DanBC

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by DanBC 5y ago
Hello from the UK where we've mostly followed a policy of "let it rip", albeit that's sometimes been disguised. We're fucked. We've had very high rates of death, and we've destroyed our economy.
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The full title is "Adolescent cannabis use and later development of schizophrenia: An updated systematic review of longitudinal studies" They're not saying cannabis use cause schizophrenia. Their conclusion is pretty clear &q
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Adolescent cannabis use and later development of schizophrenia(onlinelibrary.wiley.com)
43 points by DanBC 5y ago|51 comments
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> however reality is they have one of the highest suicide rates currently Where are you getting your Swiss suicide statistics from please? How are you de-coupling assisted deaths from other suicide?
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by DanBC 5y ago
There's a lag with suicide data. For example, in the UK, the data comes from date of registration not the date of death, and death registrations are delayed because of the huge numbers of people dying by covid. And then there's pr
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by DanBC 5y ago
Full title is "The effects of psilocybin on cognitive and emotional function in healthy participants: Results from a phase 1, randomised, placebo-controlled trial involving simultaneous psilocybin administration and preparation - James
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Effect of psilocybin on cognitive and emotional function in healthy participants(journals.sagepub.com)
1 points by DanBC 5y ago|1 comments
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https://twitter.com/dgurdasani1/status/1475061938010865665?s... > Your risk of getting hospitalised with SARS-CoV-2 (any variant) depends on two things? 1. how likely are you to get infected? 2. what is your ch
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by DanBC 5y ago
> a more infectious strain of Delta What? Omicron is a more infectious version of Delta. Omicron causes the same number of deaths and hospitalisations and long covid as delta. It just also infects a lot more people more easily, and those
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by DanBC 5y ago
How is treatment for substance misuse or suicide not healthcare? > Third, racial differences in longevity. You may want to investigate the healthcare reasons for these.
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> There is literally no medical condition out there that is treated this way. Literally every medical condition will take into account quality of life before, during, and after treatment.
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No, this untrue. There is no long term harm associated with puberty blockers. I wish the anti-trans crowd would be more honest. Just come out and say that you hate trans people, that you wish to roll-back the hard-won rights they have at th
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by DanBC 5y ago
Puberty blockers are not permanent.
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Tinnitus has been reported in a few people who've only used nitrous occasionally.
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> Do you have any evidence? Do you? This is pretty much settled science, and has been since 1986. Page 30: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK179276/pdf/Bookshelf_N...
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> Moving on, the "doctor" doesn't want to give me a professional opinion, notwithstanding that he doesn't understand Bayes. "Do you want to know more?": That might be an ok manipulation on a web site, but it
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by DanBC 5y ago
Probably the fencing. We have enough pseudo-experiments now that we can say the fencing makes a difference. There's a carpark in the UK that had trouble adding fencing, so they closed the top level.
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> I'm not entirely sure Omicron is a bad thing. It's over-mutated to the point where it's not nearly as deadly as Delta This is untrue, and is based on misinterpretations of the South Africa data. There are lots of reasons
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> and even kids who are so impacted by at-home learning and impaired social lives they commit suicide. Suicide rates may rise in future, but all the available data says that they have not gone up yet. This is using real time monitoring
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Omicron will overwhelm hospitals. I'm not sure what you mean by "allowed to spread" -- people didn't want to lock down for alpha or delta, and they're no appetite for lockdown now, especially for something like omic
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by DanBC 5y ago
So far Omicron looks to be about as lethal as delta, but also more transmissible. Vaccination and boosters look to be protective against serious harm in most people.
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Status of the SARS-CoV-2 Variant Omicron in Denmark(files.ssi.dk)
6 points by DanBC 5y ago|2 comments
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https://twitter.com/AmandaPritchard/status/14703629354489856... > Over 110,000 people booked their COVID-19 booster vaccine before 9am this morning. I don't know if this is a huge amount of traffic, or jus
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by DanBC 5y ago
Did you misunderstand the document? The aim is to eliminate use of these fuels. That's not practical in many areas. Moving from open fires to more efficient enclosed fires is the first step toward elimination, used only in places where
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by DanBC 5y ago
We have internationally coordinated programmes of work to get people to move away from burnt fuel stoves to just about anything else, because so many people's lives are cut short by indoor air pollution. https://www.who.int&
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Some caution is needed around any information about oxycontin, because Purdue spent so much time and money pumping bad science everywhere.
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I mostly don't care. Good left-handed scissors or quick drying ink make a difference. Other stuff (corkscrews, breadknives, etc) don't seem so important.
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>> There is a reason why clinical doctors have an abnormally high suicide rate in the US. > Source needed on this claim. Might be true. I’m skeptical though. High relative to what? It's a persistent misunderstanding of the dat
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>Even researching what soldering wire to use is a pain because apparently leaded solder is just so much "better" when it comes to flowing than non-leaded. This used to be true (I remember having to grind through many different
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Our World in Data is not a suitable source for suicide statistics, especially if you're comparing different countries across time. They don't tell you what populations they're using; they don't tell you how these differe

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