JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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- English Instructor (Osaka, Kyoto, Kobe)
- Berlitz Japan, Inc. (ベルリッツ・ジャパン株式会社), Kansai
- Salary: ¥125,000 ~ ¥250,000 / Month
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- FT English Teachers for Kids - Osaka
- Kohgakusha Co., Ltd. （株式会社興学社）, Osaka
- Salary: ¥255,000 ~ ¥275,000 / Month Travel Expenses, Encouragement of Japanese learning*
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- Translator
- ZAIHON, Inc. (日本財務翻訳株式会社), Tokyo
- Salary: ¥6.0M / Year Negotiable
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SiouxChef
Are you suggesting that unsolicited sexting is not sexual harrassment?
Try it at the office.
Or better yet, try it IRL.
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SiouxChef
I wouldn't joke about such a thing.
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SiouxChef
Not allowed to leave first?
In my office, it's quite the opposite: I require my part time employees to evacuate the restroom immediately upon the entrance of any full timer--regardless of what stage in their "business" they're at when happened upon.
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SiouxChef
Your question?
Moderator: That is correct. The final group of questions came from readers via Kamasami Kong's Facebook page.
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SiouxChef
Not to get off topic here but a correction is in order for this parenthetical "fact": No such thing happens in the USA.
Capital punishment for rape was eliminated by the Supreme Court in '77 and laws created after that case in a handful of states making it an option for child rape were overturned in 2008 (and no one was executed under any of those new laws).
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SiouxChef
You claim there is "plenty of evidence" for a particular conspiracy but when pressed for some of it, you present an argument from ignorance: 'I can't understand how a plane can hit the Pentagon and there not be photographic evidence; [therefore, it wasn't a plane]'.
Forget for a moment that ignorance is not a valid premise from which to draw a conclusion. Does it really not occur to you that you're confused because you don't actually know anything about the Pentagon's security, what kind of cameras it uses/where they're pointed, and what would happen if a plane struck the complex.
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SiouxChef
How about sharing all of this "evidence" with the rest of the world. Conspiracy theorists all love to claim to be in possession of mountains of "evidence" but can never seem to produce any.
No, conspiracy theorists engage in anomaly-hunting and exercises in fallacious logic to support predetermined--and usually ridiculous--conclusions.
Everything conspiracy theorists try to say without any factual evidence is dismissed.
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SiouxChef
They have no grasp of logic.
There's very little you can do to sway someone who regards all evidence as fabricated and automatically views the absence of evidence as signs of a coverup.
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SiouxChef
Believing something doesn't make it real.
That sounds really 'sciency'. I suppose it can sound convincing to some--people who don't understand what the word "megahertz" means, for example--but it is completely made up.
I hate to be the bearer of bad news but "innate intelligence" and "subluxation" in that field aren't real either (and I was under the impression that most chiropractors have abandoned those pseudoscientific notions for that reason).
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SiouxChef
Post hoc ergo propter hoc.
There are many possible explanations for this; poking oneself with needles to correct "imbalances" of a non-existent "energy" as prescribed by people of the Han Dynasty is among the least plausible.
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SiouxChef
Then I find it all the more curious that you feel qualified to disparage the parent who didn't kidnap their children.
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SiouxChef
Do they say things to one another like, "You look great today"? :-)
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SiouxChef
This is a straw man you made up. I didn't say this nor did anyone else on this thread.
Moderator: Readers, pleas keep the discussion focused on acupuncture and keep the discussion civil.
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SiouxChef
I didn't answer because I thought it was a particularly blatant distraction. But if you really want to address it, it's yet another logical fallacy: ignoratio elenchi. "Western meds" not curing the flu--or any virus for that matter--isn't relevant to the efficacy of the treatments discussed in the article.
You might as well have asked, "How many western doctors wear white coats?"
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SiouxChef
I must be psychic. I predicted your use of this special pleading at 11:12AM ('science can't be used to test [insert inefficacious treatment]'--and strangely, you still used it).
There is no such thing as a "western frame of reference". A treatment produces an observable effect or it does not.
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SiouxChef
Argumentum ad populum. That some--or even many--doctors are ignorant as to where science lies with regard to acupuncture is not evidence that acupuncture works.
Cleo asks a good question:
When people start buying into the magic and replacing their physicians with acupuncturists, the placebo effect is no longer a good thing. There isn't a disease around for which you can't find someone who will claim it can be treated with acupuncture.
From the first Google result for 'what can acupuncture treat' (without quotes) here are just a few serious conditions picked from a very long (but "by no means a complete") list that can supposedly be treated with it:
HIV and AIDS, High Blood Pressure, Hepatitis, Polio, Emphysema, Depression, Diabetes
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SiouxChef
Again, you act as though you are privy to some kind of information not found in the press.
Based on what has been reported, it seems to me that the "duplicitous, self-centered, law-breaking bonehead" would be the one who perjured herself to get the passports and now has a felony warrant for her arrest on two counts of kidnapping.
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SiouxChef
Typical special pleading. When the magical effects of a treatment like acupuncture disappears under randomized, properly blinded studies, it's a 'big-pharma' conspiracy' or 'science can't be used to test [insert inefficacious treatment]'.
Efficacious treatments become part of 'Western' medicine.
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SiouxChef
But of course, you know what we call "traditional" medicines that prove to be efficacious?
A: Medicine.
"Western medicine" is just a euphemism used to differentiate actual treatments from pre-scientific treatments like acupuncture that don't do anything.
I don't know much about the herbal concoctions used in Kampo but I certainly wouldn't trust anyone peddling them along with nonsense about "yin and yang fluctuations".
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SiouxChef
Of course it was. "Western medicine" is actual medicine.
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