Bibliographic record
Abstract
Survival of the fattest contrasts with, but in some respects resembles, the suffering and premature deaths of the leanest humans. We refer here to the imbalance between affluent, resource consuming, globally polluting, and often wasteful and greedy humans as opposed to the hungry and impoverished people of the world who live on less than one or two dollars per day. The irony is that a life of excess is almost as damaging to the human animal as is a life of insufficiency. Still, the wealthy continue to seek more, presumably to guarantee that they will continue to live a “life of Riley”—a life of plenty. But in the process, they are endangering their own health, depriving their children of parental guidance and security, exasperating our environmental crises and ignoring the rights of others including those of their own offspring and all future generations. Theirs is the epitome, the embodiment, the quintessence of selfishness which eventually leads to health problems that have come to plague so many of us. Meanwhile, the impoverished one third of the human population lack access to the basic rights that a majority of us in the developed and semidemocratically governed countries normally take for granted. We maintain that our basic human rights include the right to “health, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” As Thomas Jefferson idealistically enunciated: “Equal rights for all, special privileges for none.” Our world is sadly very far from this ideal. The right to life, liberty, and justice requires the availability of health care, and proper health care implies adequate professional services, vaccinations, and above all, an acceptable level of sanitation without life-threatening pollution. While these services are not fully available to any of us, they are certainly not available to about one third of the Earth's human population. It is shocking to realize that they are also not available to at least 15% of Americans. Americans neglect the world, being the greatest consumers and polluters, but they also neglect their own people. Disease preventative measures are, in the long run, far less costly than attempts to cure existent illnesses. We need far-sighted politicians who do not think only of the moment. They must take the probable future consequences of their actions into account. They must be able to think beyond the next election and their personal preferences; their actions must reflect the needs of the people rather than their own selfish interests or those of their families. This is a most Water Air Soil Pollut (2010) 205 (Suppl 1):S107–S109 DOI 10.1007/s11270-009-0178-6
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.005 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.005 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.006 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.021 | 0.006 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".