Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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(QC RSS) How To Be Friends
I struggle with this stuff!
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on When Arguments Fail: A Response to Jason Brennan by Irfan Khawaja
I’ve responded to both Jason Brennan and Phil Magness over at BHL (along with a handful of other commenters there). Brennan, who has Moderator status at BHL, can’t seem to make up his mind about what to do with my comments, deleting them, …
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Daniel Tillett’s Attenuated SARS-CoV-2 Strain Proposal by mlyoung57
Thanks for posting this. The approach seems promising to my lay ears. The main advantage over sped-up vaccine trials (e.g. via human challenge trials) seems to be that nature does the safety-testing for us. I can see how this would buy us a couple o…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Coronavirus Diary (18): N95 Masks and Ultraviolet Lamps by Irfan Khawaja
Finally got my ultraviolet lamp on Friday the 10th, just the day it was promised. Now to put it together. LikeLike
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(Policy of Truth) Daniel Tillett’s Attenuated SARS-CoV-2 Strain Proposal
I’ve so far tried to avoid writing posts on highly technical subjects–epidemiological, pathophysiological, statistical, methodological, or otherwise–partly because I lack the expertise for it, partly because we lack the data for it, and partly because I don’t see a good practical rationale for it. Pueyo’s hammer/dance strategy implies that we have to buy time to…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Phillip Magness’s Ministry of Truth by Irfan Khawaja
In reply to kakatoa. LOL. Yes, though I have to think that what happened at Theranos has got to pale in comparison to what happened on COVID-19… If nothing else, at least Carreyrou has great material for his next book! Suggested title: Don’…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Phillip Magness’s Ministry of Truth by kakatoa
Great Tune! Grace to Grace. A theme song to go with what went wrong at Theranos as denoted in “Bad Blood- Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Start Up” by John Carreyrou. I am going to file this- “hen the truth hides And int…
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( Comments on Extreme Libertarianism vs. the Accountable State ) By: Matt
Thanks for posting. Have long been in agreement on this point. My own views swung from various forms of socialism and statism to the moderate libertarian outlook of Hayek and Sowell. I could never embrace anarcho-capitalism because it is so obviously u…
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(John McWhorter | The Atlantic) The Surgeon General Meets the Language Police
Jerome Adams acknowledged the vulnerability of people of color—but ran afoul of a powerful ideology.
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(Policy of Truth) Call for Plasma Donations: Mt. Sinai-Valley Health (Paramus, NJ)
For people in the north Jersey/New York City area (see tweet below): here’s the link that takes you to information and the application. Test location is Bolger Medical Arts Building, 970 Linwood Ave, Paramus, New Jersey. Today we administered our first dose of convalescent plasma to a patient with #COVID-19. The treatment involves giving patients…
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