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🧵 ...

HAART made HIV a manageable disease instead of a death sentence. Accordingly, people who were at risk of HIV changed their sexual behavior and started spreading around other STDs. Without this behavioral change, there'd have been ~81% fewer syphilis cases between 1996 and 2008! ...

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. ...

We know that aristocrats were heavily involved in physical combat because they used to have an enormous number of excess deaths on the same dates—the dates of battles. ...

Being a European noble was a deadly affair. Emperors (1) and Kings (2) lived shorter lives than nobles in general. Nobility who weren't involved in combat (like most Gentlemen and Esquires; 12) clearly lived longer than those who were expected to fight. ...

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: ...

Evidence genes fully explain race differences in two cross-culturally comparable traits! <a target="_blank" href="https://twitter.com/AlexTISYoung/status/1966151190468821332" color="blue">x.com/AlexTISYoung/s…</a>...

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. ...