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You're right you didn't use it like that. I'm sorry for giving you the benefit of the doubt for making a wrong inference but if I go by the literal te...

Plus, there are instances where the obvious measure of social distancing isn't possible such as crowded spaces. Mandatory mask wearing in public trans...

They already do; they get fired.

Yes, and as he remarks as well absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. This is especially true if randomised controlled trials aren't really p...

Yes, and capital without labour generates no profit so it's only fair labourers get the fair share of the profit they generate.

I fixed that for you.

The problem is that even on the basis of those wiki links, you are not using the term correctly. Your idea of circumstantial evidence is simply wrong....

They probably engineered it to distract from Brexit...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7254130/ On face masks. Better wear them.

LOL. You just couldn't resist could you?

Let's not overreact shall we. "it doesn't say much" is sufficient to quote since that means it can still say something by inference. Logically ssu sho...

Look around you. Most people can't manage to be decent or respectful.

Probabilities of things having happened elsewhere - such as lab breaches, are not circumstantial evidence. Edit: To add: you have a hypothesis and the...

Have you paid attention at all these past months? Scientists have already looked into the possibility of it being engineered and it has been waylaid a...

We were talking about evidence all the time since that's what I replied to (the idea of circumstantial evidence being available). If you want to talk ...

From where I'm standing PC used to be about the political parties not allowing certain subjects to even be discussed. Such as racism and communism in ...

It's not hanging my hat anywhere, it's dealing with the available evidence. If there is no evidence the lab was involved, then all we can conclude is ...

The fact that lab leaks happen more often than we think is in no way shape or form evidence that it is what happened this time. The fact this lab had ...

Sigh. No, I'm not. I'm not going to condense months of criminal law study in a single post to explain this to you. Look it up.

Sure, the point being that without actual evidence making 1 more likely we should award it a very low probability.

There is no circumstantial evidence, only a hypothesis which is not supported by any type of evidence. The virus was not engineered. This possibility ...

That's been dismissed as a hoax.

Well, preliminary research from the UK is that you'll be resistant against the coronavirus for about 6 months. Thank you PRC government.

Wasting your breath buddy.

I considered that but then thought it would've been better to keep that carrot until after the election in that case.

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and he does that right before the end of his first term because...? So, pretty good news when you understand the subtext. :party:

Bye Tim.

The point of, 1) race was an idea before science tried to find support for it, 2) racism based on science was merely a temporary and contingent partic...

Clearly you don't understand the conclusion of the article. That's fine.

https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/05/what-we-mean-when-we-say-race-is-a-social-construct/275872/

Also, come to think of it. I take issue with that as well. It has always been a social construct.

And that will solve what, mr. Word Police? Oh right... Call it xenophobism or discrimination, people are still going to do it based on how other peopl...

This is really too simplistic. Race is a social construct. Race is an idea, not a fact. Saying there is no factual basis for the distinction doesn't m...

I'd like to add that the decoration of public space is definitely subject to changing opinion. Why should we accept things that we consider ugly just ...

Yeah, you were totally on the barricades for the Marxists all those years when days ago you were trying to discredit BLM for being started by Marxists...

NYT sacking of their opinion editor because of complaints from readers. The guy with the Greek sounding name that was a thing for a while. Ivanka Trum...

What's the problem with removing a couple of statues? I'm probably the wrong guy to ask because I think the veneration of anybody is just insanity. Th...

It's in a sense baffling that the political creativity in the US is so stunted that their solution to most social ills is "police". It's not as if the...

All things considered the Swedes aren't doing too bad considering they haven't had a lock down at all. The healthcare system hasn't been overwhelmed a...

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/07/business/sweden-economy-coronavirus.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage

He'll be barely affected.

You've just met the most unreflexive guy on the forum. Was it fun? He'll also defend Trump forever and is a "I don't see no colour" contributor to sys...

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Of course there is. Most Western societies think parents (man wife), married, 2 kids, a car, a house and a pet. Grandparents away or in retirement hom...

https://www.arcgis.com/apps/MapJournal/index.html?appid=5508484140a84023a1e2d8b080e14d0a#detail I'll just leave that here and say I don't feel like go...

The US doesn't have a representative democracy because it works with plurality. People are becoming aware the political system doesn't work for their ...

I'm not talking to you for your benefit.

Blatant misrepresentation as pointed out which you refuse to own up to. You don't have integrity or a backbone do you?

How's the act of misrepresenting them as an attempt to make them look bad not an attempt to impede or stop them? Or do you just do that for shits and ...