It'll soon be made easier thanks to off-license corner knive shops.

This is about lifestyle columnists right?

So would we, we worship the raccoon
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Karl Bropper

my personal favourite 'hubris of man: gothic edition" is beauvais cathedral in france, of which they only built a third because it kept collapsing, and has been held up by temporary braces since, uh, the 1990s. genuinely you should go see it before it collapses because it will

it’s such an indictment of tech journalism that this story isn’t being doggedly pursued in national news. even well informed readers haven’t heard about it, despite the data being published for some time. openAI is actively endangering hundreds of thousands of children, if not more. if parents knew…

(To add: this is in case there's no clear biological mechanism.)

Doctors, esp. journal editors, have a moral responsibility to stop publishing causal yet disculpatory language like "may not be as harmless as commonly assumed." or "could cause harm" Learn the basics about causal inference and write conclusions proportionate with the quality of the design. End rant

For all I can tell, the study only shows that people with severe insomnia have a higher rate of heart failure, full stop. Matching or controls doesn't solve the problem here, esp because taking melatonin is voluntary. Any further claims are disingenuous.

Journalists, stop writing contradictory language: "The study, which cannot prove a cause-and-effect relationship, raises safety concerns about the use of melatonin" Boilerplate disclaimer about causal effect. Either it is causal, and raises concerns. Or it's not, and we can move on.