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I remember posting on this

Orion — Sat, 24 Jul 2021 18:31:26 +0000

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I think that the change in the past ten years is that there has been a significant decline in respect and faith in institutions. It is ominous but I don't know where that leads us - you see this in across the spectrum destruction and revisioning of statues, state buildings, cultural artifacts, etc.

Thank you so much for taking

artappraiser — Fri, 23 Jul 2021 21:25:39 +0000

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Thank you so much for taking the time to say that, Orion. While I mostly post stuff for myself, and would use the Michael's temporarily abandoned "facilities" to do that if I were the only one here, it sure is nice to hear that someone else enjoys it, Especially cause the only other feedback I've gotten for years is kvetching that I've "taken over" the site, when in reality I'm pretty sure there'd be very little content here if I wasn't doing it.

p.s. I give credit for any recent increase in quality to having spent time on picking a whole bunch of quality "curators" to follow on Twitter. I think that's the way to get atypical input, not just the usual that editors at NYTimes, WaPo, Politico, Yahoo, Google News think we should know.

I've argued against anti

Aaron Carine — Fri, 23 Jul 2021 21:07:34 +0000

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I've argued against anti-vaxxers by saying "I doubt the whole medical profession has been lying for 200 years", but if she is right I might need a new argument.

You guys at Dagblog have

Orion — Fri, 23 Jul 2021 18:12:28 +0000

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You guys at Dagblog have grown A LOT over the years. Just had to put that out there. You are posting some really excellent material, artappraiser.

Meanwhile opioid revival

PeraclesPlease — Wed, 21 Jul 2021 18:19:11 +0000

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Meanwhile opioid revival

Too many people DYING. The same drug that killed Prince, Tom Petty, rapper Mac Miller and pitcher Tyler Skaggs is now raging across the country -- courtesy of the cartels -- taking out thousands of people in the new epidemic. #addition #recovery #sobriety https://t.co/kTsrY4Bfmr
— Michael Sallah (@MikeSallah7) June 13, 2021

Only a minority of medical

rmrd0000 — Wed, 21 Jul 2021 13:32:37 +0000

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Only a minority of medical articles hold up over time. John Ioannidis, a professor at Stanford, analyzes flaws in medical data. He notes the following:

Ioannidis recommends asking the following questions: is this something that has been seen just once, or in multiple studies? Is it a small or a large study? Is this a randomized experiment? Who funded it? Are the researchers transparent?

https://phys.org/news/2018-07-beware-scientific-studiesmost-wrong.html

Ioannidis notes the influence of industry support on findings in studies. One of the most glaring was a device that received FDA approval after authors of articles in medical journals received significant amounts of money. The device was in use for ten years before questions arose.

https://stanfordmag.org/contents/something-doesn-t-add-up

Ioannidis himself came under fire when he questioned mortality rates reported in the early days of the COVID epidemic. He was merely saying that we had to wait for more numbers from larger groups of patients.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-ioannidis-affair-a-tale-of-major-scientific-overreaction/

Questioning single studies or groups of studies with low numbers of patients is a rational thing to do.

In a somewhat similar vein

artappraiser — Wed, 21 Jul 2021 05:29:08 +0000

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In a somewhat similar vein (though her piece is focused on different dynamics), Marcia Angell wrote a long article in NYRB that includes the below.https://t.co/C0zeOoUxbN https://t.co/oq1wgOGd2Z pic.twitter.com/TCDgDzVbdn
— Patrick Collison (@patrickc) July 21, 2021