1. B.C. health official says mumps outbreak began with unimmunized religious group

Comment #238557 by Gynwer on August 28, 2008 at 11:06 am

mitch_486: Yes indeed and personally I share your point. I just wonder if we are not - by the very fact that we have those mechanisms - freezing evolution (for good or for bad). I mean, not a lot of "mutations" are "allowed" by modern medicin are there ?

Dog Boots: Not if the means are artificial. Just like you can't say that breeding pigeons is natural selection. Its artificial. Modern medicin artificially allows us to survive and reproduce.

2. B.C. health official says mumps outbreak began with unimmunized religious group

Comment #238508 by Gynwer on August 28, 2008 at 9:30 am

Well a lot can be said about religious folks (and these forums are one of the places where this happens), but am I the only one that reads Richard's books, looks at modern medicine and thinks ... "Maybe, just maybe we are putting a brake on evolution ?" Not that that is a bad thing in itself, but aren't we "allowing" people in the gene-pool that "natural" selection would have weeded out a long time ago ?

Now, don't get me wrong, I am absolutely in favor of vaccination, but I read a lot of "natural selection"-sarcasm in the posts ... whereas in my opinion modern medicine is the most unnatural selection you can think of.

3. Write to UCF

Comment #219123 by Gynwer on July 26, 2008 at 10:03 am

Launched: one American nuclear missile ... I mean ... one firm but polite mail ... from the Ardennes in Belgium (forgive me the mistake, both are available here :-).

4. Ants, terrorism, and the awesome power of memes

Comment #210306 by Gynwer on July 14, 2008 at 8:30 am

So I watched and listened a couple of times to make sure I didn't miss an important part. My conclusion remains the same ... the professor took a long time to say very little and all I "saw" was his frustration at not having enough time to properly put forward whatever his "idea" on memes is.

As an appetizer it was ok, as main course ... not sufficient in my opinion.

5. PLEASE WRITE IN SUPPORT OF PZ MYERS

Comment #208960 by Gynwer on July 11, 2008 at 12:49 pm

Belgium did its bit. Email send and snail-mail on the way ...

6. The End of Theory: The Data Deluge Makes the Scientific Method Obsolete

Comment #201099 by Gynwer on June 29, 2008 at 3:02 am

Now, computer science "evolves" from one buzz to the next, so what the article claims can - in my humble opinion - safely be ignored.

What did surprise me is the absolute animosity I read in the above answers. And not only towards the article, but towards computer science as a whole.

I wonder why that is ...