tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1640145326942707855.post3229323631938780969..comments2023-11-02T08:54:33.024-07:00Comments on Throckmorton's other signs: ACLU Healthcare screeiningThrockmortonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12362147065452723155noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1640145326942707855.post-89423218947254243372010-11-30T09:13:52.881-08:002010-11-30T09:13:52.881-08:00Funny Throckmorton! I just don't get it. Thing...Funny Throckmorton! I just don't get it. Things seem so obvious ..common sense obvious and yet ..they continually ignore the facts.<br /><br />Terrorists must really be loving this.SeaSprayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07906503090688697222noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1640145326942707855.post-73977200099343561782010-11-26T18:52:54.811-08:002010-11-26T18:52:54.811-08:00Consider that defensive medicine and its costs are...Consider that defensive medicine and its costs are exactly the result of not being able to profile effectively. At some point, a doctor's "profiling" (diagnostic knowledge and experience) has identified or eliminated diagnoses to within a small probability. Yet, some problems get through at a very low rate.<br /><br />Instead of living with this fallability, the threat of a lawsuit prompts the doctor to send everyone through the scanner. This defends against the lawyer at great cost, but doesn't defend against the disease at any reasonable cost.<br /><br />The TSA is defending against the political effects of another attack by screening for the physical characteristics of prior attacks. Worse, disease doesn't know that you are looking for it. But, terrorists are actively evading any fixed test that is deployed to find them.<br /><br />Only refined profiling and cost-effective testing will prevent terrorism at a bearable cost. If the terrorists cause the US to spend $300 billion per year on security, then they have gotten a wonderful return on their investment in a few, failed attacks.Andrew_M_Garlandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02855052302054611917noreply@blogger.com