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There is always bias in the userbase, people usually watch content on their side of the political agenda for example. How do you know the so-called "brigade" isn't actually bringin…

It is in the english language. > the expression of disapproval of someone or something based on perceived faults or mistakes. Regardless the parent was talking about someone sharin…

So criticism and encouraging people to consider the criticism? What is wrong with that?

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> piles of credentials and active practices with tens of thousands of satisfied patients This doesn't constitute strong evidence and isn't how science works.

> This is, for both scientific and political reasons, a very difficult area to work in, and I don’t believe the evidence is in to either support or rebut that claim. The default po…

> all they are doing is selecting for folks who "cheat" by being able to memorize massive amount of leetcode questions This takes an extremely high level of cognitive ability, whic…

I don't think many medical scientists support any functional medicine practice. I have no doubt much of the medical industry is extremely corrupt, but I have a hard time believing …

If most data is common between people, then storing the diffs should be cheap.

No it isn't. Groups of people obviously have different genes. For example, some East Africans are far better at sprinting. Does admitting that make me racist against non-east afric…

How was it inaccurate?

> I think the biggest risk of being oversold right now are the "polygenic risk scores" being used for various quantitative traits, which fail to generalize very well. How do the hi…

> but genetic testing is used extenstively and effectually by functional medicine practictioners every day You mean this functional medicine? Or are you using the term in a differe…

How do you justify racism against asians, who are the most affected group by these discriminatory policies, when they are often poor and somehow quickly rise with good scores? Obvi…