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I also have such a remedy. Many of them, in fact. Try Belladonna, for instance. Take a sufficient dose and I guarantee you'll never again suffer from any virus you didn't have prior to taking the remedy.

You need to double blind it properly. One instance of "finding" water mains is a coincidence or a subconscious bit of reckoning. The only test worth a damn is consistently finding water and not getting false positives when the location of the water is randomly determined and unknowable to anyone...

People are missing the point. They managed to train guinea pigs to play computer games! That's a major achievement in itself! :lol:

Actually, we could adapt that argument to work for us. After all, Republicans aren't really people...

Double blind placebo controlled trials in the peer reviewed academic press or STFU. Proper chemical analyses of the end product done on real lab equipment and published in the peer reviewed academic press or STFU.

A polynomial is any function made up of a sum of multiples of powers of the variables. For one variable, x, this means things like 5x^3 - 2x^2 + 5. Need to work out the breaking strain of a rod of a given material with a given radius? Polynomial. Need to know the braking distance of a car...

The benefit of a solar sail is that it generates acceleration without the need to cart a bunch of fuel around. There are other methods being investigated to use ground based lasers to generate thrust.

The problem with using the word "burning" is that it leads to the misconception that gave rise to the YEC argument that the Sun would have "burned" all of its fuel had it been around for billions of years. There's a difference between nuclear fusion and chemical burning, and the different (by...

I chose "other" because it depends on the case. Juries are made up of ordinary people who have not been able to come up with a way to avoid jury service and, therefore, are generally poorly educated compared to the officers of the court. In cases where the duty of the jury is to weigh up...

I don't think any security measure is enough to keep a thief out. That's not what they are generally for. What you want, selfishly, is for it to be harder and/or more risky for a potential thief to break in to your home than your neighbours'. Any opportunist thief (the majority) will just be...

Of course, if Billy Bob has a phone about his person he can photograph his screen as the objects of his prurient interest appear thereon. Also, I don't give a stuff who sees me naked.

By disallowing the "mechanical" you are, of course, throwing out a massive chunk of everyday uses of polynomials. There is nothing of any use that you can engineer without them.

I'm going to go for option B.

Quite true. When I explain to people that I had to do some mathematics research to get my PhD, they are frequently surprised that there is such a thing as mathematics research.

If you dislike hyperbolic rhetorical flourishes, try this equivalent version: I want my genuine political views to have an influence on the way the country is governed. So does everyone else. The problem is that both the Labour and Conservative parties are so mired in their ways that neither is...

As you've been repeatedly told, that isn't how real science works. The burden of proof is entirely on you. Once you have carried out all the steps that any reputable scientist has to do to get a new tratment accepted, that's when other people need to start doing anything beyond asking you to put...

Serial killers aren't comparable to conspiracies. The hardest ones to catch are the ones whose targets are connected only by sharing certain relatively common traits, meaning there is a large pool of potential victims. Although the motive might be clear (killing young gay men or whatever the...

Ooh, does that mean it counts as one of the five portions of fruit and veg we're meant to eat every day? Seriously, though, what we do with corpses has nothing to do with the dead person and everything to do with the living people who are processing the cadaver. A corpse is a chunk of meat...

There have been two main parties for some time, but they are far from being the only game in town, and there are plenty of elected officials from other parties at all levels below that of the cabinet and shadow cabinet. In the US, parties other than the main two have next to no elected officials...

Most people have a very limited grasp of the basic ideas of probability. This means that we can tax the mathematically inept through lotteries whose expected payout is less than half the amount of a roulette table. It also means that people don't understand the relevance of the evidence from...