HonestJoe's Recent Activity

  1. HonestJoe replied to the thread Idaho passes laws instituting death penalty for child rapists, outlawing AI-generated child porn.

    I doubt it. Like most offences where death penalty is typically talked about, these are crimes of insanity and compulsion so the deterrence effect is going to be minimal at...

    Mar 28, 2024 at 11:27 AM
  2. HonestJoe replied to the thread Why do smart people believe stupid things?.

    Right back at you. I'm explain why they things that you believe are, if not wrong at least incomplete. You're just dismissing those explanations out of hand.

    Mar 28, 2024 at 6:41 AM
  3. HonestJoe replied to the thread Why do smart people believe stupid things?.

    Hans Christian Andersen wasn't an academic by any stretch of the imagination (though he could certainly be called "smart") yet he did come up with it. :cool: Sure, but you...

    Mar 28, 2024 at 5:14 AM
  4. HonestJoe replied to the thread Why do smart people believe stupid things?.

    Other way around really. People were convinced to act as if the Emperor had clothes on because they thought the people telling them so were smart. That's just wrong. Very few...

    Mar 27, 2024 at 6:34 PM
  5. HonestJoe replied to the thread Why do smart people believe stupid things?.

    Some of the people believing irrational things might not be as smart as you imagine them to be (at least not in the field their beliefs are about). Of course, some of the...

    Mar 27, 2024 at 5:41 PM
  6. HonestJoe liked Betamax101's post in the thread Largest Covid Vaccine Study Yet Finds Links to Health Conditions.

    I believe we are getting the run-around. No amount of totally obvious evidence will suffice. When someone thinks a graph works(when it doesn't) then ignores the numerous ones...

    Mar 27, 2024 at 5:15 PM
  7. HonestJoe replied to the thread Largest Covid Vaccine Study Yet Finds Links to Health Conditions.

    @Paradoxical You're still not answering my very simple questions (no "science lingo" to decipher at all). So again, how do you expect anyone to present the evidence you're...

    Mar 27, 2024 at 3:23 PM
  8. HonestJoe replied to the thread Largest Covid Vaccine Study Yet Finds Links to Health Conditions.

    No, that actual study you referenced says the exact opposite (in the context of Italy at least). Your misunderstanding (or misrepresentation) of a single graph doesn't change...

    Mar 27, 2024 at 2:18 PM
  9. HonestJoe replied to the thread Largest Covid Vaccine Study Yet Finds Links to Health Conditions.

    The chart is unconventional but perfectly clear for anyone with a basic understanding of statistics and data visualisation. And as Betamax101 has pointed out, the source...

    Mar 27, 2024 at 1:11 PM
  10. HonestJoe replied to the thread Largest Covid Vaccine Study Yet Finds Links to Health Conditions.

    If you're not willing to accept reported evidence in trusted news sources but are also not willing (or able) to spend time assessing the source scientific evidence they...

    Mar 27, 2024 at 8:27 AM
  11. HonestJoe replied to the thread Fiction for the average mind?.

    Given the state of your posts on this forum, you're in no position to criticise anyone else for poorly written fiction. :cool:

    Mar 27, 2024 at 5:10 AM
  12. HonestJoe replied to the thread 10 years of Ukrainian coup d’état. Did the West provoke it?.

    Even if all that is true, it still has nothing to do with your blinkered support for Putin. Why couldn't he and the Russian government (past or present) be just as...

    Mar 26, 2024 at 5:21 PM
  13. HonestJoe replied to the thread Largest Covid Vaccine Study Yet Finds Links to Health Conditions.

    Because the case fatality rate for COVID wasn't 100%, even in those particularly vulnerable. Most evidence suggested that people who were vaccinated were less likely to be...

    Mar 26, 2024 at 5:13 PM
  14. HonestJoe replied to the thread Largest Covid Vaccine Study Yet Finds Links to Health Conditions.

    "Prove" is something of a loaded term in this kind of context, but there is certainly at least as much evidence supporting the positive benefits of COVID vaccines, up to and...

    Mar 26, 2024 at 10:13 AM
  15. HonestJoe replied to the thread The UK National Health Service is getting worse, but it seems more money is being spent on it.

    That is a possible factor but I doubt it's a major one and would be one of many. It is true that NHS/UK Healthcare spending (which aren't necessarily exactly the same thing)...

    Mar 26, 2024 at 7:35 AM
  16. HonestJoe replied to the thread DESPICABLE Bribed Joe Just Made Us a Terror-Sponsoring Nation in Gaza.

    Supporting a ceasefire in Gaza (or in this case not actively preventing it) doesn't prevent Hamas being punished for their crimes in the future. The fact is that continuing the...

    Mar 25, 2024 at 4:59 PM
  17. HonestJoe replied to the thread US had warned Russia ISIS was determined to attack.

    Why not? Even if there was good reason to love Putin, that would still make the people who did so "Putin lovers". The fact remains that there are people on this forum who will...

    Mar 24, 2024 at 7:01 PM
  18. HonestJoe replied to the thread US had warned Russia ISIS was determined to attack.

    Mar 24, 2024 at 6:41 PM
  19. HonestJoe replied to the thread 10 years of Ukrainian coup d’état. Did the West provoke it?.

    So you falsely accuse me of being indoctrinated by MSM because I disagree with some of your conclusions, yet you essentially admit to limiting yourself to sources that will...

    Mar 24, 2024 at 12:09 PM
  20. HonestJoe replied to the thread Illegal Aliens Running Through Border Guards - Video.

    That must be fake news. I was told Biden had opened the US border and just let all the migrants in. Also, the video shows those migrants breaking through one fence only to...

    Mar 22, 2024
  21. HonestJoe replied to the thread 10 years of Ukrainian coup d’état. Did the West provoke it?.

    Not at all. Much of my information comes from actual Russian friends, admittedly ones here precisely because they oppose Putin, but with friends and relatives still in Russia...

    Mar 22, 2024
  22. HonestJoe replied to the thread Legislators going after pizza in NYC.

    While not cheap by any means, I'm not convinced installing the filters would necessarily be more expensive that replacing the whole oven. I did find an article including an...

    Mar 22, 2024