tstactplsignore

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by tstactplsignore 10y ago
Lol, I just realized you were that guy who denies CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing really works. It may be against the rules, but I just have to tell you that you are an insufferable idiot who brings down the quality of discourse on this site w
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by tstactplsignore 10y ago
This is ridiculous. Your views on NHST are extremist, absurd, and are not shared by pretty much all real statisticians, even those who are critical of frequentist methods. Secondly, many biological findings are not quantitative or statistic
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by tstactplsignore 10y ago
Your links are talking about preclinical trials and attempts to replicate specific high profile, controversial studies from specific subfields. We're talking about the entirety of basic research. The "evidence" for this is th
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by tstactplsignore 10y ago
Here you can see the problem of these congressional committees: they hear from a few people on one side, and a few people on the other, completely unaware that the few denialists they've heard from are basically all of them (Curry an
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by tstactplsignore 10y ago
I'm curious about this: what exactly do you think the (paleo)climatologist community thinks about this? Why do you think that the people most knowledgeable about how the climate has changed in the past, and what causes the climate to c
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by tstactplsignore 10y ago
>Have you considered that your view of an "average" US conservative is incredibly biased by the media you consume Err, I was just speaking in terms of public polling information- gallup is the "media" I'm consumi
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by tstactplsignore 10y ago
Honest question: does this also mean that Earth Science departments should go out of their way to hire climate change denialists, and Biology departments should go out of their way to hire creationists and anti-vaxxers? I suspect you think
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by tstactplsignore 10y ago
Curious: after the responding comment proved you unequivocally wrong (as did my link, if you cared to read it), was there any sort of catharsis? Or will you go on continuing to abuse and misrepresent King's words to work against moveme
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by tstactplsignore 10y ago
No offense but MLK did not agree with you, would not agree with you, and taking some words that are easy to white-wash out of the context of his true political philosophy is insulting. [1] http://www.nola.com/opinions/i
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by tstactplsignore 10y ago
>Probably 99.99999% of GMOs are fine, but that one in a million will have disastrous consequences for an ecosystem. This really doesn't make any biological sense and kind of goes against all of our understanding of evolution and eco
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by tstactplsignore 10y ago
>genetic modifications are usually for stuff like "keeping potatoes from bruising because people don't like the look of bruised potatoes." Or "keeping tomatoes flavorful so people can keep mindlessly buying them out o
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by tstactplsignore 10y ago
>dangers of monocropping Nothing to do with biotechnology or genome editing. In fact both technologies can and will be used to make crops more diverse. >turning plants into intellectual property There are specific plant breeds that ar
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by tstactplsignore 10y ago
> This is nothing but an appeal to authority. Again, the original analogy is perfect because the same statement could be made by the hypothetical "anti-software" person - this person could say "You're just appealing
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by tstactplsignore 10y ago
Yes, it is a self-evidence observation that as a whole, we understand the software systems we've built more than the entirety of all biological systems. Obviously nobody is disputing that. The original claim was that to against this re
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by tstactplsignore 10y ago
Difficult to see how this comment, as common as it is, is anything but unscientific. Biological systems are often highly predictable in many circumstances - in fact "biological predictability" is what accounts for the general succ
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by tstactplsignore 10y ago
Ideas (you can call them opinions if you'd like, it makes no difference) backed by scientific inquiry, consensus, and fact are the ones we should be teaching, end of story. The educational system is an intrinsic aspect of our society a
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by tstactplsignore 10y ago
People truly are "that dumb" at the community level- at least the sorts of people elected to local educatipn boards. Even at the state level, we've seen disastrous anti-evolution, anti-climate change education agendas attempt
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by tstactplsignore 10y ago
This is kind of a nonsequitur. The etymology of a word does (obviously) not imply anything about the social impact that the use of statistics has and is just a clever anecdote. I haven't seen any marxist criticism of statistics itself
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by tstactplsignore 10y ago
>Given the human body contains trillions of cells, each carrying the complete set of genes, which cells would be targeted by the therapy? Depends on the disease being treated. Obviously it would be extremely infeasible to edit all cells
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by tstactplsignore 10y ago
Right... because the billionaire who is friends with dozens of billionaires, media owners and personalities, and rich politicians- who represents the interests of these monied connections- won the presidency? Trump is the definition of &quo
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Persistent microbiome alterations modulate rate of post-dieting weight regain(nature.com)
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The short answer is no. Bacteria like pseudomonas don't really have geographical ranges because they are not just human pathogens- they are prolific in temperate soils throughout the world. The same species can be found throughout the
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by tstactplsignore 10y ago
Not gonna happen. Releasing these "into the wild" is like releasing glow in the dark rabbits that only eat arugula. They'll die before they make it out of the drain, let alone before they make it to any natural microbial ecos
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by tstactplsignore 10y ago
The humanities are incredibly diverse fields filled with tens of thousands of very different scholars- dismissing all of their work because you've seen a couple of silly examples purposefully chosen to be inflammatory is anti-intellect
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by tstactplsignore 10y ago
I work in the field. The statistical mistakes are only one problem- researchers in the field also make huge mistakes in understanding both microbial diversity and computational genomics. It is partly because many of these studies are run by
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by tstactplsignore 10y ago
I'm still skeptical- I doubt a single T-cell can have anything but a ever so slight statistical inpact on the phenotype of an entire organism, and there is no selective process to keep that mutation around, so it cannot last long in th
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by tstactplsignore 10y ago
The premise is highly unsound. This study is talking about somatic mutations, which can only be harmful to an organism. Why? Because they can be beneficial to an individual selfish somatic cell, which is what we can cancer. In other words
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by tstactplsignore 10y ago
This is a very popular view, but do you think it is merely due to familiarity? I've been using gnome3 for many years now, and will never go back (although I always change the default Adwaits theme as it is a little too space filling fo
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by tstactplsignore 10y ago
It's because Assange is just offering this reward to create this news story in order to harm Hillary Clinton as much as possible as part of his personal vendetta against her. I respect Manning and Snowden immensely, but Assange now is
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by tstactplsignore 10y ago
This is just a large strawman argument. Talking about the safety of GMOs is more like talking about the safety of "Medicine"- you're actually talking about the safety of a large variety of different products. Pushing the narr

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