Merged Lockerbie bomber alive after 9 months

<anecdote>My Grandad's 6 month prognosis lasted 6 years.</anecdote>

Now wouldn't it be interesting to collect cancer prognoses and compare them to actual survival times so that we could obtain a probability that the prognosis was given in good faith. Anyone?
 
So how many business contracts have British firms been awarded since the release?
 
Ocelot said:
Now wouldn't it be interesting to collect cancer prognoses and compare them to actual survival times so that we could obtain a probability that the prognosis was given in good faith. Anyone?
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That many people outlive their prognosis is one thing. That this man in particular does is something else. I might be wrong, of course, but I will bet on him living a long and productive infidel-killing life yet. He's going to be a regular medical miracle, this man. Remember: it's the good who die young.
 
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Skeptic said:
That many people outlive their prognosis is one thing. That this man in particular does is something else.
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Is he somehow special in that the prognosis was expected to be more accurate than they generally are?

I might be wrong, of course, but I will bet on him living a long and productive infidel-killing life yet. He's going to be a regular medical miracle, this man. Remember: it's the good who die young.
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So perhaps you can explain which of the doctors that examined him is lying.
 
Caustic Logic said:
Please everyone, refrain from mentioning how this monster might be innocent or this will be sent to the CT forum. Just normal politics as far as this thread is concerned - convicted mass-murdering terrorist Islamist scum set free and what now? Who pays and how?
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So the conspiracy to avoid the unsafe conviction being examined in court belongs in the CT forum, but doctors being secretly paid by Libyans/Big Oil, to offer a false prognosis isn't a conspiracy?

Surely if we have to accept the conviction because the courts said so, then we have to accept that he was lucky to survive over 6 months for exactly the same reason.

End of discussion or take it to CT... :cool:
 
lionking said:
That's the point. He was found guilty and nothing has changed that. Scotland has made a mistake it should be embarrassed about.
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Scotland did what they always do and what England does.

They gave my mother one day and she survived three.
 
Skeptic said:
That many people outlive their prognosis is one thing. That this man in particular does is something else.
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About even money, I reckon.

Skeptic said:
I might be wrong, of course, but I will bet on him living a long and productive infidel-killing life yet. He's going to be a regular medical miracle, this man. Remember: it's the good who die young.
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Propose your bet in terms of lifespan.
Quote mutliple odds for different lifespans.

I might be interested, but of course it depends on your odds.

Walk the walk? It will be interesting to how your actual odds square up to your bluster.
 
WildCat said:
So how many business contracts have British firms been awarded since the release?
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Good question. This was supposed to open the way to better business dealings and some specifics would be nice (I don;t have them, no time to dig today). In fact, somehow the appalled US is now riding on their coattails it seems. See here and here.

Skeptic said:
That many people outlive their prognosis is one thing. That this man in particular does is something else. I might be wrong, of course, but I will bet on him living a long and productive infidel-killing life yet. He's going to be a regular medical miracle, this man. Remember: it's the good who die young.
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That's more the spirit I was hoping for. However, if his cancer isn't totally faked and he dies fairlly soon, at what is it, 57? That's fairly young. So that would mean... Also, any evidence that he's killed more infidels? He was only convicted of killing the 270, and not so much for religious reasons AFAIK. I suggest we stick to what's established.
 
Ocelot said:
So the conspiracy to avoid the unsafe conviction being examined in court belongs in the CT forum, but doctors being secretly paid by Libyans/Big Oil, to offer a false prognosis isn't a conspiracy?

Surely if we have to accept the conviction because the courts said so, then we have to accept that he was lucky to survive over 6 months for exactly the same reason.

End of discussion or take it to CT... :cool:
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Ooh, excellent. Hmm... well, it's experience that tells me anything with "Megrahi is innocent" reads "Megrahi framed" and gets taken to CT. So it's that specific (and fertile) line of discourse I wanted to cut off here.

Okay and Skeptic's continued Jihad theory, but hey, I'm not the boss. But the diagnosis is coming under increasingly large Q cloud.
 
Beerina and Cicero - obviously your predictions were valid. Well, not the years one yet, and I doubt it will go that far unless the whole cancer is faked, which I find hard to accept. But then, medicines... we can only see the future when it's not.

Ponderingturtle: Well I was more concerned with American attitudes over this attack on America and an American plane, but it obviously could go in non-USA (world) politics or as it just did, it go to Social Issues.

I'm just happy with anywhere but CT, and ask everyone to continue keeping the conviction (with or without physical guilt) as the premise of everything else.
 
Personally I'm interested in taking Skeptic's money when he gets around to offering odds. But it's a busy forum and there's much to talk about elsewhere .....

p.s. a fun way to offer odds (in a non-commercial environment) is to allow the bettor to take the reverse odds. Brazil 6-1 to win the World Cup, or 1-6 not to win it. It's always a 'fair' proposition.

Fire away Skeptic

p.s. I'm not holding my breath here. Anybody want to offer odds on Skeptic backing off actually offering odds? :confused:
 
GlennB said:
Personally I'm interested in taking Skeptic's money when he gets around to offering odds. But it's a busy forum and there's much to talk about elsewhere .....

p.s. a fun way to offer odds (in a non-commercial environment) is to allow the bettor to take the reverse odds. Brazil 6-1 to win the World Cup, or 1-6 not to win it. It's always a 'fair' proposition.

Fire away Skeptic

p.s. I'm not holding my breath here. Anybody want to offer odds on Skeptic backing off actually offering odds? :confused:
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I'm not a better usually, but I'd wager 9:1 against any further elaboration of that little "theory."

ETA: Thanks to the mods for the confidence shown in allowing this thread to go where I put it after all. It's not the perfect spot, but nowhere is quite perfect.
 
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