Doubling down with another assertion. You are in a league of your own 
Go ahead Bill and defend this dishonesty by Tour. Weāre waiting. Say something intelligent for a change.
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This conversation is not progressing. Fix it soon or @moderators will close the topic.
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Having Tour lie to laymen and claim the problems are insurmountable without the help of a magic POOF! wonāt make Tour look honest either.
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We present evidence, the Creationists shut their eyes and go NUH-UH! What do you suggest?
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How do you get that from āThis conversation is not progressingā? @swamidass is just pointing out the fact that the conversation (in fact, pretty much all the Tour threads) seem to have devolved into repeating the same stuff without much headway on either side. Itās not about taking sides. I think the point is, if youāre not getting anywhere and neither side seems able to re-adjust to find either new common ground or routes to understanding, then maybe itās time to wind the thread down.
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So Jordan, are there a lot of chemistry that gets āreadjustedā to fit religious dogma?
I am retired, but I do not recall that part.
When I was an industrial polymer chemist I was asked (ordered) to sign-off on fake QC documents. They (my boss) wanted to āprotect industrial secrets.ā
I quit. That day.
I see nothing different today.
Iām not exactly sure what youāre asking, but I think the answer is ānoā, at least I certainly wouldnāt suggest doing so as a way of learning the truth about things as they really are.
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Good for you. Must have been easy and difficult.
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That was the deciding moment between well paid industry jobs, and academic jobs.
I had a research fellowship offer in medicine which meant the loss of income was a lot less traumatic than I might have been.
There was a weird cross-check recently. When I was a grad student we made irradiated microbeads at the UC Irvine nuclear reactor facility. (That was my undergrad, and grad fellowships āhomeā). They were used in a research protocol to test the idea they could be used to treat inoperable cancers in the pancreas. The beads were doped with chromium. Very high energy gamma emitter.
Last summer my wife was treated at UC Irvine with micobeads doped with Yttrium 90, a lower energy isotope.
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What would it look like if it was?
You could contribute by watching and commenting on the videoā¦
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Iāve been wanting to go through Tourās points in detail, along with Sutherlands papers and post my review. Iāve been slammed the last two weeks and havenāt gotten to it yet, but Iām hoping to in the next couple days. My area is laser spectroscopy and photochemistry so Iām not exactly and expert in OoL but Iām very interested in reading up.
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I hope the treatment went well. Do they try to target the microbead placement specifically to the tumor area? If so, do you know how?
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I did a little introduction some years ago.
I plan on an update now that I have been re-interested
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No. She died.
The beads are introduced by catheter directly into the tumors. The procedure is guided by āliveā CT to start and then ultrasound. The target pathways are pre-mapped by a PET-CT with contrast dye.
The medical students and residents were very dubious that an old long haired hippy dude knew about their superdupper high tech medicine. Their boss knew better! The kiddies were shocked that I knew that Yt 90 was a negative beta decay with an ~3 day 1/2 life.
My condolences, so sorry to hear that.
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Thanks for the link, I will certainly have a look.
Well, thank you.
It is a very strange situation to know clinically, and also experience personally.