There's also such a thing as returning to the mean. By the time you go to a doctor, chances are you're already at the worst stage of your illness and it'll get better naturally.
Very true.
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Munkus BeaverYou don't have to attend every argument you are invited to.Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPAregular
Which is why people think holistic medicine works so well.
And because chiropractors are basically just doing massages so people feel good for a day.
Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
Shit, really? Some smug jerkoff emailed me the link and I didn't even check the date
Was there ever a response to it?
The author is a senior fellow at the conservative, global warming denying think tank, The Heartland Institute. It's just old warming denial bullshit.
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I mean, it certainly sounded that way
I was just a little surprised by you know, NASA data and all that, but I guess it's the interpretation of the data that's important here?
I mean, it certainly sounded that way
I was just a little surprised by you know, NASA data and all that, but I guess it's the interpretation of the data that's important here?
Well, the author isn't even the one that analyzed the data. It's his interpretation of a press release from a scientist that analyzed the data. So there's plenty of room for misunderstanding or willful misinterpretation on the part of the author.
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Munkus BeaverYou don't have to attend every argument you are invited to.Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPAregular
I mean, it certainly sounded that way
I was just a little surprised by you know, NASA data and all that, but I guess it's the interpretation of the data that's important here?
News articles are surprisingly terrible sources for information on scientific findings, because they tend to misunderstand any fundamental aspect of it or communicate the point so poorly that it leads to improper inferences. You'll find an article getting up in arms about the NEW SCIENCE that LINKS something X to something Y with total disregard to causation and correlation.
Hell, I read an article arguing that normal people, not just Celiac's sufferers, should get rid of gluten because it would make them healthier. However literally every citation the guy used was referencing studies involving Celiac patients.
Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
Also re: climate science, I've been reading a lot of bad astronomy stuff lately and Phil plait has a lot of good stuff up about that and how crazy the deniers can be.
Re: health care, got an bacterial infection in my pinky finger, I think I need to visit a doctor about that because I don't think it is going away on its own. Hooray for having health insurance again
I mean, it certainly sounded that way
I was just a little surprised by you know, NASA data and all that, but I guess it's the interpretation of the data that's important here?
The paper, from my two minutes skimming the abstract, basically is one data set about clouds that is more exaggerated than the IPCC models and is not that big of a deal
Funny how denialist assholes are happy to believe any scientific paper which appears to support their position, however mildly, but any paper which does not is obviously part of the decades-long global alarmist conspiracy of Liars for Grant Money
Maybe email your friend a few dozen of the 10,000 papers that show positive data for global warming
Yeah, that's a good point also. It's like creationists taking any little controversy in biology as proof that evolution as a whole has suddenly been uprooted. Which is of course absurd and complete bullshit.
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My stepdad believed the whole climate gate thing. That "the climate scientists" had falsified papers and thus anthropogenic global warming is a sham
the two most common isotopes of oxygen are oxygen-16 and oxygen-18
when water is heated, the lighter O-16 preferentially evaporates and stays in the clouds longer than O-18 because it is lighter
the result is that O-16 winds up in glaciers while O-18 rains back onto the ocean and the lowlands, returning more quickly to the ocean
so if you look at the frequency with which those kinds of oxygen appear in fossilized seashells, you can tell whether the earth was cold (when more O-16 was in the glaciers where the shells couldn't get at it) or warm (when O-16 is more prevalent in the water)
this method is useful because it allows climatologists to look back farther than they can with ice cores
also did you know: it takes three years or so to drill a complete core in the arctic! now that's job security
now where'd that goddamn teaching emoticon go
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Munkus BeaverYou don't have to attend every argument you are invited to.Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPAregular
Look, if you're gonna talk about scientific stuff that is mired in politics, you can at least make it interesting. Like so:
WASHINGTON—According to Beltway sources, confused White House staffers arrived at their desks Wednesday to find a meticulously researched, entirely unrequested report from the Interior Department assessing dry humping as a suitable sex alternative for teenagers.
The uncomfortably in-depth 900-page document, which outlines the benefits of clothed genital stimulation versus fully penetrative sex, reportedly baffled administration officials, who confirmed they generally associate the department with its role in managing natural resources and administering programs for Native Americans.
"I find this all extremely odd, to say the least," said White House deputy chief of staff Nancy-Ann DeParle, thumbing through a large three-ring binder emblazoned with the department's American bison seal. "Reducing teen STD and pregnancy rates is important, of course, but this falls so far outside Interior's purview that…well, I don't even know how to respond to this, to be quite honest."
"How could they possibly have found the time or funding for an in-depth study of dry humping?" DeParle added. "I'm certain we didn't commission this."
A copy of the report obtained by members of the press reveals it to be a heavily researched work that begins with a heartfelt, dry-sex-positive foreword by Interior Secretary Ken Salazar. Also included is a detailed history of the practice, from the Victorian-era practice of frottage—meaning "to rub"—to the modern teen trend of freaking or "sandwich dancing," whereby two partners interlock legs and grind their genitals together in rhythm with popular music.
"The pantomiming of intercourse prior to the onset of mature sexual relationships is a phenomenon one observes in many cultures," reads one section of the report. "It's natural for budding, aroused adolescents to explore erogenous-zone stimulation with a partner, and when it comes to achieving physical gratification without disrobing, teens have many options available to them. Young males will even find that ejaculation is not uncommon."
Another section, credited to the department's Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement, ranks the best places to engage in dry humping using a statistical "dry-pleasure coefficient," or DPE—a new metric the Department of the Interior developed solely for the report. The study indicates a soft couch in the finished basement of a mutual friend's house has the highest-known DPE, making it the top location for fully clothed teens to vigorously mount each other.
The Interior Department, founded in 1849 to oversee federal land management, has never been responsible for dealing with adolescent sexuality in any official capacity.
"Comprehensiveness notwithstanding, it's a little alarming that anyone over there knows this much about dry humping, whether anecdotally or through direct observation," said White House communications director Dan Pfeiffer, referring to a section of the report that evaluates various ointments that can be used to treat chafed genitals following heavy friction. "For Christ's sake, these people have 58 national parks to run."
"And some of these studies go all the way back to 1995, so obviously they've been working on this for a while," he continued. "By all outward indications, this looks to be a labor of love."
Despite calling the report "unsettling" and "difficult to read for more than a few minutes at a time," administration staffers acknowledged its conclusions were valid on the whole, and should be applauded for their objectivity and nonjudgmental tone. Sources said that aside from some of the more graphic and largely speculative sections on teen vibrator play contributed by the U.S. Geological Survey, much of the research might even be suitable for sex-education curricula.
Interior Department officials were summoned Wednesday afternoon to confirm authorship of the report, their first since a Jan. 6 brief on fluctuations in the seasonal wolf population of northern Wyoming.
"We'd be more than happy to further discuss any of our findings," a department spokesman said. "All questions can be directed to Secretary Salazar's office."
"But I think we've made our point," he added.
Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
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WASHINGTON—Over the past three years, as the sluggish economy has forced many Americans to tighten their belts, President Obama has reportedly enjoyed a lavish personal lifestyle, residing with his family in a 132-room house staffed by a 24-hour security detail, five full-time chefs, and a live-in maid service.
In recent weeks, many of the president's critics have seized upon the issue, arguing that anyone who sleeps in a sprawling six-level neoclassical mansion covering 18 acres of Washington, D.C.'s most valuable real estate is clearly out of touch with the lives of ordinary citizens.
"What message does it send to the American people when their president is living in a ritzy palatial estate at the same time they're struggling to keep their heads above water?" political strategist Robert T. Carlson said Wednesday, noting that Obama's gated home features a lush rose garden, a private balcony, an ostentatious room seemingly devoted to the color blue, a solarium, "fancy portraits" of John F. Kennedy and George Washington, and a movie theater. "So much for all that 'shared sacrifice' he keeps talking about."
"And just look at those gaudy columned porticoes," Carlson continued. "It must have cost a fortune to build that place."
Other commentators have noted that while Americans lucky enough to have jobs often spend hours in traffic commuting to work each day, Obama simply "walks on over to another wing of his huge mansion," where he keeps an opulently furnished home office replete with a large wooden desk, a fireplace, three giant windows, and a passage leading to his own private study and dining area.
"Each morning, as most office workers are squeezing into tiny cubicles, the president is kicking back in an 800-square-foot space with not one, but two separate couches," said pundit and blogger Chet Ogilvy, adding that Obama even employed a personal secretary to "handle the phones and basically everything else." "On top of that, he sits there like a king while a whole team of people brings him typed reports on everything important happening everywhere in the world."
"Can't this guy just pick up a paper like everybody else?" Ogilvy added. "Who does he think he is?"
Ogilvy also pointed out that on occasions when Obama does leave his luxurious home, he insists on being privately chauffeured around cities in large motorcades. In addition, sources confirmed the president has taken innumerable trips overseas in a private Boeing 747.
"No cramped flights in coach for Mr. President," Oglivy said. "When he wants to jet off to some exotic locale—and in the past three years alone he's traveled to Iraq once and Afghanistan twice—he has his own personal pilot ready to take him there. Meanwhile, the rest of us average joes are still standing in the security line waiting for our pat-down."
Many citizens across the country have also registered their disgust with what they perceive to be Obama's conspicuous lifestyle, claiming he often spends his work hours hobnobbing with other federal officials and even hosts cushy public events for visiting foreign dignitaries.
Others said they found it inappropriate that the president is living in "this big white house" at a time when home foreclosures in the United States are at a record high.
"Did you know he has Abraham Lincoln's bed right there in his own home?" Baltimore-area electrician Caleb Bell told reporters. "He keeps it in one of his guest rooms. Here I am, working 80 hours a week at two jobs, and this guy's got a whole house full of ridiculously ostentatious status symbols like that. In this economy, I think it's nothing short of obscene."
"And we're talking about the same person who has this enormous, presumably very expensive American flag flying from his roof at all times," Bell added. "I'm all for patriotism, but that's way over the top. Does he have to rub his extravagance in everybody's face like that?"
Responding to the criticism of Obama, presidential candidate Mitt Romney pledged his willingness, should he be elected, to stay in a small studio apartment in Arlington, VA.
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Very true.
And because chiropractors are basically just doing massages so people feel good for a day.
http://m.yahoo.com/w/news_america/nasa-data-blow-gaping-hold-global-warming-alarmism-192334971.html?orig_host_hdr=news.yahoo.com&.intl=us&.lang=en-us
What, uh, what are we thinking about this
You mean aside from it being six months old?
Was there ever a response to it?
The author is a senior fellow at the conservative, global warming denying think tank, The Heartland Institute. It's just old warming denial bullshit.
(probably "clean coal")
I was just a little surprised by you know, NASA data and all that, but I guess it's the interpretation of the data that's important here?
Well, the author isn't even the one that analyzed the data. It's his interpretation of a press release from a scientist that analyzed the data. So there's plenty of room for misunderstanding or willful misinterpretation on the part of the author.
News articles are surprisingly terrible sources for information on scientific findings, because they tend to misunderstand any fundamental aspect of it or communicate the point so poorly that it leads to improper inferences. You'll find an article getting up in arms about the NEW SCIENCE that LINKS something X to something Y with total disregard to causation and correlation.
Hell, I read an article arguing that normal people, not just Celiac's sufferers, should get rid of gluten because it would make them healthier. However literally every citation the guy used was referencing studies involving Celiac patients.
except Kari doesn't pretend to be an actress
You might be thinking of the wrong Olivia.
Also re: climate science, I've been reading a lot of bad astronomy stuff lately and Phil plait has a lot of good stuff up about that and how crazy the deniers can be.
Re: health care, got an bacterial infection in my pinky finger, I think I need to visit a doctor about that because I don't think it is going away on its own. Hooray for having health insurance again
The paper, from my two minutes skimming the abstract, basically is one data set about clouds that is more exaggerated than the IPCC models and is not that big of a deal
Funny how denialist assholes are happy to believe any scientific paper which appears to support their position, however mildly, but any paper which does not is obviously part of the decades-long global alarmist conspiracy of Liars for Grant Money
Maybe email your friend a few dozen of the 10,000 papers that show positive data for global warming
Global warming is caused by sunspots
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/post/deadly-cold-snap-overwhelms-europe-strands-thousands-in-serbia-bosnia/2012/02/03/gIQAPOkumQ_blog.html
checkmate, "scientists"
the two most common isotopes of oxygen are oxygen-16 and oxygen-18
when water is heated, the lighter O-16 preferentially evaporates and stays in the clouds longer than O-18 because it is lighter
the result is that O-16 winds up in glaciers while O-18 rains back onto the ocean and the lowlands, returning more quickly to the ocean
so if you look at the frequency with which those kinds of oxygen appear in fossilized seashells, you can tell whether the earth was cold (when more O-16 was in the glaciers where the shells couldn't get at it) or warm (when O-16 is more prevalent in the water)
this method is useful because it allows climatologists to look back farther than they can with ice cores
also did you know: it takes three years or so to drill a complete core in the arctic! now that's job security
now where'd that goddamn teaching emoticon go
Still too cold for my liking.
Let me help you warm up...
I don't think so?
the best part is how it sees a flurry of updates every winter, and none in the summer
I LOVE
THE ONIOOOON
hahaha this is amazing
"Why are you lying to me?!"