He is insufferable, but the never ending, talking in circles, trying to 'baffle with BS', is truly on another level! Honestly, I think he's obsessed with you, seeks, and enjoys the attention.
I don't want her attention or yours.
It would be nice to just have either of you even understand the stats/data behind the vaccines.
Yes, I'm sure it's baffling to you, but you can take classes and grow your understanding. If you understand graphs, data, statistics...it is not so baffling.
Or you could listen to others who also have no training, and trade rumors. But that's not "research".
"Science" cannot seem to decide if the air is 70% or 80% nitrogen,
This is because instead of being things with definite composition:
• an elemental entity (like gaseous oxygen, O2), or
• a compound (e.g., water [H2O], carbon dioxide [CO2], table salt/sodium chloride [NaCl], or a simple sugar [C6H12O6]),
air is a mixture, and has no definite composition; ...like soil, and lots of other things.
Since air is a fluid mixture, the local values depend upon local sources and "sinks" (negative sources, things which remove) of the various components. If you live near a big forest fire, it wouldn't be surprising to have oxygen depleted, carbon dioxide boosted, etc. If you are near a big cow or pig farm, you might well see methane boosted. Open fields on, say, the great plains, might well have boosted CO2 (and O2 depressed) compared with a site in a national forest, due to the many trees.
nor can it get much of a ballpark figure on what percent the human body consists of water.
I'm not sure what you mean, because I remember seeing "a ballpark figure" years ago.
[Of course, this is similar to the problem with "air", because the net amount of water in you depends upon
what it *was* what entered you (e.g., via drinking, eating) what left you (urination, defecation, sweat/evaporation)
and you can be dehydrated or over-hydrated.]
A quick search gives a number of links...here's one
If you scan a set of the links, water varies by age, sex, and other factors...which is unsurprising.
I mean true science is exact and based on actual facts but in some cases man cannot seem to get things right.
Well...science is about characterizing observations which are repeatable/reproducible [this is where the social sciences have been having a very hard time].
Some things are exact (the chemical formula for water), some are more variable (most measurements are not counting objects, and so have error limits).
Some things are hard to either
• measure right now, or • explain right now.
That's part of science.
Of course where the vaccine is concerned, every time something f^cks up they say, "Science is evolving".
I'm not sure what you mean. With the *vaccine*, the initial characterization of effectiveness was exactly that: the *initial* effectiveness. The ongoing effectiveness has had to be evaluated over time, since this *was* new, just as the initial guidelines for shopping (wiping items) changed with more information.
Science that doesn't evolve is unlikely to be science.
But new variants also...well...WERE new, and so, untested against the existing vaccines, etc.
How much you wanna bet Michguy ain't even vaccinated?
I'm not sure who *that* is, but *I* am fully vaccinated, incl. all boosters.
"Lincoln's notes ARE "a word-for-word...transcript" of his speech."
It must have been a very large envelope then. 😂
And why are there something like six extant versions of the speech, if Lincoln had it all written down on an envelope...? 🤔
"Re: plagiarism Good memory, that bothered tf out of me when he did that years ago, too...probably meaning his speech writer did it."
Biden has a LONG history of plagiarism, dating back at least to his first year in a second-rate law school, where he later graduated near the bottom of his class. 🙄
@ProfessorPlum77 This such a silly argument. I guess Biden did plagiarize.
Maybe Trump didn't, but it's close to the ONLY sin against humanity he did not commit to satisfy his over-weening ego.
I have noticed of late that there is much less Trump-justifying and much more Biden-maligning.
Like, "Oh, yeah, well, maybe our guy DID brainwash his supporters and sent them into the Capitol which not only put them and the defenders into mortal danger, but resulted in deaths on both sides."
Did he try to stop them when he was begged to do so?
"Well, no. He was busy proof-reading an 'I did so win after all' speech to ensure there was no plagiarism."
@AbbySvenz Well, I have had more than one case of flu and I have had several colds. However, I don't remember the government closing down businesses, schools, and countries because of colds and/or flu.
@Valerian They are trying so hard to keep the fear of covid alive. The media is just bored at this point. That whole mess was costing companies too much money so it was dropped overnight.
So much of what they have told us has been modified or overturned. Who knows what to believe? Like one radio talk show host said, "Men, who think they are women, telling us to follow the science."
Trump has had lots to hide, but you bought all the lies, starting with what he said he was doing...trying to poison the well so his followers wouldn't believe the established media.
I've had my fill of your ilk over these years, so bye.
