Steven Fowkes: There is another viable theory involving selenium deficiency. China has one of the most highly populated selenium-deficient regions in the world. Selenium deficiencies promote virulence in viral and bacterial pathogens, and viral susceptibility in humans and animals. SARS was not the only viral disease to “rage” in Asia and attenuate after coming to the US. It might be interesting to examine whether the attenuation is different 1) on the two island of New Zealand, only one of...
Borepatch: Of course, this sort of behavior puts them terribly at risk to a competitor who does know the weakness. Look at Google’s market value, vs. Yahoo’s.
Borepatch: This guy only seems like an extreme outlier.
Isegoria: Excellent! Thank you for the heads-up, Foseti. (It looks like I’ve been reading Dalrymple since 2003 — long before there was a fan site tracking his every article.)
Foseti: If you’re enjoying Dalrymple (and you should be), the Skeptical Doctor blog tracks his writing.
Isegoria: I don’t think the need is new; I think the ability to find and evaluate software engineers by their handiwork online is what’s new.
David Foster: Why is this new? “Technology” and “software” are not synonyms: there are complex bodies of knowledge in electrical and mechanical engineering, in manufacturing, etc, and not too many recruiters have great depth of knowledge in these fields either.
Borepatch: Bill Ayers fits this description of rich bomb maker perfectly.
Hoz Compton: I was in Peru during the terrorism and inflation. To me, Fujimori saved Peru. Sometimes the means are justified by the end. I will never forget his speech at San Marcos University regarding graffiti. The man had courage. His failings were human.
