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John Oliver did a segment on scientific studies and how most that are reported to the media are usually total BS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Rnq1NpHdmw The main thing of note is that the most accurate way to verify a scientific study is to do a replication study, but no one wants to fund those, and they certainly won't be reported in the media either.
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Nevvy Z posted:I just took a bus to Cleveland to buy a car from my uncle. There was a guy on the bus who was loudly talking to someone a couple rows up about how Barack Obama is gay because if you want to become president the secret bankers who control the world force you to perform a gay act. This is just a throwback to the Skull and Bones secret society. One of the alleged initiation rituals is you get locked in a coffin with another pledge and masturbate together. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aL7UJ6JU1sQ
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Jul 20, 2016 22:32
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seiferguy posted:John Oliver did a segment on scientific studies and how most that are reported to the media are usually total BS: This poo poo is lapped up and printed in the UK tabloids. Every week theres a new 'X cure/prevents cancer', and when they checked out the study, it was funded by a maker of X. Cadbury were caught funding one of these
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Jul 20, 2016 22:39
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Scruff McGruff posted:Well there was the Peter Doshi paper about the ineffectiveness of flu shots that was touted by all the alternative medicine sites as "JOHNS HOPKINS SLAMS, DEBUNKS, AND DESTROYS ALL VACCINES WITH NEW STUDY" because they guy happened to have a fellowship there at one point... as an anthropologist. The university quickly released a bunch of statements saying that this dude was not a virologist or epidemiologist, did not conduct any flu research at Johns Hopkins, and that he in no way represented the university. Yeah, but this is just an example of people being intentionally misleading and doesn't really change what "a (university) study" is generally accepted to mean. You people with racist parents make me feel lucky that the biggest problem I have to deal with is my dad having some dumb ideas about marijuana being the best medicine ever and organic food tasting better than regular food (which is infested with pesticides or something, idk).
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Jul 21, 2016 00:03
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Being black and having two parents with doctorates (molecular biologist and history professor) that were acutely aware of the world they lived in grounded me pretty well and my father's continued involvement in the community made it so that he never came off as 'I made it and you all are lazy'. He wanted the entire black community to do well. The only things I can recall is small amounts of homophobia and hispanophobia (?) that's slowly going away as they get older because they realize it's kind a poo poo thing to do. My only hope is that when they die they don't feel like I'm left with a world that was as bad as the one they grew up in. 
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Jul 21, 2016 00:21
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Ytlaya posted:organic food tasting better than regular food (which is infested with pesticides or something, idk).
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Jul 21, 2016 00:21
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Your Gay Uncle posted:This is just a throwback to the Skull and Bones secret society. One of the alleged initiation rituals is you get locked in a coffin with another pledge and masturbate together. That's gay?
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Jul 21, 2016 01:10
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quote:This is how the Philando Castillo incident should've played out. Good job to this smart gun owner. Saw this on Facebook. The alleged storyteller doesn't mention whether he's white or black in this particular STDH. Kind of disappointed that nobody stood up and clapped at the end.
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Jul 21, 2016 03:12
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the_steve posted:When you treat people with civility you get treated with civility. you hear that, cops
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Jul 21, 2016 03:19
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the_steve posted:Saw this on Facebook. The alleged storyteller doesn't mention whether he's white or black in this particular STDH. This man found out the secret to not getting shot by jumpy cops: give up your right to not be searched whenever they feel like! Cops
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Jul 21, 2016 03:29
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Dienes posted:This man found out the secret to not getting shot by jumpy cops: give up your right to not be searched whenever they feel like! Cops I can't imagine that there are real people who oppose black lives matter who would voluntarily surrender their firearm to a government official.
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Jul 21, 2016 03:39
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Nevvy Z posted:I can't imagine that there are real people who oppose black lives matter who would voluntarily surrender their firearm to a government official. For some reason, I don't think they count cops as "government officials." I've got coworkers who just KNOW that if Obama ever did say "I'm sending the army to steal your guns", that the entire military would revolt because not a single American soldier would follow that order. Point is, when they think "Obama tryin to steel mah gunz!", I'm pretty sure they're expecting the nebulous Men in Black, not good ol' local boys who grew up in REAL America. Basically, the cops and soldiers are the "good ones" as far as government law enforcement goes, it's the Feds who are on Obama's illegal goon squad. Besides, if you're not guilty of anything, then you've got nothing to hide 
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Jul 21, 2016 04:36
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I'm on mobile and the app seems to lack search, but can I request a repost of the jangly gold chain breakdancer walking story? The one that ends with Obama talking to bin Laden and an elder of Zion via video conference.
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Jul 21, 2016 05:01
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Ainsley McTree posted:That's gay? That's homophobic.
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Jul 21, 2016 05:04
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Also Altoona is a tiny-rear end town if Google is to be believed so again, not a Metropolitan City cop.
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Jul 21, 2016 05:43
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SSNeoman posted:Also Altoona is a tiny-rear end town if Google is to be believed so again, not a Metropolitan City cop. I've seen this a bunch recently about how it's just all those big city cops being racist assholes, but it's important to note that small towns with small police forces also breed a lot of insular terrible bullshit as well. Small town cops have the potential to be dangerous assholes just as much as big city cops. In some areas depending on the color of your skin they may even have MORE of a potential to be a dangerous rear end in a top hat.
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Jul 21, 2016 06:18
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mints posted:I'm on mobile and the app seems to lack search, but can I request a repost of the jangly gold chain breakdancer walking story? Found it. It was in the COnservapedia thread. GROVER CURES HOUSE posted:King Hussein Obama I, flanked by his bodyguards, stepped out of his blinged Limoscalade and marched up the gold-lined marble steps of Washington Palace. It should have been a glorious day, yet under his heavy yet exquisite crown of carved human fetus-ivory his brow was ridged deeply as he silently brooded. Still, his posse, boomboxes on their shoulders, dance-walked up the steps, chains and gats jangling over the din as they grabbed their crotches.
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Jul 21, 2016 08:31
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Fulchrum posted:Found it. It was in the COnservapedia thread. The sad part is that it still sounds better than a Trump presidency.
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Jul 21, 2016 18:27
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I can't even believe this is a thing I had to spell out. I'm in blue.
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Jul 21, 2016 19:43
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Nevvy Z posted:I can't even believe this is a thing I had to spell out. I'm in blue. It's a gross oversimplification to just call him a racist like that. He is sensitive and more complicated than that! Anyways, I got this hilarious joke about black people all liking watermelon, it's SO ABSURD!
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Jul 21, 2016 19:49
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Nevvy Z posted:I can't even believe this is a thing I had to spell out. I'm in blue.  : "I meant it ironically" is no longer accepted as a valid defense, citizen.
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Jul 21, 2016 19:50
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MariusLecter posted:It's a gross oversimplification to just call him a racist like that. He is sensitive and more complicated than that! Oh that's where I started. This guy offends me as both a human and as a lover of comedy. What kind of hack rear end 'comedian' relies on lovely stereotypes to carry the humor.
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Jul 21, 2016 19:57
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To a certain extent, I'm receptive to the idea that people of different racial backgrounds bonding through obscene or vulgar jokes about race. That kinda goes out the window if there isn't a Black person in the conversation punching back with jokes about white people. Sounds like racism to me.
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Jul 21, 2016 19:58
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Who wants some bizarre Brexit fanfiction? Apparently the EU is destroying all cultural differences between European countries, somehow. Here's a quick and dirty translation: quote:Long live borders! And here's the original text for anyone interested. quote:Bevet ar bevennoù !
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Jul 21, 2016 20:57
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Sorry for late response on this. As a researcher, if I saw something was "a Berkeley study," I would expect to be able to call the department and Institutional Review Board at UC Berkeley and get more information, etc. I mean I actually probably wouldn't because that's not how researchers talk, but if I was giving someone the benefit of the doubt, I would assume that whoever said that is trying to allude to IRB and department approved and supervised research. Edit: beaten and by John Oliver too.
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Jul 21, 2016 21:43
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Soviet Commubot posted:Who wants some bizarre Brexit fanfiction? Apparently the EU is destroying all cultural differences between European countries, somehow. He should fly to the US. If long rear end customs bureaucracy is his poo poo, our TSA lines are so long he will probably cream himself when he sees them.
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Jul 22, 2016 00:49
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Someone's trying to convince a friend of mine to read Mises and Rothbard over Facebook. What are some good articles by them to drop to show how batshit they are besides Rothbard's "Free Baby Market" article?
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Jul 22, 2016 04:06
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A Fancy 400 lbs posted:Someone's trying to convince a friend of mine to read Mises and Rothbard over Facebook. What are some good articles by them to drop to show how batshit they are besides Rothbard's "Free Baby Market" article? Mises was an advocate of "praxeology," which is similar to, although not as extreme as, Ayn Rand's belief that all moral questions could be answered by starting from from "A is A." Most praxeology is saying, "well.. empirical data is hard to gather and use.. so you can't trust it, and so instead what we're going to do is derive everything from a set of reasonable first principles using deductive reasoning." This made a lot more sense before computers made working with empirical data a lot easier, but is now basically just a way for Austrian and Chicago school economists to dismiss out of hand any numbers that disagree with their Just So stories and notions about Rational Actors. The funny thing about the Chicago school is that it does not entirely reject empiricism. So you get these svengali-like sleight of hand attempts to throw a bunch of FUD up around empirical data that leads to conclusions they disagree with while citing credulously any empirical data they do agree with. It's pretty intellectually bankrupt. Studying economics through Mises, at this point, is like studying psychology by reading a lot of Freud. Like there are some key principles that might apply in 2016, but the majority of it has been supplanted by more modern ideas. ErIog fucked around with this message at 04:23 on Jul 22, 2016 |
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Start with Human action, by Ludwig von Mises. Have a good laugh on page 33: quote:Praxeology is a theoretical and systematic, not a historical, science. Its scope is human action as such, irrespective of all environmental, accidental, and individual circumstances of the concrete acts. Its cognition is purely formal and general without reference to the material content and the particular features of the actual case. It aims at knowledge valid for all instances in which the conditions exactly correspond to those implied in its assumptions and inferences. Its statements and propositions are not derived from experience. They are, like those of logic and mathematics, a priori. They are not subject to verification or falsification on the ground of experience and facts.
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Jul 22, 2016 04:26
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A social science school that denies all methodological and theoretical basis of the discipline. A shameful social science school.
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Jul 22, 2016 04:46
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KiteAuraan posted:A social science school that denies all methodological and theoretical basis of the discipline. A shameful social science school. An economist is someone who sees something in practice and tries to figure out if it would work in theory.
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Jul 22, 2016 05:01
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Jul 22, 2016 05:27
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I think obama is a tyrant who wants to create a police state and also that liberal protestors should be chopped up in wheat threshers i'm a nice guy
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Jul 22, 2016 05:40
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Jurgan posted:An economist is someone who sees something in practice and tries to figure out if it would work in theory. Listen, if there were a real $20 bill on the ground friend then someone would have already picked it up so therefore it can't possibly exist.
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Jul 22, 2016 05:45
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Yeah, that's why.
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Jul 22, 2016 05:48
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The reason people don't protest in the country is because 20 people marching down the only street that matters in town doesn't really make a big impact.
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Jul 22, 2016 05:49
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Jurgan posted:An economist is someone who sees something in practice and tries to figure out if it would work in theory. As an Econ grad student, that's offensive. Sometimes we just take poo poo that works in theory and act confused when governments don't immediately take up our brilliant ideas like Robin Hanson, god bless that wannabe cryogenicist
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Jul 22, 2016 05:50
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Nevvy Z posted:I just took a bus to Cleveland to buy a car from my uncle. There was a guy on the bus who was loudly talking to someone a couple rows up about how Barack Obama is gay because if you want to become president the secret bankers who control the world force you to perform a gay act. Oh come on, that's just about as silly as UK toffs loving a dead pig in an initiation ritual! ... 
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Jul 22, 2016 06:12
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GreyjoyBastard posted:Oh come on, that's just about as silly as UK toffs loving a dead pig in an initiation ritual! They never actually let him join.
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Dr. Arbitrary posted:Start with Human action, by Ludwig von Mises. Also, thanks for this, but I didn't end up needing this. After I went to bed the dude freaked out about how links to their own writings was "lies and deception" and that Hillary is literally a communist and everyone figured out he was a nut job and not someone actually recommending useful things to read.
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