Medicine

TagLast edit: 3 Dec 2021 10:36 UTC by MondSemmel

Note that, for convenience, posts relating to the 2019 coronavirus outbreak are instead found in here.

Rational Toothpaste: A Case Study

badger31 May 2012 0:31 UTC

123 points

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Diseased thinking: dissolving questions about disease

Scott Alexander30 May 2010 21:16 UTC

427 points

355 comments9 min readLW link

Black Death at the Golden Gate (book review)

PeterMcCluskey26 Jun 2020 16:09 UTC

17 points

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(www.bayesianinvestor.com)

Tales From the American Medical System

Zvi10 May 2019 0:40 UTC

63 points

48 comments4 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

The 300-year journey to the covid vaccine

jasoncrawford9 Nov 2020 23:06 UTC

121 points

9 comments5 min readLW link 2 reviews

(rootsofprogress.org)

Consider Taking Zinc Every Time You Travel

Elizabeth1 Oct 2021 3:50 UTC

36 points

41 comments2 min readLW link

(acesounderglass.com)

“Eating Dirt Benefits Kids” is Basically Made Up

Elizabeth8 Oct 2021 8:30 UTC

63 points

13 comments3 min readLW link

(acesounderglass.com)

The Machine that Broke My Heart

lsusr30 Dec 2021 11:59 UTC

44 points

35 comments2 min readLW link

Dying Outside

HalFinney5 Oct 2009 2:45 UTC

315 points

91 comments2 min readLW link

Phage therapy in a post-antibiotics world

ChristianKl29 Dec 2019 17:03 UTC

22 points

14 comments2 min readLW link

MetaMed: Evidence-Based Healthcare

Eliezer Yudkowsky5 Mar 2013 13:16 UTC

110 points

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Why epidemiology will not correct itself

gwern11 Aug 2011 0:54 UTC

69 points

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Dealing with the high quantity of scientific error in medicine

NancyLebovitz25 Oct 2010 13:53 UTC

59 points

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My IRB Nightmare

Scott Alexander28 Sep 2017 16:47 UTC

40 points

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Literature-review on cognitive effects of modafinil (my bachelor thesis)

David Althaus8 Jan 2014 19:23 UTC

53 points

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Thirty-three randomly selected bioethics papers

Rob Bensinger22 Mar 2021 21:38 UTC

105 points

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Curing insanity with malaria

Swimmer9634 Aug 2021 2:28 UTC

155 points

7 comments4 min readLW link

Activated Charcoal for Hangover Prevention: Way more than you wanted to know

Maxwell Peterson10 Jan 2022 19:26 UTC

74 points

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Why Doesn’t Healthcare Improve Health?

George16 Feb 2022 11:28 UTC

59 points

18 comments12 min readLW link

(www.epistem.ink)

Cognitive Enhancers: Mechanisms And Tradeoffs

Scott Alexander23 Oct 2018 18:40 UTC

42 points

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(slatestarcodex.com)

SSRIs: Much More Than You Wanted To Know

Scott Alexander8 Jul 2014 2:06 UTC

16 points

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Why we need better science, example #6,281

lukeprog10 Dec 2011 23:25 UTC

43 points

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Book review: Why we sleep

Richard_Ngo19 Sep 2018 22:36 UTC

47 points

18 comments5 min readLW link

(thinkingcomplete.blogspot.com)

Book Review: Complications

Annoyance1 Jul 2009 18:39 UTC

13 points

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Personalized Medicine For Real

sarahconstantin4 Mar 2019 22:40 UTC

210 points

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(srconstantin.wordpress.com)

Fibromyalgia, Pain & Depression. How much is due to physical misalignment?

leggi29 Oct 2019 14:58 UTC

7 points

4 comments18 min readLW link

Taking vitamin D3 with K2 in the morning

ChristianKl30 Nov 2018 19:00 UTC

52 points

48 comments4 min readLW link

Prediction-based medicine (PBM)

ChristianKl29 Dec 2016 22:49 UTC

37 points

14 comments4 min readLW link

The Dogma of Evidence-based Medicine

ChristianKl25 Jan 2018 21:15 UTC

12 points

39 comments4 min readLW link

Effects of Castration on the Life Expectancy of Contemporary Men

Fluttershy8 Aug 2015 4:37 UTC

16 points

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Recommendations vs. Guidelines

Scott Alexander13 Apr 2018 4:10 UTC

72 points

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(slatestarcodex.com)

[Question] If someone you loved was experiencing unremitting suffering (related to a constellation of multi-dimensional factors and processes, those of which include anomalous states of consciousness and an iatrogenic mental health system), what would you think and what would you do?

Sara C3 Jul 2020 21:02 UTC

19 points

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Bayes for Schizophrenics: Reasoning in Delusional Disorders

Scott Alexander13 Aug 2012 19:22 UTC

144 points

155 comments11 min readLW link

War on Cancer II

ChristianKl24 Jun 2021 14:59 UTC

35 points

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[Question] For reducing caffeine dependence, does daily maximum matter more, or does total daily intake matter more?

Maxwell Peterson9 Jul 2021 15:40 UTC

14 points

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Prediction-based-Medicine instead of E̵v̵i̵d̵e̵n̵c̵e̵ ̵b̵a̵s̵e̵d̵ ̵M̵e̵d̵i̵c̵i̵n̵e̵ Authority-based-Medicine

ChristianKl30 Jul 2021 10:42 UTC

11 points

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Should doctors be neutral?

Swimmer9634 Aug 2021 20:37 UTC

30 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

Amyloid Plaques: Chemical Streetlight, Medical Goodhart

Jemist26 Aug 2021 21:25 UTC

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[Question] Should I treat pain differently if it’s “all in my head?”

jp5 Sep 2021 8:06 UTC

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Book review: The Checklist Manifesto

Swimmer96317 Sep 2021 23:09 UTC

117 points

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Niacin as a treatment for covid? (Probably no, but I’m glad we’re checking)

Elizabeth12 Oct 2021 5:40 UTC

24 points

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(acesounderglass.com)

Long Covid Is Not Necessarily Your Biggest Problem

Elizabeth1 Sep 2021 7:20 UTC

205 points

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(acesounderglass.com)

Long Covid Informal Study Results

Elizabeth16 Oct 2021 7:10 UTC

43 points

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(acesounderglass.com)

Mental health benefits and downsides of psychedelic use in ACX readers: survey results

RationalElf25 Oct 2021 22:55 UTC

104 points

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Where did the 5 micron number come from? Nowhere good. [Wired.com]

Elizabeth9 Nov 2021 7:14 UTC

95 points

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(www.wired.com)

Experience on Methotrexate

jefftk17 Nov 2021 22:40 UTC

13 points

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(www.jefftk.com)

[Question] How do you decide when to change N95/FFP-2 masks?

ChristianKl10 Sep 2021 7:40 UTC

33 points

14 comments1 min readLW link

The Limits Of Medicine—Part 1 - Small Molecules

George1 Dec 2021 15:51 UTC

26 points

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(www.epistem.ink)

A common misconception about the evolution of viruses

mukashi6 Jan 2022 10:00 UTC

7 points

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(briefly) RaDVaC and SMTM, two things we should be doing

Eliezer Yudkowsky12 Jan 2022 6:20 UTC

230 points

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[Question] Are there any preventive steps someone can take after being exposed to strep throat?

Maxwell Peterson14 Feb 2022 3:01 UTC

8 points

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The Limits Of Medicine—Part 2 - Homogeneity Assumptions

George2 Mar 2022 16:45 UTC

15 points

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(www.epistem.ink)

Why Take Care Of Your Health?

MondSemmel6 Apr 2022 23:11 UTC

36 points

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Quick Look: Asymptomatic Herpes Shedding

Elizabeth4 Jun 2022 21:40 UTC

35 points

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(acesounderglass.com)

The “mind-body vicious cycle” model of RSI & back pain

Steven Byrnes9 Jun 2022 12:30 UTC

47 points

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[Link] “The madness of reduced medical diagnostics” by Dynomight

Kenny16 Jun 2022 19:20 UTC

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[Question] Are parasitic worms an effective weapon against MS?

Demeter23 Jul 2020 13:59 UTC

27 points

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Pulse Oximetry & the Oxygen–Haemoglobin Dissociation Curve

leggi22 Mar 2020 7:05 UTC

7 points

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Some Thoughts on My Psychiatry Practice

Laura B16 Jan 2019 23:16 UTC

152 points

43 comments4 min readLW link 2 reviews

“No evidence” as a Valley of Bad Rationality

adamzerner28 Mar 2020 23:45 UTC

103 points

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Meditations on Momentum

Richard Meadows14 Dec 2018 10:53 UTC

101 points

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Draining the swamp

jasoncrawford28 Jan 2020 21:37 UTC

91 points

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(rootsofprogress.org)

Even if you have a nail, not all hammers are the same

PhilGoetz29 Mar 2010 18:09 UTC

132 points

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The benefits of madness: A positive account of arationality

Skatche22 Apr 2011 19:43 UTC

127 points

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Defeating Ugh Fields In Practice

Psychohistorian19 Jun 2010 19:37 UTC

91 points

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The ‘5 Main Muscles of Movement’ Made Easy.

leggi7 Dec 2019 9:17 UTC

5 points

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Good News for Immunostimulants

sarahconstantin16 Apr 2018 16:10 UTC

26 points

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(srconstantin.wordpress.com)

A rationalist’s guide to psychoactive drugs

Skatche10 Feb 2011 1:01 UTC

91 points

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High Variance Productivity Advice

lynettebye1 Mar 2020 7:05 UTC

83 points

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Cheerios: An “Untested New Drug”

MBlume15 May 2009 2:26 UTC

9 points

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The Zombie Preacher of Somerset

Scott Alexander28 Mar 2009 22:29 UTC

56 points

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The Unfriendly Superintelligence next door

jacob_cannell2 Jul 2015 18:46 UTC

67 points

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A Step-by-step Guide to Finding a (Good!) Therapist

squidious18 Jul 2018 1:50 UTC

42 points

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(opalsandbonobos.blogspot.com)

Quantified Health Prize results announced

Zvi19 Feb 2012 8:10 UTC

68 points

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Coffee: When it helps, when it hurts

JustinShovelain10 Mar 2010 6:14 UTC

52 points

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Effect heterogeneity and external validity in medicine

Anders_H25 Oct 2019 20:53 UTC

49 points

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Direct Primary Care

sarahconstantin25 Sep 2018 18:00 UTC

42 points

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(srconstantin.wordpress.com)

Epistemic Spot Check: The Dorito Effect (Mark Schatzker)

Elizabeth3 Oct 2018 17:10 UTC

43 points

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(acesounderglass.com)

Prediction is hard, especially of medicine

gwern23 Dec 2011 20:34 UTC

72 points

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[Question] How Old is Smallpox?

Raemon10 Dec 2018 10:50 UTC

40 points

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Is Caviar a Risk Factor For Being a Millionaire?

Anders_H9 Dec 2016 16:27 UTC

67 points

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Charting Deaths: Reality vs Reported

lifelonglearner30 Mar 2018 0:50 UTC

13 points

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(owenshen24.github.io)

Suspended Animation Inc. accused of incompetence

CronoDAS18 Nov 2010 0:20 UTC

49 points

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Med Patient Social Networks Are Better Scientific Institutions

Liron19 Feb 2010 8:11 UTC

46 points

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The Five Main Muscles for a Full Range of Natural Movement, Dynamic Alignment & Balance.

leggi1 Sep 2019 3:22 UTC

16 points

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A Sarno-Hanson Synthesis

moridinamael12 Jul 2018 16:13 UTC

52 points

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Can we talk about mental illness?

riparianx8 Mar 2015 8:24 UTC

55 points

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Quantified Risks of Gay Male Sex

pianoforte61118 Aug 2014 23:55 UTC

52 points

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[LINK] Claustrum Stimulation Temporarily Turns Off Consciousness in an otherwise Awake Patient

shminux4 Jul 2014 20:00 UTC

51 points

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[Link] Low-Hanging Poop

GLaDOS16 Oct 2013 20:51 UTC

46 points

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Fantasy-Forbidding Expert Opinion

yamabiko10 Aug 2020 0:01 UTC

18 points

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Useless Medical Disclaimers

Eliezer Yudkowsky19 Mar 2007 16:48 UTC

22 points

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Mike Darwin on Steve Jobs’s hypocritical stance towards death

Synaptic8 Oct 2011 3:32 UTC

33 points

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Gunshot victims to be suspended between life and death [link]

Dr_Manhattan27 Mar 2014 16:33 UTC

37 points

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Theories of Pain

mingyuan26 Aug 2018 22:05 UTC

35 points

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A Medical Mystery: Thyroid Hormones, Chronic Fatigue and Fibromyalgia

johnlawrenceaspden14 Feb 2016 13:14 UTC

43 points

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Rationality Drugs

lukeprog1 Oct 2011 11:20 UTC

38 points

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Interpreting genetic testing

jefftk15 Dec 2018 15:56 UTC

24 points

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Self-modification, morality, and drugs

fubarobfusco10 Apr 2011 0:02 UTC

24 points

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Resource on alcohol problems

juliawise27 Feb 2020 18:17 UTC

26 points

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Case study: Melatonin

gwern7 Jan 2010 18:24 UTC

27 points

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Is latent Toxoplasmosis worth doing something about?

jsalvatier17 Nov 2011 17:04 UTC

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How did my baby die and what is the probability that my next one will?

deprimita_patro19 Jan 2016 6:24 UTC

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Altruistic Kidney Donation

jefftk17 Jun 2012 20:02 UTC

28 points

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[Question] Is it worthwhile to save the cord blood and tissue?

Alexei11 Jan 2020 21:52 UTC

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[Question] Should I floss?

willbradshaw24 Dec 2019 16:06 UTC

23 points

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Rationality Case Study—Ad-36

Perplexed22 Sep 2010 18:32 UTC

32 points

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Too good to be true

PhilGoetz11 Jul 2014 20:16 UTC

35 points

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How can I reconcile these COVID test false-negative numbers?

Optimization Process27 Oct 2020 23:56 UTC

15 points

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Advice to new Doctors starting practice

anandjeyahar7 Aug 2016 8:27 UTC

4 points

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Now is the time to eliminate mosquitoes

James_Miller6 Aug 2016 19:10 UTC

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Were vaccines relevant to 20th century US mortality improvements?

jasoncrawford10 Dec 2019 0:13 UTC

12 points

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(rootsofprogress.org)

Sample means, how do they work?

Benquo20 Nov 2016 21:04 UTC

34 points

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Rational Health Optimization

jacob_cannell18 Sep 2010 19:47 UTC

23 points

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[Link] How doctors die

Morendil6 Dec 2011 13:22 UTC

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Longevity Insurance

canadaduane20 Feb 2012 0:30 UTC

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[Question] Are there easy, low cost, ways to freeze personal cell samples for future therapies? And is this a good idea?

Eli Tyre9 Jul 2019 21:57 UTC

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Why Recent Protein Folding Advancements Should Change Your Personal Health Strategy

lisperati3 Dec 2020 2:39 UTC

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An appeal for vitamin D supplementation as a prophylactic for coronaviruses and influenza and a simple evolutionary theory for why this is plausible.

Michael A22 Dec 2020 19:40 UTC

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Miracle Mineral Supplement

Eliezer Yudkowsky20 Nov 2012 21:17 UTC

29 points

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Link: Evidence-Based Medicine Has Been Hijacked

Anders_H16 Mar 2016 19:57 UTC

33 points

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[Question] Should I advocate for people to not buy Ivermectin as a treatment for COVID-19 in the Philippines for now?

BrianTan31 Mar 2021 13:59 UTC

7 points

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Perhaps vastly more people should be on FDA-approved weight loss medication

25Hour14 Aug 2021 17:22 UTC

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[linkpost] Why Going to the Doctor Sucks (WaitButWhy)

mike_hawke23 Nov 2021 3:02 UTC

5 points

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(waitbutwhy.com)

Jetlag, Nausea, and Diarrhea are Largely Optional

Thomas Kwa21 Mar 2022 22:40 UTC

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