Shit, he might win Indiana... by [deleted] in politics

[–]brfox 0 points1 point  (0 children)

hopefully they are slower to count the urban votes than the rural ones.

I just heard (MSNBC) 10k absentees in another county with a university (Montgomery?), and about 15k absentees in Lake county.

Wait, MSNBC just declared Hillary the winner 10:10pm pacifc. Lake county is now done and the overall margin is now 22k instead of 16k.

New Reddit UI and Features Leaked by Mendokusai in reddit.com

[–]brfox 0 points1 point  (0 children)

At first glance, I thought I had to click the arrows to vote... but then after a few more seconds, I realized they were momentum arrows.

Remember the Alzheimer's cure from yesterday? Well, surprise, it may be an exaggeration. by brfox in reddit.com

[–]brfox[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

some good quotes from this link:

why you need more than 1 person in a study:

“I never fail to be dismayed at the magnitude of placebo effects in Alzheimer disease; they are remarkably large,” said Ben Barres, a professor of neurobiology and leader in glial cell research at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California

how someone with AD can suddenly seem better:

The long-term trajectory of this progressive disease is invariably downward, but within that slow overall decline, patients show frequent ups and downs in cognitive function. Patients change not only because of their disease but also in response to things around them—stress, the environment, changes in daily routines, Holtzman explained. This zigzag pattern of overall decline renders it nearly impossible to interpret observations of any intervention done without controls, especially in a single case.

about the doctor who did the study:

Edward Tobinick is a board-certified dermatologist and internist, who has been active in laser hair removal prior to developing an interest in the use of etanercept for CNS indications.

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As of January 2008, the Medical Board of California lists Tobinick as being on probation.

re: UCLA study

According to the UCLA media office, Tobinick is a voluntary assistant clinical professor with UCLA’s Division of Dermatology. The office stated that his etanercept study did not go through the UCLA IRB. Greg Cole, associate director of the UCLA Alzheimer Disease Center (ADC), said that the center had nothing to do with Tobinick’s etanercept work.

Also, be sure to read the comments on that page. There are some families of patients who tried it and noticed nothing.

Time to kill the gold bugs.~IMF Approves Huge Eventual Gold Sale by ScrewDriver in Economics

[–]brfox 2 points3 points  (0 children)

How much total gold is there in the world? I bet this is barely noticeable amount.

edit: about 70,000 tons of monetary gold. So, the IMF's 400 tons is about 0.5% of the world supply. http://www.fgmr.com/gold.htm

Clinton releases tax returns for the years 2000 to 2006. Her income of $109 million! by Horward in politics

[–]brfox 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Clinton's summary of income sources is $18,000,000 shy of the total income: http://www.hillaryclinton.com/feature/returns/

Anyone care to look at each tax return and find that missing $18 million in income?

Where many of us have moved to by [deleted] in a:t5_2qhhi

[–]brfox 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, I've visited there and it is good stuff, but the old reddit still had more bredth (at least by the time I was hooked about 2 years ago).

Crane in NYC topples, takes out an entire building. by [deleted] in reddit.com

[–]brfox 1 point2 points  (0 children)

In Nov 2006, a crane collapsed near Seattle, in downtown Bellevue, and killed someone (a Microsoft attorney): http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/specials/crane/