Re:Zuckerberg and Chan aim to tackle all disease by 2100
by Thimothy on Thursday September 22, 2016 @05:35AM
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That Slate Star Codex article is one of the most depressing things I've read for a while, thank you.
Re:Zuckerberg and Chan aim to tackle all disease by 2100
by dredmorbius on Friday September 23, 2016 @05:51PM
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SSC is an underappreciated gem. There's much brilliance in't.
Re:Zuckerberg and Chan aim to tackle all disease by 2100
by smsm42 on Thursday September 22, 2016 @04:33AM
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I think the problems are known to many in the field. Getting to the solution for it may be trickier.
Re:Zuckerberg and Chan aim to tackle all disease by 2100
by andrewprock on Wednesday September 21, 2016 @08:10PM
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Do you have anything from a more reliable source?
Re:Zuckerberg and Chan aim to tackle all disease by 2100
by nicklaf on Wednesday September 21, 2016 @08:26PM
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I included a reliable source! Click my link to yesterday's HN story. It is an interview with John P.A. Ioannidis, "who is a professor at Stanford University and one of the most highly cited researchers in the world".
He quotes Eliezer Yudkowsky:
Parapsychologists are constantly protesting that they are playing by all the standard scientific rules, and yet their results are being ignored – that they are unfairly being held to higher standards than everyone else. I’m willing to believe that. It just means that the standard statistical methods of science are so weak and flawed as to permit a field of study to sustain itself in the complete absence of any subject matter.
This general topic sometimes comes up on HN (most recently, yesterday†). Here's a good starting point:
https://hn.algolia.com/?query=http:%2F%2Fwww.phdcomics.com%2...
† https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12535880