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ExC was addressing how some patients feel, not the rational analysis that one can make about mammography. His point was that, if more women prefer for a female to conduct a breast examination, then having female staff provided will improve the effectiveness of screening. It is not our place to judge women who prefer not to have men examining their breasts. The medical profession tries to respect personal modesty and not have people abstain from diagnostic procedures due to such feelings.

Helps to read the rest of the thread. Much was clarified, as to definitions and what qualified as chronic disease under those broad definitions.

Again, how is a perception not a physical event? You seem to be implying some supernatural phenomenon with metaphysical dualism.

Classic New Yorker cartoons don't really need a comment, thanks.

If people's memories change, then retro-causality is involved. The physical brain is altered, and different courses of action may be taken on the basis of different perceptions and different physical state of neural networks. You still have paradox because you can't sweep physical changes under the rug of memory. Even if we were Boltzmann Brains or "Brains in a Vat" there would still be a physical change when memory is altered.

IIRC, the thread topic is how to present persuasive (and one presumes, understandable) arguments to climate change skeptics. I'm not sure skeptics are really amenable to fact-based arguments, but if there exist such then they would be the very tiny subset of climate change skeptics who grasp the deep complexity of atmospheric science and climate modeling. So the optimum focus would be on the actual Earth, historical data including ice cores, and the most predictive models of how various GW drivers play out - CO2, methane, glacial melting, airborne particulates settling on snowfields, oceanic pH, vulcanism, cloud cover changes, feedback mechanisms like Co2/water vapor loop, conversion of dense forest to scrub or savannah, etc. So, yes, precision on particular points of geophysics is good, but it's maybe important to really look at how all these different trends and feedback loops interact with each other in a real-world big picture way.

This doesn't seem like a difficult question for anyone not in a coma the past decade. Hint: which end of the ideological spectrum is fond of science denial and crackpot conspiracy theories. Guess correctly and you may win a tinfoil hat, an intestinal UV lamp, a can of cooking lard, some turmeric vaccine, and a boxcar of carbon neutral coal!

Ms Tilly's favorite vacation spot is Chattanooga, Tennessee.

You would need to look at research into gene frequencies done in the field of population genetics - and also paleogenetics. I have some knowledge but it's not really my field, so probably time for you to do a literature search and also read up on PG generally. Frequencies of paleogenes in people with mixed ancestries (like your OP fellow who seems to be a mix of East and South Asian) are not easy to predict, and even an expert would find this difficult. Some sequencing companies will provide a Neanderthal DNA analysis of your genome, and also for Denisovan DNA, but you would want to shop around and read reviews done by independent professionals in genomics. Not all of the commercial companies do full sequencing. (if you don't mind disclosing this, were the OP percentages from a commercial sequencing firm?)

Starting with research is useful: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3632468/ Higher levels of neanderthal dna found in E Asia populations.

If a relatively minor geomagnetic storm causes this, just imagine what another Carrington Event would do. https://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/space-science/carrington-event-today

Type "stem cells neuron regeneration" into a search engine. Let us know what you find.

A framing hammer would seem to have better leverage than a priest, and could be purchased at any hardware store. Also the hammer doesn't make everyone wait while last rites are administered. One method I can't recommend is this one... https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1769869/ I'm sort of inclined to classify this under Research Least in Need of Funding.

No worries. I've done that a couple times myself, just by thumb scrolling on a small tablet. I will keep my eye out for more papers on stimulating biotic resistance - it's an interesting topic, and especially important to offering alternatives to the use of toxic chemicals or other "scorched earth" methods of extermination.

I was not making a claim. Attempting to offer help, I mentioned the N Australian study that had earlier been posted, as a starting point. If there are other studies that run counter to that one, like the Queensland research on fire ants that you kindly cited, I am certainly interested. Where did I say anything like that?? The native ant species may well be responding, and the study I mentioned only said that the response to the exotic species, based on its observations, had not been robust and had not been successful in suppressing the spread of the invasive African species. As far as I know, biotic resistance to exotic species is often weak. Examples of this are numerous, all over the world. Asian carp, Burmese pythons, Zebra mussels, European starlings, cane toads, etc. Ecological communities are often rather delicately balanced, so an invasive species can easily disrupt this balance and take advantage of an opening. A classic example, also from Australia, are feral cats, who have decimated numerous animal species there. Prey species had longterm adaptations, in terms of evading the native predator species - but these adaptations did not work so well with the newly arrived feral cats. Also, now that I've explained my intentions in my other post, would you mind removing the Downvote? That seems a bit harsh, considering the possibility of a misunderstanding which I tried to point out. Also, here at SFN, we don't usually DV just on the basis of a comment made about a cited study, unless there is a clearcut case of bad faith argument or pseudoscience claims or trolling another member. You can look at our forum guidelines to get a better sense of when the DV usage is more appropriate. Thanks.

Did you read the studies of the African ant invasion in N Australia? Sounds like native species are not very resistant and the African species is a major threat to both native ants and to species richness of other invertebrates in the vicinity of infestations. What is your interest? Are you looking at ways to fight these infestations by exotic species?

I was thinking after reading the OP that one way to euthanize an injured animal on a road, if one had a car, would be to run over its head. I would think death from skull crushing would be instant and painless. But I realize this method would decrease the availability of intact skulls for zoology professors. 😉

We can add bookkeepers and whippoorwills to the list of what she really likes. As Mrs Tilly remarked after attending a Beatles concert in her favorite state of Mississippi, "Goo goo g'joob!"

Fossiliferous describes the rocks or strata in which fossils are found. It means bearing or containing fossils. E.g. fossiliferous limestone. Evidence adduced from such strata, however, is usually described as paelontological. Fossiliferous describes the strata or rocks in which fossils are found. E.g. fossiliferous limestone. The evidence gained from such materials is usually described as paleontological.

If I have understood the riddle correctly, then she likes yellow of any kind. This is your second post where I've wondered if you got the riddle. Mrs Tilly likes riddles, but not conundrums. I would post a spoiler explanation but cannot find the spoiler option at this new site location.

paleontological

Shareholders at today's meet may be thinking, Get back to your factory, First Buddy!" https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/21/business/musk-tesla-investors-call/index.html Like many American manufacturers, Tesla is caught in a bind thanks to President Donald Trump’s trade war. Unlike most of those other companies, though, Tesla has an added wrinkle – its CEO, Elon Musk, sometimes called the First Buddy for the close relationship he’s cultivated with the president. On Tuesday, Tesla reports earnings; that afternoon, Musk will take questions from investors. But there is a catch-22: If Musk continues his close ties to Trump, the company could alienate potential customers, both at home and overseas, who dislike Trump’s policies. If he distances himself from Trump, though, he risks the ire of the White House. It’s a lose-lose situation, and it’s a trap of Musk’s own making. The first quarter saw the company’s largest drop in sales after virtually nonstop double-digit sales growth. But the automaker’s finances are only part of what investors will want to know.

LMAO. (tears literally running down my cheeks....good god that is outstandingly and hilariously transgressive) And I had been reflecting on the passing of His Holiness today, wondering what sort of karmic structure in a universe would have a champion of the poor and oppressed, an advocate for stewardship of the Earth, a reformer of deep compassion and tolerance.... have JD Vance as his last official visitor. If there's some ultimate being, it has a weird sense of humor.

And a hallmark of phenomena is change. So the only ontic basis we need is that we measure change with other change. (no doubt Swanson or someone else will point out the innate circularity that manifests when we then define "change") A clock is something thet changes in a regular pattern that may be compared with some other change. So a physical description, without ontology, will be a comparison. A rotting head of cabbage could be a perfectly good clock if cabbage rotted at a consistent rate. If this was so (in this gedanken universe), then we could measure the Earth's positional change with cabbage decomposition. Change measuring change - the Earth orbits in 18.32 cabbage rots. Time remains on the bench, an abstraction. (until we are called upon to define "change" and I would pay good money to watch someone do that without using time-y words!)(but perhaps a row of pictures of deteriorating cabbage would serve? B-b-but wait.... weren't the photos chronologically organized? Argh...)