minyakcurry

I agree, we should probably trust the doctors more than the crazies on Facebook or wherever they get their nonsense. But I think it’s also dangerous to place blind faith in doctors, who themselves are susceptible to misinformation and advertising. Oxycontin adverts appeared in NEJM, doctors went “wow I should prescribe that”, and that didn’t go well.

I think trusting Science is most important. Read peer reviewed articles and read them critically.

I struggle to find recent publications on SciHub, y’know, to report them to the hardworking journals that tirelessly implemented paywalls.

Any ideas how I can find papers that are within the past 6 months?

You’re right, and an upvote for you. I’ve seen colleagues who encounter a 90% drop in efficacy when making the leap to Phase 1 trials (and this is excluding safety concerns!).

It is rigorous and thank everything the Process is put in place. But I specifically used Oxycontin as an example for a pertinent reason. Rigour isn’t applied to everyone equally, and I think that itself underscores a need to think critically.

Who the fuck downvoted you? I’ve never encountered anyone bullying fat people in the gym before. Maybe these memers should actually go visit a gym.

You hate animals thus avoid them at all costs?

Also that machine only works under very specific circumstances, so you fear changing anything in case your entire protocol breaks and you have to start from scratch.

I never expected a Hollow Knight reference here

Warm or cold because I need to know if I should violently disagree

Wait why were you being downvoted

Can I just say thank fuck I found someone else who doesn’t like three body problem.

It’s not just the heavy handed politics. It’s literally everything about the book. Narrative devices used are absolutely garbage. Oh there’s a video game for some reason, and people LARP as Newton and Qin Shih Huang down to their exact personalities. Why the fuck?

In the second book there’s an entire section dedicated to the protag’s fantasies. A woman should have at most a Bachelor’s so she’s smart but not smart enough (paraphrased). What the fuck? And don’t get me started on the suicide bomb strat that immediately saw the Muslims and Japanese roped in.

The characters are incredibly dull. They just do one thing, but they don’t even do that well. Oh here’s Mr. Army guy; personality: army salute-y pragmatic unfeeling. The only character that has an added dimension would be Da Shi the policeman, but adding one more dimension to a point simply results in a plane.

People claim he had innovative ideas for sci-fi. They do realise that the Dark Forest Hypothesis was proposed by someone other than cixin, right?

This turned out to be a rant – could you tell I hate-read this book cause it pissed me off to no end?