TNG Conspiracy

TNG episode "Skin of Evil",

This *is* a "damn republicans" issue. Just WHO has been telling us that deregulation of industry and hamstringing of the pertinent regulators at the state and federal level would buy us all a safe and prosperous country? That has been the stupid idea ruining this country since 1980 when Reagan got in.

Vitamin products and the elaborate mythology built up around them are a complete scam. Its the difference between "You might feel better if you got more sleep." and "If you sleep 7.5 hours a night you'll be able to shit laser beams."

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…

That's data on US vitamin C deficiency, alone. Kinda blows holes in your argument, doesn't it?

Actually, dry pill form vitamins have longer shelf life than liquids. Lyophilized chemicals can pretty much last forever. On the other hand, water is very good at degrading molecules (which is why most drugs are stored as dry powers and mixed into liquids only when needed).

In response to that awful Helix tagline...

Without a microscope, any scientific training and through experiments on only one animal – himself – Gibbons has managed to isolate the elusive W Gene*.

Pass on the Uranium; go directly to Thorium. It has lower radioactivity and a half-life measured in centuries, not millennia; it burns more completely, leaving no weapons-grade waste behind; and it is more easily mined and more abundant than uranium.

Sure, it's still finite if much, much larger. Not arguing that.

Well, technically nuclear has much longer viability (Even despite growth in consumption.) and far few greenhouse gases than these others cited here.

The thing about nuclear power is that, for better or for worse, the cat's out of the bag, and it ain't going back in. I was in Germany back in '05, and there was a big kerfuffle in Saxony about a proposed site for a storage facility for nuclear waste. Now, it's all well and good to say "we don't want to do nuclear…

I dunno if it's the most damaging, but in some ways the anti-fluoridation movement in Portland is the most frustrating. It's sad that a debate that should have been settled 50 years ago is still happening.

Here's the thing: While a lot of these do considerable damage to science or institutions, I think the most damage being done to our society as a whole is by supply-side economists. Trickle-down economics has been proven to be a complete fantasy, and yet Congress is still filled with people who deny this is the case. …

I think the biggest one, in terms of real practicality for everyone, is nuclear energy. There is so much anti-nuclear people whose argument against it is purely emotional. Three-mile island is a good example of just plain ignorance and fear triumphing over facts and reality.

The idea that funding for NASA and PBS was bankrupting the US government.

This guy. Between muzzling scientists, to changing the Canadian Research Council's mandate from pure research to "profitable research," this man is destroying our environment, our international credibility, and our future.

I have to say evolution.

As a Washington State voter, anti-GMO activists are currently highest on my shit list.