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A Crucial Link in the Nation’s Organ Donation Process Is Failing(themarkup.org)
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by openknot 3y ago
BuzzFeed News also lost credibility to me during the Trump administration, when the Mueller team publicly disputed the outlet's report on a Cohen-Trump story. From The New Yorker [0]: "The story was sourced to “two federal law enf
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by openknot 4y ago
> "If I search some review I scroll past all of the official review sites and find some random nobody who appears to be expressing their own experiences." That strategy has been tainted for a while. Lots of seemingly legitimate
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In this case though, Weiner did not "literally name" the informant in The New York Times article [1]. He referred to the informant as a "retired terrorist" without giving a name. In general, you're right about the p
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I read the show notes but didn't listen to the podcast. Is this really true? The linked New York Times article by Weiner never names the subject, but instead reports on a "retired terrorist" [1]. I don't see this an &quo
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Alternatively, through a very pragmatic lens: the interviewee is essentially saying that a military does not want unpredictable troops that violate rules of engagement, because it can cause a massive loss of public support among the citizen
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Because it encourages recruits to cheat and hide things from leadership (instead of the only the adversary), and increases the risk of death. In the military, one of the values is supposed to be integrity. The value of integrity isn't
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There was also an interesting discussion on the r/navyseals forum, frequented by applicants and veterans, which corroborates the steroid use (looks credible, with a pinch of salt as always because the comments are anonymous): https:&#
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The recruits believe it's a treatment for a lung condition where you cough up blood during training. From the NYTimes article: "Many men were coughing up bloody fluid from a condition called swimming-induced pulmonary edema — a po
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by openknot 4y ago
It's probably lifestyle inflation ( https://www.investopedia.com/terms/l/lifestyle-inflation.asp ), where spending increased in proportion or in excess to rises in income. A surgeon in the US wrote about collea
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They weren't meant to be. I presented Nietzsche's views as evidence that there is significant writing against objective concepts of good and evil, then provided counter-arguments to his views.
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You sound like someone involved in the field. If this is the case, I may see where you're coming from in terms of arguing for perfectionism, thoroughness, and notability. However, as someone unfamiliar about the issue, the subject is s
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by openknot 4y ago
I'm not a philosopher or a Nietzsche expert, but Nietzsche wrote about this at length in his book "Beyond Good and Evil." It's been a while since I read the book (surface-level Wikipedia summary link: https://
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I'm an outsider, but to quote credible external sources, Science AAAS writer Derek Lowe documented that the biotech startup scene was large and relatively easier to get investments in from 1991 to 1994, with stagnation in 2012 [0]. McK
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>"they were probably understating the problem" The authors' claim wasn't to give a comprehensive figure of the number of electrocuted birds that caused wildfires, in a specific region over a specific time. Instead, th
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There is nothing wrong at all with the segments of the article you quoted. The main premise presented in the article is that electrocuted birds are a plausible cause of wildfires, in addition to human activity (the article specifically repo
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Instagram can have useful business purposes. Some personal trainers/consultants/very small businesses only have an Instagram account, and seem to be doing well. Canada's public broadcaster published an article about this a wh
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Yeah, unfortunately multiple reports of the impersonator's account doesn't work in practice, even though it really should. Another source confirming this is from the Bleeping Computer article (source: https://www.bleepi
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>"For someone like me that has never had an Insta account nor have I logged into my FB account for over 8 years, how does one create an account without this happening?" This is speculative, but probably try to recover your Face
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by openknot 4y ago
Not to defend the practice (because your case is a false positive for a new account), but rather to speculate on why your account was banned, it's likely due to an increase in impersonation on Instagram recently. In other words, some a
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by openknot 4y ago
[Another] user finally ended the game with victory in 2019, seven years since the submitted post: https://www.reddit.com/r/theeternalwar/comments/aefvp0/the_a... Edit: Sorry, I was wrong earlier. The pos
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>"science is large enough and has enough history that it doesn't need the 24 hour news cycle to be interesting. In the sense that what you already know is news to most people, you can stay interesting without getting a scoop.&q
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I'm not the same commenter, but I completely agree from previous experience in journalism. Many journalists who write about research findings are in the same publications who publish general news (e.g. national politics). So, many scie
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Nautilus is actually an example that supports how in-depth science reporting can be difficult to monetize. I really like many of their articles in the publication, but there was a major incident a while back when they were severely (many mo
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>"you would see more of those decent articles if people were more inclined to follow a subscription model where the journal is accountable to its customers." I think this argument holds up. For example, publications like the Sc
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>"Their "scientific expert" source list looks suspiciously like a group of the loudest voices on Twitter." That's probably where the journalists find people to interview, likely because a large majority of journa
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Retraction Watch (source: https://retractionwatch.com ) and independent consultants like Elisabeth Bik (article about her in Nature: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01363-z ) are good for this, tho
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You would be surprised. Universities pay substantially better than newspapers (likely with better job security), and writing jobs are typically hard to find and low-paying in general. Many former experienced journalists end up working at un
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I once went to a journalism conference, and there was a panel where a professional science journalist strongly pushed for the view along the lines of, "you don't need a science background to be a science writer," instead of e
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See: ProPublica as a great example (source: https://www.propublica.org ), along with the ICIJ (behind the Pandora Papers, source: https://www.icij.org/category/investigations/ ) and other investigative r

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