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sicromofton McKinsey Advised Johnson and Johnson on Increasing Opioid Sales

I don't like the current system of pharma sales reps either, but black and white thinking like this is not healthy or productive.

Your final sentence isn't conveying any objective information -- in fact, it seems pretty close to emotional propaganda itself. Does that make you an immoral cancer on our society? (No.)

sicromofton Neuralink Live Stream [video]

Since we're being sticklers, your use of "By accident" should have been in quotes.

sicromofton Two CMU Computer Science Professors Resign, Citing “sexist management”

You mean an ad blocker blocker blocker? It's blockers all the way down.

sicromofton Nearly Half of Americans Are Lonely

While loneliness is a real and important problem, there's good reason to be skeptical about it being an "epidemic". The Cigna study is incredibly flawed:

http://andrewgelman.com/2018/05/09/43-loneliest-number-youll...

Journalists (like David Brooks in the New York Times) are getting it very wrong as well:

http://andrewgelman.com/2018/05/16/no-no-epidemic-loneliness...

sicromofton The rise of the pointless job

Yep, he definitely left that out. Looks like the full story is on the subreddit he mentioned: https://www.reddit.com/r/WWPGD/comments/6gbz84/how_i_became_...