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From: Invisible
Subject: Really disturbing
Date: 7 Jan 2009 04:59:57
Message: <49647d1d$1@news.povray.org>
http://www.badscience.net/2009/01/what-if-everything-you-thought-you-knew-about-aids-was-wrong/

For reasons I can't entirely put my finger on, I find this whole thing 
really disturbing.

Maybe I just find it upsetting that hundreds of scientists have spent 
thousands of man-years pouring research into this lethal disease to find 
out what causes it, but then some random person goes "hey, actually, I 
think really you're all wrong - I don't have any logic or evidence, I 
just believe this, for no particular reason". And now other people 
actually *believe* this nonesense. And people are dying because of it.


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From: Invisible
Subject: Re: Really disturbing
Date: 7 Jan 2009 05:36:01
Message: <49648591@news.povray.org>
Apparently the more you look for this kind of craziness, the more you 
find it...

http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/cgi/reprint/123/1/e164


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From: Invisible
Subject: Re: Really disturbing
Date: 7 Jan 2009 07:55:43
Message: <4964a64f@news.povray.org>
http://www.badscience.net/2008/08/the-medias-mmr-hoax/

Hmm... worrying indeed.

I should probably stop reading now. :-/


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From: Stephen
Subject: Re: Really disturbing
Date: 7 Jan 2009 08:21:00
Message: <61b9m41tlf8dlgml6p7ec58euh2sv5qhtj@4ax.com>
On Wed, 07 Jan 2009 12:55:27 +0000, Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:

>http://www.badscience.net/2008/08/the-medias-mmr-hoax/
>
>Hmm... worrying indeed.
>
>I should probably stop reading now. :-/

Yes your boss might catch you :)
-- 

Regards
     Stephen


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From: Invisible
Subject: Re: Really disturbing
Date: 7 Jan 2009 08:24:23
Message: <4964ad07$1@news.povray.org>
>> I should probably stop reading now. :-/
> 
> Yes your boss might catch you :)

No way! He'd have to *be here* to do that! :-P


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From: Stephen
Subject: Re: Really disturbing
Date: 7 Jan 2009 08:43:49
Message: <dcc9m41o0utq674nmm59n4nehgg0qq7i38@4ax.com>
On Wed, 07 Jan 2009 13:24:08 +0000, Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:

>>> I should probably stop reading now. :-/
>> 
>> Yes your boss might catch you :)
>
>No way! He'd have to *be here* to do that! :-P

LOL
-- 

Regards
     Stephen


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From: Phil Cook v2
Subject: Re: Really disturbing
Date: 7 Jan 2009 09:08:57
Message: <op.und38gevmn4jds@phils.mshome.net>
And lo On Wed, 07 Jan 2009 10:00:00 -0000, Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> did  
spake thusly:

>
http://www.badscience.net/2009/01/what-if-everything-you-thought-you-knew-about-aids-was-wrong/
>
> For reasons I can't entirely put my finger on, I find this whole thing  
> really disturbing.
>
> Maybe I just find it upsetting that hundreds of scientists have spent  
> thousands of man-years pouring research into this lethal disease to find  
> out what causes it, but then some random person goes "hey, actually, I  
> think really you're all wrong - I don't have any logic or evidence, I  
> just believe this, for no particular reason". And now other people  
> actually *believe* this nonesense. And people are dying because of it.

Trouble is occasionaly one of these fruitcakes turns out to be correct and  
due to the highly specialised technical nature of things the general  
public have little way of telling who is and isn't correct (and of course  
there's that latin phrase you know so well).

-- 
Phil Cook

--
I once tried to be apathetic, but I just couldn't be bothered
http://flipc.blogspot.com


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From: Invisible
Subject: Re: Really disturbing
Date: 7 Jan 2009 09:15:12
Message: <4964b8f0@news.povray.org>
Phil Cook v2 wrote:

> Trouble is occasionaly one of these fruitcakes turns out to be correct 
> and due to the highly specialised technical nature of things the general 
> public have little way of telling who is and isn't correct (and of 
> course there's that latin phrase you know so well).

The more a read about psychology, the more I realise that PEOPLE ARE STUPID!

The number of experiments I've read about where the test subjects do 
things which are obviously irrational is quite astonishing.

(For example, you show people photos from a pair of digital cameras. 
Most people prefer camera X, and a few prefer camera Y. Now you tell 
them that camera X is 5 megapixels, but camera Y is 10 megapixels. 
Suddenly everybody prefers the photos from camera Y. WTF??)

I worry about the human race... Seriously, how did a species so stupid 
survive for so long?


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From: scott
Subject: Re: Really disturbing
Date: 7 Jan 2009 09:23:45
Message: <4964baf1$1@news.povray.org>
>>> I should probably stop reading now. :-/
>> 
>> Yes your boss might catch you :)
> 
> No way! He'd have to *be here* to do that! :-P

http://www.bash.org/?258908


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From: Vincent Le Chevalier
Subject: Re: Really disturbing
Date: 7 Jan 2009 09:30:57
Message: <4964bca1@news.povray.org>
Invisible a écrit :
> I worry about the human race... Seriously, how did a species so stupid 
> survive for so long?

It's probably that you don't really need to be intelligent to survive :-)

Exhibit 1: the Earthworm.

-- 
Vincent


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