Posts by Sacha
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Not when you see them in the supermarket.
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Nope, that's called "getting old"
rofflenui
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And speaking of Havoc fancying, or not so much any more..
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Didn't Outrageous Fortune work the relative strengths of Van and Jethro into the storyline about fathering the twins? Spunk and loyalty.
The wrongness of Loretta fancying was also addressed overtly if I recall. And check the mo.
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most of us make decisions about whether or not we'd like to sleep with someone after that person has moved or spoken.
Oh yes. A good gait or gravelly purr works wonders. And (striking generalisation) women have been known to pay attention to body language that signals social rank and deference - ie: how others react to the candidate. Wonder if anyone has mapped how that works online?
Possibly unrelated to finding smart women really attractive, though these days who knows where the changing roles are leading.
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I haven't really kept up with the development of linguistic theory for the last couple of decades. Are you saying the deep structure stuff that Chomsky pioneered is now regarded as completely wrong, or do we just have a more nuanced understanding of its place alongside other stuff? Also likely in any case to be affected by the pendulum swing from nurture to nature, egged on by biogenetics investment imperatives.
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Speaking of Chomsky, few other widely respected academics have had so many theories disproven.
Mark, I presume you mean actually disproven in academic terms, not just forcefully disagreed with because they're inconvenient to those in power. And are you talking aobut his earlier linguistic work?
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we don't understand it fully
Fully? How about at all. Arrogance.
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It concerns me that works for a generally healthy adult white male (the norm for most RCTs, and therefore registration of new medicines) might not work as well for someone from another demographic.
Notably the other 51% of the population. How can it be claimed that a tested drug is safe and effective when we know that men and women are biochemically different?
Fortunately that is shifting now as pharma moves to tailor drugs to even more specific groups. In the meantime it is just another example of western medicine not meeting its own supposed standards. But my its acolytes like to have a crack at anyone who points out the emperor's state of undress. Charming.
Most of us take it for what it is, and that is enough. I believe in what medicine can do and in the value of evidence. Self-directed health is going to demand much more honesty though if the information we use to inform our choices is credible. The generation who believed something just because a person in a white coat told them so are dying out.
Also, what Ben just said. I can take others dismissing my own experience far easier than seeing someone like Ben bravely lay out quite personal stuff and then get attacked for it. Respect.
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sticking needles in random places
When western medicine includes a proper energy model of the body rather than trying to explain everything in biomechanical and chemical terms, it will be entitled to take cracks at acupuncture.
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