“Psychiatry experts agree that while the past decade has seen a vast proliferation of new mood-boosting tools, trackers and self-help apps, there has been little in the way of hard evidence to show that any of them actually help.”

AI literally can’t compute flipping the script …. www.npr.org/sections/goa...

Hi #AcademicSky, anyone know of a good, publicly available, county-level measure of public transit quality?

Tuskegee Syphilis Study documents now digitized & online. #bioethics www.washingtonpost.com/health/2023/...

“For masks, are randomized trials an appropriate way of evaluating… in the first place? We don’t rely on such trials for seat belts, bike helmets or life jackets, & the oft-cited randomized trial of parachutes is an old running joke… What do the engineers know that doctors don’t?”

"In my view, academic institutions are fairly transparent (though not enough) about the fact that the primary duty of their scientists is not to make the world better, but to develop a professional profile and raise funds."

Read this! Not totally related to the quote below, but has me wondering how much the pressure on soft money researchers to pursue “novel” interventions that target big populations leads to these pre-disease definitions. Maybe not as avaricious in intent as drug makers, but maybe same end results?

In the hands of the biggest media corporations, the term 'diversity' has become a poison pill. A way to silo and minimize the contributions of the historically marginalized. There are *real* books and 'diverse' books, which you can safely ignore. At conferences, real panels and 'diverse' panels. Etc

US COVID SHOTS ARE FREE. Please do not let Walgreens and CVS mislead you or your family members or neighbors about this! They are the biggest part of the federal bridge (free shots for uninsured people) program, but the rollout’s logistics have been a little scattered and you may get pushback.