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  • November 24, 2025

    Nucleus attempts to respond, but accidentally admits its own guilt

    I respond to Nucleus Genomics’s critique of my recent post by demonstrating that their own response admits to plagiarism, admits that Origin is not novel, and admits that their whitepaper is chock-full of errors. Continue reading

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  • November 21, 2025

    Concerns about the legitimacy and integrity of Nucleus Genomics

    In this article, I begin by documenting a series of bizarre and misleading claims made by Nucleus in their marketing material. Afterward, I discuss the allegations made about borderline fraudulent misrepresentation of their polygenic scores and their obvious plagiarism of a Herasight whitepaper for their own product. Continue reading

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  • October 17, 2025

    Visiting Balaji Srinivasan’s Network School in the Singapore-Johor Special Economic Zone

    I recently had the pleasure of accepting Balaji Srinivasan’s personal invitation to visit his new endeavor, Network School, for several days. Over that time, I lived in Network School’s residences, spoke with Balaji several times while getting quizzed on linear algebra, sweatily wandered around the surrounding environ, and ate five to ten mixed berry puddings Continue reading

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  • October 5, 2025

    Errors in Palladium’s “How GDP Hides Industrial Decline”

    The article is fractally wrong — on every level of examination, from the specific to the conceptual, it is a pure masterclass in how not to analyze a complex topic, much like how the output of early GPT iterations was grammatically correct but often semantically incoherent. Continue reading

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  • September 27, 2025

    Cardiovascular disease is a solved problem

    Cardiovascular disease is the #1 cause of death in modern nations. For young adults in good health, preventative usage of LDL-lowering therapies eliminates future risk of cardiovascular disease. Continue reading

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Recent Posts

  • Nucleus attempts to respond, but accidentally admits its own guilt
  • Concerns about the legitimacy and integrity of Nucleus Genomics
  • Visiting Balaji Srinivasan’s Network School in the Singapore-Johor Special Economic Zone
  • Errors in Palladium’s “How GDP Hides Industrial Decline”
  • Cardiovascular disease is a solved problem

Recent Comments

  1. totalhealth on Concerns about the legitimacy and integrity of Nucleus GenomicsFebruary 21, 2026

    Perhaps Herasight

  2. Antoine Dusséaux on Cardiovascular disease is a solved problemFebruary 14, 2026

    Associations with Parkinson’s disease are causal as confirmed by Mendelian randomization studies: https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/full/10.1161/CIRCRESAHA.119.314929

  3. Tiago Vasconcelos on Cardiovascular disease is a solved problemFebruary 5, 2026

    When taking statins — particularly potent ones like Rosuvastatin or the commonly used Rosuvastatin + Ezetimibe combo — it is…

  4. A. Lincoln on Cardiovascular disease is a solved problemFebruary 4, 2026

    This is a thoughtful post that is well-grounded in the evidence. I think the picture is changing with the pending…

  5. JJ on Cardiovascular disease is a solved problemFebruary 4, 2026

    It’s interesting that while PCSK9 loss-of-function drops CVD dramatically the effect on life expectancy is more muted. Seems about 1…