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Yōni.Fit® bladder support for stress urinary incontinence adds menstrual indication
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Study examines clinical outcomes based on antiplatelet bridging dosing patterns post-PCI
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Researchers uncover new pathway allowing red blood cells to make hemoglobin under stress
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Antisense oligonucleotide strategy reverses HNRNPH2-related neurodevelopmental disorder
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Wild gray bats adjust their echolocation calls based on the other bats in their flying group
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Choosing Your Bets: The Selection Bias
As some of the long-time readers of this blog know, in this column I have occasionally discussed probability calculations in the context of gambling and betting. A long time ago I also famously won a $1000 bet on the LHC not discovering any new physics. Below I will mention a similar bet that ended up not being agreed upon by the parties, for the sake of discussing a subtle effect one has to worry about when placing bets: the selection bias.
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Environmentalists, What Are You Asking From Dedmoroz Lenin For Earth Day This Year?
Tomorrow is Earth Day. It is also Lenin's birthday.
That's not coincidence. The leader of the first Earth Day was not a politician, as the movement has greenwashed Democratic U.S. Senator Gaylord Nelson into being, yet credible journalists and an alarming number of commenters will invoke the Earth Day site or some anonymous Snopes blogger or even Wikipedia(!) and claim the primary sources from 56 years ago are wrong.
That's not coincidence. The leader of the first Earth Day was not a politician, as the movement has greenwashed Democratic U.S. Senator Gaylord Nelson into being, yet credible journalists and an alarming number of commenters will invoke the Earth Day site or some anonymous Snopes blogger or even Wikipedia(!) and claim the primary sources from 56 years ago are wrong.
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Repurposing SGLT2 inhibitors for cirrhotic ascites: from mechanistic research to clinical exploration
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