swansont

This discussion was originally about a solid, and my posts were in that context, but go ahead and calculate the amount of EM energy. The S-B law gives you the radiated power from a surface. What’s the surface area of the interior of a gas? How do you ger an energy content from it? If the inside of a solid material the system is at the same temperature, there is no net radiation. Any photon emitted is absorbed, and since c is a big number, the time between these events will be small

And there’s what we called the “not” filter when I was teaching. You tell them that something is not true, and they remember it as being true. They will swear up and down that that’s what you told them.

And you would be wrong.

Has it? You’re just asserting this. Why is American English different from British? We don’t have words and idioms with different meanings?

It’s big and massive, cold, and the distance from the sun means a reduced solar wind as compared to inner planets and moons. It’s also somewhat protected by Saturn’s magnetic field

But if the words have changed meaning, then the oratory has as well. How is that better?

No, it’s an issue of science So it seems you want to redefine “think” and dilute it to the point where it’s meaningless. True but irrelevant to the claim.

Seems to me this is something you could research. You might also discover how prevalent antibiotics prescriptions for children are, which would seem to be much more relevant.

Did I reference the title? I was referencing the question “Are we better off having invented the printing press?” that you asked in the OP. Which suggests that the topic is not about writing things down, but the ease of making multiple, identical copied of the written word. How easy was it to write things down 2400+ years ago, as opposed to recent times? Only written words can change meaning? Can you trace etymology with only an oral tradition?

As an aside, I have to wonder if the infertility issues getting worse is partly an artifact; infertility clinics cost money, so one wouldn’t expect people to go to a doctor unless they had the means to do something about it, which would increase as household income increased. IOW, we got better at diagnosing the problem, and reduced an economic bias.

Just saying so isn’t enough. Why are you sure? And let’s be clear about the numbers you use. What do 10% and 100% refer to? You have the fraction of antibiotics that cause issues, and the probability of the side effect. Considering how widespread antibiotic use is, most men will have taken more than one course, so the chance of being affected is somewhat higher than the simple product of the two. If the odds of being affected is random, then the chance of the effect is higher. If you take more than one course, there a chance you’re given a different antibiotic. The high number of prescriptions (there are areas of the US where it’s more than 1000 prescriptions per 1000 people) suggests that people are given multiple courses; presumably this is because one didn’t work and the doctor tried another one. Infertility issues predate antibiotics, so the baseline rate is not zero. But if the rate is now around 8%, then the combination of factors can’t possibly exceed that.

I think it would also depend on the vapor pressure of each; if the vapor reaches the equivalent of 100% humidity then you won’t get more evaporation.

Can you provide links to this advice?

No. Generally speaking thread closure is an action against the thread starter; if someone else misbehaves we try not to punish others. (an exception being if the original discussion has run its course and it’s all tangential discussion)

Dissolve?

You seemed pretty sure in the OP, but now we’ve seen that it’s likely not even at the 10% level + 50% chance. Remember, the number I cited was annual use. That means people are likely to get several courses of antibiotics over the years. If you have actual information to support an argument, go ahead and post it

You’ve not identified a ratio in the IQ graph, or a number on which to form one. If your reference is 100, the golden ratio would put a line at 161.8

Hard-wired responses to some stimulus are not evidence of thinking. It’s like that joke about a thermos - keeps hot things hot, and cold things cold. How does it know? (Must be thinking, right?) Neither math nor logic inherently ties to “reality” - what separates scientific theory is the requirement that it must agree with observation/experiment. IOW exponential growth or decay functions are part of math, but plenty of “reality” is not described by exponential functions.

Socrates famously having lived after the invention of the printing press. How does a record of what someone said become out of date? Has a new version of e.g. the Gettysburg Address been released? Spoken word relies on memory, which is flawed. Writing before the printing press relied on hand-made copies, which were often not faithful to the original. Would you want a legal issue decided based on what people thought they remembered, or would you rather have multiple identical copies of a written document.

When you have to move the goalposts, I wouldn’t say so.

! Moderator Note I assume from this that no analysis will be forthcoming.

10% of antibiotics is about 8% of prescriptions in a given year. I’m assuming a similar fraction of the population gets a prescription at some point. 50% of that is 4%. That would account for half of the infertility rate. Even with a shift from “antibiotics have a negative effect on male fertility” to “a small fraction of antibiotics have a negative effect on male fertility”

Still don't see any analysis.

! Moderator Note You provide no evidence, and no testable model, just supposition. This does not meet the criteria for discussion in speculations.

That would still account for a large fraction - about half - of the cases of infertility. It would mean other factors are not in play.