And the other problem that follows from that is that these not unusual people will make up a not inconsiderate fraction of the jurors who are asked to decide on rape trials in a country like Britain.… (View Post)

Linguistically we made a mistake when we used the word "law" to describe how things in the physical world behave - law of gravity, laws of motion, laws of thermodynamics, etc. These physica… (View Post)

Yes. This has been the strength of the British approach to campaign finance. We have limits on how it can be spent. These need to be updated for the social media world, and it's been long overdu… (View Post)

Yes, there's lots of evidence for it. (View Post)

The main factor is as mentioned by Foxy. Masks don't need to be that good to be effective against droplet transmission, which is how influenza spreads. Preventing aerosol transmission is harder,… (View Post)