Sounds like a legalese way of ignoring statistical evidence. The most comprehensive study on anesthesia awareness (over 200,000 patients) reported an incidence of 0.0068%. One of the most common causes of awareness is a lower dosage than necessary. That’s not an issue with lethal injection, since the dose is at least…

It happens. But it's extremely rare. It's the same way with every other drug.

They didn’t need to be “experts in the field” although I’d argue they were more than qualified as such. These are established and well understood drugs, that have been used on humans for other purposes, and used in animals for this purpose. They made an informed decision based on widely established evidence.

My point is that you’re conflating the ethical problems with the validity of the science. The science was sound from the beginning. You are misrepresenting how the process was developed. The ethics are not sound. That is the issue. Everyone you mention, the drug companies, the doctors, all have ethical problems with…

It doesn’t take a PhD pharmacologist to understand how barbiturates work. The guy who proposed it was a medical examiner, which requires an MD. They teach advanced pharmacology in medical school. He also consulted with the Department Head of Anesthesiology at OU Medical School (a detail they failed to mention in your…

This is really not accurate at all. There is very coherent science behind them. The first drug administered, sodium thiopental, is the same drug that they use to euthanize animals. It’s an incredibly powerful barbiturate that’s also used for general anesthesia. The doses used for lethal injection would cause the…

I would add that effective resolution becomes less of an issue at speed. It’s much easier for the autopilot to “see” something moving through the sensor field.

They did not take trains. They rode in well appointed horse drawn coaches. Hence the reason we call comfortable-to-drive luxury sports cars “grand tourers”.

Probably more like discovered after someone put some gruel in an uncovered clay pot, then outside in the rain and where it could collect natural yeast.

I saw a tank farm fire in Texas. It was intense.

But this had nothing to do her religious views, and while the dude was a dick, he does have the right to refuse service.

As someone coming from a science background, the data you posted is the most relevant for a comparison. Everybody and their grandma has a different idea of who cross shops for a Model S based on personal anecdotes (that are worthless from a statistics standpoint). Government classifications are well-defined and…

Notice I mention both EPA and Euro Commission. EC calls the Model S, Mulsanne, and Flying Spur F-segment (full-size luxury). BMW X1 and Kia Forte are not F-segment. I have yet to find a journalist that calls the Model S midsize (I’m sure there are a few, but they’re in the minority).

It’s not “people” considering them full-size, it’s the EPA and the European Commission. The interior cabin+cargo volume is greater than 120 cubic feet. So it’s full-size.

Trump should support Tesla. He’s bringing manufacturing back to America!

Elon needs an ENO hammock. Sleeping bags are so 2000-and-late.

The E-Class and 5 series are mid-size luxury sedans, the Model S is a full-size. That’s what everyone classifies it as. Apples and oranges.

Gorillas live in Africa not Asia, and he was trying to act like a Bigfoot.

I heard a story about a river guide who would prank tourists by having his buddy come out in a gorilla costume on the shore. Supposedly a hardcore survivalist guy was with them one day and when the gorilla came out he shot the guy. That’s why you don’t do pranks like this.