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England Voted To Have Doctors Kill Their Patients
The MPs in the UK passed a bill that will allow doctors to kill their patients.
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Emergence Is Substance; Entanglement Is Substance: Science Is Healing
There is an idea taking shape, vague but gaining strength, that good things are coming to Science.
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The Advent Of Lousy Music
In anticipation that many will be out, or in but out, today, no Class.
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November 2024

Russia’s New Paradigm — Guest Post by Ianto Watt
When Thomas Kuhn released his famous book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions in 1962, it riled a lot of people.
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Old Lodge Skins’ Prayer Of Thanksgiving
Happy Thanksgiving!
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Facing The Inevitable — Guest Post by Uncle Mike
Greetings Doomsters.
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How To Read The Paper Claiming Semaglutide Reduces Cardiomyocyte Size and Cardiac Mass
There is a new Research Shows paper on whether drugs like Ozempic (semaglutide) lower cardiac muscle mass.
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Class 30: Hypothesis Testing Stinks I
Today the math, which you don’t strictly need if you can’t calculate, behind how to think about Research Shows headlines and papers.
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Mark Twain On The Dictatorship Of Health
This post is originally from 9 November 2012, twelve years ago.
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The Impossibilities Of Quantum Computing
Since we’ll soon be discussing cause in the Class, and nowhere is cause as difficult as it is in quantum mechanics, and because somebody recently…
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What Science Can Say About Vaccines: And What It Can’t Say
Interesting times for science are in store given the incoming administration.
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Bad Predictions Mean Bad Models, Even If You’re A Distinguished Expert
Suppose you’re an Expert, or even an ordinary person, and you say, “If the world is like X, then Y will happen”.
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