Curating the Internet: Science and technology digest for December 2, 2019
An update on vaping related illness in the United States; Singapore aims to become a global leader in artificial intelligence; New observations lead researchers to question the existence of dark energy; A survey of the history of human thought about alien life; and a Steem essay describing a personal experience with impostor syndrome
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- Vaping Update: Policy Versus Reality - According to the video, the current scare over vaping has been an example of a mismatch between policy and reality. In recent months, somewhere around 2,000 individuals have been taken ill and even died from vaping related illnesses, but from the beginning, the evidence seemed to point towards so-called "informal" sources (grey/black market) of the products. The CDC has now confirmed that one of the primary sources seems to be Vitamin E acetate, which is often added by informal sources as a thickening agent. Policy-makers, however embarked quickly on a series of proposals that targeted formal sources. Most of those policies have now stalled, but (according to the video) if they had been enacted, they may have increased the purchases from informal sources, and also driven ex-smokers from vaping back to smoking, thereby increasing the overall health risk to consumers.
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Here is Hossenfelder's video:
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