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To be consistent, you'd have to leverage your arguments against other fields with replication crises, which include neuroscience and oncology. It's really true of the biomedical sc…

I was sort of on board with the two-paper rule until I got to the arguments about the reviews. Maybe in his mind integrating literature into a cohesive summary (ala meta-analysis) …

I was going to post something about methadone. I saw the same parallel, but see it the opposite of you maybe. To me, if people are taking kratom and it's helping them, why take tha…

Just want to point out that the idea that males are being persecuted for their gender isn't necessarily a fringe incel position. For example, Doris Lessing--yes, that Doris Lessing…

Honestly, I might just jump in and learn Rust. I think it's a good place to start with memory management issues because you have to deal with it but good practice is enforced. C/C+…

Unfortunately, I think you're right. From my perspective, this is exactly the sort of government-sanctioned monopoly / rent-seeking that's causing so much income inequality and eco…

Reading through that paper I'm not sure exactly what's new about it above and beyond what has been in a lot of the evolutionary algorithm literature, other than maybe formal proofs…

I think the problem with that argument is that the reasons an individual might be good allocating their own capital are distinct from the reasons they have capital, or what is just…

I agree completely with what you wrote, but wanted to add something, which is a comparison between reactions to the Bem ESP study and work on the EM Drive ( https://www.space.com/4…

People drink bleach to cure autism. Should we ban bleach? First, there's a difference between allowing the sale and distribution of a substance at all and selling it with a claim. …

My thoughts: 1. In general I don't see the government's role being to police snake oil salespersons. Fraud in the form of inaccurate ingredient lists, etc. but not the snake oil it…

The current drug regulation regime strikes me as backwards--it seems that the more appropriate assumption should be to not regulate a substance, until it can be shown to be harmful…

Meta-analysis as we know it today is largely as it is because of psychologists using it to study therapy effects. Referring to Zimbardo and the Stanford Prison Experiment as the "e…

I think the evidence begs to differ: https://www.nature.com/articles/nrn3475 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S009130571...

This is a paper that I'm glad was published (maybe not Cell, but somewhere), because it presents an interesting and pretty clear theory. At the same time, it seems like it's fairly…

I've had similar personal experiences to you and work in health care, and share your skepticism. What I think people are skeptical of today is not necessarily expertise, but creden…

Perhaps. I'd prefer it not to--I'd rather have an ecosystem with private and public competition, and one with net neutrality regulation. But it seems to me the discussion is genera…

1. Monopolization has increased in markets in general (see: ATT-Time Warner merger). 2. ISPs have realized what they can do with their increased monopolies, and have started develo…

Another strategy to this (not exclusive of other strategies) is to encourage municipal ISPs, or even go further and roll out federal ISP infrastructure ala the federal highway syst…