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As the measles outbreak in TX has grown to 146 cases, 20 hospitalizations, and one death, and has spread outside the state, we could reasonably expect that the HHS Secretary would be out front messaging about the importance of vaccines. But RFK Jr. has spent two decades lying about MMR vaccine, so.

Hey “Orwell”😂, follow me back so I can message you man.

The damage is incalculable.

Hey i don’t know you but I follow you on here for the nerdy stuff and saw these posts, what’s been going on?

As a psychological thriller enthusiast, this one is very underrated. A novel role for Robin Williams but displays his versatility

"our scientific representations are not, as many hoped in the heyday of logical empiricism, a super vending machine to which we can feed in facts about the questions we are interested in, turn the crank of logical derivation, and pick up answers that fall out." —Cartwright, The Tangle of Science

Well, the former is necessary for the latter

A big day of output for the Human Cell Atlas, a global collaborative project with 100 countries to understand our ~37 trillion cells
A Wikipedia of our cells, a "remarkable achievement"
nature.com/articles/d41...
nature.com/immersive/d4...

The beauty of philosophy, though, is that it can analyze anything. In fact, implicit in this statement is a question that requires argument and conceptual analysis. Does philosophy, to have intellectual validity, need biology? Also, philosophy of biology exists and is active.

Multi-talented. Philosopher with historical acumen, musician, artist

Any data regarding its acute severity compared to other variants? Or are hospitalizations relatively consistent as this strain becomes more prominent ?

Which is to say, among illnesses generally, ME is in a rare subset worsened as opposed to benefited by exercise. Not that ME itself is particularly rare in terms of prevalence.

This is true, though there is sufficient background evidence attesting to the directly beneficial effects of exercise. Correlative results must be contextualized with other data to make a plausible causal inference. ME is a very particular phenotype that is worsened by exercise, but that's rare

On a serious note, arguably you and chris were more keen than others to point out the problematic personality characteristics that would predispose them to occupy the position they now do. That was a lot of p's haha

You forgot to eliminate the grains category and replace it with anti-parasitic supplements so as to avoid those creepy neurologic crawlers

New timeline, so I get to share some of my favorite science images again. 1) Sparsely labeled pyramidal cells in cortex. #neuroscience #neuroskyence

You should start a grievance campaign with chris, Matt, wherein you argue that your predictions and analysis of the gurusphere have been ignored. With your statistical acumen, you alone prognosticated the statistical probability of Musk's rise but were IGNORED by mainstream

Great, so what’s your email so I can send you my theory of everything? (jk jk)😂. Seriously though, what x exchange would end in productive agreement. It’s like the essence here is different

It’s worth noting too that this does not depend on a naive scientific realism. I am a structuralist w/ respect to scientific modeling, hence the emphasis on prediction and explaining behavior

Theories are like maps, reality is the territory. It’s okay that a map is limited, so long as you can approximately navigate a delimited terrain, but it’d be better if you could navigate more, if that’s your aim. Again, it’s an epistemic aspiration, independent of whether it’s cognitively possible.

But of course they’re ostensibly describing the same reality, so their predictive scope should be consistent or one or both is limited. It’s okay for a theory to be limited, but it’s more of an epistemic aspiration that we should strive towards, to have the most accurate view.

So both? In the philosophical case one might object to the possibility conditions, but in physics there is a much more strict definition which is just unifying relativity and the standard model/ quantum field theory. Which is a fruitful and necessary project

How are you defining a theory of everything? Theoretical physics definition or a more broad philosophical account of things

This does not nullify the need for the holistic approach that you’ve called for, totally on board with that project. Just relevant additional context 👍🏻

The Link Between Schizophrenia and Substance Use Disorder: A Unifying Hypothesis Substance use disorders occur commonly in patients with schizophrenia and dramatically worsen their overall clinical course. While the exact mechanisms contributing to substance use in schizophrenia a...

There are other data showing that individuals predisposed to schizophrenia are more likely to seek out substances (cannabis, psychedelics, etc.) before onset of psychosis and in prodrome phase. Just relevant data to shed light on unclear causation here. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

For some reason I read that and the guitar melody from “all the small things” blink 182 played in my head but with “all the tox thongs” imposed over it. Needless to say, still a banger😂

I see. It’s likely true that it can’t be thought of in binary terms, as the more uncomfortable aspects of therapy seem to depend on first establishing that rapport and genuine connection. So where the most progress is made might be a moot question. It’s always a process. Thanks for the response👍🏻

Well I’m sorry. I do understand that with MCAS reactions to medications can be dangerous, so trial and error becomes much more consequential. I appreciate your response to the babesia post. I’m seropositive and symptomatic but have other issues too, so it’s hard to know if it’s merely incidental.

Tell Chris to migrate here! At this point, it’s an act of protest😂