I doubt it. Like most offences where death penalty is typically talked about, these are crimes of insanity and compulsion so the deterrence effect...
Right back at you. I'm explain why they things that you believe are, if not wrong at least incomplete. You're just dismissing those explanations...
Hans Christian Andersen wasn't an academic by any stretch of the imagination (though he could certainly be called "smart") yet he did come up with...
Other way around really. People were convinced to act as if the Emperor had clothes on because they thought the people telling them so were smart....
Some of the people believing irrational things might not be as smart as you imagine them to be (at least not in the field their beliefs are...
@Paradoxical You're still not answering my very simple questions (no "science lingo" to decipher at all). So again, how do you expect anyone to...
No, that actual study you referenced says the exact opposite (in the context of Italy at least). Your misunderstanding (or misrepresentation) of a...
The chart is unconventional but perfectly clear for anyone with a basic understanding of statistics and data visualisation. And as Betamax101 has...
If you're not willing to accept reported evidence in trusted news sources but are also not willing (or able) to spend time assessing the source...
Given the state of your posts on this forum, you're in no position to criticise anyone else for poorly written fiction. :cool:
Even if all that is true, it still has nothing to do with your blinkered support for Putin. Why couldn't he and the Russian government (past or...
Because the case fatality rate for COVID wasn't 100%, even in those particularly vulnerable. Most evidence suggested that people who were...
"Prove" is something of a loaded term in this kind of context, but there is certainly at least as much evidence supporting the positive benefits...
That is a possible factor but I doubt it's a major one and would be one of many. It is true that NHS/UK Healthcare spending (which aren't...
Supporting a ceasefire in Gaza (or in this case not actively preventing it) doesn't prevent Hamas being punished for their crimes in the future....
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