John Cuthber

If the employers don't trust the doctors to address the questions properly why do they pay them? Incidentally, here in the UK where they seem to understand things bette,r most treatments, drugs or whatever are charged to the patient at a nominal fee. The fee is waived for those on low incomes, children, the unemployed etc. However as I understand it, contraception is free: they don't ask how much you earn or for whom you work. They recognise that unplanned pregnancy is horribly expensive in personal and societal terms. http://www.nhs.uk/NHSEngland/Healthcosts/Pages/Prescriptioncosts.aspx

Since, at the microscopic level, the behaviour of matter is weird (from a common-sense point of view) any theory that predicts it correctly will have to be weird. If you take the weird bits out it will give the wrong answer.

Water was trapped with P2O5 and CO2 with CaO or NaOH. The traps were weighed before and after use and the weight of CO2 or water measured as the weight gain.

Perhaps, but you would need to look at the cost of doing it, and it's still not safe. A risk assessment would still be a good idea. Offhand, the best I can think of would be to dissolve it in a solution of potassium iodide and iodine which forms the tetraiodomercurate ion then add alkali. Most metals won't dissolve in those circumstances- they will ppt as iodides or hydroxides. Some lead will dissolve but not much. Then add formaldehyde to reduce the mercury compound back to the metal. Any lead should stay in solution- formaldehyde isn't a strong enough reducing agent to convert it to the metal. However, before attempting this sort of thing you need to know a lot about the techniques involved in chemistry and, to be frank, I don't think you do.

And what they said was " Keep in mind, though, that pure thorium is attacked slowly by water." which is why it's difficult or impossible to get thorium metal this way: it reacts with the water. It's not just a matter of " zinc is reactive" it's a matter of how reactive compared to what. Something like this might help you http://www.chemguide.co.uk/physical/redoxeqia/introduction.html#top

It seems yo need a big tree, but it can be done. http://www.igougo.com/review-r1162952-The_Tree_House.html

Hydrogen was measured by oxidising a known mass of the compound and measuring the water produced. Similarly, carbon was measured by measuring CO2. Oxygen was traditionally measured "by difference"- i.e whatever wasn't H,N or C was assumed to be O. Nitrogen was done like this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumas_method and sulphur by combustion and oxidation to sulphate. The halogens were measured with some sort of variation on this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium_fusion_test Many of these tests involved weighing the sample and products so once the chemists had a good balance they could get remarkable accuracy.

It's not taking to much antibiotics that's likely to lead to resistance, it's taking not enough. The other issue is people taking antibiotics for infections that are not bacterial.

As was discussed back in January. Jan 2004 that is.

Has anyone read freakonomics? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freakonomics http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legalized_abortion_and_crime_effect

At least one company had a computer 20 years earlier. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LEO_(computer)

" Christianity is the biggest religion in the world" And we all know that a hundred thousand lemmings can't be wrong. Really, that's not a valid point. In particular there are roughly half as many atheists as Christians so it's not like it's totally one-sided. "I have never seen any miracles from other religions" I have never seen any miracles at all. However it is well documented that other religions claim miracles too. "I think that it means there will be more of them, and they will be more severe." What you "think" isn't evidence: what can you actually show to be true? "All unjustness will be made up to the Christians after their death." That's logically impossible. And it's also begging the question. "It doesn't say you can't." Oh yes it does. Look it up Leviticus 18 22 "But there's lots of evidence, it's not blind. " show us some then.

Except for those who have a life of perfect health followed by a sudden death, we are already all patients. What did you mean?

Yes, probably the commonest example is the contraceptive pill.

Is this a philosophical question?

economics 101 If there's a shortage of doctors (and the evidence seems thin) the the salary for doctors will rise in order to get enough of them. So, obviously, if you are right our doctors will be clearly better paid than yours. Meanwhile back in reality... "Did those countries switch from a private system in a short period of time? You think that might be the only reason that makes your statement true?" Yes, in 1948 IIRC "Because our system is founded on capitalism. It's a business, and most doctors view it as such. So when the opportunity for profit leaves, so do those that view their practice as a business. " What do you think the rest of the Western world is founded on? Incidentally, I made the point earlier but nobody seems to ha addressed it. Do you want your doctor to see you as a patient or as a business opportunity?

"Is it possible for humans to successfully mate and reproduce with apes? " Yes, of course it is. It happens all the time. (of course, the ape concerned has to be another human)

Esbo wasn't censored by us. We let him express his opinion. It's not been deleted, it's still there. In fact we asked for his opinion on things. In particular we asked how he explained things which, to us, only make sense because of evolution. He censored his own replies. If he had not done so we would all have been happier. So yes, it looks like censorship is a bad idea. Esbo, stop doing it.

That's a fine point but, when we told him that he was mistaken and needed to study more, not once but many times, he chose not to even when we explained why and how. That is his fault.

Oddly the people are drawn as white skinned, whereas the (albeit rather limited) genetic evidence says the first people were dark skinned. The navels were probably just an oversight, but the skin colour verges on propaganda. I tend to agree with Imatfaal's point about the beauty of the second painting. (in case anyone's wondering, I'm as white as they are, but I don't think it's because I was made in any God's image)

What is North of the North pole? You can't answer the question because the question is not compatible with the definition of the terms used in the question. Since division is not defined for zero the question "what do you get when you divide by zero?" is like asking " where do you go if you travel North from the North pole?".

I agree it is time to call Troll. He's not responding to valid counterpoints and he's moving the goalposts.

What buddy? if you mean me then yes, I have an axe to grind- specifically that our government is trying too introduce the same expensive bad healthcare system that they have in the US, but that's not really the point. I'm 46 which is probably old enough to worry about health and, since my mother has recently been diagnosed with cancer, it's fairly important to me. Did you look at the numbers? The US really does pay over the odds for a bad service. Are you happy with that? But still my real issue with the system in the US is that, as I understand it, if you are ill the hospital's first concern is not "How can we cure him?" but " How can he pay?". Perhaps it's just me but I find that morally offensive. It says that poor people are less important than the rich so they can be left to get ill and die. I'm not saying any other system is perfect but at least in principle they try to avoid that notion. " But, if by some chance anyone thinks for a moment that equal health care benefits should apply to everyone at the expense of others, get over it. " That's what I think and, to a reasonable approximation, it's what I see. Anyone who turns up in a hospital here in the UK will get treated. Their treatment will not cost them anything because (simplistically) others pay. " Someday everyone will understand that even a "Suck Assed" economy such as we are going through, must have arisen from somewhere." Yes, but it's almost certainly not due to something that's been going on for half a century or more. It's quite possible that it's related to deregulation of the money markets in order to let those who are already rich take even more money from those who are not. But, again, that's hardly the point here. If, instead of paying money to private healthcare insurance you paid it into a national fund it is likely that you could enjoy the same benefits that most of the West does i.e. better care at lower cost. What's not to like?

H3PO4 is a more likely bet.

"I don't know how many have a workable gravity engine,perhaps very few including me.May be only me-one only." My best guess is that you overestimate by at least one. And, by the way, calling the whole of science "idiots" isn't going to get you very far.