Posts by giovanni tiso
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If you can't work for the government, and you can't work for commercial interests, without being accused of being a pawn of either, then who can scientists work for without having to fend off presumptions of bias?
Nobody. There's nobody a scientist can work for that is irrilevant to what they do. Nobody gives you a blank cheque and an expensive infrastructure and laboratory assistants without asking you what you're going to do with all that stuff, demanding some sort of accountability and having a say. It just doesn't happen. So yeah, there's a presumption of bias, simply in the sense that all that information is relevant to our understanding of how and why we do science. It doesn't of course mean we should dismiss the opinion of scientists, or deny that they have a degree of autonomy, or blithely assume that they don't have ethical considerations at heart.
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Too late.
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The saving grace is that we're getting commentary from people like John Helm who do know their stuff, and are (mostly) not patronising us or the players. I'm enjoying that.
I like him, he's old school. He's however also responsible for the following, highly groan-inducing joke:
"Denmark's formation has been described as a four-four-two but also as a four-two-two-two... sounds like an archbishop!"
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It involves mayonnaise, a whole lot of radishes and an old copy of Popular Mechanics. You don't want to know.
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she's a southerner from Oklahoma in her seventies, who grew up steeped in country music, singing rockabilly.
I liked this review of her work at Nae Hauf-Way Hoose.
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The Uraguyan goal the other day from outside the box that went over the players and dipped into the goal. Amazing curve downwards. All because the kick imparted topspin to it.
No, it's because it took a deflection on the edge of the box.
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TBF, that's posted under humour, sport on Red Alert.
It's filed under: "Holidays, events, legislation, sport, urgency".
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I am also confused about the inbreeding thing. I thought we bred pretty widely and enthusiastically.
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I swear the last couple of days have been like living in a Stephen Jones column. Somebody make it stop!
In other news, the race for the MP who could suck up to the All Whites the slurpiest has a supreme winner. Kick it in the guts, Trev.
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Edit: ah, forget it. I shall retire to my girlie man's quarters with a copy of Foreskin's Lament.