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by **aab1** » 04 Apr 2006, 22:57

Take your free gullibility test, I have a feeling the people on this forum will score very gullible:
http://www.newstarget.com/gullibility.html

by **N=1** » 05 Apr 2006, 00:10

Wey Hey!!! I'm a free thinker. 8)

Then again, I might have second-guessed the answers they wanted.

I'm 85% free thinker. Can YOU do better? :D

by **aab1** » 05 Apr 2006, 01:36

I was 95% free the first time I took it, 100% the 2nd time. They do not "want" any answer, it is a truthful test.

by **Killer Blob** » 05 Apr 2006, 12:56

aab1 wrote: it is a truthful test.

You are mistaken again. It is on the "newstarget" website. Therefore it is not truthful.

by **aab1** » 05 Apr 2006, 22:48

You really are a moron, lets see what amkes most sense:
The fraudulent drugs that make 550 000% profit and cant cure a single disease, or real medicine that wasnt made for profit, but made to help patients?

Also, if drug companyes wanted our health, why havent they done a single cure for any disease since polio? because cures arent profitable jackass. I hope you get cancer and you'll obivously fall for chemotherapy rather than use a real cure and the other retards like you from this planet will be murdered and turned to compost to grow real medicine... actually forget that, you'll be loaded with chemo poison and kill the plants, will have to bury you where no plants grow so you don't kill them. Anyway, whan all the assholes loike you are mursdered off this planet it will become a better place to live.

Now go drink some diet coke and eat sausages, these contain 2 of the most powerful carcinogens so you'll get cancer sooner, that's how they give the public cancer to make more money, 90% of foods in the grocery store have at the very least one cancer causing ingredient.

Why do you think we now have 1 in 2 people with cancer? You'll be one of the 2 that gets it, I'll be one that doesn't, and if I do I'll simply cure it.

I'm still amazed that there actually are living humans as dumb as yoiur little retarded pea sized brain is. Asshole.

by **N=1** » 06 Apr 2006, 01:03

aab1 wrote:I hope you get cancer.

Well I sincerely hope that you don't. That's because your twisted view of reality could end up in your death should that be the case.

by **aab1** » 06 Apr 2006, 07:24

I really can't beleive you actually can't realize what's going on, why do you think there's now 1 in 2 people that get cancer?

It is you who is failing to view the real reality, you're living the fantasy land that the government wants you to beleive is reality.

by **aab1** » 06 Apr 2006, 07:27

And I'm sorry if I said mean things but you have no idea how mad it makes me that people like you can't realize what's going on, I've been a victim of this corrupted "health care" system and I want it to change ASAP and it's because of people like you that this terrorist organization is surviving, so that's why I'm so **** mad at you guys that can't even realize what's going on.

by **Killer Blob** » 06 Apr 2006, 11:49

You can't win an argument by making up statistics and calling people stupid.

Calling doctors, nurses, etc, a "terrorist organization" is mind-bogglingly offensive. Terrorists fly planes into buildings, kidnap tourists and bomb innocent people on their way to work. People in the medical profession engage in a daily battle to save lives and help people to feel better; to suggest otherwise is paranoid conspiracy theory at its worst.

by **Tessa K** » 08 Apr 2006, 16:48

Do we really have to put up with the general rudeness and ad hominem attacks from this person? Or, for that matter, for him/her posting exactly the same stuff in every thread?

by **Phil McKerracher** » 08 Apr 2006, 18:04

No, I'll ban him/her if you like. I admit the abuse has been a bit strong and I've already sent a couple of warnings.

If it's necessary for the sake of preserving reasoned debate I'll even go as far as making the whole forum "invitation only", so be reassured that I won't let the whole thing deteriorate. However, I don't want to be too heavy-handed; there's no point us all sitting around agreeing with each other.

by **Tessa K** » 08 Apr 2006, 23:20

Phil McKerracher wrote:No, I'll ban him/her if you like. I admit the abuse has been a bit strong and I've already sent a couple of warnings.

If it's necessary for the sake of preserving reasoned debate I'll even go as far as making the whole forum "invitation only", so be reassured that I won't let the whole thing deteriorate. However, I don't want to be too heavy-handed; there's no point us all sitting around agreeing with each other.

I don't think that invitation-only is a good idea because that would discourage a lot of 'passing trade'. As you say, there is no point in us all agreeing with each other.

However, maybe there could be some sort of 'three strikes and you're out' policy. I'm sure that none of us here would want to discourage people from putting a point of view that conflicts with the skeptical position, it's the abuse that we're not so keen on. Also, the fact that this person keeps saying the same thing over and over in different threads is starting to get irritating.

Is there some sort of statement that people have to agree to when they register? I can't remember. It might be useful to have a house policy stated somewhere that explicitly bans personal abuse.

So, maybe one final strongly-worded warning and then out for this particular offender? (Is there any way to stop someone re-registering under a different name?)

by **Phil McKerracher** » 08 Apr 2006, 23:40

Tessa K wrote:...Is there some sort of statement that people have to agree to when they register?...Is there any way to stop someone re-registering under a different name?

Yes: "... administrators and moderators of this forum will attempt to remove or edit any generally objectionable material as quickly as possible...You agree not to post any abusive, obscene, vulgar, slanderous, hateful, threatening, sexually-oriented or any other material that may violate any applicable laws. Doing so may lead to you being immediately and permanently banned (and your service provider being informed). The IP address of all posts is recorded to aid in enforcing these conditions..."

Removing offensive posts and banning IP addresses is quite effective and is certainly the next step.

by **Tessa K** » 09 Apr 2006, 00:17

Much as I hate to be the one who complains to teacher, I think that in this case, the rule should be applied.

As long as that doesn't mean I have to stop winding up Killer Bob...

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