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Read more about the article Can we pick the best sperm?

Can we pick the best sperm?

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:4. May 2023
  • Post category:Biology/Medicine/Reproductive genetics

A lot of people are interested in embryo selection. Why? When people reproduce through IVF, they will generate more than one viable embryo. Which one to choose? The general approach…

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Actual communism is bad for your health

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:2. May 2023
  • Post category:Medicine/Political science

Saw this anti-communism meme today: (I couldn't find a higher res version.) Looks true enough, but perhaps cherry-picked. There were more than 6 countries in the ex-USSR. So I downloaded…

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Read more about the article Is some alcohol good for you?

Is some alcohol good for you?

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:12. April 2023
  • Post category:Medicine

In medicine, there are two normal dose-response functions for a chemical (or other treatment) and your health. In the first case, any amount of the chemical is bad and more…

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Read more about the article Obesity and the secular decline in testosterone

Obesity and the secular decline in testosterone

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:24. February 2023
  • Post category:intelligence / IQ / cognitive ability/Medicine/Physiology

One thing I didn't address in the last post about the decline of everything manly is that obesity is a potential cause of secular declines in testosterone. That's because the…

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Read more about the article It’s not just sperm quality decline

It’s not just sperm quality decline

  • Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
  • Post published:23. February 2023
  • Post category:Medicine/Physiology

Recently Scott Alexander wrote a long piece in his usual fashion Declining Sperm Count: Much More Than You Wanted To Know. He takes the usual meta-skeptical rationalist approach of reviewing…

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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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