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Today, 3:06 am
(quote not shown) No you haven't. You didn't for instance cite a source for any of your supposed knowledge about herpes simplex. You just made assertions. Here for instance is a factsheet about herpes simplex, highly sympathetic to natural remedies, which accepts and assumes that 'Herpes simplex vir...
Yesterday, 12:22 pm
(quote not shown) As this evidence is according to you overwhelming, perhaps you can send us a link to a couple of sources citing it. It's a platitude of germ theories that not everyone infected with a certain microorganism develops the related disease. You seem to keep saying that there has to be a...
May 18th, 2013, 3:18 am
DarwinX wrote:The medical system doesn't recognize halogens as being dangerous to humans. These include bromine, flourine and chlorine. Iodine is also a halogen, but it is a natural and useful element. The other three halogens on the other hand are highly dangerous and poisonous to humans. Despite this fact, the medical system, industry and government uses these chemicals in dentistry, water treatment, plastics, medicine, food production and thousands of other daily used products.
Unnatural halogens replace iodine in the body. The body uses iodine for thyroid, hormone production and immune system functions. When the rogue halogens enter the human body they cause disruption to the thyroid, liver, heart, panceas and immune system.
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First, answer previous criticisms of your original post before posting about something different.
Second, provide scientific evidence with references.
Third, explain what your remarks have to do with philosophy.
May 18th, 2013, 3:11 am
I said: "Like Q and others I also don't see the relationship between patterning and data compression. In a post you didn't reply to I asked about a complex piece of music, as an example, where I feel the patterning is expansionist not reductionist. You seem to be asserting as a premise that dat...
May 17th, 2013, 4:35 am
(quote not shown) Your and Xris's interventions are about science, not the philosophy of science. They belong in another place, not here. You're both being, in my opinion, rude to someone who came here to ask a particular question, and then became side-tracked by the two of you into having to defend...
May 17th, 2013, 4:30 am
(quote not shown) Come on Q you're not looking hard enough! There's a book, and a website, and a person's real name out there if you Google hard enough :) I would say it, but I think it might offend the rules of the forum, although Seagull has mentioned the book. It's hard when someone's worked out ...
May 16th, 2013, 2:43 pm
(quote not shown) Actually logical relativism has had a small time basking in the sun of anthropology, i.e. as the notion that different cultures have different logics. (quote not shown) Evidence won't mostly be over-written, you need to be precise here. But it may get new explanations. Some ideas i...
May 16th, 2013, 2:32 pm
(quote not shown) One thing that feels unsatisfactory about this explanation is that pattern-making, or whatever one wants to call the process of understanding regularities, is a dialectical process. The brain doesn't just receive sense-data passively and sort among them. The brain seeks out some se...
May 16th, 2013, 2:36 am
(quote not shown) Me too Mgrinder, there's a strange anti-science strain to discussions that can get in the way, but we plough on. For myself, I agree with you largely: we do have a range of freedom. Sometimes we are prey to influences on us. Sometimes people demand some kind of 100% absolute freedo...
May 14th, 2013, 5:04 pm
(quote not shown) The perennial difficulty about this argument is that there is no known model that can predict human behaviour. Indeed it's incredibly hard to predict the behaviours of quite simple organisms. Much of our knowledge about causation is about probability and populations, i.e. we know w...
May 14th, 2013, 4:52 pm
There is a gulf in understanding between Americans and Europeans about guns which is very hard to bridge. As a Brit, I find these polemics in favour of gun ownership baffling, but I quite see that in terms of the history of the USA, what's normal to many Americans seems abnormal to me. A lot more Am...
May 13th, 2013, 2:21 am
(quote not shown) Oddly enough this is probably not the *original* use of the word 'leaf', whose etymology is conjectured to be, something that can be torn off something else. I'm only being a pedant here to say, patterning is more complex than appears at first sight. (quote not shown) 'Might be exp...
May 13th, 2013, 2:13 am
(quote not shown) For me an underlying difficulty comes when individual examples are imagined in place of N, P, x and y. Take the naming of mountains. The mountain to the northeast of Keswick has historically been known as Saddleback. But in modern times, following Wordsworth and Wainwright, the nam...
May 12th, 2013, 3:08 pm
(quote not shown) I've lived quite a few years of life, felt and thought deeply about things, and can't find a trace of a belief in a monotheistic god in me. Will that do? I feel more sympathy with immanent beliefs in multiple deities, for that's how human belief seems to me: a plurality of beliefs,...
April 29th, 2013, 6:18 pm
(quote not shown) Who said 'all acts' must be fundamentally inexplicable for a believer in freewill? There needs to be only one human act in an entire lifetime, amidst a zillion caused acts, that's an exercise of freewill, for freewill to pertain. What is the determinist explanation for the act of t...