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The annals of "I'm not anti-vaccine," part 13: Nobody wants to admit to being "antivaccine"

Sometimes, in order to understand advocates of pseudoscience, such as antivaccinationists, it's a useful exercise to look at their most extreme elements. Admittedly, in focusing on such loons, one does take the risk of generalizing the nuts to everyone a bit much, but on the other hand I've often found that the extremists are basically like the less loony versions on steroids. The advantage, to me, is that they are unconcerned (for the most part) with hiding the craziness at the root of their beliefs.

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Blue Monday 2024 – who invented it and why it's a myth

Blue Monday 2024 – who invented it and why it's a myth
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In case you didn't know, Blue Monday is looming

If last year's Blue Monday was the worst one since the concept was ‘invented’ in 2005, what's this one going to be like?

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NHS England to expand GP data sharing platform

NHS England is set to expand the usage of its OpenSAFELY platform, a tool that enables secure analysis of GP data for research purposes.

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Hearing the patient's voice in AI-enhanced healthcare

Behind every data scientist and entrepreneur celebrating the powers and potential of artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance modern healthcare, there is a silent majority who are more circumspect. Of course, big data and disruptive technologies in healthcare are not new. Medical providers and the public have grown familiar, and even comfortable, with computer-aided triage when calling NHS 111; electronic health records; and robotic surgery and scans interpreted at first pass by an algorithm. Big data and AI assistance are needed to meet the UK’s health demands and ambitions, and the government is investing in this future. Trusts can now bid for a share of £21m from the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) to accelerate rollout of promising AI tools to mark the NHS’ 75th birthday.1 “NHS data is a phenomenal resource that can revolutionise healthcare, research and the life sciences,” writes Ben Goldacre in The Goldacre Review, commissioned by the DHSC in 2021. But he continues: “data alone is not enough.”2

AI offers inferences and indicates probabilities by applying complex algorithms to reams of personal, public, and government data to execute tasks previously beyond human capability. In particular, using extensive computational resources, AI can learn to make inferences about individual cases based on patterns in these data. However, neither these computational resources nor vast amounts of data guarantee that AI outputs will take into account key values: the values that we hold about what is right and wrong for us as individuals, as clinicians and as patients, in the ways we practise and the ways we are cared for.

Anxiety accompanies the projected shift in decision-making power away from people and towards AI. Worries arise about the slip of our success criteria towards …

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Testing (Season 21 Episode 5 of 14): With Maisie Adam, Susan Calman and Josh Widdicombe. QI XL airs on Dave at 9:00 PM, Tuesday 12 March. With Maisie Adam, Susan Calman and Josh Widdicombe

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U.S. Media Ignoring About Face by Leading Global Warming Proponent

Imagine if the Pope suddenly announced that the Catholic Church  had been wrong for centuries about prohibiting priests from marrying. Would that be considered big news? Of course. And yet something like that has happened in the field of global warming in which a major scientist has announced that the world, in contrast to his previous belief, is actually cooling. This was the analogy made by columnist Lorne Gunter in the Calgary Herald:

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How Palantir Became a Front-Runner for the UK's Multimillion-Dollar NHS Contract

Palantir, the analytics company chaired by Peter Thiel, has courted N.H.S. England with pandemic help and assertive lobbying. Its big reward may be yet to come.

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Letters: Neighbors' concerns about noise and traffic at the new Ryan Field are valid

Letters: Neighbors' concerns about noise and traffic at the new Ryan Field are valid
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This "just" in: Jabhat al-Nusra rebels claim chemical weapons attack in Ghouta with an oops – Progressive Culture

Jabhat al-Nusra Rebels Admit Responsibility for Chemical Weapons Attack Paul Joseph Watson, Global Research/Centre for Research on Globalization September 1, 2013 Militants tell AP reporter they mishandled Saudi-supplied chemical weapons, causing accident  Syrian rebels in the Damascus suburb of Ghouta have admitted to Associated Press correspondent Dale Gavlak that they were responsible for last week’s…

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