It’s such a shame Douglas Adams isn’t with us anymore.
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I wonder what they trained it on.
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They showed it different universes with different physical constants, of course.
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EXTERMINATE 
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Are any of those different universes better than this one?
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A bit confused by the tree. It’s hard to read. Maybe I’m reading too much into it, but it seems to show an Archaeopterygian-Dromeosaur-Troodontid group as a sister to a Scansoriopterygian-Extant Bird group. Which would imply that the supercoracoideus pulley is parallel evolution within both groups, and either gliding wings, flight feathers, etc. are parallel, or Scansoriopterygians are secondarily glideless.
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The paper is open access, and many of the tree figures are much easier to read in it:
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So the position of the Scansoriopterygids isn’t solid:
Scansoriopterygids form the first branch of Avialae, matching their stratigraphic placement, and constraining them as basal paravians instead is only one step longer.
P.S. But they definitely favor the idea that flight evolved several times.
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It’s one step longer … and parsimony has no hypothesis testing framework. Is one step a statistically significant value? It is under parsimony because shorter == better. I kind of understand that given the assumptions of the model, but the lack of any meaningful way to test that has always bugged me about parsimony.
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He believed that if patients were taught to breathe correctly, through their noses, their lung problems would go away.
Not breathing is not “breathing correctly”!
Sure people with worse asthma and worse allergies are more likely to have trouble breathing through eyes, ears, or noses. Because with allergies, nasal polyps, or other issues, none of these organs are likely to have clear airways.
Correlation is not causation!
This is also one of the rationalizations for mocking mouth-breathers. That we’re too lazy to “breathe correctly” and stop getting allergies and asthma attacks.
This is similar to one of the rationalizations for medicaid work requirements. Since people with jobs are less likely to be disabled than people without jobs, these policymakers decide that if they can force disabled people to get jobs, and cut off any supports such as Medicaid if we can’t, then we’ll stop being disabled.
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The Buteyko technique was first developed in the 1950s by the Soviet doctor of the same name, Konstantin Pavlovich Buteyko.
That’s a hint right there cough Lysenko snore
I pretty sure I can snore with my mouth shut.
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I can’t, on several levels here.
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“incredibly scientific”???
ETA: Has she never heard of tinted glasses? Or night lights for screens, apparently. I mean, if you want to be incredibly scientific, there are strong indicators across multiple studies that non-invasive is better.
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It’s trumpy, saying a thing and expecting the spin to be true, despite the fact that’s it’s just demonstrably not.
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It’s just the ignorance that gets me. The “incredibly scientific” part was written by the journalist (whether it originated from Grimes’ comments we can’t tell). And I know, 24 hour news cycle! but how long does it take to call a couple of ophthalmologists and SAD researchers to obtain comments? “Oh, but it’s only an entertainment article”. So don’t mention dodgy eye surgery!
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Noted entertainers J. S. Bach and G. F. Handel both went blind due to “dodgy eye surgery” (by the same quack). Bach died of complications shortly thereafter. I think one should be circumspect about dealing with the kinds of quack who would do such eye surgery for “science-y” reasons.
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