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by vixen99 6y ago
The commenter clearly has an agenda to further. No dispassionate observer whatever their political leaning really believes the 'silencing' only exists on the Right. Not a hint of that in the comment. That's concerning.
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For the US, it's an average of 12 years for an experimental drug to travel from the laboratory to hosital or clinic. Covid-19 vaccines are being given to millions of people after a few months development. Will the Covid-19 vaccine exam
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by vixen99 6y ago
Weil went to a lot of trouble to avoid this kind of categorization (for which we all know the popular term these days) and is uninformative with respect to her work. She wrote a letter to the Vichy Minister of Education in 1940, What is a
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by vixen99 6y ago
From the paywalled Telegraph: "John Richards, who has died aged 97, was once described as the “Don Quixote of the grammar world”, as founder proprietor of the Apostrophe Protection Society (APS), which he established in 2001 in an atte
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The Apostrophe Protection Society(apostrophe.org.uk)
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by vixen99 6y ago
It's Nigel Farage.
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The successful welfare state is the product of your neighbours who tacitly agree to maintain society in many ways including of course paying for it. It's a mistake to suppose that that stance is a given in perpetuity.
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by vixen99 6y ago
This was not the best of examples - 'Imagine if scientists kept the result of every scientific study to themselves.'. Given that most science is funded ultimately by taxpayers either directly or via money borrowed on their behalf
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by vixen99 6y ago
This is the Pavlovian-style trained response every time the popular tabloid , the Daily Mail is mentioned here. It's what it is. Get over it. Of course it's pleasant to feel a cut above the six million who buy the print copy and
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by vixen99 6y ago
A completely deregulated free-market economy would have no recourse to the courts. Such does not exist. I have no idea regarding the merits of the case but so far we don't know who's to get bitten.
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https://www.justfactsdaily.com/rape-facts-and-falsehoods#sur... has interesting comment on scientific surveys.
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Voters Across the Political Spectrum Are Ideologically Deluded(justfacts.com)
2 points by vixen99 6y ago|3 comments
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France declares ‘calamité agricole’ after record cold: What is it?(connexionfrance.com)
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So which particular billionaire-funded business adventures would you like to see abandoned or especially, never begun?
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by vixen99 6y ago
The monarch can certainly make suggestions regarding laws but so can any of the 600+ members of parliament and indeed countless other people in power while Prime Ministers have strong personalities and minds of their own. As to her riches,
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by vixen99 6y ago
By now we should have some unequivocal evidence to support your conjecture. I think it would be nice if we did but we don't.
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It's the serum level of activated vitamin D that matters, not your intake which may not even be absorbed properly. (You need to have sufficient magnesium for instance). That there will be large variations in outcome is indicated by thi
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by vixen99 6y ago
True for me. I enjoy walking in the evening and late at night. The only unpleasant encounter I've ever had in Romania was with a bear not a person. Quietly backtracking I got away with it.
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by vixen99 6y ago
Amazing how the 'almost unreadable' Burton's Thousand Nights continues to sell to this day, even on Kindle. As far as I can gather, there is plenty of sexual imagery in the original manuscript undoubtedly emphasized by Burton
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by vixen99 6y ago
Facebook has 2.7 billion users or 34% of world population. Out of interest, I'm curious to know if, given that they are in effect, judge and jury on their own private platform, there is any % level of penetration at which you might c
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by vixen99 6y ago
No, nor have I ever even thought about his political stance when enjoying a fair number of his films. I wonder if anyone else suspects as I do that `cancel culture` is rather more limited in its spread & influence than its adherents wou
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by vixen99 6y ago
Censoring? I suspect they are trying to make some money so that they can pay their contributors and staff and therefore continue to exist as they have done since 1828 as the oldest weekly magazine in the world.
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You really have tabs on all the innumerable factors involved in a scenario where someone goes to a party and later becomes infected - and pinpoint the reason ?
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Depends on what's meant by 'recent'. https://www.pnas.org/content/118/13/e2021442118 Abstract: Understanding Greenland Ice Sheet history is critical for predicting its response to future clim
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by vixen99 6y ago
Relative risk! If over 65 the risk of severe illness with Covid is much increased and with it, the risk of blood clots is very substantial as any search on this topic reveals. Seems the reported cases of blood clots for AstraZenica vaccinat
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WHO Covid-19 Vaccine Updates March 16 2021 [pdf](medicine.unimelb.edu.au)
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“A writer who says that there are no truths, or that all truth is ‘merely relative,’ is asking you not to believe him. So don’t.” Roger Scruton:
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by vixen99 6y ago
Here's one response to this paper. https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/can-mrna-based-covid-19- vaccines-cause-prion-disease/ It concludes (regarding the claim) that "mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccines can cause prion
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by vixen99 6y ago
China is also responsible for 51.7% of the world's use of coal along with US (7.2%) and India (11.8%) with the rest of the world using 29.3%. China also has the world’s biggest fleet of coal-fired power plants, and more than half of th
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China, India and the U.S. to burn even more coal(bloomberg.com)
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