@cremieuxrecueil @DrNeilStone I remember reading this LSD psychotheraphy book by Stanislav Grof when I was like 16 and thinking it might be the answer to my mental ills.
Good to see this being investigated again.
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@DrNeilStone It could be legit, but no one actually knows and the studies are complete garbage right now.
The one they gave Trump about depression, for example, had no control group, just a bunch of self-selected guys getting high.
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Honestly I don't know anything about psychdelics and ibogaine treatments.
Is this legit or is this more quackery from RFK Jr??
Secretary Kennedy@SecKennedy
Thank you, @joerogan, for helping bring national attention to these potentially life-saving treatments for veterans and others living with mental illness, and for pushing this conversation into the mainstream.
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I really think people should start looking at options for an escalating tax on bandwidth consumption or a tax on digital advertising.
Obviously phones are very fun and useful, but almost everyone’s marginal phone time is bad.
Bryan Johnson@bryan_johnson
Two weeks without mobile internet improved mental health more than antidepressants and reversed roughly 10 years of attentional decline. Screen time dropped 49% (314 to 161 min/day).
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@RichardHanania @AndrewZywiecMD @grok As Grok shows, 60 percent of babies adopted by lesbians are girls, so this is just a preference.
Two guys getting their first baby are obviously going to think "this is scary, lets get a guy since that'll be more familiar to us"
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@AndrewZywiecMD @grok is it true gay couples adopt boys at very high rates?
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Gay male couples adopt boys at massively higher rates: 81.8% boys in one study (vs ~50% for hetero couples).
Preferences and outcomes show clear skew to boys. Gay adoption isn't 'love,' it's child abuse that exposes kids to environments with elevated sexual abuse risk.
Ban it.
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@cremieuxrecueil Well I haven't needed to take it yet. But I assumed I was only because I felt nauseous on it once as a kid.
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This is being generous by using a weak criteria, too.
In fact, most people's 'allergies' are not real. Consider penicillin: one of the most commonly noted medicine allergies out there.
When you actually test people who think they're allergic, almost none of them are!
Crémieux@cremieuxrecueil
The number of such people with confirmable food allergies was... About 3%. There's a huge gap between what people think they're allergic to and what they're actually allergic to.
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@RichardHanania when I'm old I'll be glad I lived through DJT. Dude can rip off Jesus and get away with it.
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@deanwball @tylercowen And our top adversary suffers from none of these problems.
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The Industrial Revolution would not have happened if it had begun amid our current institutions, political economy, and level of regulation/procedural roadblocks aka “democratic input.” This is among the starkest challenges facing Western society today, though uncouth to discuss.
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@cremieuxrecueil I’ve have SLOWLY come to believe Tyler, you and others on this. It’s very, very unintuitive however.
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I hope this is not an accurate summary of the evidence so far.
If so, there's basically nothing to the case that social media hurts kids. The best evidence seems to be non-robust studies and data that's analyzed in uninformative ways.
Were we all lied to about it being harmful?
Jonathan Haidt@JonHaidt
Interested in the upcoming social media trials? Get your guide to the 7 lines of academic evidence that social media platforms are causing a variety of harms to many young people. This is a condensed version of my essay w @ZachMRausch in @HappinessRpt afterbabel.com/p/seven-lines-…
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@NorazorNall @cremieuxrecueil Hmm? No it just fixes (one of) the problems it can cause for your heart health.
I take testosterone so I can get swole!
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@wrp222 @cremieuxrecueil So you are going on statins to kill the testosterone you are taking? Why not just don’t take the testosterone?
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Neat!
In this very old (80+) Israeli sample, statin usage was associated with massively reduced mortality (-31%) and coronary event numbers (-20%) over four years.
And there was no increase in dementia, diabetes, or neuromuscular issues (p's = 0.09, 0.26, 0.12).
JAGS@AGSJournal
Statin Therapy for Primary Prevention and Clinical Outcomes in Adults Aged 80 and Older. #geriatrics agsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jg…
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Food supplementation with medically tailored meals or fresh produce was feasible and well accepted in patients with #HeartFailure but did not reduce hospitalizations or emergency visits compared to usual care. ja.ma/3Qn4cg0
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@DavidAstinWalsh Calm down, he's just a guy who disagrees with you. Get off Twitter.
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The thing that Hanania doesn’t understand is that I view his “instinctual fascism,” his rejection of fascism on the basis of his towering intellect, and his unabashed snobbery and elitism all as manifestations of his obvious psychopathy.
Richard Hanania@RichardHanania
Yes, if I were dumber, I'd accept worse arguments like postliberalism, neo-fascism, nativism, etc. He just keeps misunderstanding. This isn't that complicated! x.com/DavidAstinWals…
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Bibi has been fruitlessly begging US admins to bomb Iran and unleash the animal spirits of regime change for decades, like some shitty startup striking out with traditional VCs, over and over again — and like the savvy CEO of a shitty startup idea, he finally found a dumb-money septuagenarian family office to fork over a huge check. Genuinely embarrassing shit.
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The tech right put their man in office and America got the Theranos of wars.
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@Noahpinion It just doesn’t anger me that they have used our alliance towards their own ends. Zionism is one of the coolest things a group of people have ever pulled off, and antisemitism remains almost a human universal. So fuck it, good for you Bibi.
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Americans as a whole realize that Israel is not a good ally. 60% is a solid majority, and it's only going to grow. A breakup of some kind is coming.
Prem Thakker@prem_thakker
NEW Pew poll — 60% of Americans have a negative opinion of Israel. Just 37% favorable. 80% of Democrats & 41% of Republicans have a negative view. Among ages 14-49: 84% Democrats 57% Republicans Only 27% have confidence in Netanyahu to do the right thing for world affairs.
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@RichardHanania “I keep having the same experience and keep resisting it every time. I do not want to believe it although it is palpable: the great majority of people lacks an intellectual conscience" - Nietzsche. This has always been the most obvious influence of his on Richard
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If this guy had better reading comprehension skills, or the ability to engage with ideas he doesn’t like more dispassionately, he’d have a better chance of getting a job.
His expertise is supposed to be the right. He’s incapable of making distinctions.
David Austin Walsh@DavidAstinWalsh
No, you seem like a fascist because you have said explicitly the only reason you are no longer a fascist is because of intellectual snobbery.
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Got blood work without seeing a doctor. Ordered online in 3 minutes, got my script right away. Picked a time and went to my local lab. Results landed in my email the next day. Really easy. Just order, go to the lab, get results. Try it: privatemdlabs.com/?refid=uUDot9D…
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@mattyglesias Seriously! The counter factual is them lying about one of the most disruptive technologies ever. After Zuckerberg fucked over the reputation of Silicon Valley, they’re rebuilding it.
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@LinkofSunshine .. and negative polarization also means gridlock, so no party can accomplish much, and voters are always disappointed, instead of being loyal.
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@LinkofSunshine Tons of wrong answers. One correct answer is negative polarization. When voters are mainly motivated by hatred of the other side, and most people don’t like either party much, voters will constantly vote in a “okay let’s try the other option” way…
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