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oaktrout

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    Comment #47189726

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hernia Im guessing English isn't your first language? Fistel is not a commonly used term.

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    Comment #46878838

    At one time I had more than 20,000 cards that I had >85% recall on after 21 days... Hard to do that without the digital version.

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    Comment #46869770

    I'm hopeful this new company wont ruin anki, but assuming they do, how do I find the "new anki" fork and how do I contribute. Is there a community / anki forum that hasn't been acq…

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    Comment #43723277

    By age 50, around 80% of people have a degenerative disc on imaging... it's over 1/3rd by age 20. Everyone is going to get a bad back at some point if they don't take care of thems…

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    Comment #43529174

    I'm skimming the results, but it looks like adult teeth had less cavities when they turned the fluoride off...and that was not observed in Edmonton where they left the fluoride on …

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    Comment #43525697

    My first sentence in my original post was " The conclusion from the largest and strongest studies is that there is a certain level of fluoride that harms IQ." I did not move the go…

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    Comment #43525583

    "The NTP monograph concluded, with moderate confidence, that higher levels of fluoride exposure, such as drinking water containing more than 1.5 milligrams of fluoride per liter, a…

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    Comment #43525527

    All the evidence in that article is based on what a politician thinks. "And I think another meta study came out also". The actual high quality evidence shows that water fluorinatio…

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    Comment #43525422

    Fluorinated water minimally reduces cavities: https://www.cochrane.org/news/water-fluoridation-less-effect... It was probably much more effective 50 years ago when fluoride was not…

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    Comment #43525399

    Before calling them "anti science wackos", why not review the evidence or cite some of your own. Ironic that the "wackos" seem to be the only ones providing any evidence for their …

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    Comment #43525346

    The study and my quote literally say " drinking water containing more than 1.5 milligrams of fluoride per liter". It did not find it lowered IQ in all drinking water concentrations…

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    Comment #43525207

    Please define appropriate levels and then cite some evidence that proves with high certainty that level is safe. For the sake of argument, assume that only 1% of the US has levels …

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    Comment #43525173

    The conclusion from the largest and strongest studyies is that there is a certain level of fluoride that harms IQ: https://ntp.niehs.nih.gov/whatwestudy/assessments/noncancer/... .…

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    Comment #42913452

    To emphasize your point, I don't think anyone will notice if someone's alzheimers is 2.3% better. These rating scales like CDR-SB (invented by drug companies or researchers who are…

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    Comment #42913433

    From what I've read, those drugs are very good at removing amyloid, but despite that, they don't seem to make much of a noticeable (clinically meaningful) difference in the people …

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    Comment #38577312

    There is some evidence that artificial sweeteners increase insulin resistance: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7014832/ I have also heard that because artificial sweet…

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    Comment #38116561

    On some quick googling the mean debt at graduation from medical school is about 250,000 (this includes undergrad). This number is trending upward. There is also the opportunity cos…

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    Comment #38107680

    There was rampant expansion of emergency medicine residency spots in the prior years without an associated increase in demand for new EM docs. People noticed the market there and c…

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    Comment #37051110

    Or written with help from chat gtp, I've seen it hallucinate similar mistakes before.

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    Comment #37015875

    A 2018 article by the same author with a similar theme: https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/jaha.117.008230 Interestingly, there were no differences in the number of procedures…

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    Comment #37015753

    As an argument to illustrate why 30 day mortality isnt a long enough period, imagine this scenario: you have a cancer that has a 90% chance of killing you in one year. You will be …

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    Comment #36830407

    Hopefully he makes it into a clinical trial. In case anyone is interested in reading what trial options are available for this type of cancer you can find the trials here: https://…

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    Comment #36696488

    Also a law that could change at any minute.