If thou gazest long into the Pit, the Pit will also gaze into thee

disumbrationist wrote: In the case R=0.62% or 0.00062, the number is closer to 0.01232 or 1.23%.

Sorry, typo. It's 0.0062. The calculation is correct.

And finally, since women in that group stay in that group for 20 years that means that about 20*0.62% or 12.4 % of women entering that group at the age of 15 can “expect” – something to look forward to, I guess, but looks more like a gauntlet to be run – to get raped within that period of t...

ERV wrote:The US government finally locked the XMRV=CFS propents in a lab and said "Prove it. While we are watching."

Say, they do some pretty thorough work while locked up. Maybe we should keep 'em that way.

real horrorshow wrote:But can a blogger troll their own blog?

Greg Laden does that shit all the time. (warning: clicking these links might send money to a dangerous individual.)

mordacious1 wrote: Does Ron Lindsey at CFI rub anyone here (besides me) the wrong way?

You can almost hear his finger wagging at us all.
But that's really just a complaint about his tone, so it's not important.

AndrewV69 wrote: People had to know what was he was going to do next, and yet they left the women to be killed by him. Not a single man out of the 50 who were there rushed him.

Men Going Their Own Way, apparently.

Michael K Gray wrote: Kirby, and her Slyme-splitters

Shouldn't we be Pyt Bulls, in honor of Arnie?

Big Pharma is even getting into the action and figuring out how to monetize/patent products/processes that were considered "alt-med" just a few years ago: Now Roche is paving the way for a test for Vitamin D deficiency Nestlé Buys U.S. Maker of 'Brain Health' Shake Lovasa: FDA approved Big Pharma ...

Welcome, LurkerBoi. You do know that this century started in 2001, after there were more women than men getting B and M degrees by your own stats. Then why say "Way back" when he was talking about 11 years? Seems more likely he was referring to the 20th century. No doubt he'll clarify. I myself som...

http://skepchick.org/2012/08/speaking-out-against-hate-directed-at-women-michael-nugent/ A guy called 'wicknight' is finding out how much the Skepchick commentariat value disagreement and evidence. He is arguing well enough, I guess, but I think he and the Skepchicks are mistaken on one fundamental...

What of Joe Blow Everyday Guy who simply isn't concerned and lacks the information? Is he a "bigot" for eating at Chic-Fil-A? :( Those are two different cases you're conflating. 1. has information but isn't concerned - Bigot is a fair description. 2. lacks information and isn't concerned - not nece...

Peasy wrote:It's a kind of puritanical shaming tactic, to which the only appropriate response is "fuck off."

Quite right, PZ. In fact, this was my initial reaction to the Watsonian Imperative ("guys, don't do that").

Oh all right, what about this one then? Remember when Conservatives were being touted as stupid? http://news.yahoo.com/low-iq-conservative-beliefs-linked-prejudice-180403506.html There's no gentle way to put it: People who give in to racism and prejudice may simply be dumb, according to a new study...

AndrewV69 wrote:In other news:

Blah blah blah

In other news, the confidence intervals should be roughly as follows as follows, from a similar survey with similar population size:
http://www.people-press.org/files/2012/ ... edge-6.png

*flush*

Skepchick training session, courtesy of Space Moose.

blameless wrote:Fuck it, if he thinks i'm gonna brag I might as well brag.

Your pic reminds me of this one:
http://i.imgur.com/QZqMx.jpg

The day Laden's kid gets old enough to google his daddy will be an interesting one. I doubt it. Children tend to know their parent's faults better than anyone. It will probably only confirm and contextualise what the child already knows. "Oh, so that's why he called me a rapist when I tried to kiss...

Dale McGowan gives us another fact-free emotional appeal. Yawn.
99% of what has been written about sexism in the sceptical community falls immediately to Lebowski's Razor.

AndrewV69 Sweden has criminalized normal sexual intercourse, with the result that Sweden has an extraordinary number of reported "rape" incidents that beggar all credibility. You need to show a difference in number of convictions, not just a number of reports. Normal sex isn't criminalised unless it...

The T-shirt would be permitted under CFI's harassment policy . Critical examination of beliefs, including critical commentary on another person’s views, does not, by itself, constitute hostile conduct or harassment. One of the underlying rationales of this policy is to promote the free exchange of...

This was not the only incident that happened to me at TAM where people were targeting me with personalized items meant to mock or diminish my presence This is the sloppy language of the fanatic at work. How could someone's presence be diminished, I wonder? I assume she means 'influence'. In which c...

Abbie Smith’s pants smelling fans

Oh, is that where the slimepit is?

I told her through tears, in the speakers’ lounge, that it was dehumanizing and gender/color blind and very hurtful to me specifically as a person who does have to deal with harassment regularly. When I read something like this, it just tells me that the person needs therapy and lots of it. Not t...

Wow, Freethoughtblogs doesn't like FreethoughtBLAHgs. Big surprise. I'm guessing it's the same reason a pretentious 80's hair metal band might not like This is Spinal Tap.

I think a 'truce' (like we need more military metaphors to aggrandize our internetz arguin') can come about if we have a common cause to oppose. Like in science fiction, when an alien invasion unites the squabbling nations of the world against a common enemy. Each side would need to see the value th...

Franc's post reminded me of this, " Politics and the English Language " by George Orwell. Orwell's rules, if followed, would dispense of probably over half the propaganda currently in print. Another great essay is Pathological Science by Irving Langmuir. Langmuir shows how scientists can fool themse...

I suspect that many people in and around Pitt Meadows and surrounding towns are completely indifferent to her situation no matter what the merits of her case, if not actually celebrating her woes.

Wow, what a shithole Pitt Meadows must be.

Hoaxes by Curtis McDougall Historical list of famous political, scientific and cultural hoaxes. Astounds you with the sheer number; however, the author is able to draw general conclusions about why people believe outrageous claims. The True Believer by Eric Hoffer An extended essay on the nature of...

Dawkins is a great troll.

Greg Laden is too, but he does it joylessly. Pity.