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That food babe thing I posted a few days ago actually got me pretty angry because I hate it when idiots try and engage in something they cant understand. So this is just me ranting.
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She argues against the use of microwave ovens because they "cause water molecules to form crystals that resemble crystals that have been exposed to negative thoughts or beliefs including the names of Hitler and Satan".
( , Fri 19 Dec 2014, 16:45, Share, Reply)
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but she's probably taken down the source article
( , Fri 19 Dec 2014, 16:59, Share, Reply)
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Does not mean that's she's been peer reviewed.
And I'm sorry for her looks, but peer reviewing is usually single or double blind.
This story reminds me about an argument about aluminium present in food I had with my sister with my sister.
Because she "read about it on internet" and "they are trying to poison her children".
I pointed out that Al is the 3rd most present element on earth
and pretty lame at anything in it's normal oxidised form.
Furthermore, if she was SO worried about Al, then she better watch out for the big C.
A far rarer element at number 15.
(But eliminating that from her food would be problematic, she is, after all, a carbon based life-form).
Blablabla...
This is basic 16year old, smoking fags in the back of science class, knowledge FFS!
Yet these dumb asses (my sister included) don't bat an eye about VERY bad stuff used in food processing:
Stuff like "organics", sounds all green and full of fields?
Well acetone is one of the main ones,
is verified toxic as hell
(eats your brain and the brain of your unborn)...
Yet not a peep from the "more followers than synapses brigade".
Edit: where's the new music bitch?
( , Fri 19 Dec 2014, 17:35, Share, Reply)
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double/single Blind is something else entirely.
( , Fri 19 Dec 2014, 18:21, Share, Reply)
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...more whackjob naturopaths I'm guessing
( , Fri 19 Dec 2014, 18:36, Share, Reply)
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But in the IEEE, you don't know who is reviewing your paper...
The reviewers must send their questions to the editor who acts as an interface.
(And as a bullshit detector.)
I assumed that it was the same for all "real" science.
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but in the one I was in it's often the case that people can't help but recognize reviewers or authors by the content of their writing/comments. I guess this might be the case in relatively small fields or in papers with a very narrow scope.
Friends of mine would get peer reviews back from editors and be like, "Oh, great, they asked Phil to review another one of my papers." :)
( , Fri 19 Dec 2014, 19:19, Share, Reply)
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www.theamphour.com/228-an-interview-with-shahriar-from-the-signal-path-quisquous-quivering-quadripole/
And you get the impression that with his kind of subject:
Where what I consider borderline insane high frequency AC, he considers as DC...
And the most basic piece of kit is tailor made and costs half a million...
Then, the number of people in your field probably number less than a 100.
Probably more in the 10/20 mark.
So unless an editor reformats the questions, it's to easy to guess who wrote them!
Just as you said.
( , Fri 19 Dec 2014, 19:39, Share, Reply)
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presumably to prevent things like a grudge effect or people favoring their colleagues.
It's not the same as blind/double blind experiments, but it's done to avoid some other kinds of bias.
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I would have used a word like 'deranged' or something to do with lunacy
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I'm gonna microwave ALL my food from now on. Even the booze. HITLER-RUM FTW!
:D
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A Foodie once chastised me for drinking milk. "Humans are the only animals that drink another animal's milk". I thought of all the cats I'd seen drinking cow's milk at my grandmothers farm, but chose to respond with "Humans are also the only animals that fly helicopters." To wit, she left me for more intellectual conversation.
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Is there anything a sheepdog cannot due?
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You really couldn't be more of a stereotype if you tried! :D
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He has a mechanical bull and bullet holes in the walls.
"'Tis hard cleaning em' g'ns on Bucky"
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"The air you are breathing on an airplane is recycled from directly outside of your window. That means you are breathing everything that the airplanes gives off and is flying through. The air that is pumped in isn't pure oxygen either, it's mixed with nitrogen, sometimes almost at 50%..."
It takes a certain level of genius to say something that stupid. Nice article.
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dont we learn that at 12 years or something?
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she has a degree in computer science (source: Wikipedia).
I struggle to understand how she doesn't know she's talking rubbish.
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Better yet, there's nearly a million other spazzers following her.
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most people who fall into this trap aren't capable of discerning the experts from the blowhards.
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But then I accidentally the whole thing
( , Fri 19 Dec 2014, 19:03, Share, Reply)