Crémieux (@cremieuxrecueil)

"Food deserts" are an example of social scientists getting causality backwards They saw poor people eating unhealthy foods and blamed local supply They should have blamed demand! Using data from 13 years of supermarket entries, there's basically no effects on healthy eating🧵 ...

How do people in different groups differ in their self-reported levels of horniness?🧵 Here's how that varies by sex and occupation. The least horny group was female machine drivers. The most was male sales associates. ...

I simulated 100,000 people to show how often people are "thrice-exceptional": Smart, stable, and exceptionally hard-working. I've highlighted these people in red in this chart: ...

My most recent article has a new update! Today, a new paper came out detailing organoid evidence that Tylenol does not cause autism! Researchers grew human cortical organoids and then exposed them to acetaminophen (APAP). Here's what happened🧵...

I'm deeply skeptical of lifestyle optimization for longevity, and you should be too. No one will become immortal through living an extremely healthy life. To get there, we need biotech. Consider blood sugar. Too low? Bad. Too high? Also bad. Just right? Still not immortal. ...

Today's total fertility rates look very worrisome. Since people today are delaying fertility more and more, they look worse than eventual, completed fertility rate. ...

Statins work by inhibiting the HMG-CoA reductase enzyme. Variations in the HMGCR gene work by affecting HMG-CoA reductase enzymatic activity. The metabolic effect of variation in HMGCR and of taking statins is virtually identical. This gives us a great natural experiment🧵 ...

Does the U.S. overpay for drugs? Common knowledge says "Yes". Real data says "No", because the U.S. gets favorable prices for generic drugs and it primarily consumes generic drugs. In fact, they're 91% of prescriptions! ...

We seem to have an answer to why people suspect India, as as country, is so much smarter than it is. Indian immigration seems to be the most cognitively selective immigration known in the sense that the delta between the country and the immigrants is the largest we know of. <span class="quote-card...