This is, of course, absolute horseshit. There are no studies indicating a widespread deficiency of vitamin D. You just link to a bunch of bullshit websites that are hawking vitamin D as the new miracle cure-all snake oil. Good job! You fail at science.
The fact that you don't know the difference between fluoride and fluorine lends so much credibility to your case. Excuse me while I go smooth out the creases in my tinfoil hat.
"How can you investigate something if you are not open to it?"... If it exists, you'll be able to investigate it whether you believe in it or not. The only things that only work when you believe in them are delusions.
"Actually, being a scientist doesn't entitle you to be a closed-minded prick.."
Believing in ESP doesn't make you open-minded; it makes you gullible.
There's a difference between a conspiracy to commit fraud and a conspiracy to use a government research project to create earthquakes around the world or a conspiracy to fly planes into buildings and make people disappear to cover up the fact that it was a controlled demolition. I hope that's obvious to you.
You're absolutely right; we're not living in a fantasy world. That also means that, despite our desire to the contrary, we're not members of an elite inner circle of people who know what's REALLY going on, who must use our knowledge to save everyone else.
Except... not at all. The drugs that alleviate symptoms are actually alleviating symptoms. There's chemistry at work there. They are nothing like placebos. Part of the placebo effect is the perceived alleviation of symptoms, as observed by a third party. The point of the placebo effect is that it's basically statistical noise that appears to be a real effect when seen in a specific individual. It isn't "mind over matter."
Of course, that's patent nonsense. No amount of spinal adjustment will cure a head cold, which is congestion caused by blockage in the sinuses. More likely, you didn't have a cold, but an allergic swelling of the sinus that dissipated because you went indoors.
Then you're no longer talking about acupuncture; you're talking about methodical skin irritation. Acupuncture is, very specifically, a form of energy medicine centered around the idea of qi and meridians.
People walk on busy highways without sidewalks and think they're going to be perfectly safe? Why on earth would a thinking person even consider going by that route?
"There is a noticeable corollary?" No, there really isn't, since there's actually a measurable amount of a substance in a vaccine and there's a known and valid mechanism for its function. Neither of those is true for homeopathy - plus, it doesn't work.
As for the bit about herbal medicine: Medicines derived from herbs have been purified and measured into verifiably functional doses. Herbal medicines? Not so much. No requirements for purity, dose size, or function - only safety.
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IIRC, there's actually a single crank going around and advising people to institute these bans. It's literally the same person behind it all.
I wonder if the zombie ants have a higher chance of infecting others if the leaves they cling to are the leaves of GRAAAAIIIIIINNNNSSS?
This is, of course, absolute horseshit. There are no studies indicating a widespread deficiency of vitamin D. You just link to a bunch of bullshit websites that are hawking vitamin D as the new miracle cure-all snake oil. Good job! You fail at science.
The fact that you don't know the difference between fluoride and fluorine lends so much credibility to your case. Excuse me while I go smooth out the creases in my tinfoil hat.
Better tell that to the one I just migrated my Windows installation onto...
Science and religion are quite compatible when you ignore that your religion makes scientific claims that are not borne out by evidence.
Spending 20 hours a week or more on the internet for the last 14 years did that for me.
"Binaural beats have a documented psycho-dynamic effect"
[citation needed]
Listening to sound waves in no way alters the pattern of waves produced by your brain, and in no way alters your consciousness.
The stock market is essentially a Markov chain. Any predictions made about it, therefore, are nothing but astrology.
It's done because Creationists are fucking imbeciles. I should know. I used to be one.
Or people die.
"How can you investigate something if you are not open to it?" ... If it exists, you'll be able to investigate it whether you believe in it or not. The only things that only work when you believe in them are delusions.
"Actually, being a scientist doesn't entitle you to be a closed-minded prick.."
Believing in ESP doesn't make you open-minded; it makes you gullible.
There's a difference between a conspiracy to commit fraud and a conspiracy to use a government research project to create earthquakes around the world or a conspiracy to fly planes into buildings and make people disappear to cover up the fact that it was a controlled demolition. I hope that's obvious to you.
You're absolutely right; we're not living in a fantasy world. That also means that, despite our desire to the contrary, we're not members of an elite inner circle of people who know what's REALLY going on, who must use our knowledge to save everyone else.
Except... not at all. The drugs that alleviate symptoms are actually alleviating symptoms. There's chemistry at work there. They are nothing like placebos. Part of the placebo effect is the perceived alleviation of symptoms, as observed by a third party. The point of the placebo effect is that it's basically statistical noise that appears to be a real effect when seen in a specific individual. It isn't "mind over matter."
Of course, that's patent nonsense. No amount of spinal adjustment will cure a head cold, which is congestion caused by blockage in the sinuses. More likely, you didn't have a cold, but an allergic swelling of the sinus that dissipated because you went indoors.
Then you're no longer talking about acupuncture; you're talking about methodical skin irritation. Acupuncture is, very specifically, a form of energy medicine centered around the idea of qi and meridians.
People walk on busy highways without sidewalks and think they're going to be perfectly safe? Why on earth would a thinking person even consider going by that route?
I used to daydream about that in church...
"There is a noticeable corollary?" No, there really isn't, since there's actually a measurable amount of a substance in a vaccine and there's a known and valid mechanism for its function. Neither of those is true for homeopathy - plus, it doesn't work.
As for the bit about herbal medicine: Medicines derived from herbs have been purified and measured into verifiably functional doses. Herbal medicines? Not so much. No requirements for purity, dose size, or function - only safety.
This has been settled since FEBRUARY. http://www.research.psu.edu/orp/Findings_Mann_Inquiry.pdf Go to page 5.
Fuck you and the choirboy you rode in on.
Then fly your own fucking plane, you selfish cunt. The world does not revolve around you, and neither do the airlines.
No, I totally understood what you were doing, but it only works if I was saying that the hypervisor made Linux possible.
Actually, the original PSP had 32; the new ones have 64.
Did you even see what I actually wrote? "The hypervisor isn't what made running Linux possible."