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  • Reply to: "Horror Hotel": The New Frontier of Junk Food Marketing to Kids   13 years 4 months ago
    That should give them equally informative results -- Lord knows there's no shortage of them, and just because they're in advertising and marketing it doesn't mean they're not normal, does it?
  • Reply to: Pinkwashing Turns on Itself with Breast Cancer Awareness Gun   13 years 4 months ago

    CDC considers the steep rise in firearm injuries over the decades to be a public health problem. The agency tracks the the trend epidemiologically, with an eye towards developing prevention strategies. Here is CDC's report on firearm deaths in the U.S. available online: http://www.cdc.gov/ncipc/pub-res/firarmsu.htm

  • Reply to: Poll Finds Fox News Viewers Significantly Misinformed   13 years 4 months ago

    "Truth" may be tricky to define, but "Facts" can scientifically be tested.

  • Reply to: "Horror Hotel": The New Frontier of Junk Food Marketing to Kids   13 years 4 months ago
    Seems pretty harmless to me. A lot of hype and worry over scary buzzwords like "Augmented reality" OMFGBBQ, and "Neuromarketing" - otherwise known as "A game" and "Measuring people's reactions to marketing" - not exactly dangerous.
  • Reply to: Don't Buy Insurers' Junk -- Or Let Them Keep Selling It   13 years 4 months ago
    All the plans are headed somewhat in this same direction. There are so many parameters one has to meet both as an employer and as a "covered" individual so the more conditions they add, (algorithms that query and sort to quality) the harder it gets. If something is found it is shown and an "evil" and that is not always so. Consumers are on a wild goose chase to have to rectify information they had no part in creating, but rather input by others. There has always been some of this and it has been to check for fraud, etc. but we are at the point now to where we are chasing minor details that an algorithm catches and the computer kicks out denial on claims and underwriting. I call it the Attack of the Killer Algorithms, it's all math done by computers and there has to be some areas of forgiveness as otherwise pretty none of us will fit the parameters. Even the Vatican made a statement today too on world financials needing to be better controlled and better ethics. http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2011/10/attack-of-killer-algorithms-part.html

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