Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb

@Suryansh_Tyagi @jamil_borgi No: in the West a specific cause of death is always present. You can dilute by unexplained deaths but numbers are tiny. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Sept. 26, 2020 Hibernated

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2) Simply, many norms are established off samples that include more symptomatic pple than the unconditional population. It means many pple undergo unnecessary surgery (with risks) because of flawed norms. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Sept. 26, 2020 Hibernated

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3) One prime example is imaging leading to back surgery: for a long time the field didn't account for the fact that most asymptomatic cohorts have similar problems on imaging: "foraminal narrowing" or other crap. See #Antifragile — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Sept. 26, 2020 Hibernated