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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Topic: Scientists Debunk themselves into a corner |
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Posted: 03 May 2025, 8:10 pm
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| There is nothing impossible about it. Do you think that it is impossible for someone consuming one to also consume the other at about the same time? They certainly did not need to know why it worked in order to make a brew with both substances. And they would hardly need to start out with the goal ... |
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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Topic: Scientists Debunk themselves into a corner |
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Posted: 03 May 2025, 8:00 pm
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| That's my personal view on it. What exactly the scientific method is can vary a little bit, but generally if you're not proposing and testing hypotheses and impacting the testing conditions, you're probably not engaging in science. That's why experimental archaeology is a thing. It's more like soci... |
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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Topic: Scientists Debunk themselves into a corner |
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Posted: 03 May 2025, 7:56 pm
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| One clear example would be the development of hexaploid wheat. Up to about 10,000 years ago, we only had diploid and tetraploid wheat. They had no idea what those were at the time, but most likely some farmer was sowing tetraploid wheat and there was some seeds from a certain related grass (I forge... |
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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Topic: Scientists Debunk themselves into a corner |
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Posted: 03 May 2025, 6:48 pm
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| It is hardly impossible that people ingested plants containing each substance and notice that when ingested together result in "an altered state of consciousness." It is impossible. If you consume extracts of P.Viridis (the plant in question) then all that happens is the psychoactive comp... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: The Political Transformation of Elon Musk |
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Posted: 03 May 2025, 6:39 pm
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It should be noted that the board of Tesla is reported to be actively seeking a new CEO. It looks like Musk is on his way out.
It should not be surprising that any business with a CEO who neglects the business is not going to be doing very well. |
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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Topic: Scientists Debunk themselves into a corner |
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Posted: 03 May 2025, 6:35 pm
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| It is crazy to think that we needed some magical beings from outer space to travel to Earth and do analyses of many thousands of plants and the relationships between them in order to show the Earthlings how to get high. I didn't say aliens did this. the shamans said that spirit beings told them. It... |
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Forum: Off the Wall: Forum Games, Quizzes, Roleplaying, etc. Topic: Use the Last Two Letters for a New Word |
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Posted: 03 May 2025, 5:59 pm
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Forum: Off the Wall: Forum Games, Quizzes, Roleplaying, etc. Topic: Use the Last Two Letters for a New Word |
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Posted: 03 May 2025, 12:54 pm
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Forum: In-Depth Adult Life Discussion Topic: Scams |
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Posted: 03 May 2025, 1:45 am
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| I am extremely skeptical of any phone call, email or text these days. Same here. I'm going more and more in the direction of only answering the cell phone if they are on my contact list. Unfortunately, the office phone is on an old system that doesn't have such things. We have one number that has b... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: 7 x headed serpent + Man bags |
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Posted: 02 May 2025, 6:24 pm
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| From https://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Mohenjo-daro : Defensively, Mohenjo-daro constituted a well fortified city. Lacking city walls, it did have towers to the west of the main settlement, and defensive fortifications to the south. Considering those fortifications and the structure of othe... |
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Forum: Off the Wall: Forum Games, Quizzes, Roleplaying, etc. Topic: Use the Last Two Letters for a New Word |
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Posted: 02 May 2025, 6:06 pm
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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Topic: Scientists Debunk themselves into a corner |
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Posted: 02 May 2025, 5:04 am
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| There is more than one plant that contains DMT. The one you mention appears to hardly be the one with the highest levels of DMT available in that region. It wouldn't be difficult to imagine that sometimes people consumed parts of both plants and observations of the results affected the way the consu... |
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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Topic: Scientists Debunk themselves into a corner |
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Posted: 01 May 2025, 11:48 pm
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| Any time someone claims that some substance occurs only in one plant, I doubt their claim. So I looked. From https://tripsitter.com/plants-that-contain-dmt/ : Thousands of plant species produce DMT — even citrus fruit rinds contain some [1]. However, only a few plants contain DMT in doses high enoug... |
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Forum: Off the Wall: Forum Games, Quizzes, Roleplaying, etc. Topic: Use the Last Two Letters for a New Word |
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Posted: 01 May 2025, 1:21 pm
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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Topic: Scientists Debunk themselves into a corner |
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Posted: 01 May 2025, 4:11 am
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You must have a very loose definition of "science".
Archaeologists may, in some instances, apply science to the their study, but that does not make them scientists. |
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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Topic: Scientists Debunk themselves into a corner |
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Posted: 30 Apr 2025, 11:26 pm
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| Are archaeologists now thought to be scientists? No, although experimental archaeology does exist. Really, with how old some of this stuff is, it can be tough to find enough to actually work with. Experiments can at best establish if something could be done a certain thing with the level of develop... |
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