- Consuming half a tablespoon of olive oil every day is associated with a 28% lower risk of dying of dementia.
- Less than half of all workers plan to work past age 62.
- An argument for not giving free health care to illegals.
- Trump v. Biden on the response to Covid.
- Getting rich by doing good: The nonprofit University of Pittsburgh Medical Center CEO makes $12 million a year.
Moral Dilemmas in Medical Care
Many of the researchers responsible for the most notorious abuses in recent medical history — the Tuskegee syphilis study, the Willowbrook hepatitis studies, the Cincinnati radiation studies, the Holmesburg prison studies — were celebrated with professional accolades even after the abuses were first called out.
Source: Carl Elliott, New York Times
An AI Mental Health Chatbot Will See You Now (or Maybe Not)
Would you spill your failed hopes, unfulfilled dreams and mental health challenges to a robot? How about a mental health chatbot? That’s not as strange as it sounds. Reporter Shirley Wang at The Wall Street Journal debates the value of mental health chatbots that use artificial intelligence (AI) technology.
Why Processed Foods Matter
[Researchers] raised a group of rats in a cage and gave them an abundant supply of healthy, balanced rat chow made out of the kind of food rats had been eating for a very long time. The rats would eat it when they were hungry, and then they seemed to feel sated and stopped. They did not become fat.