The DSHEA disclaimer, by the way, is something that, back in the day, we used to refer to as the “quack Miranda warning,” as I couldn’t resist taking to the same hellsite to mention: So @SecKennedy is ...
Over the past decade the Chinese economy has nearly doubled in size, going from 8.93 trillion dollars in 2012, to 16.33 trillion dollars in 2022 (the most recent year for which we have data). This has ...
Fallacies about the nature of biases have shadowed a proper cognitive understanding of biases and their sources, which in turn lead to ways that minimize their impact. Six such fallacies are presented ...
Ever since quantum field theory was first applied to the derivation of nuclear forces in the mid-twentieth century, the renormalization of pion exchange with realistic couplings has presented a ...
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s own ignorance. —Confucius What if we are being radically deceived? What if I am no more than a brain kept alive in a vat and fed with stimuli by a mad ...
Complex biological systems, by definition, are composed of multiple components that interact non-linearly. The human brain constitutes, arguably, the most complex biological system known. Yet most ...