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Crémieux Profile picture
@cremieuxrecueil
Aug 4 • 9 tweets • 5 min read • Read on X
Stats on the homeless population are abysmal.

One-in-two has a disability and/or a traumatic brain injury. One-in-five has psychosis. One-in-ten is schizophrenic. One-in-four is just straight-up mentally retarded.

These facts have major consequences. Image
As I noted recently, the White House wants to bring back involuntary commitment.

They're probably in the right to call for that, since so many homeless are incapable of taking care of themselves, or at the very least, not hurting others.

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This risk can be through no fault of their own.

Some people are mentally downtrodden because of injuries to the head.

Among the homeless, over half have suffered a TBI, compared to 12% of Americans. Just over 20% have a TBI-related disability, compared to about 2% of Americans.
Some are mentally downtrodden because of genetic problems.

The homeless have 4-7-times the general population rate of psychosis and about 10-times the general population rate of schizophrenia.

That matters, and luckily, that can be medicated.
The mental downtrodden-ness also comes in the form of physical disabilities and deformities, sequelae of drug abuse, etc., but also mental retardation.

The mental retardation rate for the homeless population is roughly 10-times the general population rate.
The broad disability rate is almost 50%, or roughly 2.5-times the general population rate.

What makes this even more notable is that the types of disabilities are far more severe, and where a lot of the general population rate is scamming, the homeless rate is real(ly bad).
There's also evidence to suggest that the homeless population in major cities suffers from even higher disability rates, even more severe disabilities on average, and far higher rates of drug abuse.

Some of that's probably compositional, but I don't doubt a causal part exists.
The homeless population has problems.

You can vary the definitions and scope, but you will always come up finding that there are a lot of issues that need to be resolved.

Whether that resolution comes via involuntary commitment or something else, let's just hope it's humane.
Sources:

bmcpsychiatry.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11… (and see: x.com/cremieuxrecuei…)

thelancet.com/journals/lanpu… (and see: x.com/cremieuxrecuei…)

austinecho.org/blog/2020/10/2… (Archive: web.archive.org/web/2025011919…)

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC43…

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK54765…

huduser.gov/portal/sites/d… (Archive: web.archive.org/web/2025072605…; see also: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10…)

More: psychologytoday.com/us/blog/eviden…, onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.111…, carleton.edu/accessibility-…, nestcommunityshelter.org/disabilities-a…

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Jul 31
Does exercising make you smarter?

Lots of people definitely believe it does, but while it might clear your head, it doesn't boost cognitive ability in actual trials.

The appearance that it does is due to poorly-controlled studies and publication bias.Image
So, this is what we have:

1. Exercise does not affect the level of cognitive ability, and

2. (Self-reported) exercise does not affect seem to relate to rates of cognitive decline.Image
You should exercise, and if you're like most people, you should exercise more than you currently do.

Go touch grass. It's good for you.

But don't expect it to make you smarter, and don't expect it to slow your cognitive aging.
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Jul 30
Neat chart showing three important things:

1. The U.S. has negative learning in reactor construction.

2. France might have negative learning in reactor construction.

3. China has positive learning in reactor construction. The more they build, the cheaper reactors get.Image
I say "might" for France, because—as I've noted previously—France's negative learning by doing is actually an example of Simpson's Paradox.

Within each reactor generation, France has positive learning; between them, it appears negative. Image
The West should think more about how badly it's being outmatched by China, because this is embarrassing and a security risk.

Sources:

nature.com/articles/d4158…

cremieux.xyz/i/100782605/si…
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Jul 26
I don't think people realize just how wacky things have gotten.

First: The White TFR is ~1.55 and the Black TFR is ~1.53.

Second: Even the stereotypically extreme Hispanic TFR is now below-replacement, at ~1.98. Image
It's hard to overstate just how much things do not stay the same.

It's not even just in the U.S. where fertility rates are now shocking.

This graph shows Saudi Arabia. They're Muslims, so they must be having kids, right? No, they're barely above-replacement.Image
Even the Mormons aren't having kids!

In fact, we're approaching a decade of Utahan fertility being below-replacement! Image
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Jul 25
Cervical cancer is being defeated thanks to two things:

Pap smears and the Gardasil vaccine.

HPV vaccination is so effective that many countries will have practically eliminated cervical cancer in the next two decades.

Here's why🧵Image
Cervical cancer develops from HPV because the HP virus integrates itself into cells' DNA and then degrades proteins that keep cell growth in check, leading to precancerous growths and then cancer.

This man received a Nobel Prize for that discovery: Image
The HPV vaccine stops this precursor to cervical cancer in its tracks.

Its effects on the most common types of precancerous growths (HPV16/18—about 70% of all cervical cancers) are near-total prevention. Image
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Jul 24
The White House just released a really good executive order on cleaning up America's streets, re-institutionalizing insane people, and ending open air drug abuse and the problems it creates.

Here's a quick overview🧵 Image
The first section is the one I'm most excited for. An alternative name for it could be "Bring Back The Asylums"

It instructs the administration to make it possible to involuntarily commit crazy people again

That crazy hobo pushing a cart full of urine bottles? He's going away! Image
The next section is one that you'll need to familiarize yourself with if you're interested in 'what happens next'.

This was a never achieved goal in Trump-I.

The idea is to compel cities to do what you want by withholding, barring, and giving discretionary funds for compliance. Image
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Jul 24
What comes after GLP-1RAs make everyone skinny?

What comes after myostatin inhibitors make everyone buff?

One new candidate is:

Safe, cheap, and easily-administered injections that locally remove fat. A new drug that just passed through phase 2 seems to do just that🧵 Image
The new drug is called CBL-514.

It has a counterpart on the market in the form of deoxycholic acid injections—brand name Kybella.

Kybella is FDA-approved, and it works: it helps people to get rid of their double chins. But there's a catch. Image
Kybella, unfortunately, is not all that safe, and though many patients swear by it, there are notable side effects.

This is predictable, since the way Kybella works is through cytolysis: causing cells to die by rupturing them, releasing their contents, causing inflammation. Image
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