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Read more about the article Are fat people dumb?

Are fat people dumb?

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:23. January 2023
  • Post category:intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability/Medicine

There's a stereotype that fat people are lazy, less intelligent, and of course, they are widely considered unattractive in the west in modern times. But is this stereotype true? Well,…

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Read more about the article Drug users vs. drug abusers

Drug users vs. drug abusers

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:12. December 2022
  • Post category:intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability/Medicine/Psychiatry

Drugs are bad mmk? Well, are they? The go-to argument involves looking at drug abusers. It's hard to say something positive about drug abuse in general. Everybody has a story…

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Read more about the article Does vaping shrink your balls?

Does vaping shrink your balls?

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:3. November 2022
  • Post category:Medicine

Some time ago, someone sent me this: https://twitter.com/AlpacaAurelius/status/1583506701726064651 I know, generic ancient Rome/Greek right-wing back-to-nature type stuff, even hates on deodorants: https://twitter.com/AlpacaAurelius/status/1587965330856493056 "Alright Emil, but these are cheap shots. What…

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Read more about the article Does honey actually work against coughing?

Does honey actually work against coughing?

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:15. October 2022
  • Post category:Medicine

I've been battling my way through round three of my COVID adventures this week, and it's not been fun. 3 days of lying in bed with full body fever, cold…

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Read more about the article Why can’t we prevent or cure hangovers?

Why can’t we prevent or cure hangovers?

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:17. July 2022
  • Post category:Medicine

There is a nice theory in economics about why capitalism is better than socialism. It goes like this. Under socialism, central planners try to estimate what the public wants and…

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Read more about the article How unreal is long-COVID?

How unreal is long-COVID?

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:29. June 2022
  • Post category:intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability/Medicine/Neuroscience/Psychology

Research funding for COVID is amazing. A lot of academics got and continue to get grants promising to do research on COVID. Unfortunately, COVID kinda died out recently and the…

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Read more about the article Heat and the great balls decline

Heat and the great balls decline

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:25. April 2022
  • Post category:Medicine/Physiology

OK, click baity title, but bear with me. In a prior post on Roman fertility decline, I had mentioned a speculative piece arguing that Roman fertility decline was in part…

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Read more about the article Male hair loss treatments: I think they work

Male hair loss treatments: I think they work

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:29. March 2022
  • Post category:Medicine

Being the go-to science guy, I get questions like: so can something be done about my hair loss? The context of this is that I frequently talk about replication crisis,…

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Read more about the article Supersize me failed replication. Well sort of.

Supersize me failed replication. Well sort of.

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:22. March 2022
  • Post category:Medicine

Most people people my age know about a documentary called Supersize me! from 2004. The story of it goes like this: As the film begins, Spurlock is in physically above…

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Read more about the article Are vaccines bad for infants?

Are vaccines bad for infants?

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:2. March 2022
  • Post category:Medicine

And I am not talking about COVID vaccines! I am talking about this far more intriguing paper: Miller, N. Z., & Goldman, G. S. (2011). Infant mortality rates regressed against…

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