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Message 76 of 84 (680665)
11-20-2012 1:27 PM
Reply to: Message 75 by Dirk
11-19-2012 6:56 PM


Re: 1 picture says more than a 1000 words...
If you read the Question Evolution blog that is discussed here you get the idea that atheism will die any minute and that their campaign is one giant victory march. I find it therefore very refreshing to get some insight into how they actually conduct that campaign on the ground...
Lol.
Here is what real science looks like. Poster session from the ASM 2012 General Meeting (sans attendees):
But I doubt they will ever understand that.

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Message 77 of 84 (680929)
11-21-2012 5:18 PM
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11-20-2012 1:27 PM


Re: 1 picture says more than a 1000 words...
Wow. Impressive.

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Message 78 of 84 (681153)
11-23-2012 10:41 AM
Reply to: Message 76 by Taq
11-20-2012 1:27 PM


ASM 2012 Poster Session
I didn't really understand what this was. So I googled a bit and came up with an idea. Please correct me if you have a chance:
This was the All Scientists Meeting for the Long Term Ecological Research Network.
This meeting is basically a bunch of people getting together and sharing the information they have gathered on specific subjects.
Or, more specifically, it's a bunch of scientists getting together and sharing their objective, evidenced findings (and the resulting rational speculations) on specific ecological research.
Everybody sees the work, everybody looks over and checks the work, ideas are exchanged, mistakes (if any) are corrected and new, objective evidence (data) is entertained.
I got the feeling of some sort of competition, though? Is that just the anxiety of having your work judged by your peers? Or is this setup meant to actually "win" something as well?
Close?
Here's a basic example of a "poster":
Climatic Controls on Stream Flow in the McMurdo Dry Valleys
I really did try to find a "simple" one...

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Message 79 of 84 (681582)
11-26-2012 3:08 PM
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11-23-2012 10:41 AM


Re: ASM 2012 Poster Session
This was the All Scientists Meeting for the Long Term Ecological Research Network.
Nope. It was from the American Society of Microbiology 2012 General Meeting.
ASM Journal Platform
It is a rather large meeting with 10,000+ attending the keynote addresses. I believe it is the largest meeting for scientific research in microbiology in the US. The picture is for one of the poster sessions, of which there are usually 3 (if memory serves). There are also oral presentations throughout each day.
I got the feeling of some sort of competition, though? Is that just the anxiety of having your work judged by your peers? Or is this setup meant to actually "win" something as well?
There is definitely competition, especially between labs studying the same bug. There are also awards given out for the best posters, orals, etc.

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Message 80 of 84 (681592)
11-26-2012 4:34 PM


This stuff is still there. Not the same stuff, but the same sort of stuff. It's still there on the front page of what claims to be an encyclopedia.
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Mitt Romney leads in Virginia; Florida is too close to call.
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"Voter Turnout Steady in Ohio and Pennsylvania" today -- Mitt Romney can win by taking either state.
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Mitt Romney and Barack Hussein Obama still tied nationally and in Ohio
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"Obama and Romney Deadlocked"
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The pathologically narcissistic Barack Hussein Obama actually thought he had won the first presidential debate with Mitt Romney until his aides told him otherwise. His oversized ego and laziness prevented him from rigorously preparing for the debate.
The lazy golf playing Obama isn't even a good golfer and the press does not know his scores. Apparently, the egotistical Obama doesn't want a golf coach or caddy telling him where is doing things wrong and could make improvements.
Obama has a big problem with narcissism. Did pride come before the fall? Will Obama be re-elected?
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The early-vote advantage Obama had in 2008 dropped 22% today
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Liberal-leaning Pew pollster says Obama's support is only 47% nationwide among likely voters, tied with Mitt Romney. 47% support is not enough historically for an incumbent to win, as undecideds tend to vote for the challenger.
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Barack Obama's surrogates beg for money and try to drum up volunteers to travel to battleground States. Hello! We're in the middle of a hurricane! Meanwhile, Mitt Romney tells people to cooperate with their local Red Cross, and even take in campaign yard signs so they won't turn into wind-driven missiles. Who is the better leader?
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CBS News says Hurricane Sandy may hurt Barack Hussein Obama's re-election campaign due to Democrats having greater difficulty getting their supporters to the polls.
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Obama is at only 47.8% in Colorado, and thereby appears likely to lose that swing state.
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"Thousands more campaign ads coming to your TV" in the swing states. And Mitt Romney's campaign has saved more money for this final week than Obama has.
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Obama resorts to early voting to try to win Ohio: "Ohio you can vote now, you don't have to vote later." Early voters are herded like sheep and expected to vote a certain way, either by mail or at special polling booths. "Among those who have voted early or plan to vote before Election Day, Obama holds a 59%-38% lead, with Romney up 51%-44% among those who say they'll vote on Election Day."
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Meat Loaf -- the great, intelligent rock star -- "endorses Mitt Romney at boisterous Ohio rally."
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There are five plausible swing state results whereby Mitt Romney and Obama would tie at 269 Electoral College votes apiece, which would then cause the newly elected House of Representatives to select the next president.
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Mitt Romney wins big on substance and style in the final debate against Obama: for much of this debate Obama either stares, grim-faced, at Romney, or speaks in simplistic and repetitive ways.
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Hillary Clinton, who won't begin running for president until next year, takes responsibility for the Libya scandal. But will this liberal shell game rescue Obama's declining chances to be reelected now?
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This "encyclopedia" is still explaining on its front page why Obama is going to lose and whatsisname is going to win. It is currently November 26th, and they still have on their main page articles and links explaining why the loser is going to beat out the President of the United States of America, Barack Hussein!!! Obama, who won despite having a funny name and being black.
Now, let me get this straight, so that no-one misinterprets me. An extremely biased website such as Conservapedia (they admit their bias in their name) might well have hoped that Romney might win. They may have believed that Romney might win. But they still, now, on November 26th, have on their main page articles and links explaining how Romney will win. And then they pass themselves off as an encyclopedia --- a compendium of actual knowledge.
P.S: Romney lost.
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Message 81 of 84 (681594)
11-26-2012 4:49 PM
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11-26-2012 4:34 PM


This "encyclopedia" is still explaining on its front page why Obama is going to lose and whatsisname is going to win.
What did you expect? Their post-apocalyptic bunkers don't have internet feeds, so how are they going to update the front page?

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Message 82 of 84 (716863)
01-21-2014 9:05 PM


Conservapedia defines "uncertainty principle" as "an underlying chaos (uncertainty) at the atomic level in the physical world after the Fall of man, which renders a perpetual motion machine and life beyond 120 years impossible". This is of special interest because it was written, no, what's the word? ...disgorged ... by the great Andrew Schlafly himself. He's awesome, like gazing on Niagara Falls if it had ignorance instead of water.
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Message 83 of 84 (716894)
01-22-2014 10:49 AM
Reply to: Message 82 by Dr Adequate
01-21-2014 9:05 PM


Do you ever get the feeling that you read that website more than they do?

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Message 84 of 84 (717635)
01-29-2014 7:42 PM
Reply to: Message 82 by Dr Adequate
01-21-2014 9:05 PM


Mr. Schafly seems to have made a career of trying to prove that even a great education need not be a bar to idiocy. It's shooting fish in a barrel easy to find examples of silliness solely by authored by Andy.

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also in prison. Thoreau: Civil Disobedience (1846)
I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy.
Richard P. Feynman
If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning. Frederick Douglass

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