You also have to assume that NASA has complete control over your optic nerves, since you can just look at the fucking horizon to see the Earth isn't flat.

I just don't buy that. If we are that worried about assigning new moderators, then just start a few people with very limited power (say, deleting only newbie posts in a specific board only) for a probationary period, say a couple of weeks. Then move up to any posts. Then move up to moving posts to other sections. Then move up to locking threads. Etc. Etc. Even if someone suddenly went on a rampage (highly unlikely) and locked every thread in a board, then you can just demote them and undo all their actions. Or start some new mods in Off Topic. That board is a complete mess, and even if someone went rogue and nuked every thread in there, it would probably be an improvement. If they do a good job there for a few weeks, move them up to a real board. Or put a threat of temp-banning any new mod that goes rogue/does anything malicious.

But seriously, given the numbers of people who clearly care about the forum and spend hours of their time for nothing reading mind-numbing shit to report, I struggle to believe he can't find a handful of people to moderate. It's not a money issue, as he's previously stated about potentially dropping the forum advertising slot altogether. So I just don't understand why we are letting some boards be permanent spam fests with no discussion that most senior members won't even visit, let alone post in.

I cant read Chinese, but I did start a topic with a link to an English article regarding the collusion here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5040876.msg46339950#msg46339950


This is essentially what's happening. The Block Producers are using users tokens to commit voting fraud to lock themselves in to the Block Producer role, guaranteeing themselves an income of $10,000 a day in freshly created-out-of-thin-air EOS tokens.

With EOS you give BPs your money, and they use that money to make themselves more money, whilst your money is devalued due to the constant creation of more money for the BPs. It's insane that anybody who can use a computer would buy this trash.

Their whitepaper contains plagiarism:



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I think Mourinho will go, the question is when.

A loss to Valencia would mean almost certainly being knocked out of the Champions League after the second leg with Juventus. Does he go then? Or do they wait until a top 4 place is out of the question like they did with Moyes and LVG? Rumors are that he has already lost the dressing room. Maybe they can bring Big Sam in after Christmas to save them from relegation.  

This just isn't true. Provide a single peer-reviewed article published in a reputable journal to back up this ridiculous claim. And none of your ramblings change the fact that lumbar punctures were not indicated.



So your defence is "he said he didn't"? Nice.



That's not how medical studies work, like, even a little. You have to gain ethics approval from a specific medical ethics board, not just another doctor you are working with. This approval was not secured.



A lumbar puncture doesn't "gather samples from within the blood-brain barrier". The blood-brain barrier is entirely within the skull - you know, where the brain is. The only way to gather samples from within it is a brain biopsy. This is super basic stuff.



Again, outright lies. The polio vaccine has a paralysis incidence of 0.0003%. So for 50,000 people to be paralyzed from it, it would have to have been given to almost 17 billion people. I'm not sure if you know this, since apparently you don't know the brain is in the skull, but the number of children in India isn't quite 17 billion.



We've agreed death rates were largely improving because of better healthcare in general. You are showing me a graph where introduction of vaccines dropped the infection rate to near zero. Again, that's an argument for vaccines. Now, here's a graph for you:



What happened in 1974? Unfounded fears about the vaccine caused uptake to drop, which was followed by an epidemic of pertussis cases and deaths, before vaccine uptake rose and pertussis cases fell again. And here is what's happening in the US now:



Uneducated morons like you, spreading your unfounded and unscientific fear, are causing pertussis cases to raise again. It won't be long before we see a nation-wide epidemic of at least one completely preventable disease.

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Your entire post is a combination of about 50% easily disprovable lies and 50% complete ignorance of medicine, biology and physiology. It's a shame really - because you don't understand medicine at all, you don't even understand just how stupid the things you are saying are.

He holds the record for writing the stupidest thing I've ever read, and I've read several Trump tweets.


As others have mentioned, there is no point even responding to him. Either put him on ignore or just stay out of his threads.

Yeah, as much as I'm all for freedom of speech, this thread is just trolling now. I would suggest locking it.

And it is your right to feel offended. However, that right does not allow you to impinge on his right to free speech.

Being offended is completely subjective. What offends you might not offend me. Some people are very rarely offended. Others become offended at the tiniest of things, like incorrect pronouns. You have no idea if your speech might offend someone out there. If it was "freedom of speech as long as you don't offend anyone", then no one could say anything ever. If you don't want to ever be confronted with potentially challenging speech or ideas, then you can never leave the house.

Also, and importantly, nothing happens when you get offended. It's not like some physical injury you have to recover from. "I heard an offensive joke, and it gave me an ear infection!" No. Nothing happens. It doesn't matter. End of story.

I'm sorry, but if you are allowed to call him an infidel, then he's equally allowed to call you an animal, or anything else for that matter. It's "freedom of speech", not "freedom of speech that you agree with".

You have every right to feel offended, and you can use your own free speech (as you have) to insult and offend him, but you absolutely do not get to silence him.

You say that, but having looked at the "Nextpakk" bounty that you are running, you are rewarding spammers. I looked at the first five or six accounts I could find that were wearing your signature, and their post histories all looked the same - 50% bounty reports and 50% generic one line spam replies, that add nothing to the conversation but are made only to reach your post count minimum. Not only are you not policing their spamming, but you are actively encouraging it by paying them for it.

If you are going to be a bounty manager that pays spammers for spamming then I'm afraid you are part of the problem and absolutely not a "hard worker".

That's certainly an encouraging start. My worry is as hilarious pointed out - gaining 1 merit is easy. Even if they can't trade between alts, they can easily beg, buy, or plagiarize for a single merit. A 20% reduction is great, but only if it continues. As the system stands, that 20% will slowly fall as more and more of the spambies start to level up again. Not only would a 10 merit requirement reduce that rate of fall significantly, it would likely result in a further reduction of spam as many of the newbies still spamming in the hope of gaining 1 random merit would just give up entirely if they knew they had to reach 10, as well as knocking out many multiple account users who would not have enough merit to level up all their alts.

Nope, but it's a great example of what can happen when a board does have enough moderator time dedicated to it. Low value/meaningless/duplicate threads deleted before they develop, threads locked once the conversation is over, not a spam comment in sight. And how to spread this behavior to the other boards isn't some great mystery - we just need some dedicated sub board mods. We shouldn't be at the stage where I can tell if you've been busy for a couple of days because my number of unhandled reports keeps climbing.

Firstly, lumbar puncture has no role in the diagnosis of autism.

Secondly, even if it did (which it doesn't), he shouldn't have been doing them. Refer to my previous link above: "The study reported in The Lancet was completed under the cover of ethics approval for an entirely different study of 25 children", and that "ethics approval for the investigations conducted on the children reported in the study, some of them highly invasive (eg, lumbar puncture), had not been given."



There is no evidence that an MMR recipient has ever ended up with "damaged neurology" as a result of the vaccine. There is no evidence that vaccines cause or worsen mitochondrial disease or indeed affect mitochondrial physiology in any way. Even if they did (which they don't), the prime target would be mitochondria present in white blood cells, and so a simple blood test would be better than lumbar puncture.



Except the £55,000 he was being paid, which I provided proof of above.

So to summarize for the third time since you seem keen to ignore the facts - he performed risky and highly invasive tests with absolutely zero medical indication and without approval, all for his own financial gain.



Since he was a charlatan willing to makes impossible promises in return for their money. FTFY.



In what way is this even the least bit relevant?



The reason the incidence of paralysis from polio infection is so low is because vaccination has cut the rate of new polio infections from half a million a year to 22. You argument is proof that vaccination works.



Pertussis alone was killing 7,500 children a year in the US at its peak.



For scarlet fever, that's because we also developed penicillin, which, by the way, has far more side effects than vaccines. Why don't you rally against that instead?



"Treatments such as IV"? "IV" isn't a treatment. It's a mode of delivery. What you've said makes literally zero sense. Also, the majority of vaccine preventable diseases are viral, so suggesting antibiotics is nonsense.



Right. Except mumps can cause death, sterility, meningitis, encephalitis, pancreatitis and deafness. Just because you didn't get any complications doesn't mean they don't exist. To suggest otherwise is just plain stupid.

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Your arguments read the same as every other "I've done my research!" type that I've come across. The arrogance of your kind is astounding. There is a reason that we study and work for years before we reach the top of this profession. You are churning out medical terms you don't understand because you've read them on some pseudo-scientific blog and think that a day of googling means your opinion is equally as valid as decades of research and evidence based medicine.

It's strange. I've never once had a patient google which induction agent they want, or had a relative come in to ICU saying they've "done their research" on lung protective ventilation strategies in ARDS, or had someone deny CVVHDF because of some blog they read - and yet, all of these things have much less solid evidence than vaccines. It's strange you conspiracy nuts would pick perhaps the most well proven medical intervention in existence to cry about.

The pathological liar justified it by "stating" he wanted to measure CSF lactate, which may (but certainly not always) be raised in a mitochondrial cytopathy. Because of its poor sensitivity and specificity, CSF lactate is only used in patients that are suffering from solely neurological symptoms. As you clearly stated, these were "patients who had very clear gastrointestinal problems".

The standard test for mitochondrial conditions, especially if the patient is having frank gastrointestinal symptoms, is blood analysis or a muscle biopsy - both much less risky and much less invasive than a lumbar puncture.

He performed an unnecessary, unindicated, highly invasive, and risky investigation without approval for his own financial gains. He assaulted children. And you "admire" him. That's pretty low.

But you know, don't let the medical facts get in the way of your Google searches.

As a doctor, I am curious as to what the fuck you would call lumbar punctures if not both highly invasive and unnecessary, given they have no role in the diagnosis of gastrointestinal disease.


And when I see someone like you parrot arguments they really understand I always assume you are a "Facebook Researcher" with minimal, if any, education or training in medicine.

Whatever happened to Hall's "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it"?

That newbies will at least have the common decency to spam the right boards. Meta is for discussion about the forum only.

And you know, the money they are being paid by outside interests to publish their lies. And the money they will receive by using their lies to pursue sham legal action:

https://www.thelancet.com/pb-assets/Lancet/extras/statement20Feb2004web.pdf


And all he had to do was subject some innocent children to "highly invasive" procedures without ethical approval. There's another term for in the medical community for sticking needles in patients without their consent or approval. It's called assault. This man assaulted children for his own financial gain.

He definitely sounds like an honest, stand-up guy. Someone whose opinion you could definitely put a "high value" on.

I agree with your sentiments except this part. Although I'm obviously happy when these scams fail and fall to zero (and EOS will), I feel nothing but sadness for all the people who invested in it.

A lot of these people are from less developed countries and are poor. They have their heads filled with stories of 100x returns, and they see a path to financial independence, a path otherwise unavailable to them. And so they jump on it with no research. These are the people who are losing out. Meanwhile scumbags like Larimer add another couple hundred million to his net worth off the backs of the poor.

It's a sorry state of affairs, and crypto as a whole is worse for it.