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This might not apply in this case, but one measure used to determine the identity of a leaker is making slight changes to sensitive material that is given out. For example, a minor typo or word change on each page that is different for everybody. A screenshot of one page is all that is needed to reveal yourself. As you can see, there are clever ways of pinpointing who the leaker is.

What was your favorite piece of hate mail?

I think it's equally important to implement better control measures in science and medicine to rid each of corruption. Here's a few examples of what should not be taking place:

• WASHINGTON -- A group of scientists at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday sent a letter to President-elect Barack Obama's transition team pleading with him to restructure the agency, saying managers have ordered, intimidated and coerced scientists to manipulate data in violation of the law.

• Richard Horton, editor in chief of The Lancet, recently wrote: “Much of the scientific literature, perhaps half, may simply be untrue. Afflicted by studies with small sample sizes, tiny effects, invalid exploratory analyses, and flagrant conflicts of interest, together with an obsession for pursuing fashionable trends of dubious importance, science has taken a turn towards darkness. As one participant put it, “poor methods get results”.

• The pharmaceutical group GlaxoSmithKline has been fined $3bn (£1.9bn) after admitting to bribing doctors and encouraging the prescription of unsuitable antidepressants to children.

I'm really surprised people are so skeptical.

I still see people pretending that "shilling" is a tinfoil conspiracy theory. We know for a fact that many countries and corporations are doing this. The forum manipulators have targeted Reddit, Twitter, Instagram, youtube, etc. Everything is compiled at the Astroturfing Information Megathread.

Reddit is the 3rd largest social media site in the US. After the recent change with counting votes, perhaps more people will begin to realize the motivation behind manipulating Reddit. If I had to guess, I would say most people don't realize the amount of traffic that comes from being featured on the front page. /r/pics, for example, has just under a million unique visitors per day.

Let's say I work for some corporation. If I post a pic of a cute dog with a corporate product visible in the image and it hits the top 2 or 3 posts, that's a million people who just viewed an ad.

All schools should have agricultural education as part of the curriculum and contain school gardens on site that is able to prepare and provide some of the lunch ingredients.

This is such a beautiful idea.

As a hiker and wild food consumer, I see so much waste when I look around and all I see are pines, oaks, etc. Why not replace them with fruit trees? This goes for trees in cities, parks, and schools.

Those bushes around schools should be blackberry, thimbleberry, raspberry, etc.