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One has to wonder what kind of psychology requires one to confess* to being "guilty" for not doing what other people want? I think English law is completely corrupt. Much came from the Romans who were imperialists, for whom any objective morality would of been impossible although the use of guilty/not guilty is later. I need to look at Roman law more, either way I think it's a fact that law has been created by criminals. The victors write history.*Guilty is not a plea, but a confession and I therefore suspect is of religious significance. Also possible that guilt derives from the old English word gieldan (to pay a due) although OED dismisses this? http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=guiltI think someone has been reported to of pointed out the unfairness of only Turing receiving an apology/pardon and not all the others who were wronged. It's seems like a reasonable point to me. But then the perpetrators are long gone.

Alan Turing may be posthumously pardoned for his so called "crime" of being homosexual. Rather too late and the people who are apologising didn't even know him, let alone persecute him. In this program I explain what happened and then reveal the "elephant in the room" that parlimentarians have mised. Enigma codebreaker Alan Turing to receive posthumous pardon for homosexuality conviction http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/enigma-codebreaker-alan-turing-to-receive-posthumous-pardon-for-homosexuality-conviction-8722805.html

An Islamic style beheading would raise Huckabees IQ.

In this progam I explore the principles of corporations and the ancient origins of the practice of incorporation. The practice of incorporation has been used as a means to create a mental glove puppet by which manipulative people grant themselves privileges and escape taking responsibility and therefore being held fully accountable for their actions.

How long has Marxist Leninism got left?

The peanuts are basically 10 times more nutritious than a Big Mac, so even if you reduced the price to $1 on the Mac, the peanuts would still beat it and be free of trans fats, cholesterol and lower in sodium and a various other toxins present in grilled meat.Sure, some people can't take peanuts, they are actually very nice boiled though. I just wanted to compare like for like. Comparing a fatty Mac with a green vegetable is an absurd comparison and that is what the journalist concerned in the original article was doing. I wanted to compare to a more similar plant food.

As I have shown in my nutrient analysis, even with a range of different interventions to protect the livestock market, the Big Mac is still about 10 times less nutritious than the price equivalent in peanuts!It's difficult to say what the overall effect of interventions are upon current prices because there are a lot of them and they affect costs in different ways. But it's certainly true that animal products would be more expensive than they are already because of direct subsidies.

Reality check: dollar for dollar a Big Mac is around 10 times less nutritious than peanuts! Peanuts also contain no cholesterol or trans fats and safe levels of sodium. http://money.msn.com/now/post.aspx?post=0437121f-16b6-4818-8c0d-a7899f23338c http://www.smoopa.com/p/196607/00078264082407-hines-raw-jumbo-virginia-peanuts-16-oz/ (USDA database only had Big Mac, not McDouble to compare)

Please do pop over to www.freedomphilosophy.tv and check out my small but growing list of youtube programs. I usually talk about politics and biology.

My latest program explores the nature of patriarchy.

Payday lender Wonga is facing a fight for survival after the Archbishop of Canterbury insisted he wants to "compete" it out of existence. The Most Rev Justin Welby wants to force it out of business by expanding the Church of England's credit union plans. http://uk.news.yahoo.com/wonga-war-church-wants-end-payday-lenders-040824461.html#NVB0Kqp

Hi, thanks for watching. My video tries to be brief and to the point and I give the sources on the channel so that people can look deeper. It seems I could of been more explicit about the mechanism. As various of my sources show, cooking reduces the need for chewing because it softens food and the jaws need to be chewing in order to grow properly. In much the same way if you confine a growing child to bed for many years it will not use it's legs and they will not develop fully. Perhaps I will add some notes to the program. Thanks for pointing this out. Also read the quotes at 1:42 which explain the cause/effect relationship.

I'm making some programs for a parenting blog called ethicalparents.com. It's all quite formative at the moment and under construction. My latest program is about the importance of feeding children plenty of raw fruit and veggies so that they develop normally. Breast feeding probably helps as well. Sources are given. To view the program click this link or try the media player below: http-~~-//www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOlGSlAK-v4

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I'd like to see some statistical evidence for vegetarian/vegan health and longevity. That's another whole topic. My video was about eating a primitive diet high fruit/veg like our early primate ancestors, not necessarily vegetarian, but still minimal amounts of animal food. Morbidity stats for vegetarians vary, but studies often don't show much benefit in terms of longevity. Replacing meat with plant oils isn't going to get someone very far healthwise, and unfortunately many vegetarians are simply replacing meat with other unhealthy things that we are not adapted to.

The link between fat consumption, cholesterol elevation and CVD is hard core scientific fact, more so than evolutionary theory. Deny if you wish, but the evidence is clear and plentiful. Cordain isn't totally above board with his paper. You can achieve cholesterol lowering along with high fat consumption when carrying a high parasite load or suffering various illnesses. My key point in any case was that atherosclerosis is a disease of plant eating species (with artificially elevated cholesterol levels), and that animals that are adapted to higher fat diets don't get atherosclerosis. So far no one has refuted this. [View:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbB65uN9goU]

That's interesting, can you give any credible scientific sources for this claim? The problem is that meat contains fats, proteins and other substances that are bad for humans. I refer you to Dr Gregers youtube channel for the scientific literature on this. This is true irrespective of the origins. We are not a species adapted to eat meat which is what the program demonstrates and therefore it should come as no surprise that meat is not good for us.

As I made clear, the point is that humans didn't climb the food chain. Yes humans clearly eat too much animal food and yes it is killing people prematurely. The moral debate I'll leave for another program No consumption of animal flesh is necessary, it mostly persists as an irrational tradition/habit. I have tried to present the scientific evidence impartially, if you think there was a bias please identify it. People who eat small amounts (as suggest by my program) of animal matter such as the traditional Okinawans can live long lives fairly free of degenerative illness. It's noteworthy that these populations enjoy additional longevity due to genetic factors. The quantites matter, talking about "limited portions" or "far more" is vague and unhelpful, each person would define their own intake subjectively, that's why numbers are required and I have tried to supply estimates. I reject your allegation of fear-mongering, the risk of heart attack is not an unsubstantiated concern. A heart attack is a painful, suddent and often violent death for a great number of people, it has many negative impacts. The purpose of my program is educational, my hope is that it helps some people to improve their food choices and also to counter the ignorance that persists around human biology. I also greatly dislike your allegation of "preaching" - since when is presenting scientific facts "preaching"? I think you are engaging in some kind of projection.

In this program I look once again at our food choices and see if they are matched by our biology. [View:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amBXdtNdYgU]

The American buffalo was also driven to extinction, although I think government programs encouraged over hunting in that case. Much of the wildlife (and prior human population) of New Zealand was killed and eaten by the influx of the Maori so history is very mixed on this issue. Some people just seem to like to kill things.

Dehmelt specifically addresses this point, we need to know what is best to eat today. Evolution and comparitive biology is object science, it is unfortunately imprecise and I have gone some way to address this with Pickfords paper, i.e. chimps are not a great model. The empirical method in nutritional science is very problematic: 1) people consume foods not nutrients, so how will it be possible to identify optimal nutrient levels? 2) nutrients is a misleading concept (substances in foods may serve no nutritional role but can still be good or bad for health) 3) people can't be experimented on in a controlled environment 4) people live a long time so that connecting the inputs and long term effects is time consuming and imprecise 5) above observation is further compounded because choices of the prior 2 generations have effects on the current generation We already know a great deal about food and we also know a little bit about our evolution and much about our anatomy and physiology. We should leverage that knowledge while we wait for nutritional science to yield better answers. Nutritional science is doing a great job though, it just yields answers slowly.

I'm not sure about psychiatric diagnoses but I'm dubious. Bedwetting can have physical trigers, for example consuming dairy products:

I've been a Java developer since 2001. I recommend studying the Java programmer certification literature to get a solid grounding in the principles. Then move on to tackling real world problems. You could probably pick up a book that covers this really cheap, no need for the latest editions. Developers who don't learn the principles but learn on the job, tend to end up with a poor apreciation of Java and turn out bad code.

In this program I share a little of the research material on diet I have been studying for over 27 years. There ought to be an objective means to determine what we should eat, and there is! [View:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMc5RdPahiE]