"At least 12.5 percent and possibly up to 13.3 percent of the chimp and human genomes represent a “gap difference” between the two genomes. That means there’s a “gap” in one genome compared to the other, often where they are so different, they cannot even be aligned.

"There are also significant alignable sections of the two genomes that show “short nucleotide variations” which differ by only about 1.5 percent. We can add this difference to the “gap difference,” and calculate a 14 percent to 14.9 percent total difference between human and chimp genomes. This means that the actual difference between human and chimp DNA is 14 times greater than the often-quoted 1 percent statistic."

https://scienceandculture.com/2025/05/bombshell-new-research-overturns-claim-that-humans-and-chimps-differ-by-only-1-percent-of-dna/

"Defying science, American parents are turning away from male circumcision" - Ross Pomeroy, Big Think, 14SEP2024

>As a result of this intuitive reasoning, rates of circumcision have fallen from about 85% in 1965 to roughly 58% in 2010, the latest year for which solid data is available.

>Parents, however, also have the responsibility to do what’s best for their child, even if that decision causes personal discomfort. And the evidence for the health benefits of circumcision, accumulated over decades of research, is overwhelming.

>"Our risk-benefit analysis showed that benefits exceeded procedural risks, which are predominantly minor, by up to 200 to 1,” an international team of researchers reported in a 2017 systematic review of 140 studies conducted in the prior decade.

https://archive.ph/LUMp8
(Medicine?)

I tell non-Americans that the United States accounts for:

- About 4% of the global population

- About 13% of global drug consumption

- About 50% of global drug spending

And they're often floored.

For so many drugs, America is *the market*.

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If ancient Greece had the Internet...

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Wait till you see the Times' latest excuse for sudden and unexpected deaths. I think it means pharma may start eating itself. That, and much more, in the roundup.

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