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This is such sad news. > I did not accept this. I have young kids to watch grow up and a loving wife to grow old with. Life and time are the two most precious commodoties we will e…

Is anyone aware of a "false positive" retraction? Meaning a retraction that was later found to be in error, resulting in re-publication (or whatever)? I imagine the bar for retract…

Go is a remake of what?

I think it's "Tavis" (no "r")

It seems inconsistent to punish technologists like Levandowski when we don't punish bankers, CEOs, and polluters with the the same enthusiasm.

This is an important point, and for some reason I haven't seen it discussed very widely: masks with valves protect you, but they don't fully protect anyone else.

Why are social and economic arguments against it invalid?

You nailed it. This is a reported piece, so the description could be completely off the mark. But the quote from the neuroscientist is > “What it tells me,” says Christof Koch, a n…

The post I'm responding to is a stanford researcher who is posting about lyme disease. Is she a lyme sufferer? If she is she doesn't say so, and I'm not making any assumptions. You…

> This shows a lack of empathy. Well, now you are attacking my humanity. It's very difficult to have constructive dialog about these issues when individuals attack the speaker, and…

I am a neurologist. My main comments are the same from a thread about lyme on HN 7 months ago [1]. If you follow it to it's terminal conclusion, it shows that neurologists had a st…

On a tangent: how do you know if the outcome is directly meaningful? that part is easy: ask yourself if you, personally, care. If I told you "an hour of Yoga will make your hippoca…

this is not meaningful work, because there is no "brain health" outcome in the papers they reviewed that is clinically relevant. For example: "Increase in right hippocampal GM dens…

> the treatments tested were from 30 days to 12 weeks - hardly what I would consider 'long term therapy' that's currently advocated/practiced by LLMDs ahh! there is something here.…

The best available scientific studies were conducted by conventional medical science, and show there is no benefit. It's telling that, at the time, "long term" treatment was measur…

Your link makes my point perfectly: doctors are open-minded, and have conducted rigorous investigations using meaningful clinical endpoints, and cannot substantiate the anecdotal r…

I'm a neurologist, which means I specialize in diseases of the brain, spinal cord, and nerves. The clinical entity of chronic lyme disease which is undiagnosable by conventional me…

You could have a sodium channel mutation (such as SCN9A) that makes you highly pain tolerant, but lidocaine-resistant[0]. It's a known syndrome, and may be associated with ADHD sym…

All of the skepticism here in the top comments is well-placed. This is basic thermodynamics: if you can burn fossil fuels to get energy/electricity, then putting the CO2 byproduct …

People who care about their craft are still driven by self interest: it's just that their internal value/utility puts a higher weight on the craft itself: since they get more out o…

> Flush Out the Opioid Crisis "Clever" titles are annoying to me, and more so when they degrade the clarity of the message. What does "flushing out" even mean, in the context of th…

that's a great hypothesis i hadn't heard. interesting to consider... and a bit less scary than insecticidal effects.

This just a PR-driven article that states an obvious fact (demand influences the market) in order to advance an agenda.

then it's stupidity and malice. stupid to think using the IP was a good idea malice to break my device in order to paper over their stupidity. And from a telecom no less - of all p…