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It's a quote from Monty Python (MP) and the Holy Grail, not the Bible. The other is a quote from a past member who went by the name "Peter BE cimp". I'm pretty sure he wasn't in the Bible either. Sorry. It's a code I invented to represent a Latin term; Curriculum Vitae. Agreed. No one who ever believed in God earned a good reputation. Especially in Biology. My wife included I guess. But again, how do you know if someone in science believes in God? Can you tell by looking at them? Do they have a secret handshake? Yes, Darwin. "Whilst on board the Beagle I was quite orthodox, & I remember being heartily laughed at by several of the officers (though themselves orthodox) for quoting the Bible as an unanswerable authority on some point of morality:" -Charles Darwin Darwin's views changed over time (like for most of us) but he was never an atheist. According to himself anyway. Just curious, but exactly what is your role in the scientific community? Are you their spokesperson? LOL! So what? I don't have to go to the movie theater either as I have a Netflix account. Different strokes for different folks. Ditto!

Yes, only you see the light. Those with opposing views are somehow flawed in how they view the world.

You mean manners? Western education? Eastern medicine? Culture? Family first? Respect for elders? Respect for authority? Fear of authority? Just have fun. Excel at all costs. We are "force-fed" a multitude of belief systems. You keep focusing on religion as if it is somehow unique.

Do scientists normally put their religious beliefs on their CV? Or are their asked their beliefs once they publish? Does Darwin have a poor reputation due to his beliefs? So if I tell you I believe in God I am obligated to prove his existence to you and all the cute children? Give me a break. My beliefs are my business. I'm under no obligation to explain myself to you or anyone else.

Well, not if you choose to ignore the comparisons. "...psychologists ran a secret experiment in the 1960s and 1970s in which they separated twins and triplets from each other and adopted them out as singlets. The experiment, said to have been partly funded by the National Institute of Mental Health, came to light when three identical triplet brothers accidentally found each other in 1980. They had no idea they had siblings." "Throughout the 1930s and 1940s, the Japanese Imperial Army conducted biological warfare and medical testing on civilians, mostly in China." "In 1939, speech pathologists at the University of Iowa set out to prove their theory that stuttering was a learned behavior caused by a child's anxiety about speaking. Unfortunately, the way they chose to go about this was to try to induce stuttering in orphans by telling them they were doomed to start stuttering in the future." "Between 1946 and 1948, Reverby found, the U.S. and Guatemalan governments co-sponsored a study involving the deliberate infection of Guatemalan prisoners and mental asylum patients with syphilis." "The most famous lapse in medical ethics in the United States lasted for 40 years. In 1932, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the U.S. Public Health Service launched a study on the health effects of untreated syphilis. Unfortunately for the unwitting participants, this study involved, well, not treating syphilis." "In 1971, Philip Zimbardo, now professor emeritus of psychology at Stanford University, set out to test the "nature of human nature," to answer questions such as "What happens when you put good people in evil situations... Turns out, according to a report on Medium, a news publication, in June 2018, the guards didn't become aggressive on their own — Zimbardo encouraged the abusive behavior" https://www.livescience.com/13002-7-absolutely-evil-medical-experiments-tuskegee-syphilis.html In insane asylums you had forced isolations, forced medical procedures including lobotomies, forced imprisonment, and torture. "Mass starvation killed more than three million people in Stalin-era Ukraine in the 1930s and more than 18 million in China during Mao Zedong’s Great Leap Forward in the late 1950s and early 1960s... Famine is a very specific political product of the way in which societies are run, wars are fought, governments are managed. The single overwhelming element in three-quarters of the famines and three-quarters of the famine deaths—is political agency." https://now.tufts.edu/articles/mass-starvation-political-weapon Who judges the behavior of doctors? Other doctors. Who judged Trump when he was accused of crimes? His politician cohorts. Do I really need to recap a list of atrocities business have inflicted on employees, customers, and the environment? I could come up with hundreds of examples with a simple Google search.

Not all that different from Business, Politics or Medicine. If you just pull out the worst examples you can find "psychological abuse" just about anywhere. What I remember of 12 years of Catholic school was church once a week, religion class, being taught to be respectful, participating in charitable works, lots of family activities, parents involved with their child's education, sports where everyone could participate regardless of ability, a tendency for there to be beer at just about any school event, and hundreds of other fond memories. I don't think I'd classify the actions of my parents and teachers when it came to religion as "psychological abuse". More like "loving care".

This one caught my attention. Can you please expand on this?

It's also possible he is already on a ventilator and he ordered the doctor to say he was the healthiest sick President in history.

This is the JOKES thread so I won't take this more off topic, but if you wish to think critically, you shouldn't assume I am not a millionaire, that I claimed to be a millionaire, or that I am probably a liar. In other words, DON'T ASSUME.

What makes you think I'm not a millionaire?

Which is why religious people who do good science don't let the two realms collide. Whether you believe the universe to be infinitely old, to have begun just prior to the BB, or to have been created, the way you study Hellbender salamanders is unchanged.

I was wondering when the thought police would show up. I'm glad you have no real authority to ban people from doing real science just because you personally don't like a particular thought that is banging around in their head. Standing at a lab bench and trying to determine the role of a kinase in a cell shouldn't be off limits just because you think you are more enlightened than that person is. One of the fundamental principles of science is that a person's work is judged on its merits, not on what you think of the person who did the work.

What "truth" would be found during an impeachment that we don't already know?

Feel better now?

Why?

Isn't that just tricky word play to get around the rule of "no guesses"? 🤪

You could pump some gas like butane into the pipe and then walk around where you believe the pipe to be with a gas detector.

Why did the chicken cross the basketball court? He heard the referee was blowing fouls.

How dare you trash the bond I had with my father in such a way. I'm not prone to violence but if you said that to me in a bar I imagine you'd be picking yourself up off the floor right now. You are despicable.

So you aren't eating bleached shit... Chlorine is not used to wash shit off chickens, it is used to kill pathogens.

Sorry, I wasn't specific enough. Is there shit on it after all processing, including the chlorine wash? Again, I'm saying there was once shit on it. You know, from the birds flying overhead. Bottom line is you seem to be saying that they don't wash the shit off the chicken but simply chlorinate the shit and then ship it to you. I am trying to determine if that is correct or not.

I'm voting for appallingly cynical. Just because you feel that way doesn't mean the rest of us do.

Is there really chicken shit on the chicken or do you object to the fact that shit once touched the chicken? Does the FDA allow shit on chicken that is sold to the public? I realize there may be some minimal amount of residue, but you also cannot eat a sandwich without eating grasshopper guts, or a salad without some bird shit on it.

Isn't chlorination part of hygienic practices? Sort of like washing your hands after using the bathroom. It may be better to clean yourself such that washing your hands afterwards isn't necessary, but it's also possible that it is just two different methods that accomplish the same goal. (Just playing devil's advocate as I don't know that one is better (hygienically) than the other.)

Interesting but I didn't see the connection to food standards between the US and the EU.