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Comment As a Professor from an European University (Score 1) 795

I totally agree with Cringely. The US is stealing our best Engineers and Scientists. They are expensive to educate and should stay in our countries. The US H-IB Visas are a curse that takes away our best students. Furthermore giving the US a competitive advantage over Europe, technology wise, because of that "brain migration" Let's hope that this becomes an issue to you over the pond, and please see if all this visa nonsense ends. Sooner rather than later. It could/should be a presidential campaign issue

Comment Re:James Randi! (Score 1) 273

"His debunking of Homeopathy (also on youtube) has so many reasoning flaws (even on scientific methodology) that is sometimes pitiful."

"Could you point out some specific flaws?"

Several are pretty evident. Homeopathy, does claim that very few molecules, if any, of a substance enter into a solution. Now Mr Randi spends a huge amount of time in his presentation stating that fact and claiming that, because there are no molecules, the whole stuff is crap! Homeopaths believe that something remains there and is actually activated when the dilution is performed. The problem, they say, is that current science is unable to measure that stuff. Mr Randi looks like a 16th century person that does not believe in radio waves because he cannot see them or measure them with the equipment he has. That is totally unscientific! To debunk homeopathy, statistical and medical tests are required, and only quite recently some results have surfaced, albeit with contradictory conclusions

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