Link of the day: Feasibility of controlling 2019-nCoV outbreaks by isolation of cases and contacts While in London I co-worked on a paper about the…
Health
Tuesday, 04.02.2020 – Why Companies Abandon The Development of New Antibiotics
Links of the day: Biopharma has abandoned antibiotic development. Here’s why we did, too. Recently, I wrote a piece arguing that pharma companies should be…
Cognitive inequality
It has by now become a well-known trope that automation of low-skilled jobs hits certain parts of the population much harder than others. And that…
The Pharma Industry is Broken and Medication Should Be Directly Sold To States
The Problem The pharmaceutical industry clearly is not working as it should be. Not only did an industry that makes people healthier, happier and helps…
Phenoptosis – Are We Programmed to Die?
In 1999 the Russian biochemist Vladimir Skulachev coined the term Phenoptosis in his paper. In analogy to apoptosis (planned cell death), where cells undergo a…
Saturday, 18.01.2020 – Relaxed Beliefs Under Psychedelics
Link of the day: SSC Journal Club – Relaxed beliefs under psychedelics and the anarchic brain Psychedelics are increasingly tested for therapeutic use. There are…
Sunday, 12.01.2020 – Human Body Temperature Has Decreased in the Last 150 Years
Link of the day: Decreasing human body temperature in the United States since the industrial revolution (scientific paper) Average body temperature may be declining compared…