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by taxicabjesus 2y ago
Seems like this was revived via the second-chance system. I noticed it on the front page (1-30) this morning, but when I looked ~two hours later it was #447. I've sorta followed this doctor's posts for a while. He has some good in
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by taxicabjesus 2y ago
Russia was supposed to rapidly collapse after the sanctions were applied ~2.5 years ago. I think vastly more damage has been done to Britain and the EU’s economies. I read that Russia has gotten most of the businesses that were abandoned go
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by taxicabjesus 2y ago
> This also applies to shorter sentences. Even these can completely turn an offender’s life upside down. You can lose your job, home and social network. And you rarely become a better person during a short stay in jail. I had a few exper
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by taxicabjesus 2y ago
> 1. Yes, the COVID treatments we're using today are vaccines. There were efforts to figure out how to treat SARS-CoV-2 with existing safe medications, but these efforts were suppressed. In the early days Dr. Zelenko treated his obv
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by taxicabjesus 2y ago
My introduction to Hallelujah was via Malcolm Gladwell's podcast. A good portion of Season 1, Episode 7 (2016) was dedicated to the evolution of Leonard Cohen's song from 'forgotten B-side track' to the song that is co
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by taxicabjesus 2y ago
The easy problems have all been solved. All that’s left is fixing the science-mistakes that were made along the way.
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by taxicabjesus 2y ago
There was a redditor who posted to /r/legaladvice/. One of the responders said it might be carbon monoxide poisoning. https://np.reddit.com/r/legaladvice/comments/34l7vo/ma_posti... WBUR d
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by taxicabjesus 2y ago
My quip is supposed to be lighthearted, as the medical industry is obviously not a wealth-transfer scheme to transportation providers. The medical system gets paid regardless of whether their treatments actually help their patients. I don&#
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by taxicabjesus 2y ago
The blog post seems to indicate the problem is systemic in the criminal justice system's attempts to integrate Science into its rulings: > Once convicted, however, defendants in cases of faulty science run up against an anti-scienti
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by taxicabjesus 2y ago
Interesting article, thanks. This is about the legal aspects of Shaken Baby Syndrome, and how Robert Roberson's was sentenced to death in Texas on the basis of now-obsolete science. It's almost impossible for the medical professio
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by taxicabjesus 2y ago
I decided, circa 2012, that healthcare was a make-work program for us taxi drivers. Sometimes transportation providers would make vastly more taking people to their appointments than the provider would receive for the checkup or the group
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by taxicabjesus 2y ago
This article is preaching to the faithful. I recognize the techniques because I myself have, in the past, amused myself by becoming a false profit. If the Science wants vaccines to be accepted whole-heartedly by the public it has to figure
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by taxicabjesus 2y ago
Some people are of the philosophical bent that our world is entirely random. But this doesn't commonly match our experience. For example, I often asked people how they met their significant other. Sometimes it was nothing special, some
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by taxicabjesus 2y ago
> Virtually every force we experience in everyday life (with the exception of gravity) is electromagnetic in origin. [...] It wasn’t until the arrival of Oliver Heaviside, who reformulated and simplified the equations [...] Maxwell'
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by taxicabjesus 2y ago
This part of Arizona is just north of Lake Havasu (a reservoir on the Colorado River). Summer highs average 109 degrees (hottest days are 120+), nighttime lows average 85 degrees - so people need to run their air conditioning units after th
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by taxicabjesus 2y ago
This might be a better term: confirmation bias called in military parlance ‘tactical fixation’
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by taxicabjesus 2y ago
oh, the submission was yours too, didn't notice until just now. Hah! I'd added the comment linked above to my favorites, which helped me track it down. Thanks for the links. Edit: > The "cognitive bias" you mention (d
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by taxicabjesus 2y ago
This is about Shaken Baby Syndrome, which I learned from one of your comments is a fraudulent diagnosis: only a fraction of the "shaken babies" are actually abused. The Ask HN was about 'useless projects'. From /u
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by taxicabjesus 2y ago
ECMO is also a cause of death, when the patient's lung problems are worsened by hyperoxia [0]. [0] "Supplementary oxygen administration is widely used in emergency and intensive care medicine and can be life-saving in critical con
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by taxicabjesus 3y ago
I took a lot of seniors to and from their health care appointments when I was taxi driving. After a while I started to try to get them to chuckle about their predicament of being tossed from specialist to specialist. The system I observed m
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by taxicabjesus 3y ago
Thanks for the comment. I realized something while composing this poll that should help me finish my blog post about alcoholism.
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by taxicabjesus 3y ago
Yes, anything’s better than jail/prison for helping people with their compulsive behavior
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by taxicabjesus 3y ago
Yes, and I pledge to help spread the good news of effective interventions for addiction
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Poll: Should I compile my thoughts about addiction?
1 points by taxicabjesus 3y ago|2 comments
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by taxicabjesus 3y ago
Yes
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by taxicabjesus 3y ago
No
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by taxicabjesus 3y ago
Yes, but only if you’re actually a Credentialed Scientist
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by taxicabjesus 3y ago
No, addiction is simply a matter of willpower
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by taxicabjesus 3y ago
No, addiction is a moral failing. Addicts can’t be helped. The only solution is to lock them all up
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by taxicabjesus 3y ago
The tragedy of #OxygenToxicity is that the antidote was known, and was becoming normal medicine, but got forgotten around 1950/1960. The tragedy of 2020 is how the doctors tried to help their patients with toxic amounts of oxygen. I re

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