Manal Mehta
@manalmehta.bsky.social
Tweeting in my personal capacity.
I never understood it - these people are totally without ethics. Why not just lie their way through confirmation? It's not like they can be removed for their lies after.
January 31, 2025 at 7:16 PM
I never understood it - these people are totally without ethics. Why not just lie their way through confirmation? It's not like they can be removed for their lies after.
"Put simply, a significant share of the US’s “booming” economy is generated by sickness. Inefficiencies in its healthcare system may also prop up US GDP by sustaining high levels of costly healthcare-related expenditure"
January 15, 2025 at 1:42 PM
"Put simply, a significant share of the US’s “booming” economy is generated by sickness. Inefficiencies in its healthcare system may also prop up US GDP by sustaining high levels of costly healthcare-related expenditure"
Enshittification embodied. www.ft.com/content/6fb1...
‘Enshittification’ is coming for absolutely everything
The term describes the slow decay of online platforms such as Facebook. But what if we’ve entered the ‘enshittocene’?
www.ft.com
January 7, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Enshittification embodied. www.ft.com/content/6fb1...
Read Jay Newman’s book Under Money and it really brings this into perspective.
December 28, 2024 at 8:26 AM
Read Jay Newman’s book Under Money and it really brings this into perspective.
2010 randomized clinical trial showed similar improvements in ADHD symptoms in children treated with amantadine as in those treated with methylphenidate, with less frequent side effects. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Amantadine versus methylphenidate in children and adolescents with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder: a randomized, double‐blind trial
Objective The aim of the present study was to further evaluate, under double blind and controlled conditions, the efficacy of amantadine for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in childre...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
December 25, 2024 at 2:28 AM
2010 randomized clinical trial showed similar improvements in ADHD symptoms in children treated with amantadine as in those treated with methylphenidate, with less frequent side effects. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
A good overview: youtu.be/nFW_zY1F1pg
Amantadine for ADHD
YouTube video by Dr. John Kruse
youtu.be
December 24, 2024 at 8:34 PM
A good overview: youtu.be/nFW_zY1F1pg
Interest in amantadine for the treatment of ADHD was rekindled with the publication of the book “Delivered from Distraction” as it stated that Dr. Singer and Dr. Cohen from Harvard successfully treated over 400 children suffering from ADHD with amantadine.
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
Amantadine: A Review of Use in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
To review published literature regarding the pharmacology and use of amantadine in child and adolescent psychiatry. A literature search of several databases (PubMed, Psychinfo, CINAHL, Medline, PsycAR...
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
December 24, 2024 at 8:32 PM
Interest in amantadine for the treatment of ADHD was rekindled with the publication of the book “Delivered from Distraction” as it stated that Dr. Singer and Dr. Cohen from Harvard successfully treated over 400 children suffering from ADHD with amantadine.
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
Absolutely should spend time in Colombia. This country is pure magic - beautiful places to visit with a marvelous variety of climate and biodiversity. Gestemani/Cartagena, Santa Marta (Tayrona), Medellin, Bogota, Coffee Country (Manizales), the Amazon (Fly into Leticia and then head upriver).
December 6, 2024 at 6:03 PM
Absolutely should spend time in Colombia. This country is pure magic - beautiful places to visit with a marvelous variety of climate and biodiversity. Gestemani/Cartagena, Santa Marta (Tayrona), Medellin, Bogota, Coffee Country (Manizales), the Amazon (Fly into Leticia and then head upriver).
This is such a poignant statement that I wish more people who worked for Tesla or SpaceX or OpenAI/Andruil could make this part of their ethos: "I didn't get into tech to build machines primarily used to kill more people more efficiently or help a few men amass billions."
December 5, 2024 at 11:59 PM
This is such a poignant statement that I wish more people who worked for Tesla or SpaceX or OpenAI/Andruil could make this part of their ethos: "I didn't get into tech to build machines primarily used to kill more people more efficiently or help a few men amass billions."
Would you say the same thing for hemophilia A?
November 27, 2024 at 8:17 PM
Would you say the same thing for hemophilia A?