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Category: Artificial Intelligence and Healthcare

Social Media Boasts a Lot of Bogus Health Information

Posted on January 6, 2025January 6, 2025 by Devon Herrick

I was recently on Facebook when a friend of a friend posted this chart. He paired it with a query: Is this due to something we ate? Or something injected in us. Presumably he was referring to food additives and vaccinations. Many of the comments that followed opined that it’s probably a combination of both factors… I began to do some checking, and I quickly found more answers about why rates in the chart had risen so much. Basically, the list of disease burden is bogus, it’s totally wrong, made up, fabricated.

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Saturday Links

Posted on January 4, 2025January 4, 2025 by John C. Goodman
  • No one wants to be a baby doctor,
  • Surgeon General want cancer warnings on alcohol.
  • Is the physical exam no longer of value?
  • Is Chicago about to go bankrupt?
  • The libertarian case for Jimmy Carter.
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Monday Links

Posted on December 30, 2024December 30, 2024 by John C. Goodman
  • You have to be an American Indian who participates in religious ceremonies in order to legally use peyote.
  • Inflation update:  Lower-income households experienced higher 2024 inflation rates than higher-income groups, with the gap exceeding 70 basis points between the second and top income deciles.
  • A “face test” does a better job than doctors at predicting cancer survival. (WSJ)
  • You can take a selfie and determine your own biological age. (WSJ)
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Consumer Health Products are Cheap, While Insured Medical Care Costs a Fortune

Posted on December 25, 2024 by Devon Herrick

Since my private life is apparently so boring Facebook fills the gaps with sponsored posts and a lot of advertisements. A day ago, I began noticing that many of the ads were for health-related products and services. Perhaps Facebook began feeding me ads for health products because I lingered over one for too long, but I’d like to think that Americans are truly interested in taking a more active role in their health care.

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