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More effectively? You didn't have a point to make, because my subsequent paragraph made it clear that I didn't consider myself a member of that particular group of good guys, a point that you seem to have missed - you don't have much luck with extracting meaning from English language texts. Are you sure that you are a native speaker of English? Texan probably doesn't count as English in this context.

One of John Larkin's more persistent attempts at posting nonsense was his claim that the process of meiosis was cleverer than biologists currently think

by which he meant that the dividing cell could know that it was a mutant (it can't) and direct its efforts to modifying the mutated sequence. He's still claiming that evolution could be clever than biologists think, though he's now developed enough understanding of the issue to refrain from making silly claims about how it miught be cleverer.

Not so much a fine point, as a failure to read the sentence in context.

I'm afraid that the "errors" that you think you have found have all been in your own defective reading of what has been posted. I'm happy to admit that you regularly fail to understand what I post, but the only error on my part is my failure to add an advisory label pointing that this post has not been dumbed down to the point where it can be fully comprehended by nitwits.

The world may be a stage, but posting on sci.electronics.design doesn't have a lot in common with declaiming other peoples scripts on stage. By your own admission, your interests are better reflected on sci.electronics.basics, but this doesn't seem to stop you from parading your inadequacies here.

-- Bill Sloman, Nijmegen

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Jim Thompson continues to recycle old jokes and old abuse. He's been calling me me Slowman for years - in which he follows some of the less original members of my primary school class - and he seems to think that calling someone "a fairy" is an insult worth repeating.

He's probably the same West Virginian hillbilly that he was when he went off to MIT, with the same taste for ritualised and repetitive personal insults, but if he hailed from a richer cultural tradition one would worry about early-stage Alzheimers

Not at all. Infatuated grand-fathers aren't reliable judges of their grand-children's theatrical prowess, and YouTube would be a better place if more of them appreciated this.

-- Bill Sloman, Nijmegen

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And what evidence do you have to support your claim of 50%? Sturgeon's Law claims that 90% of everything is rubbish, which is more likely to be true - lots of experimental science publications aren't wrong, but somewhat less than useful because the observations that they publish don't actually help the process of science in general.

Why would I need to? I've been pointing out where you've gone wrong here for years, and I've had a bunch of comments published in Rev.Sci. Instrum. pointing out where their authors (and - by implication - their referees) have got it wrong.

On that basis, I was practising wrongology long before you had this forum to parade your favourite delusions.

-- Bill Sloman, Nijmegen

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What a tedious, fatuous, mean-spirited, humorless, grumpy fathead you are. It's hard to appreciate that people like you would exist. Or want to exist.

John

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There are many video editors that can take the (or several) .vob file(s) from a DVD, do any editing, and save in a format that YouTube will accept (wmv, mpg, avi, flv...).

Then, you need to create an account on YouTube and upload it.

If you send me the .vob file that has her in it, then I'll do it all for you (including posting it).

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You referenced two books written by journalists. If you had known a bit more you might have referenced Stephen Jay Gould's "The Mismeasure of Man"

which has the advantage of being written by a scientist. On checking out the wikipedia entry, I learned that there had been a second edition, with extra material dealing with "The Bell Curve" which I must get hold of.

Except that you can't cite a single one. Martin Brown, who does know something about science - referred to Pons and Flieschman and I pointed out prions. I do know about "cold fusion" - Flieschman was professor of electrochemistry art Southampton when I was there as a post-doc so I follwoed the story with more than usual interest.

As if you'd know. Climatology - in the sense of determining whether anthropogenic global warming is real - is a much harder science than you care to admit (or are equipped to understand, since you can't even understand the pressure broadening of infra-red absorbtion lines). Nutrition does have a lunatic fringe, and medicine suffers from the antithesis between the medical training for fast and effective decision making and the scientific ideal of only making up your mind when you've collected and understood all the evidence - not that the Cochrane Collaboration isn't making things better. The social sciences are a very mixed bag.

Economics is a lost cause. Not because you can't tackle it with the scientific method, but because the rich make a habit of influencing the field to promote the purvors of the kind of nonsense that serves the interests of the rich.

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Example?

Effective skepticism requires that you know something about the subjects you are being skeptical about. Your skepticism about climate change appears to be based on what you have read - perhaps at second hand - on the web-site of the Oregon Institute for Science and Medicine

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which is to say that you are an uncritical sucker when it comes to swallowing denialist propaganda about climate change.

-- Bill Sloman, Nijmegen

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This is John Larkin's generous and constructive contribution to the great - and on-going - debate between me and John Fields on the subject of which of us is the idiot. I work on the proposition that if I give John enough rope, he will eventually hang himself obviously enough that even he will notice. It does take a lot of rope, and it's not easy to slide the odd joke in here and there. I had hopes of the "spear-carrier" line, but it clearly wasn't as funny as I had hoped.

-- Bill Sloman, Nijmegen

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Read Freedman's book. He has lots of examples and references, although the point of the book is to examine why so much stuff is wrong, not to just cite examples.

Martin Brown, who does know

Just the opposite. It's so hard that nobody can get it right.

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Head in sand.

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Freedman makes the point that there's likely lots more fraud in papers that are published but that hardly anybody bothers to read.

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In Sloman's case, it's 'Sand in head'

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Someone needs to tell Slowman (who, VERY fortunately, has no offspring), that the whole house laughed and cheered.

Why do people like Slowman have to be such continuous asses ?:-) ...Jim Thompson

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It's the only thing he's good at. :(

It's clear that he has little between his ears, as shown when he replied to an obvious forged post. Anyone with half a brain could see it's not my writing style, and that the headers of the original message were forged. Here is Sloman's ignorant reply:

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Subject: Re: Any Smart DumbAss in here knows How to Increase the Capacitance of Electrolyte Capacitor? Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2008 04:42:53 -0700 (PDT) From: snipped-for-privacy@ieee.org Organization:

Newsgroups: sci.electronics.components, sci.electronics.design, sci.electronics.repair References: 1

If you weren't quite the ill-informed idiot that you are, you'd know that the dielectric in an electrolytic capacitor is formed by the electrolytic oxidation of the surface of the aluminium foil the forms the plates of the capacitor.

If you reverse bias the capacitor you can reverse this process, making the dielectric thinner ( and more likely to break down). Sadly, the reverse process is unlikely to thin the oxide layer to exactly the same extent at every point, so you run the risk of lowering the breakdown voltage faster than you increase the capacitance.

As cheap goes, this about a poor and investment of your time as you could make - short of slandering me in this user group which however does seem to give you some kind of demented satisfaction - but do try it. You won't enjoy the process at all, but does that worry me?

-- Bill Sloman, Nijmegen

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Throughout the ages, invariably what "everybody knows" has turned out to be wrong.

And the ones who point that out are usually at best, ostracized, at worst, killed as heretics.

Thanks, Rich

Someone needs to tell Jim that it doesn't take much to get a house full of doting parents and grandparents to laugh and cheer. Small children rarely have much in the way to theatrical talent, no matter how cute their relatives find them.

-- Bill Sloman, Nijmegen

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Mike Terrell's writing style isn't distinguished, and correspondingly easy to forge sufficiently accurately to fool people who normally use sentences with several clauses. The source should have been a give- away, but I'm not that interested in what Mike posts to remember where he posts it from.

-- Bill Sloman, Nijmegen