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. 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.
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] The Q&A: Ben Goldacre: Bad pharma. Basics Padres.pdf (application/pdf-object) Home. The Bait and Switch of Unscientific Medicine. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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.
Collectivism vs. Individualism. Education: Money is made of Nothing. Banks & Cocaine. Professor Antal E. Fekete - Articles. Articles\AEFTheDeepCauseOfTheGreatFinancialCrisis.pdf (application/pdf-object)