Yeah, though as you said before, mostly conspicuous silence. The scientists who engineered the programme admit it was a "dystopian" experiment and wha...
You can read the UK's version here. https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/887467/25-options-...
No there isn't. Taste cannot be reduced to chemistry. It requires a complicated and imperfectly understood neural network, a complex and evolving lang...
Well, if you want to have a conversation about something else, then I suggest you you do so by posting something independently. Replying to my posts t...
No. Do you need me to get the diagrams out again? 1 + 1 is 2 definitionally, so people who think it's 3 are wrong. The earth can be empirically shown ...
Fixed that for you. So can you explain for us why the US pushed to the point of diplomatic crisis against Nordstream2, if they had so little to gain? ...
Sure, but the important thing here is to remember this is not about us trying to work out who sabotaged the pipeline. We're just not in a position to ...
Here's an idea for one. If a situation is a... ...perhaps don't make all other approaches illegal, sack people who disagree, ban the discussion of alt...
Sure. Now apply exactly the same level of exculpatory analysis to the theory that Russia did it. 1. Europe was already on course to wean itself from R...
I don't believe it's a huge risk, either. Previous US interventions on foreign assets have included drone strikes, overt threats, seizure, and actual ...
This is pretty much sums up the state our critical facilities have reached now. We're discussing the peer-reviewed results from one of the most respec...
Why on earth would you think that? What is it about the history of government institutions that could possibly have given you the impression that they...
If you want some background on Seymour Hersh that isn't just @"SophistiCat"'s apologist smearing, there's a good summary in the London Review of Books...
Yeah, imagine investigative journalists being allowed to use a single anonymous source to break open an explosive story... https://www.washingtonpost....
For example the yarn that anyone critical of US foreign policy has "gone off the rails". Of perhaps it would be easier to simply list all the hard hit...
And that list isn't even exhaustive. I could have added another dozen at least - good, well respected journalists, experts, political commentators... ...
Can we notice any kind of trend here? Seymour Hersh - multi-award-winning journalist, famous for breaking the CIA internal spying stories, the Abu Gra...
Yeah. Is the US capable of such an operation? Undoubtedly, yes. Have the US carried out such operations before? Undoubtedly, yes. Would the US benefit...
That's really interesting, we had the same in the UK with the behavioural scientists in SAGE being instructed pretty much to find ways of amping up th...
Ha! Here's you talking about a piece with uncorroborated sources supportive of the US... Here's you talking about equally respected, award-winning jou...
So... ...but... How do you square those two? If the only reality is "constructed by the activities of the intellect", then how can real numbers (which...
For the second time in this thread you seem to be confusing an argument for a statement. There's no argument there, no series of logical steps from a ...
Seriously! What the fuck does 'maybe a Jewish agenda' mean in this context? In what sense could you possibly justify a 'Jewish' agenda toward bombing ...
But here you refute exactly the same argument in your support of mathematical platonism. You are derisive of the attempts to see number as unreal and ...
There are a large number of child psychologists and paediatricians worried about the effects of masks on children's development. For example... https:...
It hasn't. It will happen at some point in time over the near future. That's the point. Everyone (who's within that cohort) will get Covid. So any eff...
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/02/world/with-cases-rising-mayor-eric-adams-is-keeping-new-york-citys-preschool-mask-mandate.html High enough to chime...
Also, the government in America mandated masks for children against the advice of the WHO. Since when did it become OK to mandate an un-trialled inter...
I don't doubt it, especially given the vitriol with which the advice was promoted. there's going to be every incentive out there to find every flaw po...
It doesn't. The studies involved are summarised for you in tables 1, 2, and 3. None of them measured the outcome of the course of the ARI, they only m...
Yes, and the 'outcomes' were, in that case, catching an ARI, not the course of that ARI once caught. Only 3 studies out of the 12 had adverse affects ...
In all of these examples, you privilege one feeling over another without any justification. Your professor feels two things - that he makes choices, a...
No it isn't. The review is entitled "Physical interventions to interrupt or reduce the spread of respiratory viruses" It's objective is... It goes on ...
What happens in an ideal world is that a government rapidly (and proactively) makes public health decisions on the basis of listening to a range of di...
Yeah. To be clear, I think a general policy of mask wearing was a sensible public health precaution in the face of uncertainty. I think screaming abou...
The Cochrane review finally out on masks... https://www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD006207.pub6/full A few highlights... Oh...I fo...
So the concern is that as the US deliberately provokes another war, it is simultaneously under-prepared for one, and the solution is not "then don't p...
The statistician I used to work with had this story (I'm sure it's not hers though, but I can't now recall the original source...)... Answers vary, bu...
They don't. Otherwise they wouldn't be free will sceptics. They clearly have an experience like "it seems that I'm not sure if I have free will". If y...
I don't see the utility. Even if we were to take "it seems that X" as prima facie evidence that X, we'd almost immediately encounter someone for whom ...
Do you think there would have been a President Gore? No. He never stood a chance. So in what way was the foreign policy set by the president? Even if ...
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