Thank you, this is really helpful for giving information to others. I don't have to go back and find a bunch of links and give them in the order that is best understood. 🙏👍🏼
Thanks! I hope this does help and hopefully it will be easier for people to share these posts instead of individual ones that may not cover the entire story.
Is printing of the articles available with the paid subscription? It is easier for me to read printed materials than to read them on a screen. Thank you.
Unfortunately that is more of something on Substack's end I believe. I may be able to contact them and see if that can be included as a possible perk. Otherwise, I have no problems with anyone really printing out things for themselves as long as the proper credit is given. The "Print" option on your web browser may be adequate enough to print it out.. Otherwise I am not sure if Substack provides that capability. Again, that would be something more on their end.
Apologies if that wasn't any help, but I'll reiterate that I have no problems with people printing out information if they find a way to do so.
I'd appreciate having some information about the author(s) of the Modern Discontent website. As a reader I do a great deal of "fact checking" about both the contents of papers and the background of the writer(s). I can find nothing on your website that gives me any information . . . even (for example) of whether this Quercetin Anthology was written by a single author or whether it is an organizational collaboration. Thanks in advance for information that will help me understand who and what "Modern Discontent" is about.
Apologies about that. I guess I'm keeping it a bit anonymous but these posts are written by one person. There's a bit of information sprinkled around in different posts but honestly I'm just someone that left my job over mandates and decided to do a lot of my own independent research.
When it comes to the actual information it usually follows me falling down the rabbit hole on a subject, pulling up several dozen articles, and trying to read through the papers and seeing what's there. In the end, I may end up using up to 75% of the papers I look up. I'll definitely tell you my laptop doesn't appreciate having all of these tabs open!
Please let me know if there is anything else you would like to know that I may be able to help you with.
Thanks so much for your clear and honest response to my question. I do very much the same thing when I’m trying to figure it all out. I find that there is often so much discrepancy among the research studies and the personal experiences and biases. My background is not in epidemiology or medicine. However I am in a related health field (speech-language pathology). My work is with infants and children who have pediatric feeding disorders . . . so over many years I have developed an internal understanding and repertoire of areas that influence a child’s ability to handle the sensory processing and oral motor skills needed for eating and drinking.. . but also the related areas of nutrition, immune function, overall health support etc. that provides the foundation for eating and mealtimes. I do lots of reading in many of the same areas that you incorporate in your articles. Although I have a basic foundation in understanding and doing research (because of a PhD program many years ago), I don’t have the current skills to know whether the research design and statistical handling of the reported studies are appropriate. . . i seem to rely a lot on common sense! I found that your anthology on Quercetin was very helpful in both reinforcing and expanding what I had read on my own. I will keep in touch if I have any questions about what I read on your website. Most of all I really enjoy maintaining an open mind and discussing ideas that reflect the need for an integrative type of thinking.
Thank you for your response! It seems the most important thing is to continuously learn. Regardless of what field someone belongs to, or even if they have had any formal education the most important thing is to continue to learn and don't shy away from areas that may be new to us!
I don't have a graduate degree which makes me feel as if it may hold back my ability to examine the data. There's plenty of things I tend to miss especially when it comes to the statistics as I may miss some of the methodology. In that regard I try to be careful but I also welcome plenty of criticisms for where I slip up. There's no way to learn if I can't take criticisms for incorrectly analyzing papers.
I may rely on others to point to flawed methodology as you may never know unless someone points it out because it's not standard protocol in the field.
And thank you for keeping an open mind. Most of what I write may come off milquetoast because I don't want to argue based on certainty. There's so much in the area of COVID and apparently medicine where we still know so little of, so I am always wary of those who speak with certainty when we may not know. I'll always try to back up my arguments with evidence but I also try to make sure that people understand that my posts are not the be all/end all of the discussion, and hopefully my posts serve to help people understand and try to learn more about topics.
You're welcome! Hopefully this information can help inform people! I've heard of a lot of things going on now. It'd be interesting to see what the landscape of 2022 will be but hopefully there will be an end in the near future and things will work out in the end!
Thank you, this is really helpful for giving information to others. I don't have to go back and find a bunch of links and give them in the order that is best understood. 🙏👍🏼
Thanks! I hope this does help and hopefully it will be easier for people to share these posts instead of individual ones that may not cover the entire story.
Is printing of the articles available with the paid subscription? It is easier for me to read printed materials than to read them on a screen. Thank you.
Unfortunately that is more of something on Substack's end I believe. I may be able to contact them and see if that can be included as a possible perk. Otherwise, I have no problems with anyone really printing out things for themselves as long as the proper credit is given. The "Print" option on your web browser may be adequate enough to print it out.. Otherwise I am not sure if Substack provides that capability. Again, that would be something more on their end.
Apologies if that wasn't any help, but I'll reiterate that I have no problems with people printing out information if they find a way to do so.
I'd appreciate having some information about the author(s) of the Modern Discontent website. As a reader I do a great deal of "fact checking" about both the contents of papers and the background of the writer(s). I can find nothing on your website that gives me any information . . . even (for example) of whether this Quercetin Anthology was written by a single author or whether it is an organizational collaboration. Thanks in advance for information that will help me understand who and what "Modern Discontent" is about.
Apologies about that. I guess I'm keeping it a bit anonymous but these posts are written by one person. There's a bit of information sprinkled around in different posts but honestly I'm just someone that left my job over mandates and decided to do a lot of my own independent research.
When it comes to the actual information it usually follows me falling down the rabbit hole on a subject, pulling up several dozen articles, and trying to read through the papers and seeing what's there. In the end, I may end up using up to 75% of the papers I look up. I'll definitely tell you my laptop doesn't appreciate having all of these tabs open!
Please let me know if there is anything else you would like to know that I may be able to help you with.
Thanks so much for your clear and honest response to my question. I do very much the same thing when I’m trying to figure it all out. I find that there is often so much discrepancy among the research studies and the personal experiences and biases. My background is not in epidemiology or medicine. However I am in a related health field (speech-language pathology). My work is with infants and children who have pediatric feeding disorders . . . so over many years I have developed an internal understanding and repertoire of areas that influence a child’s ability to handle the sensory processing and oral motor skills needed for eating and drinking.. . but also the related areas of nutrition, immune function, overall health support etc. that provides the foundation for eating and mealtimes. I do lots of reading in many of the same areas that you incorporate in your articles. Although I have a basic foundation in understanding and doing research (because of a PhD program many years ago), I don’t have the current skills to know whether the research design and statistical handling of the reported studies are appropriate. . . i seem to rely a lot on common sense! I found that your anthology on Quercetin was very helpful in both reinforcing and expanding what I had read on my own. I will keep in touch if I have any questions about what I read on your website. Most of all I really enjoy maintaining an open mind and discussing ideas that reflect the need for an integrative type of thinking.
Thank you for your response! It seems the most important thing is to continuously learn. Regardless of what field someone belongs to, or even if they have had any formal education the most important thing is to continue to learn and don't shy away from areas that may be new to us!
I don't have a graduate degree which makes me feel as if it may hold back my ability to examine the data. There's plenty of things I tend to miss especially when it comes to the statistics as I may miss some of the methodology. In that regard I try to be careful but I also welcome plenty of criticisms for where I slip up. There's no way to learn if I can't take criticisms for incorrectly analyzing papers.
I may rely on others to point to flawed methodology as you may never know unless someone points it out because it's not standard protocol in the field.
And thank you for keeping an open mind. Most of what I write may come off milquetoast because I don't want to argue based on certainty. There's so much in the area of COVID and apparently medicine where we still know so little of, so I am always wary of those who speak with certainty when we may not know. I'll always try to back up my arguments with evidence but I also try to make sure that people understand that my posts are not the be all/end all of the discussion, and hopefully my posts serve to help people understand and try to learn more about topics.
Thank you so much ! Good to have this information especially when Ivermectin is also getting difficult to obtain.
You're welcome! Hopefully this information can help inform people! I've heard of a lot of things going on now. It'd be interesting to see what the landscape of 2022 will be but hopefully there will be an end in the near future and things will work out in the end!