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Could we have been all wrong about the obesity epidemic?

 

I believe that we can learn much from nature; after all, it has had millions of years to perfect its ways; even if they are not perfect, they work very well in our current world.

The expression, "there are three types of lies: lies, damn lies, and statistics," is attributed to Benjamin Disraeli, the U.K.’s Prime Minster from 1874 to 1880. A century and a half later, improper manipulation of statistics is pervasive.

The basic concept involves transferring vehicle energy requirements from a distributed local scale to a regional institutional scale, each having its environmental impacts.

“Being attached to the firehose of the 24/7 news cycle is anxiety-inducing and literally bad for your health. How do we stop doomscrolling when it seems like the bad news just won’t stop coming?”

Reporters know this – they know that stories about radiation will sell, so they’re always happy to run a story on the subject.

 

Short answer, no. Algorithms, for all their ability to be personalized, are just not capable of medicine’s magic of “hands-on.”

ChatGPT is an AI model of language trained to produce text. It was trained on materials written by humans found on the Internet.