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by vixen99 9y ago
"Ad Hominem Attacks (38) Argument by attributing prejudices or motives to one's opponent (p 159) Approach: Point out that other prejudices may equally well determine the opposite view, and that, in any case, the question of why a
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Common cancer myths (2018)(nhs.uk)
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One has to be really in thrall to an ideology to write " (a manifesto) ... needs to have the power of a Beethoven symphony, urging us to become agents of a future that ends unnecessary mass suffering and to inspire humanity to realise
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by vixen99 9y ago
Elected commissioners? They are appointed not elected and as we know, they alone can propose laws. "The Commission has a virtual monopoly on the introduction of legislation into the legislative process, a power which gives the Commissi
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by vixen99 9y ago
Using downvotes as any kind of metric is usually (perhaps not always) nuts.
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Honestly?
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Sometimes even consent doesn't work very well. Roald Dahl described just this situation (for a human) back in 1959 in this story: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_and_Mary_(short_story)
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How a study of genetics may transform education(newstatesman.com)
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How Solar and Wind Are Causing Electricity Prices to Skyrocket(wattsupwiththat.com)
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And is the UK government behind the erosion of free speech identified at a large number of institutions who have banned and actively censored ideas on campus? Shall we assume they are helpless in the face of demands from Whitehall? http:&#
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Genes and IQ? For instance, https://www.nature.com/articles/ng.3869 and https://www.nature.com/articles/s41380-017-0001-5
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Be interesting to see the stats that might indicate some kind of rational answer for this question. Personal anecdotes, interesting though they may be, are irrelevant.
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Why show climate anomalies and not temperatures?(wattsupwiththat.com)
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Richmal Crompton's Just William stories had us all falling about on occasions. Richmal Crompton had no children but knew quite a bit about how small boys operate. She wrote the first story nearly 100 years ago but they remain popular f
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The Irreproducibility Crisis of Modern Science(nas.org)
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You certainly should be worried if a future UK government turns out to be a drastically more coercive nature than the present. And that's on the cards.
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Diversity is wonderful but please, not diversity of opinion.
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It was such a competent piece of legislation that it was dropped by the EU when commonsense finally penetrated the minds of the 'we're paid to dream up laws so let's get on with it' secretive team in Brussels. https:&#x
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by vixen99 9y ago
Yes, a battle too horrible to contemplate! Imagine the slaughter consequent on ingesting coffee,chocolate,tea,sourdough bread,cheese,buttermilk,crème fraîche,yogurt,kefir,salami,wine,beer,sauerkraut,dill pickles,kimchi,kombucha,fish sauce,v
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NASA reports massive hole in Sun’s atmosphere(wattsupwiththat.com)
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An intriguing study of an evidently cross-cultural experience! The authors identify physical brain differences between those who report chills (intense emotions) when listening to music and those who do not. These effects are not attributab
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by vixen99 9y ago
Thank you. Always wondered about what it was and never checked. "Mary gave him a bran-new "Barlow" knife worth twelve and a half cents; and the convulsion of delight that swept his system shook him to his foundations. True, t
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German, French, English and Latin.
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by vixen99 9y ago
Yes, indeed! http://www.mayoclinicproceedings.org/article/S0025-6196(15)0... "The evidence is clear that vitamin D toxicity is one of the rarest medical conditions and is typically due to intentional or inadverten
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by vixen99 9y ago
And let's not forget people like William Randolph Hearst, Joseph Kennedy (JFK's father), Charles Lindbergh, John Rockefeller, Andrew Mellon (head of Alcoa, banker, and Secretary of Treasury), DuPont, General Motors, Standard Oil (
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by vixen99 9y ago
Replace 'capitalism' or 'soviet communism' with X (= just about any current topic) and you'll likely get the same. Is that ironic?
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Global temperature report March 2018(wattsupwiththat.com)
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The EU under its unelected President and unaccountable unelected lawmakers (the EU parliament can't propose laws) with a constitution that would be thrown out anywhere else (and never put to the electorate as a whole) is doing a pretty
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by vixen99 9y ago
How about April Fool's Day so we don't dump its long history and eliminate a bit of fun (mostly) from life.
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Scale-invariant instantons and the complete lifetime of the standard model(journals.aps.org)
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