zeleza

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by zeleza 5y ago
Link to the preprint: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3830681
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Malaria Vaccine: 77% Efficacy(bbc.co.uk)
3 points by zeleza 5y ago|1 comments
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by zeleza 6y ago
I agree, this is biased sample trash and Scientific American should feel bad about their reporting on this.
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by zeleza 6y ago
Not at all true, there's been a ton of study on lucid dreams. Check out a summary of the research by Jennifer Windt: https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/dreaming
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Half Life: Alyx announced – 'Alyx' is a weird way to spell '3'(youtube.com)
1 points by zeleza 7y ago|1 comments
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by zeleza 7y ago
If the link is "weak to non-existent" and our a priori thinking is that it should be perfectly safe, shouldn't we default to it being safe? I'm not against also running studies to make sure we haven't missed somethi
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by zeleza 7y ago
It seems theoretically impossible for non-ionising radiation produced by 5G or any other radio emitters to cause cancer as there's no known mechanism for it to induce carcinogenic damage, so a priori we should expect that 5G is safe un
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by zeleza 7y ago
As always, a reminder that correlation != causation. This shows an association between hormone levels and autism, which is suggestive. But keep in mind that there may be a confounding factor or factors (e.g. the same genes that control syna
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by zeleza 7y ago
Cool work! If you're allowing more biological cognitive neuroscience, I'd also consider adding: -engram studies on memory, probably starting with the Liu et al 2012 paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/natur