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originally posted by: cherokeetroy
Your response makes no sense
FBI director Christopher Wray told a Senate committee hearing that at least five self-identified advocates of the QAnon conspiracy theory have been arrested in connection with the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol complex.
“We have arrested at least five self-identified QAnon adherents related to the January 6 attacks specifically,” Wray told a hearing of the Senate Intelligence Committee on Worldwide Threats on Wednesday.
The landmark study of Milton J. Rosenau, MD, “Experiments to Determine Mode of Spread of Influenza,” was published in the Journal of the American Medical Association in 1919.
They isolated microbial mixtures from the throat and noses of carefully selected influenza cases from an outbreak location. The researchers then administered these to 10 young U.S. navy volunteers without prior exposure to influenza. None fell sick.
They drew blood from influenza patients and transferred it to the navy volunteers. None fell sick.
They collected influenza patients’ mucous membranes with swabs and filtered them to exclude larger microbes like bacteria. They then injected the filtrate into the navy volunteers. None fell sick.
They brought the navy volunteers to meet influenza patients. They shook hands and conversed. The patients also exhaled (as hard as possible) onto the volunteers’ face for five times. Then the patients cough directly onto the volunteers. None fell sick.
In case these ten navy volunteers were somehow immune, though unlikely as they had no prior influenza exposure, the study recruited another set of 50 volunteers. They repeat the experiment with influenza patients from another outbreak location, but could not prove human-to-human transmission. And, intriguingly, one physician involved in the study contracted influenza.
“I think we must be very careful not to draw any positive conclusions from the negative results of this kind. Many factors must be considered. Our volunteers may not have been susceptible. They may have been immune,” Dr Rosenau addressed. “We entered the outbreak with a notion that we knew the cause of the disease, and were quite sure we knew how it was transmitted from person to person,” he concluded. “Perhaps, if we have learned anything, it is that we are not quite sure what we know about the disease.”
Other eight human experiments, documented in “Experiments Upon Volunteers to Determine the Cause and Mode of Spread of Influenza, Boston, November and December, 1918,” also failed to confirm how the Spanish flu spread. “Our failure, however, to reproduce the disease with these discharges suggests that there may be unknown factors involved, either in the discharge of the virus from the body, or in its entrance into the victim, or both,” the document ended.
“Perhaps, if we have learned anything, it is that we are not quite sure what we know about the disease.”
Reviewing these studies, John M. Eyler, PhD in the historical science at the University of Minnesota, said in a 2010 paper: “It seemed that what was acknowledged to be one of the most contagious of communicable diseases could not be transferred under experimental conditions.”
The Difference Between A Skeptic and a Cynic
Let’s define the terms. According to the Oxford Dictionary:
Skeptic: A person inclined to question or doubt all accepted opinions.
Cynic: A person who believes that people are motivated purely by self-interest rather than acting for honorable reasonsI like that definition, but here’s one from the Free Dictionary that goes more to the point:
Cynic: A person whose outlook is scornfully and often habitually negative.
Skeptics can be extremely useful members of a team. They don't just accept ideas, proposals, opinions, or even “facts” as offered – they need to be convinced.
Skeptics like to look at data. They like to analyze. They like to assess. Skeptics like to weigh and measure and draw their own conclusions.
Skeptics don’t wear rose-colored glasses. Skeptics temper the enthusiasm – often in a good way – of the instantly enthusiastic and in the process often apply a level of analysis and rigor that transforms a good idea into a great idea — and just as important, help recognize bad ideas.
Cynics, on the other hand, are toxic. At a fundamental level they don’t believe in goodness. Cynics don’t believe in the capability of other people to overcome, to rise up, and to achieve. They don’t believe in new ideas because, at heart, they don’t believe in people (including themselves.).
Here are a few ways to tell the difference between a skeptic and a cynic:
· Skeptics look for holes in your idea because they want to help you plug those holes. Cynics look for holes so they can make them bigger and sink your idea.
· Skeptics ask questions to try to make your idea better. Cynics ask questions to try to make you look stupid or incompetent.
Skeptics say, “I’m not sure if you have enough data to support that… lets do some digging and figure it out.” Cynics say, “You don’t have enough data to support that. You’ll have to prove to me that you’re right.” (And you never can.)
Every team needs at least one skeptic. Every team needs at least one person willing to ask questions, identify potential problems, and point out when more analysis is necessary.
No team needs a cynic. No team needs a person who always says no… not because they don’t believe in ideas but because they don’t believe in people.
originally posted by: EndtheMadnessNow
a reply to: crankyoldman
I totally forgot about that short-lived Chris Carter creation. The theme music contains samples of speeches given by Benito Mussolini. It was filmed prior to "The Matrix" but first aired a few months after the movie release.
Some of the theme songs in that show...
Rob Zombie - Superbeast
White Zombie - AstroCreep: 2000 - "Electric Head, Part 1" (The Agony)
Part 2 is "The Ecstasy"
People back then had no idea what any of that was really about, where we were headed (myself included) which I guess is why the show was cancelled so early. The 9 episodes can be found on youtube.
Speaking of VR this plays right into earlier post concerning -
Microsoft Wins $22 Billion Army Contract For Augmented Reality Headsets. Ready Player One.