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The Amish Health Care System

WebThe Amish out­per­form the Eng­lish on every mea­sured health out­come. 65% of Amish rate their health as ex­cel­lent or very good, com­pared to 58% of Eng­lish. …

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Slate Star Codex Abridged

WebWelcome to SSC Abridged. This is a collection of some of the best essays written by psychiatrist and author Scott Alexander on his long-running blog, Slate Star Codex. …

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Cost Disease In Medicine: The Practical Perspective

WebCost Disease In Medicine: The Practical Perspective. June 20, 2018. Sometimes I imagine quitting my job and declaring war on cost disease in medicine.

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Sociology and Economics

WebSociology and Economics “Well, in our country,” said Alice, still panting a little, “you’d generally get to somewhere else—if you run very fast for a long time, as we’ve been doing.”

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Who By Very Slow Decay

WebPseudomonas aerug­i­nosa is sup­posed to smell fruity. Gard­nerella is sup­posed to smell fishy. Clostrid­ium is sup­posed to smell like the worst thing you can …

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What Happened To ’90s Environmentalism

Web2. Acid Rain. Acid rain is a com­bi­na­tion of rain and pol­lu­tion which gets very acidic and de­stroys plants and struc­tures. It was a sta­ple of very early 90s en­vi­ron­men­tal­ism, and …

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Book Review: The Secret Of Our Success

WebI. “Cul­ture is the se­cret of hu­man­ity’s suc­cess” sounds like the most vapid pos­si­ble the­sis. The Se­cret Of Our Suc­cess by an­thro­pol­o­gist Joseph Hen­rich man­ages …

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Considerations On Cost Disease

WebACE in­hibitors (in­vented in 1975) are great and prob­a­bly in­creased lifes­pan a lot, but they cost $20 for a year’s sup­ply and re­placed older drugs that cost about the same amount. …

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SSC Gives A Graduation Speech

WebSSC Gives A Grad­u­a­tion Speech. May 23, 2014. Trig­ger warn­ing: de­lib­er­ately pro­vok­ing hor­ror about grad­u­ates’ real- world post- college prospects. …

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Against Tulip Subsidies

WebAgainst Tulip Subsidies. June 6, 2015. I. Imagine a little kingdom with a quaint custom: when a man likes a woman, he offers her a tulip; if she accepts, they are …

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Book Review: Surfing Uncertainty

WebBook Review: Surfing Uncertainty. September 5, 2017. Related to: It’s Bayes All The Way Up, Why Are Transgender People Immune To Optical Illusions?, Can We Link …

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If It’s Worth Doing, It’s Worth Doing With Made-Up Statistics

WebIt’s hard to come up with val­ues that make a war sud­denly be­come okay/abom­inable when the Pres­i­dent changes par­ties. Even if your data is com­pletely …

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Vote On Values, Outsource Beliefs

WebVote On Values, Outsource Beliefs. May 8, 2014. I. Today I learned about social impact bonds.They are a thing that exists. I would expect them to be in an …

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I Can Tolerate Anything Except The Outgroup

WebWhen a friend of mine heard Eich got fired, she didn’t see any­thing wrong with it. “I can tol­er­ate any­thing ex­cept in­tol­er­ance,” she said. “In­tol­er­ance” is start­ing to look like …

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Book Review: House of God

WebThe House Of God is way more real than re­al­ity. Re­al­ity wishes it could be any­where close to as real as The House of God. This is a world where young peo­ple – the kid just out of …

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