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Yeah it’s what I love about this place. Everywhere else has shuffled off into bubbles, my favourite video games forum split a while back between left and right, even the Labour subreddit has a Corbynite and non Corbynite version! It’s actually quite rare to find somewhere with such a wide range...

One of the best video games countries as well. And some of the best computing. Deep Mind AI are world leaders. And of course the greats of Turing and Babbage. Always punched above our weight in science and technology generally.

Definitely.

This was the book I got it from, being discussed on More or Less which is an excellent programme BBC World Service - More or Less, Missing women from drug trials

I hope so. It always felt like it was “eh fuck em if there’s complications” type thing. I know there’s a sex bias in a lot of older research where only men are tested and women are treated as shrunken men, so wondered if it was the same.

In all likelihood it’s his Academy Trust.

This ties into a big bear of mine, don’t know if you can share any insight. When I was a poor student I looked into medical testing as a money earner and couldn’t do it as every advert said “no smokers”, I always got annoyed that they didn’t test medicine on smokers. Is that actually true or is...

Uh oh, you implied teaching is easy...

There’s so many possible variables. With my data head on (my degree) I’m wondering if the age profile of smokers in France trends younger than other countries. Some light googling suggests 29% of students smoke in France and much less than that in the U.K. for example. Maybe our smokers are...

More “what about lefties” as well.

Exactly this.

LOL at that middle square. Wasn’t going to share this, but as you brought it up the irony is too delicious not to: Who Benefits from Health Misinformation?

Happy birthday to her BBR! You’ll hear people say it’s because of racists or whatever but if everyone leaves celebration to just the racists of course that’s what it is. Should be a bank holiday and a day of celebrating Englishness unashamedly IMO. There’s plenty to be proud of and as you...

Yeah will accept that’s not a gif of a proper English breakfast but it was the best I could find OK?

Per capita will only matter at the end once everyone’s had it. Until the virus has gone through the whole country an outbreak will spread roughly the same way so death counts will be roughly similar. On a small scale imagine a country of say ten people Vs a country of say 100. Assuming all else...

Saw a theory once about smokers not liking close social contact and the smoking being a way of keeping others at a distance. So maybe that’s it? We just smell and have natural social distancing?

I did actually ask my mate for a blast on her fag when she came to see me yesterday, luckily she’s a good mate and completely ignored me :D

I say this is not the news I needed on my one week anniversary of quitting. Devils advocate: could it be that at the age profile corona kicks in those with weak lungs have already been weeded out? The real test would be vapers I reckon. Or those getting direct nicotine some other way.

Patriotic thread. Don’t want to hear how he was a Turkish Muslim prophet and dragons didn’t exist. Let’s be proud to be English here. Let’s face it, best country in the world. Owned most of it at one point or another, mother of all parliaments, the real land of the free and home of the brave...

My grandad was a Forest fan and former English teacher and was extremely pedantic about this (and the “correct” usage of the word hopefully - it should mean full of hope and not something you hope will happen, even when we bought him a new dictionary with both as valid meanings he wouldn’t...