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Alasdair Munro Summary: If you 1. believe in mask effect and 2. wear a mask then 3. you self - report less symptoms Lot of placebo in it. If you 1. don´t believe in mask effect and 2. wear a mask then 3. you self - report more symptoms Testing does not show difference. Placebo?

So why do half of Americans still take multivitamins? Marketing. The devil hides behind the TV, telling good, hard-working people that taking one pill per day will make up for their poor diet and lifestyle.

🏋️ I made a Deadlift ETF with only companies with CEOs that lift weights or do fight sports (not just cardio) It outperforms the S&P500 by 140% or 2.4x over the last 4 years! Lifting weights = $$$

The arrest of @Durov is an assault on the basic human rights of speech and association. I am surprised and deeply saddened that Macron has descended to the level of taking hostages as a means for gaining access to private communications. It lowers not only France, but the world.

A great start and urgently needed.

With child obesity skyrocketing, this is not a good move.

** spoiler - you can’t 🫡

The hallmark of expertise is no longer how much you know. It's how well you synthesize. Information scarcity rewarded knowledge acquisition. Information abundance requires pattern recognition. It's not enough to collect facts. The future belongs to those who connect dots.

TLDR - mTOR is your friend. Not your enemy 😀

Testing out DeepSeek-R1's ability to do "science" in one-shot. I asked it to critique my 2017 R01 proposal which was scored Impact 26, 10% percentile, and funded by NINDS. (I wrote the proposal, I have the rights to share it with anyone or anything). I uploaded a PDF of my

The problem with centralized databases.

This week, I got my fifth tenure-track rejection in the last two years. All close calls. Science is awesome, but academia sucks so damn hard.

Alain-Laurent Verbeke, hoogleraar aan Harvard, vindt dat de slinger aan de universiteit te hard is doorgeslagen naar woke: "Er is een beweging van zeer intolerant, radicaal, links gedachtegoed dat niet kan aanvaarden dat ook andere meningen bestaan" #deafspraak