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  1. Reading some reports here (Netherlands) that the situation in Texas/Houston hospitals is getting out of hand. And will likely reach max ICU capacity in the coming week(s).

    Good luck over there. And stay strong.

  2. Given a certain "pommepusher" episode in a distant past, I don't expect anything to come from this. There's no charming TJ into doing favors for his fans. Or rather, some of his overly critical and moaning fans who largely ignored him since he went ebm. 

    Would I be willing to shove some green paper into the hellish kickstarter pits? Yes, of course. Don't be so silly. It's just... Not gonna happen. Would be surprised if you hear anything. 

    Also, even if Warp contact TJ about this, what are the odds TJ even responding? Close to nil, imoooooo. 

    Sorry, ima disbeliever. Lovely idea though! 

  3. 9 minutes ago, brian trageskin said:

    i don't know if a lot of it is but part of it probably 

    therapeutic practices and medicine have to do better than placebo to be considered effective, simple as that

    You're living in a fantasy if you seriously think it's simple as that.

    https://ebm.bmj.com/content/22/3/88

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    What is already known about this subject?

    • Clinicians are encouraged to base their practice on the best available evidence.

    • However, much evidence is derived from subspecialty populations or addresses rare, uncommon problems.

    • The extent to which recommendations for primary care practice are guided by high-quality evidence is unknown.

    What are the new findings?

    • In a primary care-oriented medical reference, 18% of recommendations were based on consistent, high-quality patient-oriented evidence (Strength of Recommendations Taxonomy (SORT) A), while approximately half were based on expert opinion, usual care or disease-oriented evidence (SORT C).

    • Clinical categories with the most A recommendations were pregnancy and childbirth, cardiovascular, and psychiatric.

    • Categories with the least were haematological, musculoskeletal and rheumatological, and poisoning and toxicity.

    How might it impact clinical practice in the foreseeable future?

    Primary care physicians should be aware that only a minority of recommendations are based on high-quality, patient-oriented evidence. This highlights the need for regular literature surveillance by primary care physicians to identify stronger evidence as it is developed. More research is needed in the primary care setting that evaluates the impact of interventions on patient-oriented health outcomes. Progress could be measured by periodically re-evaluating the percentage of recommendations based on high-quality evidence.

     

  4. that's quite the generalisation. especially considering the importance of the placebo-effect in regular medicine.

     

    if it works, it works. there's so much that isn't understood well in medicine. much of regular care hasn't even been proven. don't dismiss something purely because it says "homeopathy" on the box. don't blindly believe anything either, of course.

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  5. 12 hours ago, Brisbot said:

    All that matters is what Trump thinks. Many Republicans dislike the older guard of politicians. But you know that I imagine.

    Republicans or Trump voters? I'm tempted to think there's a difference between the two. The Republican wears face masks. The Trump voter believes in conspiracy theories.

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  6. 3 hours ago, Gocab said:

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    Rate of law enforcement killings, per million population per year, 1999-2011. Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics.

    Of course the number of killings are higher in places like Venezuala, the Phillipines and Afghanistan, but that's not really anything to be proud of. 

    and then there's always this thing.

    https://mappingpoliceviolence.org/

    Native American!? Euh, call me a silly European, but the Natives are not the caucasians, right? Looks silly to distinguish Latino and African and consider the non-spanish europeans as natives. I'm confused. I'm thinking of those Indians and the likes as the original natives. But if so, they decided to ignore the caucasians as a group?

    Anyways...So, if your grandparent came from Ireland, you're considered a native. But if your grandparent came from Africa, you're not considered a native. Sure. No institutional racism whatsoever. Just some European idiot not understanding what the hell is the thinking behind that graph.

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  7. Tbh, the number of confirmed cases at itself is quite meaningless. It depends on the number of tests done. And the percentage of positives from those tests. And then there's the obvious: look at the per capita to assess whether the highest count also means the highest per capita.

    There's not much to conclude from this graph, if you ask me.

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  8. 2 hours ago, caze said:

    by institutional racism I'm talking about that which is perpetuated directly by institutions, like the police, or government, social services, education system, etc. you're correct, the law isn't the sum total of it, I didn't mean to suggest that it was (should have put an 'eg' before 'laws').

    by structural racism I mean the more broadly scoped context within which institutions and society in general interact, which are by their nature far more complicated and hard to understand.

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    fair

  9. 9 hours ago, caze said:

    there's a very real difference between institutional racism (where laws are explicitly prejudicial), and very hard to understand 2nd (or 3rd or 4th) order social and cultural things. it's important to distinguish the two. most of the modern anti-racism stuff you see in this activism and from academic sources is grossly oversimplified and lacking in empirical justification.

    just a point of critique. institutional racism goes beyond what the law says. there's also the stuff which could be summarised under "policies and procedures". or standard practise, of you will. even with perfect laws, institutions could show signs of institutional racism just by how they operate.

    hypothetical example: if the law says stealing is illegal, but the police only (systematically?) goes after people of a certain race, there could be a bit of institutional racism involved. nothing wrong with the law. and potentially something wrong with policies and procedures.

    other than that: yeah public discussions are mostly oversimplified. By definition. That's how language works. It's inescapable.

  10. Some interesting info in this youtube on cop training. With some explanation about procedures and what goes on in peoples (including cops) minds. At points he is critical wrt current habits. Also note how he warns cops about bringing this stuff up in their unit. It's basically a guarantee to get another job.

     

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  11. for numbers and stats, go here: https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus-data

    other than that, it's just silly to reduce this issue to a single indicator such as you're doing. not only are you ignoring the fact that the virus started spreading at different moments in time in different regions. you're also ignoring the underlying context of why numbers are higher in one location over another. much of the underlying causal relations are still unknown at this point, so this whole measuring dick-size nonsense is just that: nonsense.

    if you want to compare policies, you might want to compare those "are we bending the curve?" stats in the link i posted. there's a couple of them. also note that there's evidence this virus is very sensitive to superspreading events. which means that a relatively small amount of people infect a relatively large amount of people. (note how the R0 is just an average which ignores this factor) if true, most policies might not be as effective as assumed. (not saying you should ignore them, btw. you shouldn't!). most effective might be just to avoid crowds, and thats it. but we simply dont know at this point in time. (again, not arguing you shouldnt follow current national policies! whatever they are)

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