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Is just a fig leaf for his true passion: conspiratorial ravings about the healthcare industry and the beauty of wellness medicine quackery.
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has to drive, created a work culture where it is impossible to prep healthy meals (even simple ones), and created a food environment where the cheapest, most accessible food is also deadly if you eat too much of it. If he just focused on that truly, RFK would actually be a hero. But all that talk…
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This “think tank” is another free market/libertarian maximalist group. Why the hell does their opinion on medicine matter? Also this debate is absolutely stupid. Of course Americans aren’t healthy but that has nothing to do with vaccines. It’s because we created built environments where everyone…
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That headline. 🤦🏽♂️ “ancient miasma theory” makes it sounds like it’s got some basis in truth.
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What a wasted legacy. They popularized hybrids which should have put them in the lead for EVs but didn’t transition and now are just bald face lying about things because they can’t compete. Plus they are giving monetary support to GOP to slow EV adoption down. Just shameful.
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Nathan Fielder is my putative hero. I’m in (awkward) trouble that may improbably workout though.
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In all honesty, I’m looking forward to seeing this one. Sounds like they did all the right things. Only thing is that HMG is going to be well on their way to their next gen platform.
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The ability to fine tune regeneration to conditions is fantastic. I couldn’t believe it when I heard that Tesla only has “low or standard” (and that of course the control is buried under three layers of menus).
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…perhaps people just need to go to an exercise camp at a farm and workout. This is unfettered nonsense that is not out of place with things coming out of HHS (eg NIH, FDA, CMS), lately.
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…in a clinical trial. At the very least they’d want some assurance that the study population was the same. For the authors to choose to compare this to drugs and say “it’s better” you are going to end up with people, intentionally or not, suggesting that drugs are falsely marketed or not needed….
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Great points. No mention of adverse event rate which is significant given the intervention (exercise) is not in a healthy population. I’ll make another point - most doctors wouldn’t accept a comparison in efficacy on two drugs, especially two drugs in a different class unless they were head to head…
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The end result is that we pave the way for fools like our current US healthcare leadership.
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While I agree exercise is literally foundational, the authors of this study are making provocative statements (eg it’s better than drugs) that are not supported at all by the study. I wish medical communication was more careful so we don’t end up desensitizing and/or confusing the public.
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Normally I wouldn’t give a 💩because popular health reporting is generally abysmal but given the current leadership of our health services in the US I’m kind of fed up with bad science interpretation.
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They didn’t do that. What they did prove is that exercise is good for reducing cancer recurrence. That’s good! But why give it an unnecessary bar of being better than a drug? It’s not accurate and it doesn’t make their initial finding any less meaningful to not compare to a drug.
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The two arms were 1) structured, guided exercise regime or 2) just a booklet telling them to exercise. If they wanted to prove it was “better than a drug” then the comparator arms should be exercise vs some kind of drug.
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This study absolutely didn’t prove what the headlines said. The authors of the study are being needlessly provocative and the author of this article didn’t call them on but rather just parroted their talking points.
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I tired of these dumb articles and these dumb people.
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Why is it always United?
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The Knicks are always special even if they haven’t done anything of note since the 90s (or even the 70s). /s
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Please stick to history and not science. “How to hide an empire” was actually good. You don’t what you’re talking about here.
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Vance couldn’t even offer a full throated defense of his wife and children when they were attacked, cruelly by racists. The man has no character and never did. What a disappointing arch for Packer too who seems to have bought into the “the liberals made us monsters; we had no choice” argument.
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It’s almost as if HMG knows the inevitability of EVs, is committing to that future, and going to get to that future in a profitable, sustainable way by capturing the early adopters/early majority. That takes foresight and discipline which no one ever accused US car mfg of having.
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It gives me a strong incentive to stick with HMG when I’m ready to move on from my EV6
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Always playing the victim while victimizing vulnerable populations. Same as it ever was.
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They are just not going to approve anything and people are going to die. It’s all part of their eugenics plan.
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This is part of his eugenics plan.
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The really funny part is that they frequently test vaccines against an active comparator when there is one (for ethical reasons). An active comparator is an often harder thing to show difference in a trial than a placebo. That means you can be extra sure this thing works and is safe.
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There is absolutely a stigma against mental health treatments in their coverage but I’ve followed the pharma coverage in NYT closely as someone who works in the industry and there is an assumption of ill intent even for fairly non-controversial areas like oncology.
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I’d say it’s their reflexive anti-Pharma angle also (also reflective of their center-left audience). Pharma industry has their issues but it’s genuinely brought a lot of advancements. They consistently spend a lot of time painting these companies as deeply nefarious, so why trust their products.
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Smart home devices seems like far more trouble than they’re worth. I’m fairly tech savvy and these devices are janky at best. No way is it ready for mass adoption.
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It’s really cool and progressive that they are letting the unhoused into the press pool.
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I came from a developing economy that was ruled ruthlessly by a colonial power for 200 years. We came here, worked hard, were open and curious and adapted and succeeded. These fools were handed, on a silver platter, all the advantages in the world and their only response is “why can’t I get more”
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I thought conservatives were into all things Roman. Make up your mind!
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Wasn’t this the plot line of a Seinfeld episode? This can’t be reality can it?
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CNBC was complicit all along. This makes for great TV for them. They can yell and have spittle flying out of their mouth. They get to live out their dreams of being actors.
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Atrocious. He went to a Christian school. Didn’t learn much I can see.
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Yikes. He’s a chud like the rest of the MAHA/MAGA crew.
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The HHS RIFs today are devastating. They are past the beta test and have pushed the final product out to all of us.
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Generally speaking yes I agree. unless you were a minority (Mexican, African American, Japanese, etc). Then he was a tyrant. Oh and he broke the norms for third term. Not the same as breaking the law for a third term (like our current “populist” president) but created a precedent.
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Can anyone name me a populist leader who didn’t turn into a murderous tyrant once in office (in this country or any other)? Serious question. The examples that come to my head are all people who committed atrocities after atrocities - Andrew Jackson, Pol Pot, name your Latin dictator, Modi, etc
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You did a great job!
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I’ll help fund this course.
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For what seems like the 10,000th time in 2 months: FFS!
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I think the most shocking thing (though it shouldn’t be) is just how stupid and hateful Vance is. He clearly doesn’t understand how global trade works and how we (the US) benefits from being at the nexus of global trade. So he acts like some angry Scrooge counting his pennies.
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As a fellow Desi (and one who is embarrassed that this guy is one of us), this is the look you have when an Aunty or Uncle is about rip into you for a f***up. He seems really well practiced with this look.
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Yikes - at least Netflix is just off point. Auto gear changing sounds like another thing that requires faith in how well the software is designed and tested and QC’d, faith I don’t have. That’s assuming that it’s even that useful anyway.
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@latimes.com this is what your owner wants though, right?
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Agreed. Terrible. Also what’s the “tech no one else is even attempting?” Again it’s just a bunch of superfluous nonsense like watching Netflix. This a car designed by a 14 year old for an audience of apparently 14 year olds.
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“Ridiculously dumb” is an accurate take Electrek. However I think the robot thing that the tech bros are (currently) into feels even dumber. No one is going to buy these things. Pure fantasy.