Posts by Deborah
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Hard News: No Red Wedding, in reply to Keir Leslie,
Famously, plate tectonics only became widely accepted as the best available explanation of continental drift, oddly matched geology on opposing side of oceans, distribution of species, etc, when certain older geologists died (off). When I’m feeling outrageously technical, I go all Popper and falsificationism, but in my more reasonable moments, I think that Lakatos and Feyerabend make a lot of sense.
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The point is do you have a choice of your treatment, or is all medical care to be prescribed by big pharma?
It's a little more complicated than that. The point is whether certain alternative treatments ought to be funded by the state.
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Storm, by Tim Minchin
My favourite verse:
And try as hard as I like,
A small crack appears
In my diplomacy-dike.
By definition, I begin
Alternative Medicine, I continue
Has either not been proved to work,
Or been proved not to work.
You know what they call alternative medicine
That's been proved to work?
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Hard News: No Red Wedding, in reply to Euan Mason,
I think it's okay. One set of portfolios has more of a business orientation, and the other more of an environment / climate orientation, 'though of course there's considerable overlap.
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I think he's done pretty much what he said he was going to do - appointed people based on merit and skill rather than who they eat their playlunch with.
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Hard News: Event Season, in reply to nzlemming,
What's this, then? "Romanes eunt domus"? People called Romanes, they go, the house?....
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Well, damn. I never got to watch it often enough for my liking, but I always enjoyed it when I did.
Commiserations, Russell, et al. I hope something else interesting and lucrative comes your way soon.
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Hard News: Jonesing, in reply to BenWilson,
Me too.
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Over at Red Alert, there's a set of responses from the three leadership candidates to our Hilary's excellent question on disability issues.
Disability Issues: Would you create a Ministry for Disability? Labour Leadership Q&A #7
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Hard News: Jonesing, in reply to Henry Barnard,
I have already had my wine :)
"had" ? !!!!
What is this past tense? I know it not.