Nov 20, 2019
Link: https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/11/18/more-intuition-building-on-non-empirical-science-three-stories/
[Followup to: Building Intuitions On Non-Empirical Arguments In Science]
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In your travels, you arrive at a distant land. The chemists there believe that when you mix an acid and a base, you get salt and...
Nov 17, 2019
Link: https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/11/13/autism-and-intelligence-much-more-than-you-wanted-to-know/
[Thanks to Marco DG for proofreading and offering suggestions]
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Several studies have shown a genetic link between autism and intelligence; genes that contribute to autism risk also contribute to high IQ. But studies...
Nov 16, 2019
Link: https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/06/15/fish-now-by-prescription/
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LOVAZA™®© (ask your doctor if LOVAZA™®© is right for you) is an excellent medication. It is extraordinarily safe. It is moderately effective at its legal indication of lowering levels of certain fats in the bloodstream. It has moderately...
Nov 16, 2019
Link: https://slatestarcodex.com/2013/09/28/sleep-now-by-prescription/
Ramelteon isn’t a bad drug. It’s just that its very existence stands as a condemnation of the entire medical system.
All sleep medications have to straddle a very fine line between “idiotically dangerous” and “laughably ineffective”,...
Nov 15, 2019
Link: https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/11/12/book-review-the-body-keeps-the-score/
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The Body Keeps The Score is a book about post-traumatic stress disorder.
The author, Bessel van der Kolk, helped discover the condition and lobby for its inclusion in the DSM, and the brief forays into that history are the best part...