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Yes indeed, humanity has little influence on climate, but it is a profitable industry, therefore people willfully turn a blind eye, or are even misinformed and therefore ignorant. It is naive to assume politically sensitive topics like climate change can be openly discussed here, as a downvote will result.

The article basically states that a higher cholesterol (up to a certain point) reduces the hazard ratio. Therefore cutting your cholesterol in half does seem to increase your health risk (assuming your cholesterol was not extremely high).

It seems to force iPhone users to switch from Russian services to services from the United States, which provides a certain finanical benefit for the United States.

Even with drugs that are supposed to stop addiction, many people are still addicted after the treatment stops. Continuing with the drugs over a long time can lead to health problems, thus not solving the issue. Many studies show that a change in environment has a major influence on the change in behavior of patient.

Freedom of speech is under attack again, or still. A trend that has been going on for at least 2000 years since the Greks, but not being able to say things might be in the near future no longer be as common as it was in recent times. No matter whether you agree with Trump or not, silencing an oponent in a debate will only reduce the quality of decisions made by a lack of critical oponent views. The more censorship, the less efficient the outcomes of decision making will be as the quality of arguments can no longer be weighted due to the absence of dissent. Also the more censorship, the less engagement in public debate there will be.

Feeling Good by David Burns is a truly excellent book. Although published in the 80's it is still very relevant and useful.