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I mean yeah, maybe, but this is how everything works

So? What should be the correct rate of accepted claims? Or should companies simply accept all insurance claims?

The Cheese and the Worms was lovely. It also dissuades you of any notion of the idyllic past, the sheer weight and organization of the totalitarian church was impressive.

That's also what most grad students are doing. Even in the unlikely case they completely stop improving, it's still a massive deal.

First heart transplant lived for 18 days post-op, it has to start somewhere.

A lot of British bio/med researchers in the US too

This is a very utilitarian view of learning. Mass education isn't meant just to teach you marketable skills, it's quite explicitly designed to create a shared understanding of the …

IF implemented in a sane manner, I don't see how this is worse than a lottery based system.

"Same in the West" lmao, when were scientists executed in the West? The 1500s?

Yes it is: "Group selection, which was once widely rejected as a significant evolutionary force, is now accepted by all who seriously study the subject." ( https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih…

Menopause is also an obvious planned partial shutdown (vs males who can reproduce when they're 80) and we're no closer to "curing" it, turning it off.

Yes, it's widely accepted that you have variable proportions of individual vs group level selection depending on circumstances.

Height is controlled by genes too and you don't get people shorter than 0.5 m or taller than 3 m

It's very likely that aging is driven by some kind of scheduled gene program. It makes perfect sense to phase out individuals from a group-level selection point of view.

Nicotine by itself doesn't cause cancer.

Computers are just "doing math" too and the government uses them

I never understood what the microtubule woo is supposed to answer that isn't answerable by neural network dynamics.

It would have been bright and shiny when new back then too

That's a lot of words, including a sentence that in which the author almost compares himself with Galileo. The proof is in the pudding no? What did you predict with it?

One more way to scam desperate parents doing IVF out of their money.

"public interest" is a much more ambiguous thing than the written law

Regardless of the details of this specific case, the courts are not democratic and do not decide based on the interest of the parties or how many they are, they decide based on the…

Riveting bleeding edge research in the humanities - we now use one term instead of another for the same thing.

Most of the things you listed aren't aging related

Radiation effects are vastly overrated.