Completely off topic, but when quoting Nassim Nicholas Taleb, as if he's some sort of intellectual giant, it's worth remembering this opening pearler from his book "The Bed of Procustes":
"Pharmaceutical companies are better at inventing diseases that match existing drugs, rather than inventing drugs to match existing diseases."
Pretty much shreds any semblance of his credibility right there (Yeah, that's right, "big Pharma" invents diseases). How someone so scientifically illiterate becomes a poster child for logic and reasoning I'll never know.