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The last sentence is particularly true. Especially for large threads that waffle on and on...in more than a few cases, we don't keep up with them 100% and we rely on members to keep us informed.

! Moderator Note xyzt, enough. Seriously. Instantly berating people for asking questions is helpful to nobody except perhaps your own ego. If you actually want to assist in someone's learning of a subject, you could do with being less condescending and plain rude when their understanding is faulty. On the other hand, if your aim is simply to insult and make others feel stupid, as it seems to be, I would suggest not posting at all. If you think something is crank nonsense, you know how to use the report system. Do not then go out of your way to create hostility within the thread as you have done here (and in many other threads). Any more posts of this nature will be immediately removed from the forum. Akolaad, though we understand your frustration, responding to xyzt by insulting him was not the appropriate course of action here. Please use the report post feature in the future.

Incidentally, many of us do need medicine in order to survive.

! Moderator Note Couldn't agree more. Thread closed.

! Moderator Note HWW, are you going to provide any science in answer to the critiques raised here, or can I close this?

! Moderator Note Anyone who's a physicist will support me unless they're dumb is not a valid way of rebutting valid criticism. Please address the scientific concerns raised by members with scientific reasoning of your own, or this will be closed. As well, do not insult other members here. This sort of behavior will find your account suspended. Do not respond to this within the thread.

I think we found the answer. Apparently they are white directly after they moult and eventually regain their pigment. A little less exciting than originally thought, but still cool to watch. Even just sitting here for half an hour he's clearly gained more colour.

A friend of mine showed me this wood roach just now that she acquired from a prac that was leading. When she first saw it, she says that it was in appearance, but since having been in a falcon tube in her pocket for 3 hours (it came out of a white bucket), it had changed colour from white to a light brown. Is this the result of temperature or something else? I thought maybe it was a response to light, but the bucket it was in was dark. Edit: this is a picture of the little guy now.

! Moderator Note Back on topic, please. Any more GMO posts wil be removed.

Except here, where you did exactly that.

! Moderator Note This thread is going no where fast and so staff have decided to close it. Overtone, you need to learn what is meant by evidence. You've spent more time here telling us all the things you haven't said rather than addressing the criticisms of what you did say.

What experiment?

! Moderator Note Which is fine, but you shouldn't go around copy-pasting entire monologues that you didn't write without making it clear that you are not the author. Cite your sources. Please do not respond to this in-thread.

! Moderator Note studiot, unless I am mistaken, you are not the author of your post. That particular story is one I've seen posted before on various social media sites. You should know better than to do this, so please cite your sources next time and make it clear when you are merely copying / quoting something from somewhere.

You might want to check your math.

! Moderator Note Moved to Homework Help. Please note that we don't do homework for people here. Please show us what you have done on the question so far and where you are stuck.

Belated notice: biomart and about 15 other accounts were banned as sneaky spammers for a certain company. Just now I have added another member, Kellymiller, to that list.

! Moderator Note seriously disabled, There was no need for that last sentence. Keep it civil and constructive.

If that is what you are hearing, then you haven't been listening. No one is saying to be afraid of anything*, rather that you should minimise the risks to your person and the people around you. You do not seem to have much experience or knowledge in chemistry, which makes your dismissal of the advice of people who do a little baffling. You are right, there are things far more toxic than elemental Hg. The mercuric nitrate you inadvertently made, for one. * (unless you're a female, apparently - excuse me as I go and cower in the corner, while the rest of you adjust your man pants)

LisaLiel has been banned as a duplicate account of BlueSpike and Frank_Baker. We had been alerted to this possibility a while ago, but had no real evidence at the time. The original account was and is not banned, but it will be if they keep opening new ones and reintroducing closed topics.

! Moderator Note You have a thread on this. Not to mention the other identical threads from what I have to assume are your other accounts here. Please do not open more.

! Moderator Note Unless this is not your first account with us, your statement that we have deleted a previous thread of yours on this topic is quite incorrect. I have once closed a thread of yours, though as best as I can tell, it is unrelated to this one. Furthermore, you were given adequate room in that thread to flesh out your hypotheses. You didn't and it was shut down as a result. The same will happen to this one if you follow the same path. Do not respond to this note within the thread. Edit. I went and reread your previously closed thread to check I hadn't missed something and I now retract my comment that the two are unrelated. You were not permitted to reopen the topic of conversation and as such, this thread is closed.

Could you perhaps elaborate on that first sentence? We certainly have some methods of in vitro testing that have replaced assays that may have otherwise been performed in vivo, but AFAIK we currently have nothing that can replace animal models entirely. Computer modeling can only go so far and it is not a viable replacement on the whole. Organs on chips is a technology still in development and while that is still the case, it cannot replace animal testing either. As for your argument on ethics, you should read the rest of the thread. That argument has been addressed. Edit: actually, this is not the thread I thought it was. I know for sure the ethics argument has been talked about in this thread: http://www.scienceforums.net/topic/82211-experiments-on-animals-for-medical-research/

! Moderator Note Off-topic posts split from here.

! Moderator Note I've split a few posts from this thread to here. Please try and stay on topic.