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By contrast, this is the exact sort of haughty condescension that pushes people further away, often right into the hands of real extremists.
The sensationalism is there because the problems of our ecology are literally sensational. Dismissing that is the real turnoff here.
They have all the interest in the world in playing this aspect down and playing up the inevitable reaction to backing human beings into an existential corner: fight, flee, or freeze. In shock, someone says “you come after me, I can come after you, too.” Blaming them is beside the point: you don’t want death threats made to you? Don’t make them to others. It’s pretty simple.
If this is “a surefire way to lose my sympathy,” you never had any sympathy in the first place.
Sincere question: how would you know if this bad place was withdrawal from meds or the reappearance of your pre-existing "bad place"? (Pre meaning before you began taking prescribed psychotropics.)
https://sci-hub.ru/10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2020.1941
The citation is:
Weinberger, D. R., & Radulescu, E. (2020). Structural Magnetic Resonance Imaging All Over Again. JAMA Psychiatry. DOI:10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2020.1941
The article is a follow-up editorial on an older (2016), more substantive critique of MRI methods in psychiatry, which is also worth digesting slowly:
https://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/appi.ajp.2015.1...
The citation is:
Weinberger DR, Radulescu E. Finding the elusive psychiatric “lesion” with 21st-century neuroanatomy: a note of caution. Am J Psychiatry. 2016;173(1):27-33.
The situation is about as bad as it can be: there are so many potential sources of confounding in MRI studies that they simply cannot be trusted to say anything about the basic cellular elements of brain tissue in either healthy or diseased patients. All they can validly talk about is themselves; in other words "rather than referring to differences as evidence of brain structural abnormalities, they should be called differences on MRI measurements."
This is without getting into other hugely problematic aspects of MRI studies in mental health: tiny samples; failure to replicate; and most interesting to me, the fact that experimental subjects (i.e. the people in the study "with ADHD" or schizophrenia or whatever) are not screened for psychiatric medication use, which, because medications can shrink brain tissue, can make it look like the condition is affecting brain structure when in fact the drug is. (So another source of confounding, then.)
Was also surprised to read that Montana emits as much ghg’s as Ireland.
Show me someone who thinks a living wage and a boss who can’t overwork you anymore are cosmetic and I’ll show you a university administrator.
Wish granted.
This is a digression, but this saying has always frustrated me. It makes sense for a second, but then I wonder if whoever came up with it had any idea how much malice exists in the world. Many cases of "malice is at least as adequate an explanation as incompetence, given the facts or lack of them".
> they'll be able to immerse themselves while jetting around the world
> a truly effective war room that interleaves live video conversations, presentations, dashboards/visualizations, and their physical travel companions
This is the world we make, and it's for them!
And about as bloody, too.
But if that's the case why are you talking like you're talking in your comment above?
> Any research that does not involve repairing the physical damage to the spinal cord itself is a distraction.
People think you're trolling because this is how trolling sounds.
> please at least consider that perhaps I'm not the one who's missing something, that perhaps I have decades of experience following the research and its results
The woe-is-me passive-aggression isn't helping your cause, dude. Share what you know, nicely, even if you're disagreeing with something, and people won't jump on you.
That's true -- one potential upside of the IRS plan is that an online tax submission site cannot constantly crash into the ocean.
Not you though, right?
It’s not some earth shattering YCombinator thing, it’s not a SaaS, it’s not (at least to my eye) about money — it’s a neat thing to do with a piece of screen real estate we all look at a million times a day. Not to be melodramatic but the world needs a lot more “heh, neat”.
> the real big secret is "it was Russia"
The only thing your bullet points were doing is suggesting "look at the delusions of this maniac! He can't be trusted because of them". But because the completely insane shit in my list turned out to be true, Hersh's sorts of claims are at least as plausible as the insane shit I listed in my reply. (And in the case of the first two, they were labeled by bienpensants of all kinds as proof that the claimant was certifiably nuts or at least unworthy of Serious Attention ... until the day they were shown to be true.)
All I'm saying is that, given the factual record of conspiracy and sociopathy on the part of the world's powerful, something like "2013 chemical weapons attack in Syria was a "false flag" staged by the government of Turkey" can't easily be used to dismiss someone as nuts. Not enough evidence? Sure, whatever (but let's wait a decade or two). Crazy though? Nope.
So I read a list like yours, and read you scoffing at the implausibility of any of those things, and I remember just how different we all can be.
[1] https://www.military.com/video/guns/pistols/cias-secret-hear...
To me, there are few issues more overlooked than this stuff. Structurally there's no mainstream constituency that'd critique it or even point it out, of course, but still. Crazy under the radar but right out in the open at the same time.
> ever since 2006, been a nutbag
> but others you let just... walk in ?
My guy we can do both, we can fleece all the third and fourth home owners, foreign and domestic, it’ll be glorious, join us
Pretty sure this is actually already happening at a furious pace — PE firms, right? In fact I’m pretty sure I’ve read HN threads about it.