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This user is a native speaker of American English.

This user spent 2 years in Purgatory.

This user is a former 2 percenter of Texas A&M University. Gig 'Em, Aggies!

This user comes from the United States of America.

This user hates all haters. Don't hate or I'll hate you!

This user wastes far too much time editing Wikipedia.

This user tries his best to abide by the NPOV policy.

This user believes that meat is tasty and is a Carnivegan.

This user is a Hospitalist, trained in Internal medicine and a D.O. .

Ironically, this user is a skeptic and thinks all of Medicine should be evidence-based.

Picture of the day

Antonio de Ulloa (12 January 1716 – 3 July 1795) was a Spanish Navy officer. He spent much of his career in Spanish America, where he carried out important scientific work. As a scientist, Ulloa is regarded as one of the major figures of the Spanish Enlightenment. At the age of nineteen, Ulloa joined the French Geodesic Mission to the Equator, which established that the shape of the Earth is an oblate spheroid, flattened at the poles, as predicted by Isaac Newton. Ulloa traveled throughout the territories of the Viceroyalty of Peru from 1736 to 1744, making many astronomical, natural, and social observations. He published the first detailed observations of platinum, later identified as a new chemical element. As a military officer, Ulloa achieved the rank of vice admiral. He also served the Spanish Empire as an administrator in the Viceroyalty of Peru and in Spanish Louisiana. This posthumous oil portrait of Ulloa was painted by Andrés Cortés in 1856. Originally in the Palacio de San Telmo, the painting was donated by Infanta Luisa Fernanda to the City Council of Seville in 1898, and now hangs in Seville City Hall.Painting credit: Andrés Cortés

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Burden of Proof

In cases where prevailing opinion lies in one direction, people with minority viewpoints inevitably have the burden of proof thrust upon them.

Outlook

DocJohnny is a Materialist. Materialism stresses the essence of fundamental particles. Everything that exists is purely physical matter and there is no special force that holds life together. You believe that anything can be explained by breaking it up into its pieces. i.e. the big picture can be understood by its smaller elements.

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Political Compass

Economic Left/Right: -1.63

Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -2.87

Heh, 10 years later

Economic Left/Right: -4.12

Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -2.56

And 5 years later

Economic Left/Right: -4.88

Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -3.54

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Wikipedia

Raul's Laws of Wikipedia

Barnstars etc

**The Ruben Pseudoscience Barnstar** (risks toppling off a drooping flat earth). For heroic defence of reality against those who would impose the pseudoscience of their belief system in - Electroconvulsive therapy.

Not just about ensuring SPOV, NPOV or reverting vandalism, but citing & verifying to defend against trivial, but highly vocal, minority viewpoints who often eloquently argue & post large number of references, most of which are selectively misquoted, do not draw the claimed conclusions or are anecdotal reports rather than null-hypothesis statistically-vetted duplicable-research.