aflessner | 5 years ago | on: The fraying of the U.S. global currency reserve system
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aflessner | 5 years ago | on: September 2020 least deadly month ever in Sweden
For week 15 of 2020 Sweden has excess deaths that were 12 standard deviations above the baseline.
aflessner | 5 years ago | on: Study shows Pepcid and Zyrtec effective in Covid-19 treatment
Conditions included open-label drug use, without a placebo control or randomization. In lieu of a placebo control group, for comparison the control(s) consisted of published SOC patient results that were not administered the dual-histamine receptor blockade from the USA, United Kingdom, and China.
I think further placebo controlled double blind study is warranted before any conclusions can be drawn that this treatment is effective.
aflessner | 6 years ago | on: Exposure to air pollution is linked to an increase in violent crime
This could be data dredging since it seems they may have looked at lots of dimensions and picked the one that correlated. It doesn’t make sense to me the effect of air pollution would be so acute and at such low levels:
The effects are present in and out of the home, at levels well below Ambient Air Pollution Standards
aflessner | 6 years ago | on: Exposure to air pollution is linked to an increase in violent crime
This seems like data dredging to me. I would be surprised if this holds true.
aflessner | 7 years ago | on: Amazon buys PillPack, an online pharmacy, for just under $1B
Can you explain what is different about certain generics?
aflessner | 8 years ago | on: Life Cycle Energy Consumption and GH Gas Emissions from Li-ion Batteries [pdf]
Where in the study did it cite 8.2 years as a break even point?
By comparing to a gas car, you would need to calculate the CO2 cost of manufacturing an internal combustion engine, fuel pump, transmission, catalytic converter, etc
I think the headline you posted is quite misleading.
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