Isaac

I think I would too. Yep. That's the point I've been making whenever these AN threads crop up.

But apparently the proposition "The proposition "life is good" needs an argument" doesn't and can simply be asserted without one.

You said... How can we interpret that in a way that means the FDA are doing something that is of consequence to the safety of the public? You've direc...

You missed the use of the word 'relegation'. It's the evident lack of utility you ascribe to it, quibbling over semantics is irrelevant when we have y...

But the happy worker is happy...by definition. If your moral was 'do not exploit anyone', then you'd be concerned about their exploitation, but you we...

I'm not sure what it is about my responses that's given you the impression I'm unaware of what the FDA's role is since I cited their own lawyer explai...

I'm not talking about sample size. Your claim was that it would invoice a 'vast' conspiracy if claims about the vaccine's safety and efficacy were com...

It depends on the gain, generally. If there's little to gain, then it seems like the threshold of 'they'll probably be OK with this' should be quite h...

You've shifted the argument again. Two distinct questions; One is whether the majority view dictates what is right. Two is whether what is right can b...

Since you're not keen of the line of questioning regarding what 'works' means, perhaps this might be more interesting - how many people, in actual num...

You said... I asked if the exercise was then a waste of time, your conclusion was... But if I've misunderstood, then we can easily clear the matter up...

Yes. It's false.

What source are you using for your assertion that the full approval process consists of only 'documenting' that which is already known. You've yet to ...

Indeed. I'm not sure if this is directed at anything I've said here, but the journals I've cited are mainly the JME, which is one of the world's most ...

So they are wasting their time then? If what they'll find is already known. It is, but that's not what a phase IV trial is, nor is it the type of data...

Again, you've not answered the question of what you mean by 'works'. What does a vaccine need to do to 'work'? Answer that question, and then see if e...

Then what are the FDA looking for when they... ...? Are the FDA just wasting time and money looking through data which cannot yield any useful informa...

I just explained that. It has nothing to do with knowing or not knowing. The question either doesn't make sense or else I've given you my answer "quit...

That doesn't make sense. It's not a binomial. There's a threshold of proof that a EUA requires and a higher threshold that full approval requires. If ...

It's not that I know or don't know. The question doesn't make sense. "What it's like..." is a grammatical device used to either compare or to describe...

Yes. I'm not sure what difference that makes to an evaluation of whether incentives are a good thing or not.

No. The question doesn't even make sense.

I don't think there's been anything like that going on. You're presenting weak arguments, it gets frustrating when you just dodge the counter-argument...

Why would you think that? So do you have a source for your assertion with more authority that the CDC's own advisor on immunization? Why not? What is ...

We're clearly playing the Soctratic rules, wherin "Mornington Crescent cannot be reached prior to passing through ten stations... or their essential f...

Meh. A fairly comprehensive review by Nancy Jecker at the Department of Bioethics and Humanities, University of Washington School of Medicine conclude...

What an odd criticism. How do you suppose my seminars would have proceeded if every question was only answered following a five hour pause? Discussion...

Well, I hope so, but that's not what the authors I've cited see happening (nor my own personal experience - but that counts for little in public debat...

I only meant that it cannot be eliminated materialistically. It may be of no consequence in terms of systems analysis (though I'd argue it is, but lat...

No doubt. It seems there's two levels on which one could interpret it. One is saying that the form of the hidden state we currently share a model of m...

Yes. I get what you're saying, I think. What I take issue with is the (what I see as) false distinction between the data coming from 'the moon' and th...

All of that seems to require an external world. The stimulus or sense data of type X must come from outside of the model. I see, thanks. That makes se...

So there's nothing new here other than the same old line that you think it's unjust to bring about a life which then cannot decide to not have been (t...

Following through the arguments is a subset of writing a response. Its something that you at least respond, but that's not sufficient tot count as res...

This expression is too often misused. 'Silencing' would mean the we don't get to hear from them. Many groups have had the dissemination of their views...

I'm not generally given to simply posting agreement, but I really wanted to highlight this to avoid it being lost in the weeds. It's crucial, I think,...

This is not your blog. You do owe @"khaled" something, and others who've contributed to your thread. You owe them at least an honest attempt at follow...

All I ever do. Admittedly sometimes I inquire quite obdurately... A mistake in behaviour though, no? It ought not have flown into the lamp (to its dea...

My aim was to inquire rather than advocate. I don't mean to disrupt your thread if it's off topic... You mean the brain stimulates itself? It certainl...

Well that's why I asked where the stimulation comes from. Because if it comes from 'the world', then the thought experiment doesn't suggest we don't n...

Isn't that the conclusion you drew from the thought experiment? You're now using it as a premise. That doesn't sound like the thought experiment has d...

I understand this was intended as an example of the sort of conclusion you find useful, so my question is a bit off-topic, but, very briefly, if we co...

I thought the BIV was useless too, so that's not a persuasive argument. Perhaps highlight some of the conclusion you find useful?

Absolutely no one, ever, would hold such a view. There's little point in constructing arguments against views that no one holds is there?

'The Market'? Where does it get its prices from? Yes. That's the point I'm making. I've outlined which is the more attractive, it's (on average) the o...

How do you think we found anything out about amoebae then? Theories all rely on repeatability. If the amoeba repeatedly responds to a poem in some pre...

A human being will react to poem, an amoeba won't. What's unscientific about that?

The entire scenario makes no sense. You've taken; 1.X 2.Y 3.Z and complained that there's no 'not even have to choose'. So we replace it with; 1.X 2.Y...

Income tax pays for (among other things) health services, environmental protection, unemployment benefit, policing, and utilities. When determining yo...

Longer answer later, I have to go out. Short answer -all the things that income tax currently pays for. Many of them the employer benefits from. If yo...