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Readable epidemiology methods, causal inference, risk communication, evidence grading, replication, and statistical thinking.
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This hub groups related writing so readers can move from one argument to the surrounding disease history, ecology, and evidence.
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It’s college football season, my favorite time of year. Another year of rivalries, institutional histories, and loyal fans keeping ancient grievances alive. Not that you care, but I’m a UCLA fan.
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In June of 1783, a fissure broke open in southern Iceland and didn’t stop erupting for eight months.
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Clinical rabies is known to be fatal, but its human infection-fatality rate is still unknown
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Some deaths pass through a bureaucracy. Others have to be reconstructed from fragments.
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A source-aware look at a newly reported sexually transmitted fungal infection, including MSM networks, case evidence, transmission questions, and reporting limits.
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America's life expectancy gap is real. The shape of the problem matters if you want to fix it instead of just despair over it.
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The LSD trial is interesting. The boring questions still matter: comparator, blinding, durability, harms, and who actually benefits.
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Some medical risk is inherited through DNA. Some is inherited through history.
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Fake papers clutter journals, poison reviews and guidelines, reward bad incentives, and leave trash in the scientific record.
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The super-ager story starts with lucky biology and ends at a harder question: what would medicine look like if prevention were infrastructure?
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Why the word memetics faded while viral ideas, imitation, information spread, and cultural transmission kept shaping public life.
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Psychedelic hype makes the results feel cleaner than they are. Design, dose, expectancy, and follow-up still matter.
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Fitness trackers are useful. They are also only as good as the signal, algorithm, body, and question being measured.
