DaveChild

> People working in health-care have an easier time believing in God

I know a great many doctors, nurses and other health-care workers and I don't know a single one who believes in any gods. Maybe it's just a UK thing, but watching good people die painfully and slowly is fairly destructive to blind faith in an allegedly benevolent god.

> miracles do happen

[citation needed]

You know your manager is sleeping with your wife, too, right? That bastard.

And then you would have to explain how that magic water memory makes it into sugar's magic memory when the water is evaporated away.

It's from Tim Minchin, in his poem "Storm". It's on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujUQn0HhGEk

> I cured a large number of people for similar complaints

> my point is that it works for me as it claims.

My point is that you are entirely unqualified to tell what works, and you are going to end up hurting yourself or someone else.

"Works for me" is meaningless. It either works, or it doesn't. In homeopathy's case, it has been demonstrated time and again that it does nothing; it is indistinguishable from a placebo.

All lovely. Of course, in homeopatic "treatments", the water is allowed to evaporate away on a sugar pill. So does sugar have magic memory too?

You are not qualified, in any way, to determine what, if anything, had an effect on you or on other people. You are not capable of telling if your back pain, for example, was cured by homeopathy or had run its course. And this is why anecdotes are not considered evidence.

Anecdotes like yours are enough to warrant investigating to see if there is actually something going on. So people have - they have conducted trial and trial, and found homeopathy ineffective beyond any placebo effect.

It has no plausible mechanism by which it could work. It has no statistically significant effect when tested. It is dangerous and kills people. Hopefully you will wake up and realise this before you choose a homeopathic "remedy" for something serious and end up dead.

The primary action of that button is tab-local. It's the secondary (or even tertiary) that isn't tab-local.

Hey, things change. It wasn't all that long ago that rugby was big in the USA.

Rugby has video replays, and these are only used when there is a potential try. It's easy to limit the video ref to perhaps situations where there is a goal scored, and maybe when there is a penalty is at stake.

It's the responsibility of the company to ensure they are capable of coping with a coder leaving. I've worked for companies where they've just not given any time or thought to what happens if the coder leaves.

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