Welcome to DU! The truly grassroots left-of-center political community where regular people, not algorithms, drive the discussions and set the standards. Join the community: Create a free account Support DU (and get rid of ads!): Become a Star Member All Forums Issue Forums Culture Forums Alliance Forums Region Forums Support Forums Help & Search

Cal Carpenter

(4,959 posts)
44. No, I am not
Thu Mar 14, 2013, 12:53 PM
Mar 2013

I am pointing out that it is irrelevant in terms of propaganda, because most people subject to it are not scientists.

And, for the record, it may be possible to increase someone's chances of getting cancer by exposing them to radiation, for example.

But again, fwiw, I personally doubt this is the case here, and it is the propaganda game that is more relevant here than the science.

sounds like a foregone conclusion is at hand nt msongs Mar 2013 #1
The paranoia is sickening Drale Mar 2013 #2
If paranoia is sickening, why do you express paranoia? Coyotl Mar 2013 #101
Um no its not Drale Mar 2013 #108
The justifible theory is that much like the US tried to assasinate Castro the succeeded with Chavez Exultant Democracy Mar 2013 #113
15%? based on what? Bradical79 Apr 2013 #161
At most 15% is very different then 15%, you need to read closer. Your answer is also in the text. Exultant Democracy Apr 2013 #169
I read just fine. Bradical79 Apr 2013 #171
"if Hugo's officials try to take power"? Ken Burch Apr 2013 #173
In memory of Hugo Chavez Submariner Mar 2013 #3
I was slow on that one! n/t RKP5637 Mar 2013 #4
LOL RZM Mar 2013 #13
Just like Maduro's BFF Ahmadinejad investigated the Holocaust. geek tragedy Mar 2013 #5
Without taking a position on this particular situation Duer 157099 Mar 2013 #10
Care to link to a credible source backing up your claim geek tragedy Mar 2013 #12
easily done reorg Mar 2013 #17
Yes, they expose rats without cancer to potential carcinogens. As experiments. geek tragedy Mar 2013 #18
You are confusing me with another poster reorg Mar 2013 #21
They were planning to embalm him. geek tragedy Mar 2013 #22
You were asking for a link reorg Mar 2013 #23
No, you're interested in the speculations of a nutter like Maduro geek tragedy Mar 2013 #24
Not really, but you seem very interested in this issue reorg Mar 2013 #25
Maduro's lack of doubt supports the insanity thesis. So does this: geek tragedy Mar 2013 #26
He is indeed a gifted public speaker with a great sense for comedy reorg Mar 2013 #49
When someone peddles batshit insane conspiracy theories, it geek tragedy Mar 2013 #50
No, you are still confused, apparently reorg Mar 2013 #58
No, I can't view video at work, I was taking what you said geek tragedy Mar 2013 #59
"the notion that great powers would assassinate someone is not unreasonable" reorg Mar 2013 #63
Sure, they'll exploit Chavez's death for all of the political benefit geek tragedy Mar 2013 #64
the opposition and their loudspeakers here have certainly focused on Chavez' death reorg Mar 2013 #91
your wasting your time mikeysnot Mar 2013 #71
"to see which chemicals cause rumours"? Ken Burch Mar 2013 #131
I blame autocorrect. nt geek tragedy Mar 2013 #132
By the way, 10/10 oncologists agree with me. geek tragedy Mar 2013 #19
I have a syringe full of something Duer 157099 Mar 2013 #65
Huh? You're asking me if I'd be willing to inject myself with geek tragedy Mar 2013 #66
It's a purely hypothetical question Duer 157099 Mar 2013 #67
I wouldn't inject myself with an unknown substance ever. geek tragedy Mar 2013 #69
OK, thanks for playing. Duer 157099 Mar 2013 #73
Your argument is so incomprehensibly stupid geek tragedy Mar 2013 #74
We'll see Duer 157099 Mar 2013 #81
Certainly you can inject someone with something that geek tragedy Mar 2013 #83
Peace Duer 157099 Mar 2013 #85
A couple of points: geek tragedy Mar 2013 #86
I understand what you're saying Duer 157099 Mar 2013 #87
No viruses cause the kind of cancer Chavez got, btw. geek tragedy Mar 2013 #90
You are confusing 'transmitting' with 'inducing'. COLGATE4 Mar 2013 #27
Yes, poor choice of wording Duer 157099 Mar 2013 #68
Edit: Zombie thread. Dash87 Apr 2013 #153
Yes, we have heard it all before ... reorg Mar 2013 #89
Robert "Douchebag for Liberty" Novak reporting during the Cold War? geek tragedy Mar 2013 #92
I remember this story going through the papers reorg Mar 2013 #94
Radiation does cause cancer in some people. geek tragedy Mar 2013 #95
There will be an investigation reorg Mar 2013 #96
Obviously you are unaware of the weapons that have this capability. Coyotl Mar 2013 #102
Which weapons have the capability of targeting someone geek tragedy Mar 2013 #106
Reminds me of that "Arafat was poisoned" so-called "investigation." Archae Mar 2013 #6
happened before... mikeysnot Mar 2013 #7
That wasn't cancer. geek tragedy Mar 2013 #8
Nice try mikeysnot Mar 2013 #29
So, the CIA managed to implant a source of intense geek tragedy Mar 2013 #30
Lame insults get you nowhere mikeysnot Mar 2013 #33
I'm not insulting. Just pointing out your ARGUMENT geek tragedy Mar 2013 #34
NO. mikeysnot Mar 2013 #37
Problem is you didn't cite examples of people geek tragedy Mar 2013 #39
Hey science guy mikeysnot Mar 2013 #47
You're only proving the idiocy of this conspiracy theory: geek tragedy Mar 2013 #48
Sorry mikeysnot Mar 2013 #55
It is very telling that those peddling this nonsense geek tragedy Mar 2013 #61
It is very telling the nonsense mikeysnot Mar 2013 #70
Science. geek tragedy Mar 2013 #72
Right back at you mikeysnot Mar 2013 #75
(A) you're citing wikipedia, (b) you should know what every word geek tragedy Mar 2013 #78
attacking the messenger mikeysnot Mar 2013 #79
Again, your arguing politics not science. geek tragedy Mar 2013 #84
Now you are really grabbing at straws. mikeysnot Mar 2013 #99
Mike, do you have anything though that moves the cancer story from the cstanleytech Mar 2013 #100
false equivalency. mikeysnot Mar 2013 #104
mike, here is a link. cstanleytech Mar 2013 #115
heart attack. and cancer mikeysnot Mar 2013 #117
My apologies as I know it will make you look bad cstanleytech Mar 2013 #119
Petty little man mikeysnot Mar 2013 #121
Pointing out facts isnt petty, calling someone petty for pointing out facts is though. nt cstanleytech Mar 2013 #124
you don't say... mikeysnot Mar 2013 #125
Says the person ^^ who waits nearly a week to reply so I shall cstanleytech Mar 2013 #127
Sorry mikeysnot Mar 2013 #128
When he was first diagnosed mikeysnot Mar 2013 #118
Mike, the thing is there isnt a single overall cure and age plays a factor it would appear cstanleytech Mar 2013 #120
Elderly!!! he was 59! mikeysnot Mar 2013 #126
Yes he was 59 which is within the stastical range cstanleytech Mar 2013 #129
Where's your evidence? mikeysnot Mar 2013 #133
Seeing as I dont believe the wild theory cstanleytech Mar 2013 #134
throwing your logic back at you... mikeysnot Mar 2013 #137
My post had facts though, yours had speculation without a shred cstanleytech Mar 2013 #140
Good luck with that... mikeysnot Mar 2013 #142
My, how pathetic. cstanleytech Mar 2013 #144
Me grow up? mikeysnot Apr 2013 #147
This message was self-deleted by its author cstanleytech Apr 2013 #148
Yes, you. cstanleytech Apr 2013 #149
So your stalking me waiting for me to respond? mikeysnot Apr 2013 #150
Clearly you are new to the forum..... that or an idiot however cstanleytech Apr 2013 #152
Wow, you are soooo smart mikeysnot Apr 2013 #155
So you are now saying I was wrong to assume you were just new to the forum cstanleytech Apr 2013 #156
View Profile mikeysnot Apr 2013 #160
You responded to that post days ago before mike cstanleytech Apr 2013 #165
Hah! mikeysnot Apr 2013 #167
wow man you are cracking me up with your BS mikeysnot Apr 2013 #157
You were the one that said I was "stalking you" mikey, I just thought you were new and unaware of cstanleytech Apr 2013 #158
"I just thought" thought wrongly you did.... Clueless you are... mikeysnot Apr 2013 #159
Wait just a minute!!! Bay Boy Mar 2013 #105
Brock Landers. nt geek tragedy Mar 2013 #107
So I'm thinking to myself "I know that name from somewhere" Bay Boy Mar 2013 #112
So would Chest Rockwell. nt geek tragedy Mar 2013 #114
Did somebody mention so-called "CT"? Like this you mean? Ghost Dog Mar 2013 #136
cstanleytech mikeysnot Mar 2013 #143
So, naaman fletcher Apr 2013 #151
Chavez died from cancer and not from radiation poisoning though. cstanleytech Mar 2013 #9
About this likely: geek tragedy Mar 2013 #20
I could turn this around... Archae Mar 2013 #11
If gasoline gave your Dad cancer, blame gasoline. Coyotl Mar 2013 #109
People get cancer all the time. Sometimes they are leaders of nations. hrmjustin Mar 2013 #14
Biggest waste of Venezuela's tax dollars. musical_soul Mar 2013 #15
Their hatred toward the US davidpdx Mar 2013 #16
You do realize that Bush admin mikeysnot Mar 2013 #32
Yes, I realize that davidpdx Mar 2013 #97
I agree it is far fetched mikeysnot Mar 2013 #98
Thank you. Economic hitmen for Big Oil tblue Mar 2013 #110
While I highly doubt his cancer was the result of poison Cal Carpenter Mar 2013 #28
Aside from the fact that it's medically and scientifically geek tragedy Mar 2013 #31
Are you a scientist or a skeptic? mikeysnot Mar 2013 #35
As I said, but for the medical and scientific impossibility geek tragedy Mar 2013 #36
So you are easily manipulated mikeysnot Mar 2013 #38
Weren't you just whining about insults? geek tragedy Mar 2013 #40
It's as credible as the propaganda Cal Carpenter Mar 2013 #41
You're confusing political cynicism with scientific impossibility. geek tragedy Mar 2013 #43
No, I am not Cal Carpenter Mar 2013 #44
No, it's really not possible to give someone geek tragedy Mar 2013 #45
It does not have to be SHoved up his ass mikeysnot Mar 2013 #56
"an infected chair" geek tragedy Mar 2013 #60
About as likely as Paul Wellstone's plane being shot down (nt) Nye Bevan Mar 2013 #42
Much less likely--it's actually physically possible to shoot geek tragedy Mar 2013 #46
You're never going to diabuse the 'they gave Chavez COLGATE4 Mar 2013 #51
Yeah, I know. I can't help debating birther/truther types. geek tragedy Mar 2013 #52
It's not crazy in light of the poisoning of Litvinenko, and possible poisoning of Arafat yurbud Mar 2013 #53
Hey your going to upset Geek Tragedy by pointing these things out. mikeysnot Mar 2013 #57
If Chavez died of radiation poisoning, that would be a valid argument. geek tragedy Mar 2013 #62
wrong again mikeysnot Mar 2013 #76
pop quiz: what did people downwind of nuclear tests die at unusually high rates of? yurbud Mar 2013 #77
heart attacks? mikeysnot Mar 2013 #80
Leukemia. Other cancer was non-fatal thyroid. geek tragedy Mar 2013 #82
it works as assassination by depriving the victim of martyrdom yurbud Mar 2013 #88
It has to work first. geek tragedy Mar 2013 #93
Message auto-removed Brayshawna Williams Mar 2013 #54
This is a really short thread after you ignore just one poster. Coyotl Mar 2013 #103
Haha! tblue Mar 2013 #111
Oh, cool! And it's a good idea, too! Thanks, Coyotl. n/t Judi Lynn Mar 2013 #116
SV-40 Virus formercia Mar 2013 #122
Yes. Ghost Dog Mar 2013 #135
Well. That shut down thiis thread Ghost Dog Mar 2013 #138
Nuttin' like a few facts. formercia Mar 2013 #139
They don't want to come back to scuffle, which they love so dearly. What a shame, Judi Lynn Mar 2013 #141
They fear the sound of BS Detector Alarms formercia Mar 2013 #146
Mmmmmm. Ghost Dog Apr 2013 #170
Still a shot in the dark Bradical79 Apr 2013 #166
CIA proved otherwise formercia Apr 2013 #168
I dont see where the cia has proven anything or where its been documented Bradical79 Apr 2013 #172
How will they test for this? jzodda Mar 2013 #123
I guess it's possible, but I'm skeptical. Occam's Razor and all that. nomorenomore08 Mar 2013 #130
Birther/truther/chem trail territory. Socal31 Mar 2013 #145
I refuse to believe Obama would be behind this. Pterodactyl Apr 2013 #154
Arise, thread! ARISE! Travelman Apr 2013 #162
Thread WINNER! nt MADem Apr 2013 #164
Gotta rile the sheep. It's rather pathetic. MADem Apr 2013 #163
Latest Discussions»Latest Breaking News»Venezuela to probe Chavez...»Reply #44