Eduardo Padoan

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• Commented on Jacques Vallee: Waterboarding's curious corollaries
  "If we could simply slip a little green pill to the bad guys to find out their plans, we wouldn't have to resort to messy medieval practices that don't work" The object of torture is torture. I may be wrong,...
• Commented on Man walks into own funeral
  You mean, "Ai meu deus!". We speak portuguese in Brazil, as you can see on that Simpsons episode, "Blame it On Lisa"....
• Commented on Reading Kafka improves learning?
  Maybe that's why so many programmers I know where Monty Python fans....
• Commented on If woowoos ran the emergency room
  #26 Skeptical poetry rules. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujUQn0HhGEk #24 Receiving money to be hydrated? I'm in! Homeopathy: the must expensive placebo I've heard. Homeopathy should be prescribed to cure hangovers. In great quantities. Because we now that all you need is to restore...
• Commented on If woowoos ran the emergency room
  "Alternative Medicine" actually means Alternative to Medicine. Dream anything up, call it "Alternative", put it on a nice package, and sell it to the gullible....
• Commented on If woowoos ran the emergency room
  #16 Homeopathic remedies are prescribe for minor acute symptons (colds, headaches, etc.) or, over a long period of time for chronic symptoms. No homeopath would dream of treating an emergency room patient. Sorry, but you are Wrong. I hope next...
• Commented on Honduras: Photos of Coup
  Obviously every president (Obama, Lula, and obviously Chavez) is "concerned" about this supposed coup. They fear their our legislative and judiciary powers get any ideas and start using their powers as they should. As far as I remember, only one...
• Commented on Design kick-ass multimedia, win a paid internship at CERN
  Alternatively, if the winner prefers, we'll offer instead an Adobe Production Suite package. If anyone give up the unique-in-a-lifetime opportunity of working on the site of the most complex scientific project ever conceived by mankind, I'll personally beat him, #6...
• Commented on Lucy Knisley's zombie invasion poster
  Moremis, Jaytkay, I could explain the appeal of this kind of thing, but then I'd have to kill you....
• Commented on Christopher Hitchens vs. Ken Blackwell of The Family Research Council
  The bible still counts as one document, have it 1 or 1 bazilion copies made by the fans of the book....
• Commented on Christopher Hitchens vs. Ken Blackwell of The Family Research Council
  Beelzebuddy, and how it is supposed to prove that that that the Roman recordkeeping sucked?...
• Commented on Christopher Hitchens vs. Ken Blackwell of The Family Research Council
  Except #24 Poustman knows some historical document he is not telling us......
• Commented on Christopher Hitchens vs. Ken Blackwell of The Family Research Council
  #31 coop Let me guess, the bible!...
• Commented on "We did not know that child abuse was a crime," says retired Catholic archbishop
  > The reason they aren't leaving is simple: it's > not contradictory to simultaneously hold the > beliefs that (1) Catholic doctrine is true, and > (2) a lot of priests are evil scumbags. Except when the doctrine tells that...
• Commented on "We did not know that child abuse was a crime," says retired Catholic archbishop
  #17 Tom Hale, that is my best guess too - in other words, denial. But one would think that, when their children is involved, people would be more rational. But again, see Jenny McCarthy and her "antivax" BS. We are...
• Commented on "We did not know that child abuse was a crime," says retired Catholic archbishop
  You know what else infuriates me? With all the child abuse cases over this years, people are not leaving en masse the church. People actually go to the church for advice with the chaste old man on a dress and...
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