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How a 2019 NEJM Study Misled the World on Vitamin D
James Lyons-Weiler Dr James Lyons-Weiler is a research scientist and prolific author with over 55 peer-reviewed studies and three books. In January 2019, The New England Journal of Medicine published a study that was immediately hailed as the final verdict on vitamin D: it doesn’t work. The study, known
Rich People Won’t Just Sit Still While You Tax Them
Higher taxes motivate the wealthy to move out of state and take their job-providing, revenue-creating businesses with them.
The Trump Administration’s Fight To Fund Scientists
While institutions charge private foundations like Gates a mere 10 per cent and Rockefeller 15 per cent for indirect costs, they charge the NIH much higher rates – 69 per cent for Harvard, 67.5 per cent for Yale, and 63.7 per cent for Johns Hopkins.
Babblers, Cops and Quacks
The sometimes dark – but often amusing – origins of nicknames for jobs.
An Expert Revisits the Errors
At 1,500 feet, the ground proximity warning sounded only seconds before impact, and the DC-10 struck the lower slopes of Mount Erebus, killing all 257 people on board.
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Knight of the Day
“For me it’s just a massive honour, not something I would ever expect or even thought was ever going to be a possibility,” Dixon told Stuff.