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Subtitle: On vegan advocacy, effective altruism, and FIFA
I turn 40 today. Here are some hot takes.
On factory farming
1. Our biggest challenge is salience. If factory farming led the evening news, it wouldn’t last lo...
Impressions from the 21st Annual U.S. Cluster Headache Patient Conference, organized by Clusterbusters.
On the morning of the last day of the conference, E. was hanging out with other “clusterheads” outside the conference hotel when he started having a cluster headache attack. Before he could go back to his hotel room, J. offered E. his DMT v...
TL;DR:Â
The movement has an evidence problem. To solve it, for each intervention we need to know:
* What types of evidence that intervention needs
* What types of evidence different sources can give us
In this post, we outline a framework for evidencing an intervention through five stages:
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My apologies if I messed something  up, just wanted to make sure I'd get it up in time.
I would also like to note that I was following this counter for the PST 12 deadline:
https://time.is/PST
But I realize now it might be off because of daylight savings? But I truly hope you will still consider it a valid entry. I really poured a lot of effort (plus a tiring all-nighter) to pull it off despite having found out about the contest just a few days ago!
There may be some typos and formatting issues given the last minute rush, but I won't edit it any further unless given permission to.Â
New Forum users need to be approved by a moderator before their posts are published. This post was approved, along with a few others, just after the deadline, when I did my final sweep to look for submissions from new authors. I've edited the publication time for this and those other posts to reflect when they were actually submitted. So you're fine!