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Avery

Jun 18, 2024 09:02

I'm familiar with the Sheldrake controversy, but I think it needs a better summary. This link has more detail about the extremely bad faith behaviors by Wiseman. It is a good exercise to compare the two of them and see who engages in more careful scientific practice.

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Avery

Feb 5, 2024 12:03

@OwenReynolds I posted this here because the image frequently circulates on social media and the sign appears uncanny to me. If you search "Cecil Williams" on twitter or facebook you can see many more examples.

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Avery

May 19, 2023 18:35

Yeah, I was going to invoke the Durhem-Quine thesis as an explanation for my use of Occam's Razor but it seemed like a bit much to discuss in a comment

Avery

May 19, 2023 18:35

this question is about an eggshell and in my opinion "was organic material found in the Giza pyramids?" is a separate question

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Avery

Mar 26, 2023 13:58

"Palestinian people" dates to around 1900 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/…

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Avery

Dec 5, 2022 22:32

Can you link to someone claiming that the memo itself is fabricated? That is not what Wikipedia claims.

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Avery

Nov 12, 2022 11:09

Yes, the claim on the TV program was heard by many people. The source of the claim seems to be obscure to people who live there.

Avery

Nov 11, 2022 01:17

@xyldke Your comment is missing a word

Avery

Nov 11, 2022 01:17

I found this Reddit post saying that the "government investigation" was possibly Bigelow spending taxpayer money, but it's just a rumor. It seems so obscure to the locals that I don't want to investigate much more. reddit.com/r/skinwalkerranch/comments/gyt1fc/comment/i7g27t4

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Avery

May 18, 2022 15:58

You've found an article which simultaneously claims that the church spends $300k/year on travel, and that it made $170k from legal victories in the past 20 years. It would seem that to break even, it would need to be winning victories at a rate of 35 times what the article found evidence for.

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Avery

Aug 4, 2021 00:54

wtf, I just googled "fauci on aids" to pull up the obvious story of how he handled a previous pandemic, and the google results have been scrubbed clean. DuckDuckGo gives the proper link duckduckgo.com/?q=fauci+on+aids&t=h_&ia=web

Avery

Mar 9, 2021 15:45

This question was resolved on the Fortreana forum last year, and there is now an English writeup available on Reddit. Free SE karma for anyone who wants to put the answer here. I dont have the time to write it myself right now old.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/llbmuh/…

Avery

Mar 9, 2021 15:41

Q: Did a man from a non-existent country, Taured, appear in a Japanese airport in 1954, and then disappear?

A number of different web-sites document this mysterious storey of an apparent traveller from an alternate history: It’s July 1954; a hot day. A man arrives at Tokyo airport in Japan. He’s of Caucasian appearance and conventional-looking. But the officials are suspicious.On checking his passport...

Avery

Sep 19, 2020 12:58

Yeah, I found the original sources for that claim in newspaper archives. I guess if I have time this weekend I can finish an answer on the actual properties of adrenochrome

Avery

Sep 19, 2020 03:39

I attempted to write an answer to the adrenochrome question but realized a few minutes in that the word "adrenochrome" is being used because it sounds more mysterious than "adrenalin". There's no scientific way to put that.

Avery

Jul 15, 2020 22:53

thoughts?

Avery

Jul 15, 2020 22:53

I think it's possible that the first question ought to be closed and the second should be flagged as an old question out of scope for the current site

Avery

Jul 15, 2020 22:53

this guy raises good points with these two questions

Avery

Jul 15, 2020 22:53

@Avery what about this question and this question ? Both are metaphysical questions, involving the "Chi energy". Isn't the "Chi energy" as metaphysical as the "Holy Spirit" energy? If we replace "Shaolin monk" with "Christian preacher" and "Chi energy" with "Holy Spirit", wouldn't this be equivalent to the claim made by the two influential preachers I mention in my question? — Spirit Realm Investigator 5 mins ago

Avery

Jul 7, 2020 01:24

the article i cite quotes Aristotle, so i think these just-so stories are quite old

Avery

Jul 7, 2020 01:23

I don't think it's a straw man precisely because of the absurd hypothetical given in the other answer: "Indirect exchange becomes more necessary as division of labor increases..." which does seem to posit this kind of primordial state of barter, without providing any evidence whatsoever.

Avery

Dec 31, 2019 14:20

Happy New Year to all, as time zones permit!

Avery

Jul 26, 2019 16:37

It doesn't, but you can see it used in the examples. It's not a big deal

Avery

Jul 26, 2019 15:23

Apologies, I didn't see this until now. Lower case seems to be correct, per stackoverflow.blog/2011/03/24/redesigned-tags-page

Avery

Apr 3, 2019 08:56

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A: Was this quote on a clay tablet about unruly kids written by an Assyrian?

Updated 2019, regardless of the fact that it has been downvoted. As another answer reads, this complaint has been attributed to a specific king: In the museum at Constantinople the writer [Prof. George T.W. Patrick] saw an inscription upon an old stone. It was by King Naram Sin of Chalde...

Avery

Apr 3, 2019 08:56

i have updated an old answer, and link it here in case the original version was unconvincing to some

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Avery

Jul 1, 2021 11:04

I don't think it's original research. It analyzes the claims being made on the basis of the evidence being used to support them. Not the answerer's fault that the evidence literally contradicts the claims.

Avery

Jun 30, 2021 22:32

this is a very good demonstration of how a math-related question can be on topic for this SE.

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Avery

Jan 17, 2021 18:02

The Wikipedia page contains specific claims, for example: "Although approximately two-thirds of crack cocaine users are whites or Hispanic people, in 1994, 86.3% of the defendants convicted of crack cocaine possession were Black people while 10.3% were whites and 5.2% were Hispanic people." If your friend doubts these specific claims you can post them here. If he acknowledges the facts but refuses to call it systemic racism, you actually have a philosophical problem, not appropriate for this website.

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Avery

Dec 2, 2020 14:42

ok, good to know. I did spend 30 minutes on research before posting, did not know that matters in this SE.

Avery

Dec 2, 2020 12:50

the SE where i spend most time only uses downvotes for trollish/spammy questions so maybe its a cultural thing

Avery

Dec 2, 2020 12:50

sorry for wasting the time of this SE. it would be nice to know what specific rule i broke with this question, because its not exactly clear from the "How do I ask a good question" page

Avery

Dec 2, 2020 12:49

just got a downvote for this, so i deleted it apple.stackexchange.com/questions/407827/…

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Avery

Nov 24, 2020 03:30

Anyway, I understand that you're frustrated ---- Oh, I made him leave the room almost as soon as he saw my comment. Well, hope he was satisfied with having an audience for his argument

Avery

Nov 24, 2020 03:28

That's the problem with referring to the modern word "Judaism" instead of ancient concepts like the nation of Israel. I wrote my answer claiming "Judaism" in the sense of an organized religion begins with the destruction of the Second Temple, because even the Bible says that many people were worshipping other gods like the golden calf in the early days.

Avery

Nov 24, 2020 03:26

fwiw I don't think your argument is necessarily wrong about "3 million witnesses," but it doesnt answer the question of how old Judaism is. You're simply talking about the shared experiences of the Jews in the age of Moses. But of course, as Oddthinking said above, if you agree with the Biblical witnesses, there's no reason not to start your story at Abraham instead of Moses.

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Avery

Jul 11, 2020 17:12

@LаngLаngС you might be the guy for the job for answering this, I feel exhausted just looking at this stupid screenshot.

Avery

Jul 11, 2020 17:12

sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1569904812000341

Avery

Jul 11, 2020 17:12

sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0196655312007171

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Avery

Jan 16, 2020 14:19

You're not actually responding to me, you're responding to what my conclusion would say if I didn't include the words "without claiming it to be your own work".

Avery

Jan 16, 2020 14:19

There are apparently about 1000 recipes in this book and I find it hard to believe that the editor wants us to think they are all original to their contributors. I recognize people might read the book other ways — if nothing else, the Indian theme of the book is extremely dubious — but I'm going off the evidence that I am seeing.

Avery

Jan 16, 2020 14:19

@bvoyelr The question, although it cites a Daily Mail post, takes its wording from a widely retweeted Twitter thread which accused Warren of publishing the book.

Avery

Jan 16, 2020 14:19

@gnasher729 It doesn't seem to me that Warren made that claim.

Avery

Jan 16, 2020 14:19

And this is the question. Did Warren claim these were her own recipes?

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Avery

Dec 24, 2019 12:46

@candied_orange - I don't think such an answer is forthcoming as I do not think an exact CO2 footprint can be calculated for this specific voyage with its specific weather conditions.

Avery

Dec 24, 2019 12:46

"Shouldn't you either be comparing fly with offsets vs. boat with offsets, or fly without offsets vs. boat without offsets?" Why, when that wasn't the purpose of the trip? If Greta taking a boat helps get a law passed that reduces CO2 by 20% in some country, wasn't it one of the biggest carbon savings of all time? There is a lot of pettiness involved in crying for an "apples-to-apples comparison" that includes only the apples YOU like and leaves out larger factors, including things like WHY carbon offsets were purchased. (BTW, pleased to have earned the "Cosmic Brain" hat for this answer...)

Avery

Dec 24, 2019 12:46

@pipe I assume the comparison is against a flight purchased without offsets

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Avery

Jun 19, 2018 07:23

Uh... It only showed up in my inbox once. Is that really a big deal?

Avery

Jun 19, 2018 07:23

I'm confused about what exactly you are finding trollish here

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Avery

Jun 4, 2018 14:05

I agree with David, I'm not saying that self-reporting from parents is automatic proof of anything, but I think the studies are right to at least include such reports (especially when the effects are reproducible and physiological) to build towards greater knowledge of the massively complicated thing that is the human nervous system.