Proclivities wrote: 
And then there are those, probably including the people who published the study and who put this graphic together, who seem to encourage those errors, while mumbling something about nonconformity. They are sociopaths.

 lily34 wrote: 
I'm not sure whether or not they misspelled it on purpose but that's why I put the graphic in this thread.

 Proclivities wrote: 
extra? huh.

 oldviolin wrote: 
Don't you just want to run your corn-on-the-cob over that?

Wheelchair-bound 'Price Is Right' contestant wins treadmill

A neighbor that last month faked having a heart attack to get an reschedule on a court case apparently actually died of a heart attack yesterday... 

 meower wrote: 
aaahh... sweet validation. 

 ScottFromWyoming wrote: 

thank you.

 meower wrote: 
 Ghost-written by Bob Hogwash?

 meower wrote: 

Sheesh. Tough crowd today eh?

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/jan/21/boy-who-came-back-from-heaven-alex-malarkey?CMP=ema_565

The boy who didn't come back from heaven: inside a bestseller's 'deception'

Alex Malarkey co-wrote a bestselling book about a near-death experience – and then last week admitted he made it up. So why wasn’t anyone listening to a quadriplegic boy and a mother who simply wanted the truth to be heard?

   

note the last name of the author.... jusayin'

"Members of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, <...> voted overwhelmingly in November to oppose changes that would require them and thousands of other Harvard employees to pay more for health care. The university says the increases are in part a result of the Obama administration’s Affordable Care Act, which many Harvard professors championed."

Harvard Ideas on Health Care Hit Home, Hard

 

WASHINGTON — For years, Harvard’s experts on health economics and policy have advised presidents and Congress on how to provide health benefits to the nation at a reasonable cost. But those remedies will now be applied to the Harvard faculty, and the professors are in an uproar.

The faculty vote came too late to stop the cost increases from taking effect this month, and the anger on campus remains focused on questions that are agitating many workplaces: How should the burden of health costs be shared by employers and employees? If employees have to bear more of the cost, will they skimp on medically necessary care, curtail the use of less valuable services, or both?

“Harvard is a microcosm of what’s happening in health care in the country,” said David M. Cutler, a health economist at the university who was an adviser to President Obama’s 2008 campaign. But only up to a point: Professors at Harvard have until now generally avoided the higher expenses that other employers have been passing on to employees. That makes the outrage among the faculty remarkable, Mr. Cutler said, because “Harvard was and remains a very generous employer.”

A friend of mine posted this on FB:

 

He was absolutely correct. Yesterday, government snowplows came through my neighborhood and terrified us under the guise of "being helpful". It was truly frightening.

After the plows left I was able to hop in my car and drive over to city hall to complain in person. 

 kurtster wrote: 
I inferred from your posts in the evolution thread (points 1 and 2).

Proof is for maths.

You are off by around half a billion years (no biggie). The age of the earth comes from evidence of radiometric dating which by its very nature has a margin of error. I don't/can't do radiometric dating or have access to such really old material, so I'll have to rely on those people have repeatedly done so and keep doing it to get closer to a more definite answer/estimate.

 RichardPrins wrote: 
I may be a few things, but I am not a creationist.  I have no idea whatsoever where you got that one.

From what I've been told, the earth is 4,000,006,033 1/3 years old.  Alas, I have no proof of that.

Do you have proof of how old the earth is ?  or just a best guess ? 

 RichardPrins wrote:RP...#3 is a little, ah bit "Canadian"  of you... .  My goal is to retire to Newfoundland if my SO will have it, but she wants tropical so I compromised with Cape Breton...PEI in a pinch. Southern Quebec (near VT)  in a double pinch. (Louise Penny territory.  I will find Three Pines.)

 kurtster wrote: 
The term denier has been around since the 15th century, and is to deny what a stealer/briber is to steal/bribe. A Holocaust denier is but one specific type of (historical) denial of genocide (there are also Armenian and Palestinian genocide denial among others). Evolution and anthropogenic climate change deniers are other types.

People who:

1. say/post that evolution is "just/only a theory",
2. post something like this (full of creationist bunkum) as a response, and
3. are American

usually, though not always, are creationists one way or another (old or young earth, or more general i.e. their god created the universe, life, and those special animals called humans) that reject the scientific theory of evolution (or at the very least think that their particular god meddles in it).

Of course there's always the possibility that they could merely be trolls as well. I say white, you say black.

 RichardPrins wrote: 
?!?!?!?  WTF are you talking about now ?  

obtw the most common use of the term denier has to do with the Holocaust.