Tuesday, 31 March 2015
PEI Man Arrested, Ordered To Keep The Peace On Suspicion He May Commit Terrorism
"The RCMP in Ottawa issued a news release on the arrest, but declined to answer any questions."
Monday, 30 March 2015
Dozens Of Scientific Papers Withdrawn After Peer-Review Fraud Uncovered
"Concerns about peer review have been growing for decades. Reviewers are
almost always already struggling under the burden of their own research
and teaching load. Few are paid for their efforts, and even fewer get
credit from their employers for this vital contribution to the
advancement of science. Many admit off the record to not giving papers
the attention they deserve."
Real-Life Vampires Exist, and Researchers Are Studying Them
"What was perhaps most surprising about the vampires I met though was
their marked lack of knowledge about vampires in popular culture. They
seemed to know much less than you might expect – at least for vampires –
about how their kind were depicted in books and films. By this I mean
to say that the people I met with and interviewed hadn’t turned to
drinking blood or taking psychic energy simply because they had read too
many Anne Rice novels."
Wednesday, 25 March 2015
That Moron Who Spews Garbage and Doesn’t Listen to Reason May Be a Bot
"The bot will continue to fire back canned responses that best fit the interlocutor's line of debate—Leck
says this goes on for days, in some cases—and the bot's been outfitted
with a number of responses on the topic of religion, where the arguments
unsurprisingly often end up."
Labels:
artificial intelligence,
community,
knowledge,
propaganda,
psychology,
technology
Aussie's Jar'Edo Wens prank sets new record as Wikipedia’s longest-running hoax
"While it is not uncommon for such hoaxes to lie undiscovered for years,
the Jar'Edo Wens entry is unusual. A related post by the same
contributor about another Aboriginal deity, 'Yohrmum' (your mum), was
flagged as 'suspected vandalism' and later removed a year after it
appeared."
Friday, 20 March 2015
Medical expansion has led people worldwide to feel less healthy
"In the study, Zheng took into account a variety of factors, other than
medical expansion, that may be related to health. He included
country-wide variables like economic development and life expectancy at
birth. He also included individual-level variables, such as whether
people were married, their levels of education and their income.
Even after all these factors were taken into account, all three types of medical expansion were associated with poorer subjective health over time."
Even after all these factors were taken into account, all three types of medical expansion were associated with poorer subjective health over time."
Thursday, 19 March 2015
Ex-Big Pharma Sales Rep Speaks Out About The Deception In The Pharmaceutical Industry
"It was an awakening process, a spiritual and consciousness
process where I started observing what was happening, what some of the
drugs were doing, the misinformation, the disinformation. I was being
encouraged to minimize side effects when I talked to doctors. I started to realize that these patients were literally being tortured by the drugs."
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