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I'll be interested to see how this works - I submitted something, and I'll post my thoughts when I get your summary. One question: How do you deal with paper links that go to non-open access publications? Have you paid for the usual journal subscription bundles? Relying on crowdsourcing?
Interesting. Did you guys pivot from helping people find clinical trials?
We've built a system that allows us to translate difficult to read research abstracts and convert them into 4 to 8 bullet point descriptions that are readable by the common person. It's like Blinkist, but for complex research. Our backend consists of a ton of med school students, PhD's, and researchers. I myself had an autoimmune disorder for 10 years, well I still have it, but I've been in remission for the last 2 y…
We've built a system that allows us to translate difficult to read research abstracts and convert them into 4 to 8 bullet point descriptions that are readable by the common person. It's like Blinkist, but for complex research. Our backend consists of a ton of med school students, PhD's, and researchers. I myself had an autoimmune disorder for 10 years, well I still have it, but I've been in remission for the last 2 y…
Do you not worry that people who are not researchers, who are providing essentially the "TL;DR" of a disease, will provide incomplete or potentially misleading advice?
Also, I can't be sure pending research into this, but I would be surprised if these reports ended up worse than the typical news story attempting to cover such things.
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Do you not worry that people who are not researchers, who are providing essentially the "TL;DR" of a disease, will provide incomplete or potentially misleading advice?
I would rather have incomplete knowledge of a topic than none. The toughest part of learning something, like so many other cases, is in getting started. Also, I can't be sure pending research into this, but I would be surprised if these reports ended up worse than the typical news story attempting to cover such things.
"We don't know what happens if you drink cyanide." is different than "You should drink cyanide."
We've built a system that allows us to translate difficult to read research abstracts and convert them into 4 to 8 bullet point descriptions that are readable by the common person. It's like Blinkist, but for complex research. Our backend consists of a ton of med school students, PhD's, and researchers. I myself had an autoimmune disorder for 10 years, well I still have it, but I've been in remission for the last 2 y…
I really think your on to something here. People must be advocates for themselves and keep up to date in the areas of research where their medical problems exist if they want be sure they are getting the best care and treatments.
Information about diseases people search for is valuable to a lot of third parties.
Are the summaries entirely free? If so, what's in it for the summarizers?
Really interesting idea! Are the summaries entirely free? If so, what's in it for the summarizers?
We get great SEO value out of publishing the long tail of summarized research.