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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: General Discussions
Last post by DJC -
Quote from: Gointocarlton – on
Quote from: Lods – on
Sounds like they're doing the 'Al Capone' on Andrew (the b.s. artist formerly known as Prince.)
Get him for 'tax evasion' rather than organised participation in trafficking.
Something isn't quite right about all the Epstein suff if you ask me. The Aussie woman who claimed she was trafficked and committed suicide was a pathological liar so I couldnt trust a word she muttered.
The story about emails relating to Gates getting an STD and and requesting medication (or something like that) from Epstein is weird. Turns out the incriminating email was from Epstein to Epstein. WTF is that? So I could send am email to myself saying Lods needs cocaine and that's mean to incriminate Lods?
Something aint right with that whole story.

Yes, something ain't right but Virginia Giuffre's version of events is backed up by documentary evidence and other witnesses, including more than 200 abuse survivors.  There's no question about her being abused as a young teenager by a sex trafficker who was later convicted or her recruitment from Mar-a-Lago by Maxwell as a 17 year old and living with her and Epstein until 2005.  She became involved in FBI investigations into Maxwell and Epstein after complaints from the parents of 14 year old girl and that prompted Giuffre to spill the beans.  She initially resisted but agreed to cooperate only after the AFP got involved.

She sued ex-Prince Andrew and he settled, paying her an undisclosed amount, donating to her charity, but denying wrongdoing.  Maxwell also settled when Giuffre sued her for defamation after she called Giuffre a liar.  While there wasn't a verdict in either case, the fact that the defendants settled indicates that Giuffre must have had the means to back up her version of events.

Thames Valley Police advised that the arrest of Mountbatten-Windsor followed "a complaint over the alleged sharing of confidential material by the former prince with late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein".  This occurred when Mountbatten-Windsor was a UK trade envoy.
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: General Discussions
Last post by Gointocarlton -
Quote from: Lods – on
Sounds like they're doing the 'Al Capone' on Andrew (the b.s. artist formerly known as Prince.)
Get him for 'tax evasion' rather than organised participation in trafficking.
Something isn't quite right about all the Epstein suff if you ask me. The Aussie woman who claimed she was trafficked and committed suicide was a pathological liar so I couldnt trust a word she muttered.
The story about emails relating to Gates getting an STD and and requesting medication (or something like that) from Epstein is weird. Turns out the incriminating email was from Epstein to Epstein. WTF is that? So I could send am email to myself saying Lods needs cocaine and that's mean to incriminate Lods?
Something aint right with that whole story.
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: General Discussions
Last post by Lods -
Quote from: Thryleon – on
Quote from: Lods – on
Sounds like they're doing the 'Al Capone' on Andrew (the b.s. artist formerly known as Prince.)
Get him for 'tax evasion' rather than organised participation in trafficking.
LOL

How can one member of the royal family be done for tax evasion?  How ironic.

If one is a tax evader, they all are, meanwhile isnt he the beneficiary of said taxes anyway?  Ridiculous doesnt begin to describe that one.

Nah, it's not 'tax evasion' in Andrew's case.
That's what they got Capone for, rather than murder and mayhem

As of last I heard,the allegations relating to Andrew are 'misconduct in public office' and go back to when he was a trade envoy for the UK arouind 2010-11.
It's suggested he passed on sensitive documents he received in that role to Epstein
So far nothing relating to the sex trafficking side of things.

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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: General Discussions
Last post by Thryleon -
Quote from: Lods – on
Sounds like they're doing the 'Al Capone' on Andrew (the b.s. artist formerly known as Prince.)
Get him for 'tax evasion' rather than organised participation in trafficking.
LOL

How can one member of the royal family be done for tax evasion?  How ironic.

If one is a tax evader, they all are, meanwhile isnt he the beneficiary of said taxes anyway?  Ridiculous doesnt begin to describe that one.
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: General Discussions
Last post by Lods -
Sounds like they're doing the 'Al Capone' on Andrew (the b.s. artist formerly known as Prince.)
Get him for 'tax evasion' rather than organised participation in trafficking.
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: General Discussions
Last post by DJC -
Not claiming that the UK government and police are perfect but what a difference between the UK’s response to the Epstein files and the obfuscation and inaction in the USA?
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: General Discussions
Last post by DJC -
Quote from: kruddler – on
Writing an article about scientific papers BEFORE they are peer reviewed should be banned.

Someone makes a bold claim to cure cancer, invents teleportation, solves world hunger and finds proof of intelligent life oustide our own little rock.......it gets talked about, everyone goes crazy!

Then....it gets peer reviewed and found that all is bunk.


......but you never get an article saying as much so people continue to believe those things.

Then there is a conspiracy about it all....etc...

That’s not how peer review works (but see my last sentence 🙏)

Peer reviewed journals like Science, Nature, the Lancet, etc will not publish articles without peer review.

The authors submit their paper to the journal and the journal sends it off to peers for review.  The paper may then go back to the authors for revision or clarification before it is accepted for publication.

Journals like Quadrant (where I have published a couple of articles) aren’t peer reviewed and that’s where the scenario you describe can occur.  In that case, it’s not peer reviewed but a rebuttal, correction or confirmation.

Of course, peer reviewed articles may also be subjected to rebuttals or different interpretations of data.  In my field recently, a peer reviewed paper proposed a slightly more recent time of arrival for the first Australians based on the presence Neanderthal and Denisovan DNA.  The next issue contained an article questioning the analysis and conclusions of the paper and a response from the authors of the first paper. 

Most ordinary punters may not know which journals/publications are peer reviewed or how the peer review process works. Cookers often claim that peer reviewers are paid to tick off papers despite the fact that the peers are anonymous.

Then there’s that process of post publication debate, challenge, testing, revision, disproving and/or confirmation; how our knowledge grows and improves.

Just read your post again and you mean a popular press “expose” of research results that haven’t yet been published in a peer reviewed journal.

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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: 2026 Last Practice Match Carlton vs Geelong
Last post by crashlander -
Quote from: Lods – on
Quote from: crashlander – on
With the success of last night, we might be looking forward to this one.

We play Geelong at home at 19:15 on Wednesday 25th Feb. Alas, I will be working, so I won't be there. :(


Will we be Practice Premiers? :D
Well, if we defeat both of last year's GF's, that does say something.
Last year we lost to St. Kilda! How embarrassing!