Which unnecessary body parts are those? The appendix is there to repopulate the intestines with beneficial bacteria when they get wiped out. Extra kidneys, lungs, etc., are there because that's what naturally happens with bilateral symmetry, and provide useful redundancy. I'm having trouble thinking of other "unnecessary" ones.
>That said the study is highly biased. The "native" people are always laughing in the photos and the "modernized" people are looking sad.
But this doesn't explain away the order-of-magnitude differences in dental health Price found everywhere he went between people living on traditional diets (who typically didn't have toothbrushes, either) and those living on processed diets.
Oh I'm sure that eating those things is bad for your teeth if you don't brush them, simply because the bacteria grow on that kind of stuff (actually I already said this). I'm just saying that the studies sound unscientific; he sounds like he's trying to prove a point.
The traditional diets (which varied dramatically, by the way) resulted in consistently good teeth for people who never touched a toothbrush. In fact, their results were much better than those of people on processed diets who had toothbrushes. That's the point.
Right. My point is that a scientific text has the form "we researched this and here are our findings: things that support theory X and things that support (not X)" rather than "this is my point X and here is evidence for X".
Have his findings been independently verified? Especially his claims that the bone structure is better in the individuals on native food, for which he provides almost no evidence.
At the risk of being even more pedantic, quicksort with the O(n) deterministic median finding algorithm has a worst-case runtime of O(n log n) -- you use that algorithm to find the median each time and use that as the pivot.
The constants would make it less efficient for most cases, though.
I can't believe you've played much chess if you think that it's purely about deductive reasoning. Humans can't calculate even the least part of all the possibilities in most positions. Knowing where to look -- which is just one role intuition plays -- is indispensable for a chess player.
You're right and I'm not an experienced chess player, thanks for the pointer. What I was getting at though was how it's not a game of incomplete info, as say in poker/bridge where intuition plays a far bigger role.
I'd just like to point out the difference between this and some comments below that basically say "LOL NAZIS JUST DID THEIR JOB" -- 134 points and counting vs. -4 and probably even lower in fact.
This is how you make this sort of argument. And I'm not just saying that because I agree with it. (That's what my upvote was for.)
45 million dead in four years. Yep, that's about right for the Holodomor times four.
Of course, Stalin and Mao still aren't as synonymous with ultimate evil as Hitler was, and won't be, despite killing quite a few million more people. For decades Western leftists even praised them. It probably has to do something with not being utterly defeated in the biggest war of all time. History is written by the winners and all that, and Stalin was a winner of WWII. (Mao wasn't in power yet.)
Very good point, but there's also, seemingly, a widespread perception that those killed by government policy are not really murdered the way those killed in the holocaust were. Start 100 million and you can always blame it on "the capitalists" who "were too greedy", even if your country was a communist one.
Never seems to have the impact of killing 10 million in gas chambers, which is why it is the more popular method than gas chambers for the modern mass murderer.
That's the number of new infections in 2006. As HIV/AIDS takes a long time to run its course, and it stays around for life with a very few exceptions involving bone marrow transplants from naturally immune people it, I'm certain that the total number of people infected is at least an order of magnitude higher. 500,000 people in the US is about one in 600, making it an uncommon but not especially rare disease.
