Harry S.
*1944, Dutch, biochemistry (MSc,1970), parmacist (Lic.1975), Law courses (2006/08)
Economy. Large-Scale Psychology: The Design and Transformation of Whole Societies | Spiral Dynamics Integral (SDi) Cometh the hour … Arguably the biggest news of the decade for friends of the Spiral: I am confident of introducing a new psychology division into the American Psychological Association. Large-Scale Psychology is what I call it—a concept whose time has more than arrived. My close colleagues and I look forward to introduce the concept of Large-Scale Psychology during a special symposium at the annual conference of APA next August in Toronto. The proposed symposium title is “Large-Scale Psychology: The Design and Transformation of Whole Societies” and our brief proposal says it all, really: “The recent election of Barack Obama as US president has uncovered major cultural shifts which, like tectonic plates, are bound to realign the surface of our social and political landscapes. “The resulting fragmentation has outstripped our models of governance, economic parity, and understanding of deep cultural codes.
Some of the workshops I have offered along the way in Large-Scale Psychology a.k.a. The Wisdom of Crowds. The Wisdom of Crowds: Why the Many Are Smarter Than the Few and How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business, Economies, Societies and Nations, published in 2004, is a book written by James Surowiecki about the aggregation of information in groups, resulting in decisions that, he argues, are often better than could have been made by any single member of the group. The book presents numerous case studies and anecdotes to illustrate its argument, and touches on several fields, primarily economics and psychology.
The opening anecdote relates Francis Galton's surprise that the crowd at a county fair accurately guessed the weight of an ox when their individual guesses were averaged (the average was closer to the ox's true butchered weight than the estimates of most crowd members, and also closer than any of the separate estimates made by cattle experts).[1] Types of crowd wisdom[edit] Surowiecki breaks down the advantages he sees in disorganized decisions into three main types, which he classifies as. The Q&A: Ben Goldacre: Bad pharma. Basics Padres.pdf (application/pdf-object) Home. The Bait and Switch of Unscientific Medicine. Savvy consumers are familiar with the classic scam of the “bait and switch” – in practice if not the term itself.
My wife and I ran across it when we were shopping for our first car. We needed a bargain and so we were attracted to the ads that promised a new Colt for only $9,000 (that’s the bait). Of course when we got to the dealership they were all out of Colts with the configuration advertised, but they had plenty of others that had different options that cost several thousand dollars more (that’s the switch).
It’s a basic and very successful form of deception, and so even though there are laws against such practices it is impossible to eliminate in all its various and more subtle forms. It even permeates scientific, political, and other intellectual endeavors – anytime a more palatable idea or claim is put forward to represent the less acceptable truth. Chiropractic Chiropractic is perhaps the most common and egregious example of the bait and switch in medicine.
Acupuncture Conclusion. Helpful Poisons: Creosote for a tickly cough. If you look amongst the potions and remedies in any pharmacy, you’ll find a preparation for cough that contains guaifenesin. Quite often this chemical is mixed with other dubiously-effective drugs as cough mixtures, in the hope that at least one component will do some good. However, a recent meta-analysis suggests we have very little evidence that these products have any consistent effect in either reducing cough, or loosening phlegm. The history of guaifenesin and its grandfather, guaiacum, stretch back over half a millennium, and it’s quite surprising how many conditions this placebo has been thought to cure. Let's start at the begining with syphilis. Syphilis The origins of syphilis have long been the subject of debate. Arthritis and gout Around the same time that guaiacum was used for treating syphilis, we find references to the supposed efficacy of this extract on rheumatic conditions.
Tuberculosis (TB) Cough. Opiate Therapy in Chronic Cough. Alyn H. Morice, Madhav S. Menon, Siobhan A. Mulrennan, Caroline F. Everett, Caroline Wright, Jennifer Jackson, and Rachel Thompson "Opiate Therapy in Chronic Cough", American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Vol. 175, No. 4 (2007), pp. 312-315. Alyn H. Morice1, Madhav S. Rationale: Cough is the most common complaint for which medical attention is sought, and chronic cough can be both physically and mentally debilitating. Objectives: We tested the hypothesis that morphine sulfate in the dose of 5 mg twice daily would bring about a reduction in cough frequency and severity in patients failing to respond to specific measures. Methods: Patients recruited from the Hull Cough Clinic were enrolled into a randomized double-blind placebo-controlled study using 4 weeks of slow-release morphine sulfate and a corresponding period of matched placebo.
Results: Twenty-seven patients completed the core study. KEYWORDS: chronic cough, antitussive, opiates, morphine sulfate Figure 2 15. Some medicines that don’t work. Why doesn’t the MHRA tell us honestly? Jump to follow-up Which? Magazine (the UK equivalent of Consumer Reports in the USA) has done it again. They published an excellent article, Health products you don’t need. It’s a worthy successor to their recent debunking of “nutritional therapists”. These are the things that were looked at.
Benylin Chesty Coughs (Non-Drowsy)Benylin Tickly Coughs (Non-Drowsy)Covonia Herbal Mucus Cough SyrupBoots Cold and Flu Relief TabletsAdios Slimming TabletsBio-OilSeven Seas Jointcare Be ActiveBach Rescue Remedy Spray It’s an interesting and large category, and its one that I grew up with. We did, however, sell a lot of "tonics" and "cough medicines". Here is the bad news. Nothing is known that alters the time course of a cold. [*morphine may have a modest effect, but you can't buy it] How can this happen? Demulcents In the 1950s this was a more or less respectable term.
No reference is given, and I’m not aware of the slightest reason to think that there is any such effect. But the same document says. WC500124716.pdf (application/pdf-object) 425.full.pdf (application/pdf-object) Recommendations for the management of cough in adults. Chronic Cough - finally an effective therapy.... - Emergency Medicine Education. Peter Duesberg. HIV/AIDS vigilantes protest too much « HIV/AIDS Skepticism. “The lady doth protest too much, methinks” (Hamlet Act 3, scene 2, 222–30)She affirms (or objects) so much as to lose credibility. A few vigilantes, rabid defenders of the HIV/AIDS faith, seek to silence AIDS Rethinkers and HIV Skeptics. They attempt to prevent publication of anything that questions HIV/AIDS dogma.
They attempt to have Rethinkers fired from jobs. They indulge in character assassination, spread propaganda about “denialism”, and so on. They presume it their right to act as accuser, judge, and executioner without having any warrant for such roles. Not even the vigilantes would claim that censorship is appropriate in scientific matters.
The article by Nattrass is accessible on-line only to subscribers, but commentaries are publicly accessible. 11 Septembre. Politiek zegt massaal af voor debat bij toespraak Griffin - DeepJournal. Alle fracties in de Tweede Kamer hebben dinsdag en woensdag afgezegd nadat zij eerder (op D66 na, dat een partijcongres heeft) hadden toegezegd vrijdag 8 september iemand te zullen afvaardigen voor het debat na afloop van de toespraakvan David Ray Griffin, aldus de organisator van de avond.Professor Griffin, een van de belangrijkste auteurs over 9/11, zal morgen in Amsterdam een toespraak houden over 11 september. Hij is in Nederland uitgenodigd door uitgeverij Lemniscaat dat zijn boek The New Pearl Harbor heeft vertaald: 11 september - Een onderzoek naar de feiten.
Download [MP3, 17 Mb] het interview van DeepJournal met Jesse Goossens. Lees hier een ander interview met Goossens.Jesse Goossens, vertaalster van het boek en organisatrice van de avond met Griffin in een gesprek met Daan de Wit van DeepJournal, op woensdagavond 6 september: 'CDA, Partij van de Arbeid, SP, GroenLinks, VVD; ze zouden allemaal iemand afvaardigen en het is allemaal gecancelled.' Collectivism vs. Individualism. Education: Money is made of Nothing. (Republished from I.P.C.O. Education) 200bc.
Rome Rome was having trouble with the money changers. 2 early Roman Emperors were assassinated because of their attempts to diminish the power of the money changers by reforming Usury laws and limiting land ownership to 500 acres. 48bc. Julius Caesar Julius Caesar took back the power to coin money from the money changers and minted coins for the benefit of all, building great public works projects and making money plentiful which won him the love of the common man. With the of death of Caesar came the demise of plentiful money in Rome. 1100ad. King Henry 1st finally resolved to take the power away from the gold smiths and introduced the ‘Tally Stick System’ (accepted for the payment of taxes1100ad -1826ad.) 1500's King Henry 8th King Henry 8th finally relaxed the laws of Usury. 1553 Queen Mary 1st 1558 Queen Elizabeth 1st Queen Elizabeth 1st determined to regain control of the money, issued gold and silver coins from the public treasury.
Solution. Banks & Cocaine. Professor Antal E. Fekete - Articles. Articles\AEFTheDeepCauseOfTheGreatFinancialCrisis.pdf (application/pdf-object)