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+1 for price controls in medicine

It's a problem of translation between the chemistry definition of toxic (it will kill you in short order) and the common definition (poisonous, noxious). Bittman was using the latt…

This makes a lot of sense, but feels unsavory to me. It's not so different than a drug dealer offering the first taste for free. EA knows that once they've hacked my mesolimbic dop…

Do people really think that Broder lied about the car dying?

The idea is to replace 80% of doctors with machines. h/t, of course, to Thomas Goetz

From the wonderful science writer Deborah Blum

Fascinating guy that Clayton