inmates are held in dorms with up to 24 men each. Almost all of these guys will scrub the toilet seat clean before they use it. Yet these same people will make tattoo needles and get staf infections or smoke each others roll your own cigs.
I don't know what to disbelieve any more - what you wrote, or that you didn't mention that they fuck each other up the arse.
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Up to date maps could be used by terrarists!!!! Or pediaf^H peado^H paeda^H kiddy-fiddlers. Something like that.
Just because one person's "too much" is less than someone else's "not enough" doesn't make the satatemnt untrue when applied to a specific individual.
Doesn't alter the fact that if your intake exceeds your expenditure (adjusted for efficiency), you'll put weight on.
Does it prove or imply that I believe that any of them do?
I read something along similar lines concerning New Mexico. And it was probably true - I read it on paper, before there were all those intarwebs and stuff.
Harrump! What are the chances of that happening - a million to one?
Nothing, but German grammar that was not.
Not to mention "The communicate with the induction stove 16 times a second". The what - kippers?
I copyrighted the permeeability & permittivity of free space. It follows that c is a derived work.
[1] that's over half a football pitch
[2] that's a smallish linebacker