MetaMed launch day

A launch-day announcement for MetaMed, the rationalist personalized-medical-research startup (Zvi, Vassar, et al). Scott — self-admittedly a bad advertiser ('my attempts to promote things meander into steelmanning the case against them') — describes its ethos (difficult medical questions should be solvable; their journal club on antioxidants/cardiovascular and on ginseng notably avoided the twin error modes of dismissing OR boosting something merely because it's labeled 'alternative medicine') and positions it as a paid, personalized supplement to UpToDate/emedicine/Wikipedia. [MetaMed folded in 2015.]

Quality 54 · Solid. 54 — Solid. A launch announcement lifted slightly above a bare stub by a genuine rationalist nugget (the don't-pre-judge-'alternative-medicine' error modes) and the medical-aggregator comparison, but fundamentally promotional.

Claude’s paradigm shift 28 · Slight. 28 — Slight; a company launch announcement.

Real-world impact 2 · Minor. 2 — launched a real (if short-lived, 2013-2015) rationalist medical-research company; within-community reach.