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No mention of how many kids go to this school and how big is its catchment. I don't buy the: "Lupiano eventually arrived at a single linking factor between himself, his wife and hi…

People on the flight were vaccinate OR tested negative. Not both. Don't yet know if the cases were in the tested negative group or in the vaccinated group.

Can I please ask you to consider the problems with the chart you have shared? The vertical axis is percent increase not actual increase. It is helpful to have that context before y…

What would you prefer? A surgeon who expects a poor outcome of your surgery: a)decides to not operate on you? b)decides to operate on you nonetheless? I am in camp a

Actually, I never understood this. Is demand and supply matched and this is just the lag in the system (ie 6-8 weeks remains 6-8 weeks forever) or demand is greater than supply and…

This thread is just endless collection of n=1 observations. This is how it goes = - I eat meat and I am healthy - No, I am vegetarian and I can run faster than you - No, I eat meat…

I don't recognise that as Ockham's (Sic) razor reasoning. In fact it may be the exact opposite of that

I think as a non-US person, I think it may also be time to pay attention to executive powers in the US political system. It is one thing to have a system that will only rarely elec…

I think the article is making a valid point and your response is not the classic opposition but a more thoughtful sounding version of the taboo. :-) Study of a average 5% statistic…

Other Kiwis I know have reported receiving great treatment in France. Some have pointed out that they still feel a bit guilty about this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinking_of_th…

Of the 7 that did, only 3 were re-elected. Maybe because they were unelectable in the first place :-)

As a result of majority voters voting in favour of Brexit and to recover the democratic deficit and negotiate UK's exit from the EU a new PM has been appointed who did not support …

Enough has been said about bad treatment by border guards about every country on earth so don't need to repeat it but I had the following exchange with a Canadian visa officer. Vis…

This article is a very good example of the genre of science reporting I find very uninteresting and even boring. The way the writer builds up to the punch line by weaving in his ow…

You may have misunderstood. I was not trying to explain the $5000 gap. Administrative costs is one example of the cost difference. Research shows that 'socialised' health systms sp…

I think this is a good example where the usual association government run = bureaucratic ; privately run = straightforward breaks down because bureaucracy/non bureaucracy is not a …

Diwana is popular among vegan students from SOAS. There would be no point going to Raavi for vegans :-)

You get points for knowing Raavi Kebab near Euston

This is precisely why every time someone pitches a business idea to me using a story I flag it as one that requires addition validation of facts. Not because I think all story tell…

There are other platforms that do that. Take a look at Kiadis which can identify activated T cells and kill them and then reinfuse rest of white cells back into the patient.

I would not imagine 23andMe handing out a table with people's names in one column and their genetic info in next. And their terms and conditions clearly say that. However, with the…

A number of changes to their terms of service over the last few days indicate that the change in their business model may have come at the cost of user data protection. See recent …

one, that assumption is not tested. two, it is also not tested that the smell she say she noticed had anything to do with parkinson's. I know someone who can predict the future by …

No, if we discovered that all 6 (+1) happen to use the same deodorant which have the smell she thinks is parkinson's it would make the research look a bit silly.

I bet they didn't randomise for brand of deodorant and diet which makes this research almost meaningless.