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You can't lump together all forms of luck into a single "objectively true, pragmatically false" category without considering the magnitude of impact luck has on what you intend to …

That all came later as an attempt to punish Wakefield for the negative consequences to society due to people not getting vaccines. But people only stopped getting vaccines in the f…

From the paper ( http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-67... ): "We did not prove an association between measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine and the syndrome de…

I don't think it's fair to call it the "vaccines cause autism" paper. It didn't suggest a causal relationship. As usual, it was the fault of the media and public for interpreting i…

I disagree with your assertion that it is "extremely risky" to apply current nutrition knowledge. Since we don't understand the effects of the "traditional" diet, it's not clear wh…

Open source software isn't a zero sum game. When one person joins, that does not displace someone else who would normally gravitate to that field because open source can scale effi…

I think the three questions are his main focus. Having a nice conversation and asking questions is just the example method used to determine the answers. It's not revolutionary, bu…

> Whether code is concise, clear and elegant has not been causally related to success, unless that's how you define success, which is not how the market defines it. Reductio: The b…