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Considering the mess that's been made by people out for a quick profit in the absence of regulation, I don't see how you can really do without it. Businesses exist to make profits, and they get in trouble with their shareholders if they don't. When you deregulate businesses, you usually get some...

Really? There are basically no childless couple living in grinding poverty or rich families with large numbers of children? Whatever... One of the most important factors in setting up a statistical study like this one is to compare like with like in all but one factor. So if you're testing the...

Interestingly, this 1972 incident where someone killed his wife and child hasn't derailed his political career yet, so it seems a bit desperate to bring it up at this point.

The studies in question were correlating sex education methods with teen pregnancy, they weren't correlating income levels. Scientists who do these studies are experienced enough to know what they're doing; excluding other factors is one of the standard components of a comparative study of this...

Apparently they don't know how. Bible-belt states where abstinence-only sex education is more common are also states with higher rates of teen pregnancy and, if the CDC is to be believed, higher rates of STDs.

I don't know if there are any statistics showing that sex education encourages sex, but both within the USA and internationally, sex education seems to be strongly correlated with decreases in teen pregnancy and teen abortion. But sooner or later most people are going to have sex, and they're...

She also said she didn't support explicit sex education, whatever that means and however it differs from teaching or not teaching about contraception. However, the GOP platform is abstinence-only. That isn't how they go about sex education in The Netherlands, where rates of teen pregnancy and...

Well, since the rate of teen pregnancy (to say nothing of teen abortion) in the USA is several times higher than the rate in the Netherlands, maybe they should have a look at how things are done there. Somehow I doubt that the GOP would approve, though; I have a feeling that this will be yet...

Yep, Democrats are flip-floppers; if a Republican changes his mind about something, though, it isn't a flip-flop, it's just a sign that his position has evolved.:rolleyes:

Having Dan Quayle on the ticket didn't stop George HW Bush winning. I don't think these scandals will make much difference to the election.

I see Hatchards didn't make the list. One of my favourite bookshops.

I hope the Hillary supporters who were leaning toward voting for McCain will think twice now he has a VP who's a strident social conservative. Truly, are they so keen to punish Obama that they'll run the risk of letting President Palin pick a couple of Supreme Court justices in her own image?

Great. She's a creationist.:banghead6mx::banghead6mx: And she favours hunting wolves. Bloody woman. Why didn't McCain just pick Ann Coulter and be done with it? it'd make every bit as much sense.

Right next to "right to a fair trial."

For information about teaching of creationism in the USA, you can check out the front page (and the news archives) of this organisation: National Center for Science Education There are hotbeds of creationism, intelligent design, "teach the controversy," and other euphemisms for creationism...

I already told you. BTW, in case you weren't understanding my point in the post you quoted, I don't think the smilies in that post would be helpful, but it's much more likely that they'll start appearing if people have to go to the smilie repositories to find ones to post because there aren't...

I didn't like the Wheel of Time series. The first few books were interesting, but after that it seemed as though he was dragging the story out deliberately. He'd kill off some major bad guys and you'd think the book was going somewhere, and then they'd be resurrected and we'd be going round the...

No pets at the moment but we used to have a German shepherd. I haven't got any really good photos of her, but a friend used a detail from a photo to make me an avatar for another forum.

Don't scare the poor chap....:eek::D

I wouldn't recommend the Flowers in the Attic series to children. I know they're about children, but I thought they were revolting. I never understood the reaction of the person who lent them to me, who said, "they're soooo sad." Struck me as a lot worse than just sad.