I thought his description of how the visual cortex assembles progressively more complex patterns from binary inputs to be pretty good. What did he say that gave you the impression he doesn't understand biological brains?
It seems like you've mostly just interviewed political pundits. Have you considered interviewing neuroscientists/social psychologists? Specifically, I'm thinking of Jonathan Heidt's work on political morality. After all, voters care about more than policy: www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...
Figure 1. Timeline of mainly US civil society campaigns to encourage meat reduction as individual climate action along with short descriptions of the animal agriculture industry’s response.
There’s a popular talking point that says boycotting animal products is an “individual action” that distracts from the responsibility of powerful corporations.
The meat industry spent decades promoting this narrative.
new paper:
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www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Hey Erik,
Could you please add me to the group? Here's a link to my orchid: orcid.org/0000-0002-37...
Thanks!
Jason
Single-cell analysis reveals host S phase drives large T antigen expression during BK polyomavirus infection
journals.plos.org/plospathogen...
There is no brain microbiome.
An example of where the actual, broadly defined * peer review has * worked *.
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The preliminary sequence from the H5N1 human case in British Columbia has been posted and it is not good news. The virus potentially has a quasispecies at HA residue 226 (H3 numbering). This is bad news because we know that mutations at residue 226 can increase binding to human receptors. 1/
