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by Gatsky 4y ago
I think this is saying that microdosing is mainly placebo effect, and otherwise doesn’t do much. This makes sense. All these participants took full dose psychedelics at some point, and thus had very strong associations.
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Do you have kids?
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This is one alternative the USA has chosen, but obviously not the only one.
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Maybe I have a different perspective working in healthcare. People with mental illness tend to self-medicate with whatever is available, so you can’t lump dynamite and rope together with psychoactive drugs as the degree of actual harm is a
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These drugs clearly have risks. I know a case who took LSD and amputated his genitals during the trip (heard this first hand from the urologist who reattached said genitals). Sure, many or even most people will be fine, but some clearly won
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by Gatsky 4y ago
A counterpoint is that wind and solar are impossible to defend in a conflict (especially off-shore wind), and can be irretrievably wrecked with minimal risk to the attacking force. I don't think this should be any sort of impediment to
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Unfortunately Chinese academic output is heading towards default ignore mode. What's the alternative? Sad for all the great scientists there. This sort of thing is absolute cancer for research productivity. Think about the long term ef
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by Gatsky 4y ago
Beyond the lack of belief in deities part, atheism is not really a coherent philosophy or a label which reliably defines a group of people. As such it doesn’t make sense to put forward an atheism versus X argument. Atheism is the rejection
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by Gatsky 4y ago
This isn’t a good use of the term gaslighting. Accusing someone of gaslighting takes what we used to call a ‘difference of opinion’ and mutates it into deliberate and wicked psychological warfare. Incidentally, accusing someone of gaslighti
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Suggest you read my comment properly. I said the Russian regime is vindictive, not Russia . Characterising the Russian regime as a psychopathic nutcase would be more correct than a government, although as we have seen from their shamboli
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Your (bizarre) original comment was that the whistleblower should be just as worried about Ukraine coming after them. I pointed out the obvious error in this thinking, since Russia is a vicious and vindictive regime with no equal. Now you a
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I think the difference is that the Russian kleptoautocracy (hesitate to call it a government) do actually kill people they don’t like, and try hard to make it look like an assassination by Russians.
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This is an oddly anti-scientific view. We can test and evaluate the safety of the resulting GMO product. Some of the most important and useful pharmaceuticals are GMO products, produced by genetically modified cells in bioreactors. Do you h
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> She and others in the lab often ran experiments and produced Western blots, Larson says, but in their papers together, Lesné prepared all the images for publication. This is a well known thing scientific fraudsters do, “touche finale”.
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These days lung biopsies are performed with CT scan guidance (CT was only invented in 1974, widespread use came much later), endobronchial ultrasound (post 2000), or surgical exploration. Minimally invasive surgical techniques have only bee
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This was likely tuberculosis and not lung cancer. Autopsy series have shown that TB is easily confused with cancers. 40 years ago the diagnostic tools available were very crude. There is a crackpot promoting weird cancer therapies in my cou
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The writing in this chap’s substack is a joy to read. It has the rare quality of being exactly the right length. The author also did a great podcast with Tyler Cowen.
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> First in an intensive series of sketches and studies, and then on the giant canvas itself, Picasso’s tableau of horror, with its contorted faces and agonized animals, rapidly took shape; in just 35 days, the thing was done. For any pai
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The data supporting the negative effects of sleep deprivation are I think all observational, and most use self-reported sleep quality. I remain very sceptical of such analyses due to confounding variables (eg people who sleep less are also
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They work out the mechanism of UV induced orexia, then knockout the gene in the mouse thus abolishing the phenotype. They also work out why the effect is sexually dimorphic.
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I read somewhere about the history of the modern corporation, I think it was in Sapiens. The motivating factor for introducing the corporation was to create an entity which cannot be held accountable the same way a person can. It is therefo
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Reading this article makes me realise that it would take a relatively small let up in funding such projects to permanently lose the knowledge and expertise it takes to build these fantastic machines.
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Which anarchist would use the word 'state' in the title of their book? Or be concerned with diplomatic recognition? I also don't think the author is a libertarian, nor does he identify as such. Conflict between countries is t
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Wow, clearest example of gravitational lensing I've ever seen.
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What is reactive hypoglycemia?
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Is there a for-profit venture targeted at children which isn't harmful? Book publishing I guess. Struggling to think of others.
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Fundamental limits to learning closed-form mathematical models from data(arxiv.org)
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So this is a universal thing in science, nothing new under the sun etc. What’s changed is that things move faster these days, so the originator isn’t dead yet when you rediscover whatever they came up with.
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We are living in the ‘good old days’ when you could deploy your self driving car with minimal regulatory oversight. In 5 years time it will be very different. The company that collects the most quality data in this laissez-faire environment
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I've heard this from a couple of people - get her to dictate a story to you while you type it up (assuming you can type faster than she can). If it is long enough then you can send it off to a book printing service and get 5 copies or

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