- What conservatives got wrong about covid.
- Food regulation is a regulatory jungle.
- The 2025 World Happiness Report: solitary activities, including solo meals, can lead to depression and shorter life expectancies.
- 90% of rare diseases have no approved treatments. AI may be the answer. (NYT)
Category: Artificial Intelligence and Healthcare
Wednesday Links
- Elon Musk: AI-powered sex robots aren’t far away from the U.S. market: “less than five years probably.”
- Disney has spent $270 million on Snow White ($450 million, if you include prints and advertising costs, according to Vulture), and it hopes everyone will ignore the movie.
- The federal work force has been rising. What are all those people doing?
- The greatest inequality is among the elderly, and the most important reason is differences in the amount people choose to save over their work life.
- Up until the 1980s it was widely believed that babies could not feel pain. So, doctors subjected them to a lot of it.
How Smart Patients Avoid Bogus Health Information
How do consumers and patients avoid misinformation, self-serving information and information touting ineffective, barely effective and placebo-powered treatments?
Would You See a Hologram Doctor?
Telemedicine is a way to see a doctor remotely. As an aside, I wonder if the people complaining that they are just as productive working remotely from home are the same ones who only want to see a doctor in person. Just a thought. In any case telemedicine has several small problems. Talking to a doctor on the phone is impersonal. Taking over Zoom allows you to see a face but not much else. Seeing a hologram is different.