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No, shingles vaccines don’t stop dementia (despite what the legacy media keeps saying) (opens the original)
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Could the shingles vaccine reduce my risk of dementia?UT readers have been asking this question a lot lately. No surprise. For years, legacy reporters have pushed this theory and hyped research that seems to back it.Only one problem. In July, a massive study covering 6 million older people in England and Wales offered a near-definitive answer: no, shingles jabs do not cut dementia risk.The new study has bee
Urgent: The Trump Administration needs to stop violating the First Amendment (opens the original)
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Enough already.As of now, the White House is continuing to bar reporters for CNN, Politico, and MS NOW from entering its grounds — despite a court order requiring they be let in. Both Donald Trump and the Department of Justice know better.Barring these news organizations because Trump doesn’t like their reporting is idiotic and unconstitutional. Violating a temporary restraining order from a federal judge that Trump himself appointed is another level of foolishness.Does Trump really want h
A smart defense of AI - and our power to manage it (opens the original)
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The argument over artificial intelligence is getting very annoying (one reason that a lot of people are tuning it out).On the one hand, a lot of people are making fearsome predictions. And, yes, many of those folks are the same ones who have spent the last decade whining about climate change and Covid. I don’t really want to be in their camp, but I can’t help believing that AI’s capabilities have risen so far so fast that we need to be very concerned.On the other hand, the folks on the other sid
We need an immediate global pause on new AI development (opens the original)
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[Note: The Free Press is publishing a shorter version of this article about AI with a different opening, one geared to readers who might not know me. I offer the full version here. And yes - I know I’ve written a lot about AI recently - I promise I haven’t forgotten medicine and will have some breaking news for you soon!]—Last week, Free Press editor Joe Nocera sent a gently skeptical email asking about my concerns on artificial intelligence, which I have explained of late on both X and here:Ale
AI warnings are mounting (opens the original)
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Since last week, when an Anthropic computer scientist resigned and posted a warning to X about the rising risks of artificial intelligence, the debate over AI has exploded.On Saturday, Dario Amodei, head of Anthropic, which along with OpenAI and Google is leading the creation of these engines, posted a long article called “We Must Pace The Frontier.”Amodei called for “government support” so the companies can work together to slow their development a
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