Comments on: Dissecting Tara’s Frog (1): Intro http://www.scienceguardian.com/blog/dissecting-the-frog-1.htm Reviewing scientific paradigms and other general beliefs in the light of the scientific and professional literature Thu, 05 Jan 2012 05:57:56 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Truthseeker http://www.scienceguardian.com/blog/dissecting-the-frog-1.htm/comment-page-1#comment-5038 Truthseeker Tue, 04 Sep 2007 01:57:46 +0000 http://www.scienceguardian.com/blog/dissecting-the-frog-1.htm#comment-5038 Honestly, MacD, your Comments should contain a humor index warning (1-5 carrots?) to preserve keyboards from spilt coffee, tomato juice etc as Y'ello also complains - that the second one you have put out of commission here in little more than a week. <i>As much as I deplore such craven goosestepping by the underlings, I feel some measure of pity(not sympathy, that’s for their kith and kin) for these people.I guess that is part of why I write, to warn them.</i> Extremely kind of you, Y'ello, and a very fine point. With Baltimore retired, and Gallo losing steam (didn't have the energy to push his way into giving the Toronto keynote, according to rumor which he denied, though still willing to try to make a fool out of the model scientist Andrew Maniotis) and looking to us a little weary of living a lie, the Max Planck effect of progress "funeral by funeral" or at least retirement by retirement is going to arrive sooner or later. But when? 2 years, 5, 10, 20? But will Africa really help much if Mbeki gets replaced? With Bush promising $30 billion as a lame duck, we don't know what meaning there is in that promise, but if it comes through maybe HIV/AIDS will be preserved from reexamination for some time to come, especially if Iraq winds down, as far as funds go, wouldn't you agree? If the media does nothing in the States it may be ten years before these people have to worry about looking silly, maybe twenty. By that time they will have back peddled far enough not to worry. Anyhow, how embarrassed do they have to be when everyone thought the same thing and no one heard the arguments against it, or even that they existed. "The Least Known War in Science", Hank's title said it all. But with Federer being thrashed by Lopez in the US Open tonight 6-3 in the opening set as we write, predicting the timing of HIV/AIDS paradigm collapse seems especially impossible. All we know is that Harpers wasn't enough. That brought home that it is a poltical power game so far won by Anthony Fauci, and there will probably be no movement till the election is behind us. But no one knows what is going on behind the scene among staffers and others who read and understood Harpers. Honestly, MacD, your Comments should contain a humor index warning (1-5 carrots?) to preserve keyboards from spilt coffee, tomato juice etc as Y’ello also complains – that the second one you have put out of commission here in little more than a week.

As much as I deplore such craven goosestepping by the underlings, I feel some measure of pity(not sympathy, that’s for their kith and kin) for these people.I guess that is part of why I write, to warn them.

Extremely kind of you, Y’ello, and a very fine point. With Baltimore retired, and Gallo losing steam (didn’t have the energy to push his way into giving the Toronto keynote, according to rumor which he denied, though still willing to try to make a fool out of the model scientist Andrew Maniotis) and looking to us a little weary of living a lie, the Max Planck effect of progress “funeral by funeral” or at least retirement by retirement is going to arrive sooner or later. But when? 2 years, 5, 10, 20?

But will Africa really help much if Mbeki gets replaced? With Bush promising $30 billion as a lame duck, we don’t know what meaning there is in that promise, but if it comes through maybe HIV/AIDS will be preserved from reexamination for some time to come, especially if Iraq winds down, as far as funds go, wouldn’t you agree? If the media does nothing in the States it may be ten years before these people have to worry about looking silly, maybe twenty. By that time they will have back peddled far enough not to worry. Anyhow, how embarrassed do they have to be when everyone thought the same thing and no one heard the arguments against it, or even that they existed. “The Least Known War in Science”, Hank’s title said it all.

But with Federer being thrashed by Lopez in the US Open tonight 6-3 in the opening set as we write, predicting the timing of HIV/AIDS paradigm collapse seems especially impossible. All we know is that Harpers wasn’t enough. That brought home that it is a poltical power game so far won by Anthony Fauci, and there will probably be no movement till the election is behind us. But no one knows what is going on behind the scene among staffers and others who read and understood Harpers.

]]> By: yello http://www.scienceguardian.com/blog/dissecting-the-frog-1.htm/comment-page-1#comment-5037 yello Tue, 04 Sep 2007 00:36:20 +0000 http://www.scienceguardian.com/blog/dissecting-the-frog-1.htm#comment-5037 Truthseeker Sir. This is most certainly a sorry state of affairs that the political leaders complicit in allowing the paradigm largesse through _my_ taxpayer dollars have no better answer than a driveling, "but the drugs work don't they?" Macdonald Sir. "But I don’t think Tara would waste whatever passes for flirty smiles in those circles on Orac. Her type is obviously the much older, silver-greying, never (and I mean never) out of the dapper robes that signal the authority invested in him, Steve Novella." You owe me a new keyboard or at the very least the towel to wipe off the tomato juice. Joking aside, I really wish Dr. Smith would get her head out of the sand and her ass out of the arena.There are too few women in the sciences as it is.I really do not understand why she would pursue this course, since it is overwhelmingly OBVIOUS that the paradigm is failing.Sure it may take another decade or two, but do you really want to be remembered for consciously defending a horrific farce, ESPECIALLY when you've had access to; and known, all the peer-reviewed literature that conclusively exposes it for such? The economic forecast for the First World is looking apocalyptic over the next decade.This will be a time of chickens coming home to roost and it is very probable that financial resources will be quite scarce.This likely means very hard questions will be asked about new projects then and old ones retroactively. Would you want to be associated with _any_ project that is exposed as the waste it is?Science(TM) _will_ undergo a massive reckoning, just like all other institutions that require so much from it's consituent population.Unlike within scientific institutions, where it is mainly higher ups who bear the brunt of blame for scandals, the public at large will be willing to devour alive _anyone_ who is linked to favourable reviews of science scandals. As much as I deplore such craven goosestepping by the underlings, I feel some measure of pity(not sympathy, that's for their kith and kin) for these people.I guess that is part of why I write, to warn them.There was an Aetiology commenter by the name of Kevin who has futilely tried to warn another commentor that getting a house now or for the next couple of years under the current mortgaging schemes is a fuckin' idiotic thing to do. The Day of Judgement is coming (secularly speaking) and unfortunately, most of the initial purveyors of this paradigm are either comfortably dead or becoming obscure.The main wrath will be on these kids. Truthseeker Sir.

This is most certainly a sorry state of affairs that the political leaders complicit in allowing the paradigm largesse through _my_ taxpayer dollars have no better answer than a driveling, “but the drugs work don’t they?”

Macdonald Sir.

“But I don’t think Tara would waste whatever passes for flirty smiles in those circles on Orac. Her type is obviously the much older, silver-greying, never (and I mean never) out of the dapper robes that signal the authority invested in him, Steve Novella.”

You owe me a new keyboard or at the very least the towel to wipe off the tomato juice.
Joking aside, I really wish Dr. Smith would get her head out of the sand and her ass out of the arena.There are too few women in the sciences as it is.I really do not understand why she would pursue this course, since it is overwhelmingly OBVIOUS that the paradigm is failing.Sure it may take another decade or two, but do you really want to be remembered for consciously defending a
horrific farce, ESPECIALLY when you’ve had access to; and known, all the peer-reviewed literature that conclusively exposes it for such?

The economic forecast for the First World is looking apocalyptic over the next decade.This will be a time of chickens coming home to roost and it is very probable that financial resources will be quite scarce.This likely means very hard questions will be asked about new projects then and old ones retroactively. Would you want to be associated with _any_ project that is exposed as the waste it is?Science(TM) _will_ undergo a massive reckoning, just like all other institutions that require so much from it’s consituent population.Unlike within scientific institutions, where it is mainly higher ups who bear the brunt of blame for scandals, the public at large will be willing to devour alive _anyone_ who is linked to favourable reviews of science scandals.

As much as I deplore such craven goosestepping by the underlings, I feel some measure of pity(not sympathy, that’s for their kith and kin) for these people.I guess that is part of why I write, to warn them.There was an Aetiology commenter by the name of Kevin who has futilely tried to warn another commentor that getting a house now or for the next couple of years under the current mortgaging schemes is a fuckin’ idiotic thing to do.

The Day of Judgement is coming (secularly speaking) and unfortunately, most of the initial purveyors of this paradigm are either comfortably dead or becoming obscure.The main wrath will be on these kids.

]]> By: MacDonald http://www.scienceguardian.com/blog/dissecting-the-frog-1.htm/comment-page-1#comment-5036 MacDonald Mon, 03 Sep 2007 20:47:27 +0000 http://www.scienceguardian.com/blog/dissecting-the-frog-1.htm#comment-5036 That's got to be the longest preamble ever. But in fairness I think you've covered the by far most important issue, Orac's looks. However, I must say once again that I am disappointed in your taste. Orac is the typical slightly nerdy eternal college boy who, realizing his own limitations, never attempted to make it onto any sports team - not even lacrosse. The cheap jacket and shirt plus jeans combination, is reminiscent of a school teacher with intellectual pretensions. But being still very much aware of his own limitations, he is too timid to sell himself sexually as anything other than ordinary, harmless bloke. A Therapy Buddy in other words. He may very well have been taken, just as the original Therapy Buddy, Hank, was, with Tara's career oriented, aggressively (com)passionate presence. But I don't think Tara would waste whatever passes for flirty smiles in those circles on Orac. Her type is obviously the much older, silver-greying, never (and I mean <i>never</i>) out of the dapper robes that signal the authority invested in him, Steve Novella. That’s got to be the longest preamble ever. But in fairness I think you’ve covered the by far most important issue, Orac’s looks. However, I must say once again that I am disappointed in your taste. Orac is the typical slightly nerdy eternal college boy who, realizing his own limitations, never attempted to make it onto any sports team – not even lacrosse. The cheap jacket and shirt plus jeans combination, is reminiscent of a school teacher with intellectual pretensions. But being still very much aware of his own limitations, he is too timid to sell himself sexually as anything other than ordinary, harmless bloke. A Therapy Buddy in other words. He may very well have been taken, just as the original Therapy Buddy, Hank, was, with Tara’s career oriented, aggressively (com)passionate presence. But I don’t think Tara would waste whatever passes for flirty smiles in those circles on Orac. Her type is obviously the much older, silver-greying, never (and I mean never) out of the dapper robes that signal the authority invested in him, Steve Novella.

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