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I am sure that there were already organic chemistry textbooks available. But, from a student's point of view, that won't matter unless the professor chooses to use this book. It ha…

A not-so-intelligent "AI".

Yes, surgical tool sets are often reusable after resterilization. But there is also a large volume of single-use products.

I think the point of the article is that if some government DID spend the money to properly research this, it would take time, as in MANY years. I remember many decades ago that Vi…

Late reply. Viewing comments, I realize my initial comment was a bit too snarky. I was not at all trying to shield the manufacturers from being held responsible for harm from a def…

There is a constant tension in the USA between the republican vs democratic parties as to the relative wisdom of bigger (more centralized) vs laissez faire (smaller, less regulated…

When there is a problem with car manufacturing, there is a recall and life goes on. When there is a problem with vaccine manufacturing, there must be a conspiracy.

I find the graph that others link to [1] to be confusing at best. It seems to be tabulating *absolute harm* over all users. So if a substance has many users, it has more total harm…

This link takes one to an hour long video, with no tl;dr. Where is the documentation that YouTube censored this?

Did this happen to be anywhere in the Bermuda triangle? :-)

A big part of life expectancy statistics includes infant mortality. If all adults live to age 100 yrs, but half of all babies born die, then the average life expectancy would be ag…

I loved this article!

Amazing article. And for some crazy reason I found myself tearing up when it considered the sacrifices of the donars.