Back in 2012, my advisor asked me this question and I answered that I would not be surprised if that number was in the neighborhood of 3%. He told me that I was way too pessimistic... Turns out, I was maybe way more optimistic than I should have been.
One of the worst cases of scientific fraud ever:
>cardiologist fakes data showing better outcomes for patients who were given beta blockers before heart surgery
>Europe changes its medical guidelines based on this research
>turns out beta blockers increase risk of death by 27%
videos like this really put some intuitive force behind the idea of "agency all the way down"
the macrophage clearly has a "goal" of finding and devouring pathogens
Good news from Spain and Portugal.
Twenty years ago the Iberian Lynx was close to extinction with less than a hundred animals alive.
Thanks to the efforts of conservationists, the population has now increased substantially.
[data: https://t.co/iXodYtAnFM]
I’ve interviewed 5 Neuroscientists in the last week and by far the most common sentence spoken was “I don’t know”.
We need to listen far more to people who say “I don’t know” versus those who speak with confidence on every topic thrown their direction.
It’s the genuine experts that admit they don’t know the most.
21. Photographer Mithun Hunugund waited 6 days to capture this photo of a leopard and its "black panther shadow" in the wild.
"Saaya and Cleopatra have been courting since 4 years now and whenever they are together it’s a sight to behold."