mjbeswick

The true long term success rate of AA is about 1 in 20, which is absolutely terrible!

In the UK a higher percentage of people in ethnic groups live below the poverty line, but in real numbers there are many time more poor white people, as the UK is 90% white. That means that someone living in poverty in the UK has a 6 in 7 chance of being white.

Poorer areas might have worse health services, but people in those areas tend to also live more unhealthy lifestyles which is the realthat lifespans in those areas tend to be lower than more affluent areas.

Being poor isn't the reason people in these groups aren't getting vaccinated; it's out of choice driven by ignorance or fear; as it's free to be vaccinated. The groups your mention are often are less educated and have cultural conflicts with medical and scientific advice.

Many communities have willfully ignored public health advice simply because they think it doesn't apply to them.

Is this at all surprising that the chinese would see the need for such nuclear deterrent, since the US still has 1800 silos (that are public knowledge).

I imagine that's just perception; as in reality cannabis impairs cognitive functions such as motor control, and problem solving.

On the other hand, Amphetamines would definitely help you clean your office more efficiently; but you wouldn't want to stop there!

While religion may fill the spiritual needs that some people seem to have, and on the surface is pretty harmless; it can be extremely harmful to people that have mental health problems.

Take someone that suffers from paranoid schizophrenia; telling them God speaks to people and that they should obey him can have dire consequences! I've see this problem first hand, so I'm not just speculating.

People throughout history have claimed to be profits; but unless they are a fraud, it's far more likely that the voices they hear auditory hallucinations associated with schizophrenia!

There are several other coronaviruses that commonly affect humans, so I assume that these findings should be common to other coronavirus infections?

So many articles and stories in the media have been implying from the start of the outbreak that COVID-19 is some crazy new type of virus, rather a mutation of a virus that has been infecting people for centuries.

Linux could be a good choice for some medical devices, but certainly not those where any malfunction could result in the death of a patient. Linux isn't intended to be used for fault-tolerant computer systems, as such systems use specially designed hardware and operating systems.

The problem is that medical devices can literally kill when they malfunction (The Therac-25 is a great example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25)

I can only guess you are against universal healthcare also? In countries that have universal healthcare, that care is substantially cheaper; so you pay much less overall.

I live in the UK, which has quite a generous benefits system. Although such a system is open to abuse, it's much cheaper than imprisoning people that have resorted to crime to get by (they they do in the US).

£100 a month not bad. My season ticket used to cost £4400, for a 25 minute ride to London waterloo, and tube to Hammersmith. Still cheaper than £28 for the day!

It's not hard to find people for unskilled work if you are offering a fair wage. Why would anyone in the US want to work for a restaurant unless they had no choice, when they aren't even entitled to minimum wage. It's outrageous that tips are considered part of people wage, as in reality it's just charity compensating for employers not paying for the work.

That's not really true, more people live longer now that ever in human history. You are making the assumption that people are having more mental health problems now than in the past; but that is just an assumption.

Nodays, more than half of people in developed countries die from diseases cause by their lifestyle.

Is this causation or correlation? Are the factors in urban environments which correlate with air pollution may also be responsible Don't get me wrong, air pollution is clearly very bad, but without clear evidence any other cholerating factor could be just as likely the cause, such environmental noise, population density, standard of living etc.

I forgot the source, but there is apparently compelling evidence that one cause of schizophrenia may viral infections.

I really don't understand the point the author is trying to make. If you have old hardware just use a lightweight distro, or an older version of one of the more popular ones.

If running new software is so important just buy a new computer!?

Eating more protein doesn't take you out of ketosis, that's just a myth; it will just lower the amount of keytones that are being produced. If only are protein or nothing at all and you would still be in ketosis.

As a British citizen I think that was a terrible idea!

While the US has a great deal to offer, Brittan would be worse place from such a union. Food standards, welfare, employment rights, medical care and politics are just some of the things that are better in the UK; maybe not perfect but definitely better. Many of the "freedoms" in the US are actually worse than here or in Europe!

The biggest flaw in this report is that it doesn't say what classifies as a non-drinker!? It seems to imply that anyone who drinks 1 or more units of alcohol day is a drinker, so that was suggest anything less has no demonstratable negative effects.

These kinds of studies are usually based self-reporting via questionnaires, so the data is going to be wildly inaccurate. Any small correlation is in the data is probably meaningless. The other problem is that the risks of consuming alcohol are different for each person. Failing to take someone's diet into account also invalidates the results.

Vaccines are not equally effective in everyone, as they depend on a person's immune response. Obesity and other underlying health conditions can significantly impact immunity.

3M have been selling move fluid for this purpose for many years. It has a boiling point of 49'c, so Manny that's what Microsoft are using?

A few years ago IBM demoed a system called redux flow which used an electrolyte for cooling and power distribution.

We've had this in the UK for years since the 70s; it's called child allowance and everyone is entitled to it. Child allowance isn't as generous (£21-£13 a week per child), you a range of other benefits such as tax credits.

The problem here in the UK is that the system is so generous that it has created generations of unemployable people that are dependant on benefits. If you are a women with one or more children you can claim unemployment benefits and get a property paid for by the government. The more children you have, the more benefits you are entitled to, so inevitably people in this situation usually have several children. In the surface this seems like a good scheme which helps poor families, but low social mobility means that children born into families that live off benefits are destin to do so themselves; so not really helping remove poverty but rather perpetuating it.

Admittedly I might be slightly biased, as I grew up in a poor family and knew many such families. There is a popular opinion that people choose to live off benefits in the UK, but I would dispute that and say that most people simply follow the path of least resistance; so the system is more to blame.

In this case the a toddler swallowed a lithium ion button cell, so I wonder how how this counts as a products being defective as those batteries are designed to be removable?

If the woman I bought some of the same batteries off of Amazon and her child swallowed one of the batteries, surely Amazon wouldn't be liable. So why are there in this case?

Isn't it a good thing that the reproductive rate is falling before there is too much contention for resources?

If infertility is a growing issue aren't fatility treatments compounding the problem, by treating the symptoms rather that the cause?

Population growth might be good for economic reasons, but it's not sustainable from a environmental perspective.

In Europe 18 thromboembolic events reported for 20 million immunisations using the vaccine, so it's hard to imagine why some countries there have suspended it's use.

I have a reverse osmosis filter so there is never any mineral buildup in our kettle.

We have a glass kettle which cost £35, and is as good as new; even after a few years of use several time a day.

Comparing across different hospitals in different geophysical regions isn't comparing like for like.

Supposedly men are twice as like to have a heat attack than men, but when women have great attacks the are generally more severe, with women being 50% more likely to have another within 6 months.

Maybe female doctors are left treating less severe cases, or maybe they work in hospitals better resources?

That's simply a myth perpetuated to cover up the fact that they are taking EPO.

Just like the myth created by the British in WW2 that attributed the success of the RAF at night to earthing carrots to cover up the fact that they were using radar.

Stimulants also work very well on people without ADHD, so why not give them to everyone!?

It seems crazy that we've made it this far as a species without medication; so why should it be required now? Maybe the issue isn't the children, but the environment they are in?

If a comment is a nitpicking then it should simply be a optional suggested change.

Admittedly accurate is the wrong term, but it is a reasonable inductor of health, as the heavier someone is for a given weight, the shorter their expected lifespan will be.

The normal weight may change, but the ideal healthy weight doesn't. The idea of a healthy weight is misleading, as there is more of a healthy body fat percentage. Even that's is an oversimplification, as visceral fat has far more health implications that subcutaneous fat.

BMI is pretty accurate for most people. Having said that you don't need a measurement to see if someone is fat!