Oof. Very naive. Completely ignores human nature, or somehow places academics as being above this. Which they are very much not. In fact the...
Bummer. I prefer figs myself. [IMG]
I think of it as roughly the same as political extremism on social media and youtube, the "manosphere", QAnon and so on: because there's demand...
This is laughable. It's like a participation trophy society. They don't understand how to evaluate patient reports, and seem content with grading...
Trying a general discussion, given how big of a role it plays in all this, and yet we rarely discuss it in itself. Anything that doesn't relate to...
Putting aside the issue of how 'structural' changes doesn't fit with the idea of 'functional' this or that, did they introduce a similar word to...
Why would someone need to keep paying a prescription if their brain has been 'retrained'? I guess it's so "plastic" that it has to be constantly...
Trump’s cronies aren’t what broke public health The structural blind spots that undermine medical progress and how to fix them....
Reading an excellent article that describes the many problems with evidence-based medicine, I noticed there isn't really a discussion on the forum...
It's so misleading to use terms like this knowing that they mean something very different in a press release. They mean statistically significant,...
Wessely. In the same advertorial, he presented himself as a neutral observer with no connection to the cruise ship. Despite having written the...
Since they already "know" that it works, then it really is. Of course this is the opposite of how science works, but since it's widely accepted I...
In a sane world with healthy functioning institutions, it would make a huge difference. Alas.
Hey, everyone knows that only guilty people claim innocence, therefore it's a long-standing legal principle that declaring one's innocence is a de...
I assume it's to not burden severe patients with being in the control arm as a phase 1 study. They'll probably have controls if the results are...
For sure, if you compare a bunch of rocks with a bunch of fossils that look like rocks in a time when you don't have the technology to tell them...
Although I guess they're actually comparing this to itself: So I guess the idea is the difference between generic neurologic physiotherapy, and...
They say treatment as usual. Despite a 4% difference in costs (according to them, which is an unreliable source so whatever). Which all seems to...
Amazing. They found a way of dividing by zero: find a machine that doesn't mind being stuck in an infinite loop. Yes, it's the most expensive...
Ugh. covid.gov now redirects to https://www.whitehouse.gov/lab-leak-true-origins-of-covid-19/.
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