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I like stories about how Singaporeans are doing well because unlike with Scandinavian countries the woodwork-crawlers can't use the muddy and dark-implications heavy "homogenous po…

Can someone explain how the use case differs from simply using a well-curated hosts file? (like Steven Black's)

Why don't we just ban advertising?

Chloroquine has shown promising results but the number of cases was small and the study was flawed. Lopinavir-ritonavir has shown disappointing results but the number of cases was …

The antiviral treatments undergoing trial are (for the most part) very inexpensive drugs that have been known for years or even decades so they don't need additional testing once t…

If that's any reassurance to you they are observing an inflection in Italy, potentially a sign that the lockdowns have their desired effects. We just need to hold on for a couple w…

I didn't specifically have you in mind and I'm sorry I made you feel that way

Won't somebody think of equities and people's net worth?

Actually they can be actively harmful in that they lead people to do spurious reasoning with the unwarranted confidence that came from the false reassurance of it being "biology", …

The last time I read it (admittedly more than a decade ago) it had a preface where Camus literally admitted as such.

I think the pandemic is really pulling the mask off in that it neatly sorts out the kind of people who worry about vulnerable people, the elderly and not overwhelming the healthcar…

Oh no, not the market!

That's fair, I have to keep reminding myself that "the early aughts" are not less than 10 years ago.

Please please please don't try to transpose behavioural models from slime molds (or any other species, really) to humans.

I guess that's the point. And I mean, Trump appears to have forfeited this role of his own accord, what with all his America First schtick. Also, it seems that regarding covid the …

Idk you could google it? But as anecdotal evidence I had to take it as a kid as a prophylactic against malaria. So did literally everyone I knew back then.

Establishing a theoretical framework only for it to be proved with experimental evidence centuries later is actually common. As some other poster said, it still adds to the knowled…

Can also confirm that all the usual advice people give (maintain "life hygiene", eat well, have a cold shower, stop staring at screens, don't do exercise prior to sleeping, don't t…

You just need to follow the curves in Italy and France - the US follows closely

The Popperian vision of science is good enough for students so that their naive mind can enter the field with idealistic perspectives but it's not how actual professionals practice…

This may be the appropriate thread to remind people that Darwin was far from the be-all and end-all of evolutionary biology and much of what he said turned out to be actually mista…

and France