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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3945755/ "Glyphosate, pathways to modern diseases II: Celiac sprue and gluten intolerance"

Here, we propose that glyphosate is the most important causal factor in this [celiac disease and gluten intolerance] epidemic.


Don’t forget this awesome quote: “However, a recent paper (Samsel & Seneff, 2013), argued that glyphosate may be a key contributor to the obesity epidemic and the autism epidemic in the United States, as well as to several other diseases and conditions, such as Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, infertility, depression, and cancer.”

It’s causing all the bad things? That would be amazing if true, unfortunately it sounds unlikely (chiropractic comes to mind) and the rest of the science world doesn’t believe these authors.

If the graphs in the paper seem compelling, make sure to spend some time here: https://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations


Did you read the paper? My guess is no.

Classic HN, references a paper as if the conclusions are fact and all references are equivalent.

This is a paper where the authors did no experiments of their own, just put forth a hypotheses.

The lead author is an “independent scientist”.

Suffice to say I’d be very suspect of the conclusions drawn.


> The lead author is an “independent scientist”.

The other one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephanie_Seneff


Ooph…

“In 2011, she began publishing controversial papers in low-impact, open access journals on biology and medical topics; the articles have received "heated objections from experts in almost every field she's delved into,"”



Because Dropbox acquired Boxcryptor -- one of the tools that easily let people encrypt files before upload -- to be replaced with "plans for end-to-end encryption"

https://techcrunch.com/2022/11/29/dropbox-acquires-boxcrypto...


The challenges with the post's suggestion are (1) it accounts only for the time of the person needing information, not the one providing it, and (2) a specific question takes a small time to answer, but pre-documenting everything that is needed to answer any question takes orders of magnitude more time.

Some of this is outlined in Snowden's (not that Snowden) Laws of Knowledge Management.

http://www.gurteen.com/gurteen/gurteen.nsf/id/km-seven-princ...

These two are especially relevant:

2. We only know what we know when we need to know it.

7. We always know more than we can say, and we always say more than we can write down.


Ditto 1.20, and when interpreted as floating point the trailing zero loses significance. So as a version this is indistinguishable from 1.2


Not in the US where health insurance is tied to your job and career gaps are perceived as substantially negative.


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