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Oddthinking

May 6, 2015 00:03

@nomenagentis How much is Big Vinegar paying you to be a shill?

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Oddthinking

Dec 4, 2018 09:38

^ Because of the context of Skeptics, I keep reading this title as being about a letter that denies the existence of heart transplants - it is just a Big Pharma conspiracy.

DVK

Feb 2, 2015 16:38

Ugh... I know this is technically on-topic now, but was this site REALLY meant to be for investigating whether Snoop Dog was inside a shark costume in Superbowl?

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Possum-Pie

Oct 15, 2018 18:57

@oddthinking Please don't be so defensive. My observation is that the responses on Skeptic tend to be more tolerant of left-leaning inaccuracies than right leaning ones. I was trying to see if anyone was willing to admit to their biases. Is it plausible that virtually every accepted answer is the more "progressive" ones? Or are the more conservative answers systematically downvoted.

ike

Jan 8, 2015 20:45

Just made 2000, first se site that I have! Excited!

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Martin Sleziak

Jan 6, 2015 07:56

Since skeptics have plenty of health-related questions (for example, medical-science and nutrition are two most popular tags at the moment) I thought it could be useful to mention the proposal here - just to promote it a little among skeptics.SE users.

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Oddthinking

Oct 15, 2011 12:46

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Oddthinking

Sep 13, 2018 04:34

@Federico I didn't mean to intend you deliberately obfuscated the claim. I only meant the result was obscure. I read the question, and I had absolutely zero idea what field the question was about. I had to hunt that down for myself.

Monkey Tuesday

Jun 18, 2011 00:45

@LarianLeQuella I agree, we don't need to be humorless crones who merely cite published data without affect or personality. But I again apologize for saying I was quitting, I enjoy this community too much. It was just late and I was experiencing the [work overload + sleep deficit =grumpy/no fun] reaction. We should really look into whether or not emergency rooms are busier in the summer, it seems to me that we are. But it could just be the motorcycles.

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BradC

Jul 24, 2018 13:44

openargs.com/…

Borror0

Jun 7, 2011 22:59

I really don't want skeptics to be an echo chamber. I want it to be a place where bad science comes to die, and that requires us to be nice and welcoming.

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daniel

Jul 19, 2018 14:47

I think it's that mgm worked with live nation hosting the music event, providing the space. If you run an event and dont hire security and someone gets beat up you are liable, this is an extreme end the other way, they did have security, but dont want to pay out anything or have increased insurance premiums or other costs next event.

Sklivvz

Jul 31, 2014 10:13

I disagree that tackling poverty is the sign of a failed economy. Quite the opposite.

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Jason Plank

Apr 7, 2011 16:53

Chat really brings new meaning to the phrase "get a room"

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LangLangC

Jun 20, 2018 13:52

@Oddthinking Seems to have been done already. That is: Done and abandoned? Didn't work for me. Too bad.

user35386

Jul 17, 2014 23:29

random reward schedule... the most addictive :)

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Monkey Tuesday

Mar 29, 2011 06:41

There never seems to be anyone in here, but love the site and keep up the good work. Cheers.

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Peter Johnmeyer

May 30, 2018 02:01

Thanks for suggesting me to repost it in the Philosophy SE btw, it was my first question, however, it garnered almost 13K views and has been at the "hot" section for quite some time as well as 16 upvotes. I've even just got my first gold achievement on SE from it.

Andrew Grimm

May 29, 2018 10:57

@Sklivvz I've detagged the four questions which used "Christopher Hitchens", who you created a large tag wiki for. It's not motivated by my opinions of the person, but by the fact it was used when he was making claims, for reasons outlined in my meta post skeptics.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3757/…

Oddthinking

May 22, 2018 14:11

The fallacy is people who insist that surveys must be huge to be representative of a large population. e.g. they dismiss surveys because they aren't around 1% of the population, which when you are asking about political views is both infeasible and simply unnecessary.

Who killed Biggie and Tupac

Feb 27, 2018 20:45

<==== "Who killed Biggie and Tupac" is that on topic here.... lol

Andrew Grimm

Feb 17, 2018 00:30

Claiming that Japan avoids exams? Ridiculous! I have a strong suspicion that bogus claims are more likely about non-English speaking (and "exotic") countries youtube.com/watch?v=kXnugJEcVE8

ChrisW

Dec 18, 2013 11:15

@MadScientist I'm very inclined to tolerate vagueness in a referenced claim, much less inclined to tolerate vagueness in a claim which is only a paraphrase by the OP.

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Nicolas Raoul

Jan 23, 2018 01:03

None is marketed for working on electronics. They are marketed for daily life, typically when touching a car's door.

Mad Scientist

Jan 20, 2018 16:10

@Oddthinking none of the doi for this journal seem to work. that really shouldn't happen

daniel

Dec 22, 2017 15:35

Merry Christmas everyone! Also I firmly and unironicaly believe Santa Claus is real no matter what 'facts' you bring to the conversation!

daniel

Dec 1, 2017 23:08

Man that edit to the closing question on terrorism

DVK-on-Ahch-To

Nov 30, 2017 18:28

in Agora, Aug 24 at 7:50, by yannis

"because lizard people" is a valid answer to all our questions.

user35386

Aug 15, 2013 15:46

@Randy Comments are allowed, but only for clarification. That makes it a very limited form of social engagement, it doesn't make it "a social site". Stackexchange isn't a discussion forum. Even if it fits into what you call a "social site", it has chosen to use comments for a limited form of discussion: clarification of questions or answers. It has chosen to push discussion into chat rooms. These were not community decisions. These were decisions of Stack Exchange Inc., the company.

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Andrew Grimm

Nov 9, 2017 11:01

Rejected question: Did hip hop come from Mongolia? facebook.com/AJWitness/videos/10155526317850557/?permPage=1 (Al Jazeera said in the comments that it was joking, not serious)

Luís Henrique

Oct 11, 2017 13:49

Maria, I don't know why my question was not locked and yours was. It seems that some kind of double standard is at play here. My best guess would be, "because you are a newbie, and I am not". Another possibility is that they kneejerked in the belief that you were supportive of Molyneaux cranky claims (from the origin of the question, in "skeptics", it should be obvious the opposite was true).

Oddthinking

Oct 6, 2017 01:43

This sounds like it should be the basis of an interesting question: abc.net.au/triplej/programs/hack/…

Oddthinking

Aug 1, 2017 04:27

I would prefer it if you could see your own deleted comments. (Not least, how does one learn what is off-topic if deletions are silent?)

daniel

Jul 21, 2017 17:21

I think it would be funny if there was an 'eventhinking' here that edited every other question :D

Oddthinking

Jun 10, 2017 19:05

(Whenever I see "Is Foo X or is it Y?" I get worried about fallacies of the excluded middle. What if it is X AND Y or neither X NOR Y.)

Sklivvz

May 24, 2017 08:22

Us mods are happy to help the community modify the existing rules, but that needs to happen in a constructive fashion, without the attitude I've seen and with the understanding of the history and what brought us here.

Sklivvz

May 24, 2017 07:42

The "theoretical answer" rules were specified in the hope that it would help users understand this subtle difference, and in many cases it did.

DVK-on-Ahch-To

May 19, 2017 13:36

@Oddthinking "Woman arrested for actual alleged illegal activity" doesn't generate pageviews and thus ad revenue...

Sklivvz

May 18, 2017 20:58

@Nat believe you me, there are many users that upvote anything they agree with, even when objectively of unacceptable quality. Voting works to choose the best answer not the correct answer in a pool of incorrect ones.

DVK-on-Ahch-To

May 3, 2017 13:27

@Oddthinking - I'm semi-retired from one of my main stacks (SFF), the suffix signifies that. And being my main stack, the SE chat uses that site's username everywhere.

Oddthinking

May 2, 2017 02:19

I just want to vent that this question is biased, but there is little I can do about it. We are now going to get answers that show how many accusations have been made against these particular men. But, they are cherry-picked. The implication is that conservatives sexually abuse more women than liberals, but nothing about this graphic shows that.

Mad Scientist

Aug 29, 2012 15:00

@user972481 That's an annoying restriction for new users we're trying to get rid of. But you got one upvote, you should be able to add more links now

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gerrit

Apr 5, 2017 00:41

"1st April: the only day of the year that people critically evaluate things they find on the internet before accepting them as true."

DVK-on-Ahch-To

Mar 21, 2017 23:30

@Oddthinking Unfortunately, English language is highly inconsistent and many thing have different connotations that aren't universal. This term being one of them.

DVK-on-Ahch-To

Mar 21, 2017 16:21

@MaskedMan In all fairness, on MANY sites HNQ questions are typically NOT the best site's questions by far, and often among the laziest and worst. Bikeshedding effect at its "finest" :(

Masked Man

Mar 21, 2017 15:34

@DVK-on-Ahch-To That's unfortunate really. I come in contact with this site mainly via Sidebar Garbage, and the impression I have of a typical user of this site is, "Right, let me dig out some random quote today, and put people to work to find attributions." Perhaps you guys could benefit from adding a "need to know" requirement. Although it may not help much as trolls can make up random excuses, but it could cut down some of the "did some nobody from nowhereland say blah blah"?

DVK-on-Ahch-To

Mar 21, 2017 15:03

You know you sold out when, in a chat thread, you star 2 messages - only to discover both were posted by diamond moderators. </black_eyed_peas>

Masked Man

Mar 20, 2017 13:51

Have you guys considered creating a "did-x-say-y" tag? Perhaps you decided not to because every other question asked here would require that tag?

Magisch

Feb 14, 2017 13:40

Mentioning it for transparency, sometimes site mods don't like that a lot.

Sklivvz

Jan 28, 2017 14:46

@AndrewGrimm I... don't understand the point. A belief is important the moment it has major consequences, before that, it is unimportant. We can't assume a claim is important based on the possible, yet imaginary, consequences of it.

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