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by withad 11y ago
According to the NHS ( http://www.nhs.uk/Conditions/vitamins-minerals/Pages/Vitamin... ), 1000mg is the typical cut-off for where vitamin C becomes toxic (which is dramatically higher than the 40mg a day most p
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by withad 12y ago
They also have a history of supporting dangerous and unscientific prevention/"treatments" for autism, including promoting anti-vaccine nonsense ( http://autisticadvocacy.org/2014/01/2013-joint-letter-
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by withad 12y ago
But the weird part is that there isn't a Halo character called Asimov. The author's own potholed link to the Halo wikia just shows an "Asimov Center" as a briefly mentioned location in one short story. And even the
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by withad 12y ago
What a bizarre connection to make. Maybe I'm out-of-date on my Halo lore but I don't think there's even anyone/thing significant in that universe named after him. Indeed, the search on the Halo wiki she links only re
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by withad 12y ago
I recall the Game Boy Colour doing something similar, though it apparently had its own system - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_Boy_Color#Color_palettes_u... . And now I'm trying to remember what the Game Boy Tow
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by withad 12y ago
I was about to correct you and say that was Bertrand Russell but apparently it was neither of them - http://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/06/11/time-you-enjoy/ .
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by withad 13y ago
The hormone levels are unlikely to be affected by cultural biases but that's not the potential weakness I'm talking about in these studies. It's during the observation, through the eyes of the parents and scientists, of what
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by withad 13y ago
It's briefly mentioned in the article as a possible indicator of toy preference because it correlates well with hormone levels. It clearly wasn't what the research, the discussion, or any of my comments were focusing on.
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by withad 13y ago
"This kind" being the research we've been discussing, which is about socialisation and toy preference. Finger length and other easily-measured physical differences haven't been part of it.
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by withad 13y ago
It couldn't. And I don't recall ever saying it could so I really don't see what you're getting at here.
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by withad 13y ago
I never said it could. It's just something that has to be very well controlled for and this article showed nothing to suggest it was in the studies it sort of cited. It's entirely possible that the results in those studies you pro
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by withad 13y ago
The disguised gender experiment reminds me of similar ones into whether or not sugar makes children "hyper". It turns out that if you tell parents that their children have had sugar, they're much more likely to describe the k
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by withad 13y ago
Can you show me some of these studies? I just pointed out the problematic lack of citations in the article and your dismissive comment alone isn't going to change my mind. If there's solid evidence one way or the other, I'd b
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by withad 13y ago
I'm calling bullshit on the title (which, in the hopefully likely event it gets changed, is currently "Hormones Explain Why Girls Like Dolls and Boys Like Trucks"). One study showing a correlation might suggest something wort
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by withad 13y ago
For any field, there's always some basic knowledge that anyone studying or practicing it simply has to have if they're going to be at all effective. A well-written test should be checking that the students have acquired that knowl
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by withad 13y ago
Just because someone was wrong about the Wright brothers a century ago doesn't mean that someone else is wrong about something completely different today. Carl Sagan said it best: "The fact that some geniuses were laughed at does
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by withad 13y ago
Just considering the possibility isn't too conspiracy theory-ish, but considering it based solely on a single anecdote that could have alternate reasonable explanations (for example, a guard actually was near the car and they just didn
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by withad 13y ago
The article only touches on it briefly but I think the difference between most issues and the few "gold-plated issues with megawatt cultural significance" is key. People saw Actions Comics #1 and Amazing Fantasy #15 selling fo
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by withad 13y ago
What do you mean by "outdated"? Scientific theories don't go off with age, they depend on evidence and the scientific evidence continues to point to evolution as the best theory. Modern biology might be more advanced than it
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by withad 13y ago
Most of the issues with the experiment were identified by other scientists, not the ones involved in the study. That's probably why it was never released in any reputable journal - the study design wouldn't pass peer review. Incid
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by withad 13y ago
India on the whole has a lot of trouble with this sort of thing. One of the skeptics who criticised the Prahlad Jani experiments, Sanal Edamaraku ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanal_Edamaruku ), had to leave the country
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by withad 13y ago
That's probably the one I was thinking of when I mentioned people going without water being allowed to bathe. There's quite a few red flags there - just one researcher doing the experiments (despite offers from other teams and not
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by withad 13y ago
I found this article - http://tvblogs.nationalgeographic.com/2010/07/02/the-end-of-... - which mentions some other cases and claims that Paul Kern didn't sleep... but did close his eyes and rest for a co
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by withad 13y ago
The bomb detectors (if it passed through any) were more likely trying to detect actual chemical signatures of explosives rather than just a bunch of wires that might be a detonator. So something like this would pass fine, as it should.
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by withad 13y ago
Natural selection isn't something that's applied to individual animals, it's something that exerts pressure on whole populations over many generations. To go with your Arctic tern example, just because one bird can dive deepe
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by withad 13y ago
I know. I said that I didn't have an issue with porn, I was simply explaining to glesica the logic behind making actual rape films illegal.
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by withad 13y ago
If you were a rape victim, how would you feel knowing that images of your rape were being distributed around the internet and used as porn? In a situation like that, there's a clear victim protection argument for making distribution of
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by withad 13y ago
And all that would mean something if (a) all of sociology was somehow based on the work of Margaret Mead, (b) Margaret Mead had been proven fraudulent, (c) proof of bad evidence on one side automatically meant the correctness of the opposit
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by withad 13y ago
Yes, men do tend to be highly valued in some countries. And women in such countries tend to be treated as property. What does that have to do with suicide rates of men in the US? And what does any of it have to do with your original point a
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by withad 13y ago
There are a lot of societal differences between first and third world countries and they exist for a lot of reasons. I really don't see why you would pin this particular one, if it even exists, on feminism.

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