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You're looking at the great recession and the effect of Greenspan's zombie economics -- the thoroughly Republican idea that if you don't do anything the "market" will spontaneously resolve the problems it creates.

Wasn't it a lovely speech last night. Well paced reading from the teleprompters. Kudos to the President's writers. And Kudos to the President for staying mostly on message. Sadly, it was a well-delivered message internally conflicted. I am reminded of Richard Nixon's 'Peace with Honor'...

American Automobile Manufacturers helped kill Detroit by relocating their manufacturing operations, but in the end, U.S. car manufacturers committed slow suicide . Am I the only one who remembers auto industry CEOs claiming year after year that "no one wants those 'little' cars" in the face of...

How an education is acquired, though not inconsequential, is less important than the knowledge acquired.

You're a Kindred soul. I can tell you have an excellent education is undergraduate science and something beyond that as well, probably biochemistry/molecular biology.

He was a practical person. logic rather then emotions ruled his life, but he was by no means a person devoid of emotions. Certainly one of the most interesting of our species during the twentieth century. And yes those views are interesting and you can see in them that there was a certain...

It also makes sense to me that if you improve the nutrition of a cancer patient you might at the same time accelerate the growth of the cancer.

Pauling wasn't perfect, he was just brilliant and extremely articulate. It seems to be hard to find all three attributes in he same person. Perfection seems to be the toughest to find. I never heard Pauling say that ascorbic acid in mega doses would cure the flu, but perhaps he did say that...

That's a dandy idea I'm going to try it, the next time I have sore throat. I might try just the second part tonight.

Of course you are right, there is no value in anecdote (well very little at least). But again, check the dosage in the NIH study and other U.S. studies. You'll will find it is far lower than in the Pauling study done in England. Pauling's data is quite convincing. He certainly wasn't a quack...

No, a gram or two with meals won't have any bad side effects (most people). You just take a mega dose at the first sign of of a Rhino virus infection, say 16-20 grams spread out over 24 hours, and then you might experience a little mild diarrhea for 12 hours or so. But it is mild, and...

Vitamin C in the presence of moisture and air readily oxidizes to dehydroascorbic acid. Your body can make use of both and has a cell mechanism for reducing dehydroascorbate back to ascorbate. But there is also an irreversible path from the dehydro- form to diketogulonic acid. For our purposes...

That's a common side effect of mega doses greater than ~ 10 grams in twenty four hours. It seems harmless and is preferable to having your nose drip for three days and the mild sore throat that comes from all that post nasal drip due to Rhino virus. Ascorbic acid is one of few vitamins that...

Pauling's clinical studies were done in England using massive does of Vitamin C. I heard him speak when he came to Los Alamos to present the data from these studies. Pauling himself took 2 grams with each meal. At the very onset of rhino virus symptoms he would take 12 to 20 grams in twenty...

It's clear he is mentally unstable as well as having a clinical case of narcissistic personality disorder. I'm sure that Republican leadership are working now on the least disruptive way to deal with this situation. They won't relish the thought of an impeachment trial in the Senate once...

It is true that private sector banks, not the fed nor the treasury*, make money for their owners by borrowing money at one rate and loaning it out at a higher rate, the rate difference being the "spread" which, after expenses, the owners pocket. And of course banks have myriad other ways of...

I don't understand the micro structure and inner workings of cryptocurrency at all. I can't help but wonder, however, what features of cryptocurrency would make it work when controlling the money supply directly did not work to effectively control inflation. This was an idea of Friedman. The...

Whether these are all things we should be doing can be debated. It is the thinking in new directions I applaud. We could have tremendously productive job growth in areas where it is impossible to substitute automation. We know the solutions to our problems and we know what doesn't work. We...

It always helps to start with the real facts, but unfortunately today it seems there is just as much incorrect information on the internet as correct. Generally speaking if something does not make logical sense or sounds a bit strange, or does not ring true, as we say, the chances are pretty...

Actually I think it is easy to poke holes in the hypothesis that Jesus may have been a Trump like character who lied his way through life. But one thing is quite clear, and that is that the Bible paints a clear picture of Jesus the Narcissist. It is conceivable that narcissism also figured...