The vaccine court case of Michelle Cedillo is apparently the last one of the Omnibus Autism Proceeding which is still undergoing appeals. I wrote about the appeal recently on LeftBrainRightBrain, but those were responding to second-hand accounts of [...]

From Left Brain/Right Brain
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6/16/2010 8:22:13 AM
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"Regression to the mean" was the bane of my undergraduate statistics class. We knew that it was out there, and that the final exam would have a question about it, but no-one understood it or had ever seen it. A bit like unicorns or fairies.

The lecture notes were unhelpful. They told us what it did - make things wrongly appear to change over time when actually stuff stayed the same - but not what it

From Neuroskeptic
http://neuroskeptic.blogspot.com/2010/08/help-im-being-regressed-to-mean.html
8/25/2010 3:30:00 AM
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The latest episode in the nail-biting scientific drama of "Does The XMRV Virus Cause Chronic Fatigue Syndrome?" has arrived, in the form of a paper in PNAS. A team of virologists led by the renowned Harvey Alter reported finding various XMRV-like viruses, but not XMRV itself, in chronic fatigue patients.

There's been plenty of excellent coverage of this new study, but most of it has come from specialists and has [...]

From Neuroskeptic
http://neuroskeptic.blogspot.com/2010/09/pcr-primer.html
9/7/2010 2:00:00 AM
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The 1953 Lockheed UFO case has become a favorite among UFO enthusuasts. Canadian filmmaker, Paul Kimball, featured it in his oft-cited documentary, Best Evidence: Top 10 UFO Sightings (it was number five). UFO researchers refer to the case as a solid example of an unexplainable UFO experience. And there is a good reason for the notoriety: the case features some very credible witnesses viewing a UFO from two widely different locations and soberly and scientifically reporting what they saw.

The case was unknown for decades, hidden in files of Project Blue Book. One of the most refreshing things about the it is that is hasn't been tainted by dubious interviews from decades after the event, like the Roswell case, for [...]

From What the Hell Was That
http://www.notaghost.com/2012/02/a-prosaic-explanation-for-a-famous-ufo-case.html
2/2/2012 5:35:52 PM
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The first part of the appeal of Paul Chambers was heard by Doncaster Crown Court on Friday 24 September 2010.

It had been hoped that a decision could have been made on the day, but that turned out not to be possible, and so the case will be concluded on a day yet to be decided.

This blogpost includes a fair and accurate account of what was heard in court on Friday.

However, I [...]

From Jack of Kent
http://jackofkent.blogspot.com/2010/09/appeal-of-paul-chambers.html
9/26/2010 5:50:00 PM
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I've seen some stuff, but I did this test and tried to use the headphones as a microphone, and it...

From JREF Forum
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5/13/2011 2:20:33 AM
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What do I do when I see spots on my photos?  The cruddy photo to the right shows a number of spots.   Mostly they show up when shooting with a small aperture against a large expanse of plain color, like a blue sky.

I always use the automatic sensor cleaning feature on my Nikon D5000 and D7000.  Not sure if it works at all because I haven't tested it against turning it off for a while.  Regardless, I think everyone will run to this situation sooner or later.  The most likely causes of these spots are dust and [...]

From Mully410 Critical Blog
http://mully410.blogspot.com/2012/01/what-i-do-when-i-find-spots-in-my.html
1/8/2012 1:17:00 PM
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Part of the United States Court of Federal Claims includes the “vaccine court”, where claims against the government are heard regarding vaccine injuries. Probably the most well known activity of the vaccine court, especially to readers of [...]

From Left Brain/Right Brain
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6/15/2010 7:53:46 AM
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A bill in Oklahoma that would, if enacted, encourage teachers to present the "scientific strengths and scientific weaknesses" of "controversial" topics such as "biological evolution" and "global warming" is back from the dead. Entitled the "Scientific Education and Academic Freedom Act," House Bill 1551 was introduced in the Oklahoma House of Representatives in 2011 by Sally Kern (R-District 84), a persistent sponsor of antievolution legislation in the Sooner State, and referred to the House Common Education Committee. It was rejected there on February 22, 2011, on a 7-9 vote. But, as The Oklahoman (February 23, 2011)

From NCSE - National Center for Science Education
http://ncse.com/news/2012/02/second-oklahoma-bill-attacks-evolution-climate-change-007221
2/22/2012 5:16:17 AM
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Purty, innit? I got the raspberry one pictured above.

Disclaimer: This is not a corporate product review. I purchased my Kodak Zi8 for full retail price two months ago for $179.95. However, you can get it now for $129.95 at Kodak and everywhere else on the web. It was a fantastic deal at the old price - an incredible deal at the new price. It allows one to take fantastic quality, image-stabilized, 1080p HD movies that you can then [...]

From Terra Sigillata
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7/5/2010 10:53:22 PM
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click it!
i had many requests to explain the technical side of my starship picture, and i decided that, instead of responding individually, i'd write up a DYI. now, i'm no photo expert, and this is just how i did it.  if you have a better idea or information you'd like to contribute, or if you think i've made a mistake somewhere, please let me know.  i'm not here to teach -- i'm here to learn!

this method does not take one huge long exposure -- it uses a bunch of 30-second exposures which are subsequently stacked to form [...]

From toomanytribbles
http://toomanytribbles.blogspot.com/2011/07/happy-star-trails.html
7/9/2011 11:35:00 AM
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A few days ago, the Oklahoma state government passed a law requiring women to get ultrasounds before being able to have abortions and which allows doctors to withhold test results that show any defects.

There are many things wrong with this, beginning with the basics.

The first is that getting women [...]

From Barrels of Monkey
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5/6/2010 9:00:00 AM
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A few days ago, the Oklahoma state government passed a law requiring women to get ultrasounds before being able to have abortions and which allows doctors to withhold test results that show any defects.

There are many things wrong with this, beginning with the basics.

The first is that getting women [...]

From Barrels of Monkey
http://barrelsofmonkey.blogspot.com/2010/05/ultrasound-before-abortion.html
5/6/2010 9:00:00 AM
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I keep seeing Christians throwing Pascals Wager around, as if it actually holds water. For those of you unfamiliar with the proposition, here it is:

"If you believe in God and there is indeed a God, you have everything (heaven and immortality) to gain.
If you believe in God and there is in fact no God, you have nothing to lose.

If you don't believe in God and there is indeed a God, you have everything to lose (Hell).
If you don't believe in God and there is in fact no God, you have nothing to lose.

Hence, if you live as though God exists, you could potentially gain infinity, so it's the rational choice."

Sound reasonable? Not quite.


Assumptions:
1. The first thing I [...]

From Teenage Atheist
http://www.teenageatheist.com/2010/06/pascals-wager.html
6/22/2010 4:44:00 AM
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Indiana is a weird state. Among its many strange laws is that you cannot get a driver’s license at 16. No, you must be sixteen years old… and one month. I am not making this up. To be fair, I grew at least 3 pubes during that month, so clearly I matured a lot in that time.

When I finally hit that magic date of one exact month after my birthday (fuck you to people born in February, only waiting 28 days…), my mom drove me to the DMV to take the tests, first the written, then the driving portion.

As I sat down to take the written test, I approached it like I approach all written tests: with the confidence that for some reason, I always come out looking really smart when knowledge is being measures via which circles I color in. I always do well on standardized tests; I was really just dreading the driving portion.

The test came in a manila filing folder, the kind [...]

From Anything But Theist
http://anythingbuttheist.blogspot.com/2011/10/strangest-moral-dilemma-of-my.html
10/6/2011 5:40:00 AM
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My visit to the V-business Grid


This is my 6th visit to an OpenSim Grid

V-business is an IBM initiative to encourage the adoption of Virtual worlds. I believe the Grid is a volunteer effort by IBM staff. It would probably be best to keep this in mind during my comments. I was using the recommended Hippo Viewer



The website lists these regions

Welcome

Community    
      
Education
         [...]

From The Shockwave Writer
http://shockwaveplasma.blogspot.com/2009/12/visiting-v-business-grid.html
12/22/2009 9:42:00 AM
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Part of the United States Court of Federal Claims includes the “vaccine court”, where claims against the government are heard regarding vaccine injuries. Probably the most well known activity of the vaccine court, especially to readers of [...]

From Left Brain/Right Brain
http://leftbrainrightbrain.co.uk/2010/06/another-appeal-heard-in-the-autism-omnibus/
6/15/2010 7:53:46 AM
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