DanBC

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Samuel Morland, Magister Mechanicorum (2017)(headstuff.org)
27 points by DanBC 3y ago|1 comments
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by DanBC 3y ago
Yes, and the screening committee publish their methodology and evidence. https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/uk-national-scre...
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by DanBC 3y ago
> Catching cancer early is of great importance Is it? There's lots of stuff (including lots of cancers) where finding it early doesn't have much impact on all cause mortality.
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by DanBC 3y ago
It feels remarkably low, like a massive massive under-count of a very serious serious problem. The article does mention this, and some of the potential causes: > Experts cautioned that the figures were likely to be a serious underestimat
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How much money does the UK National Gallery earn from image licensing fees?(twitter.com)
4 points by DanBC 3y ago|0 comments
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by DanBC 3y ago
"Substance induced psychosis": https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8732862/
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by DanBC 3y ago
> the research is mind-blowing. Drug companies said that about ketamine, and then they realised they couldn't make much money from ketamine infusions, so they tweaked ketamine to get eskatamine and turned it into a nasal spray. That
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by DanBC 3y ago
> If you want the procedure though nationalised healthcare (NHS), there is a wait Unless it's an emergent procedure, in which case it'll be done same day or within the next 72 hours.
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by DanBC 3y ago
> the real benefit comes from having periodic scans against a baseline. This is over-testing, and it leads to over-diagnosis and over-treatment and it is a well recognised form of harm in healthcare.
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by DanBC 3y ago
How does he square this with the fact that most people who die by suicide have sought help within the past twelve months?
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by DanBC 4y ago
It's US government agencies that call death by suicide a form of violence, and that's the reason that death by suicide involving a gun is a form of gun violence. This is despite all the weird laws in the US against collecting, ana
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by DanBC 4y ago
So, gun violence isn't a problem but only if you ignore several signifcant forms of gun violence?
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by DanBC 4y ago
> Access to healthcare is pretty much instant and high quality for all but the very bottom of the society. The US simultaneously under-treats poor people while over-treating rich people. This is why health outcomes in the US are so bad a
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The Fake Chip Scourge(youtube.com)
1 points by DanBC 4y ago|1 comments
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by DanBC 4y ago
This video is a pretty good discussion of the problems of fake ICs. It starts with an example that is genuinely shocking - a fake IC being used in a military aircraft. I've worked in the electronics industry building test equipment, a
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by DanBC 4y ago
I'm submitting this because it's important to understand how social media platforms are actually used, and how this can contribute to human death. This isn't an isolated incidence - we've seen it in many other places too
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How to avoid false narratives around DR Congo's M23 conflict(thenewhumanitarian.org)
1 points by DanBC 4y ago|2 comments
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by DanBC 4y ago
> The main way is via your allocated General Practitioner (GP). To see a GP you need to telephone the GP's place of work, known as a surgery, and to have any chance of getting a same day appointment you need to call at 8am precisely
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by DanBC 4y ago
You reduce bed numbers by pushing less sick people out of hospital. This means that your two 6-bed bays now don't have 4 people who need minimal nursing, 6 people who need moderate nursing, and 2 people who need high level nursing. It
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by DanBC 4y ago
Please at least read the pages you quote. > this is likely to have been driven in part by activities in response to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, such as testing and tracing services and the implementation of the vaccination progr
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by DanBC 4y ago
The Kings Fund is a credible source of information about the NHS systems in England, Scotland, Wales, and NI. One of the reasons that they're credible is because they're cautious about definitions. In your quote they're sayin
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by DanBC 4y ago
> If you think the government should provide everything you need to live If you're going to argue against fundamental human rights like "right to life" then you're going to have to do better than the arguments you&#x2
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by DanBC 4y ago
> That is NOT the same thing as NHS, which completely takes over and provides the care. There's loads of reasons to dislike NHS care and it's genuinely weird that people who are so against the NHS never manage to hit on somet
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by DanBC 4y ago
Most of the people in hospital who are medically fit to discharge but who need a care package before discharge are underweight, not overweight.
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by DanBC 4y ago
But it isn't, which is why there are so many people on YouTube earning money telling you how to do things the wrong way.
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by DanBC 4y ago
There are a million YouTube videos of people confidently telling you how to do something but getting it pretty badly wrong. There are so many that there's now another genre of reacting to this bad advice.
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by DanBC 4y ago
Hospitals should run at something like an 80% capacity. This allows safety and flexibility in the system. UK politicians have spent the past ten years talking about "efficiency savings" (meaning real term cuts), and so now the sys
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by DanBC 4y ago
It should be obvious that they're not all doctors and nurses - there's nothing in the medical education of a doctor that would prepare them to be eg an accountant or a buyer. "The NHS is over-managed" is a tired, boring,
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by DanBC 4y ago
It would if you sued to prevent the off-label use, which is something that happened with avastin and lucentis for wet AMD.
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by DanBC 4y ago
> Is that a crime? You didn't say where you are. Copyright infringement tends not to be a criminal offence, unless you're doing it as part of a business (so if you print out copies of that ebook and sell them) or you do so much

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