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Mar 26, 2026ACX

How Natural Tradeoff And Failure Components?

Scott discusses how new schizophrenia genetics research confirms that psychiatric conditions combine both 'tradeoff' components (with compensating advantages) and 'failure' components (purely negative), then argues this pattern is common sense for any multifactorial problem.

6 min read 820 words

May 30, 2010LW

Diseased thinking: dissolving questions about disease

Scott argues that debates about whether conditions like obesity are "real diseases" are ultimately questions about sympathy, blame, and treatment that should be addressed directly rather than through the misleading disease framework.

19 min read 2,929 words

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