epidemiology
Daily Alchemy: Can we make this controversy good?
3d ago“Was the WHO epidemiologist's claim that hantavirus 'is not the next COVID pandemic' justified?”
Why can't anyone agree on a healthy diet?: Evidence-based medicine
The dropout problem In 2013, Stanford published a meta-analysis of 135 dietary trials. The headline: no difference between low-fat and low-carb at twelve months. The buried finding: the average dropout rate across all 135 trials was 40 percent.... Where did COVID actually come from?: Zoonotic
The pattern A cook in Guangdong developed a fever in November 2002 after preparing wild game. Within months, SARS had infected 8,000 people. Scientists identified the civet intermediate host within four months. The wet markets were the laboratory.... Where did COVID actually come from?: The Story
The two sites The Huanan Seafood Market in Wuhan sold raccoon dogs, bamboo rats, and civets stacked in wire cages — stressed, immunocompromised, shedding whatever they carried.... It's time to make circumcision illegal. Here’s the deal.
I believe it’s time to abandon this outdated procedure. It’s easy to maintain personal hygiene today and have access to healthcare, which were the two, IMO, worthy arguments for allowing this procedure.
The others- cultural, religious, or aesthetic arguments are outdated.
I would need to see ChatGPT’s sources for this information. Off the bat, it’s very uncommon to test men for HPV. There’s not really a proven way to do this other than looking for genital warts or do an anal pap and looking for abnormal cells.... It's time to make circumcision illegal. Here’s the deal.
I believe it’s time to abandon this outdated procedure. It’s easy to maintain personal hygiene today and have access to healthcare, which were the two, IMO, worthy arguments for allowing this procedure.
The others- cultural, religious, or aesthetic arguments are outdated.
From Chatgpt: The impact of male circumcision on the sexual health risks for female partners has been studied, with several findings indicating potential benefits for women when their male partners are circumcised. Here are the key points: 1.... COVID Vaccines: is the cure is worse than the disease (these days)?
I don’t get COVID vaccines anymore. I did the first round while we were still in lockdown. I stand by the choice to get vaccinated then. We didn’t know what was happening, lots of people were dying, good statistics were hard to come by (good interpretations even harder), and the...