I don’t think Robinson really fits neatly into a categorisation.

Its hard to know what reporting I’ve read is accurate, and which isn’t, but he seems like a person with a complex story.

I’m looking forward to reading the “proof” you’ll undoubtedly provide any moment now.

I’m sorry if you’re offended by being called a quack.

It’s a term often applied to those making bold medical claims without sufficient evidence.

Sadly, if you want to make a claim contrary to settled medical science generally accepted the world over and applied in literally billions of cases each year, a study you found on google with 120 volunteers is… insufficient.

Sorry, if you want to make a claim contrary to well established and generally accepted medical advice then you’ll need much better evidence.

The study you linked has a pathetically small scale of 120 individuals, is not randomised or placebo-controlled. Classic P-hacking. The result literally states that a better study is required.

This meta study, which includes the one you linked, concludes that there is no effect on the duration of an infection.

Out of the 1466 references found, 25 RCTs were included. There were two studies assessing mean fever clearance time, and five studies examining the duration of symptoms associated with the illness studied. No statistically significant differences were found when pooling the results of the different studies.

Your advice is anything but “sound”. The only sensible advice is to follow the advice of your health care professional, and we both know what that will be.

Taking medicine to reduce symptoms when you’re sick, actually increases the amount of time that you’re sick. You reducing the effectiveness of your body’s fight.

Sorry I think this is unfounded quackery, and by making this assertion you risk increasing the suffering of others.

It makes sense in a logical kind of way… like if a fever helps fight an infection then taking paracetamol to avoid the fever must prevent you fighting the infection.

The thing is, there’s no evidence that infections work that way in practice. If taking paracetamol helps you get a good night sleep, maybe that is more effective than a fever.

A lot of your body’s natural defenses just aren’t really very effective at all. Like goose bumps, or shivering… obviously putting a jacket on is far more effective.

LOL. Super witty. I hope you’re having a great day chief.

IIRC, early in the presidency, after the first meeting with Zelensky, everyone realised that you had to give Trump a gift if you wanted to avert his gaze and avoid being publicly humiliated like that South African PM who showed up empty handed.

As a result, when Starmer was summoned to the white house he presented Trump with an invite to a royal audience. Trump loved this gift. Very Trumpian. Now it’s time to make good I guess.

What is the “I’m an empath” card?

Are there people who try to make out like they’re Deanna Troi style empaths?

Or do you just mean people who claim to have particularly strong empathy / be particularly empathetic?

As an aside, emphasize isn’t related to empathy, and I didn’t think empathize is a word, although my spell-check apparently thinks it is?

Exactly. The whole “just debating” thing is a load of wank. It’s just a way to frame manipulative ideological recruitment.

Why was he going to universities to “just debate” ? Obviously, the purpose was to recruit supporters for his kooky agenda.

Obviously, there isn’t enough vegetable oil to run every tractor and every truck.

In Australia, bio diesel is subsidised in the same way regular diesel is.

Even if that were true they’re not presently in common use. Agriculture presently runs on diesel.

I just posted this in response to another idiot, but it works here too:

I’m not sure that’s true.

The supply chain for food is heavily dependent on diesel. All machinery on farms is diesel, and the trucks that move the food to silos then mills then factories and then shops are all diesel.

Presently there’s no real substitute for that machinery. Sure it might be technically possible to construct an electric tractor or truck but it’s not economically viable at this time.

The subsidies don’t really serve to make fossil fuels continue to be viable, it’s more like a measure to avoid sudden inflation due to fluctuations in the price of diesel.

I’m not sure that’s true.

The supply chain for food is heavily dependent on diesel. All machinery on farms is diesel, and the trucks that move the food to silos then mills then factories and then shops are all diesel.

Presently there’s no real substitute for that machinery. Sure it might be technically possible to construct an electric tractor or truck but it’s not economically viable at this time.

The subsidies don’t really serve to make fossil fuels continue to be viable, it’s more like a measure to avoid sudden inflation due to fluctuations in the price of diesel.

Political violence is always the last, worst option. Sometimes it’s the only option but that wasn’t the case here.

Kirk was a pretty awful person, who profited from spreading hatred. He didn’t just have an opinion, he had an agenda.

People don’t, but companies do.

Company A might get a contract to do whatever thing for Company B and the contract says “all equipment brought on site by your team must be this or that or whatever IP Rating”.

It’s an insurance / liability thing.

I still do not think he deserved to die.

That’s fine, but I think you can probably understand why other commenters do feel that way, given his profiting from hatred and the deaths of others.

Oh man. This just obfuscates the corruption.

Yeah, engaging with people in the comments has certainly influenced my opinion, many times. Daily probably.

Here in Australia there’s a few Trump sycophants that pull this type of stuff occasionally, or try saying “make Australia great again”, and just nutters that put Trump stickers and whatever on their cars.

The only explanation I’ve been able to develop is that they enjoy the reactions they get from people. In the same way siblings antagonise each other for a cheap thrill, these guys just like the feeling of antagonising people.

Our recent election has shown that Trumpism doesn’t get much love here in Australia.

your statement which mentions that someone can « deserve to die » because of his political view opposed to your

That’s not what I said at all though, is it.

Conservatives don’t deserve to die, disingenuous manipulator recruiting young adults to fascism do.

If all you see is someone debating asking to be proven wrong then you’re a naive idiot.