MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'censorship'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 01:58:50 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4921389&cid=t_96445_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FVCGzljbsd4E%2F By Tim LynchHappy Birthday to my friend and Cato senior fellow Nat Hentoff.  He’s 86, but he continues to crank out columns and books on everything from censorship, torture, and the Fourth Amendment’s ban on unreasonable searches, to his passionate love of jazz.  He sat down for a taped interview last month where he offered his views on current threats to free speech and his personal encounters with John Yoo and, way back in the 1950s, with Che Guevara. Check out his books here. Happy Birthday Nat Hentoff is a post from Cato @ Liberty - Cato Institute Blog (Source: Cato-at-liberty) Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4921389 Fri, 10 Jun 2011 13:17:07 +0100 4921389 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4876384&cid=t_96445_87_f&fid=39187&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgetbetterhealth.com%2Fwhen-doctors-and-dentists-start-requiring-mutual-privacy-agreements-with-patients%2F2011.05.28 We (especially doctors themselves) like to think docs are smart. While all are very well educated in medicine, it doesn’t mean they’re actually smart at much else. Docs are well known to lose gobs of money in stupid ‘investements’ like Avacado farms and ostrich ranches (and yes, there are those with the chicken ranch problems, as well). Here’s a dumb thing some docs are adopting I hope goes away quickly, as it’s actually not in the best interest of medicine: When I walked into the offices of Dr. Ken Cirka, I was looking for cleaner teeth, not material for an Ars Technica story. I needed a new dentist, and Yelp says Dr. Cirka is one of the best in the Philadelphia area. The receptionist handed me a clipboard with forms to fill out. After the usual patient information form, there... Better Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4876384 Sat, 28 May 2011 21:00:21 +0100 4876384 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4277817&cid=t_96445_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FCjLLM0eqWBw%2F By Jim HarperThe FCC moves forward with a proposal to regulate Internet service today. It’s a bad idea. The one thing that pleases me about the ongoing debate over Internet regulation is the durability of Tim Lee’s November, 2008 Cato Policy Analysis, “The Durable Internet: Preserving Network Neutrality without Regulation.” My introduction of it is a good synopsis. The arguments against government regulation in the name of “net neutrality” have not changed: A good engineering principle is not made better if dogmatized and given to lawyers and bureaucrats to enforce as law. The FCC and its regulatory regime are almost sure to be captured by major ISPs and turned to their benefit, used to suppress competition and blunt innovation. A premise of net neutrali... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4277817 Tue, 21 Dec 2010 17:16:32 +0100 4277817 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4065346&cid=t_96445_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2Fb6jQh1eqyiw%2F By Michael F. CannonDuring the debate over ObamaCare, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services took issue with some of the things that some of the insurers participating in the Medicare Advantage program were telling their enrollees about the legislation.  The Government Accountability Office has just released a review of CMS’s conduct in that episode: Although CMS’s actions generally conformed to its policies and procedures, the September 21, 2009, memorandum instructing all MA organizations to discontinue communications on pending legislation while CMS conducted its investigation was unusual. Officials from the MA organizations and CMS regional offices that we interviewed told us they were unaware of CMS ever directing all MA organizations to immediately stop an activity... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4065346 Wed, 13 Oct 2010 19:39:58 +0100 4065346 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4022899&cid=t_96445_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FtXeNkujL5UU%2F By Michael F. CannonIn all of Washington, is there a greater enemy of free speech than Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius? Her department is forcing millions of Americans to finance speech that they oppose, by using taxpayer dollars to broadcast (misleading) television ads that promote ObamaCare. She is using the powers granted her under ObamaCare to threaten insurers with bankruptcy if they publicly disagree with her about the law’s cost. Now, she is decrying the growth of anonymous political speech in congressional campaigns. Would that coerced speech, or government suppression of speech, troubled her as much as anonymous speech. Sebelius: Anonymous Political Speech ‘Dangerous’ is a post from Cato @ Liberty - Cato Institute Blog (Source: Cato-at-... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4022899 Fri, 01 Oct 2010 14:46:09 +0100 4022899 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3880826&cid=t_96445_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2Fk2NKRo9Lezk%2F More than 16,000 murders occurred in Venezuela in 2009. That compares with 4,550 homicides reported in 1998, the year Hugo Chavez was elected president. The fact that Venezuela now has one of the world’s highest violent crime rates underscores the Chavez revolution’s utter neglect of the basic and proper functions of government. Yet the problem is downplayed by the government, which inexplicably blames capitalism and poverty even though official figures show a fall in poverty rates. As if to highlight the government’s insensitivity, the president of state-run TeleSUR TV station recently laughed off the problem in a widely-seen CNN interview. Last week, El Nacional newspaper published this graphic front-page photo of crime victims in a morgue. The official response from a government-c... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3880826 Wed, 18 Aug 2010 19:21:08 +0100 3880826 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3761415&cid=t_96445_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FDOZN4t15-P4%2F By Gabriela Calderon de BurgosThe World Cup is over but not the Ecuadorian government’s propaganda campaign vilifying the free press. For those Ecuadorians who don’t have Direct TV, but only have cable TV or the local network channels, the only place to have watched the much-awaited matches was on one of the state-owned TV stations and with constant state propaganda. (You can watch the videos depicting the private press as a snake or as shooting bullets coming out of the TV here, here, here and here.) When I say constant, I might be understating the frequency: according to Infomedia — a media monitoring company— during the weekend of June 18-20 these ads were broadcasted 414 times for a total of 7,988 seconds or 133 minutes. To make matters worse, the ads continue to be ai... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3761415 Fri, 16 Jul 2010 20:22:30 +0100 3761415 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3607485&cid=t_96445_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FNsFlrbiXSNI%2F By Jim HarperAmid charge and countercharge about who is shilling for whom in the debate over Internet regulation, Peter Suderman has the right focus in a short piece on Reason’s Hit & Run blog. The Federal Communications Commission’s Chairman is claiming that he only wants to regulate the Internet’s infrastructure, but one of his colleagues, Commissioner Michael Copps, is non-denying that he wants to censor the Internet. There may be exceptions, but it’s usually pretty safe to assume that anytime a politician or bureaucrat dodges a question while calling for “a national discussion about” the proposal at hand, what he or she really means is, “I want to indicate that I support this idea without actually going on record as supporting it.” Th... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3607485 Thu, 27 May 2010 15:43:17 +0100 3607485 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3408357&cid=t_96445_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2Fxh4q1A6nUQ4%2F By Jim HarperThe Chinese government has issued instructions to media outlets telling them how they may report on the decision of Google to discontinue providing censored search results in China. (Source: Cato-at-liberty) Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3408357 Fri, 26 Mar 2010 11:20:07 +0100 3408357 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3346444&cid=t_96445_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FrHO4klO1Dx4%2F By Julian SanchezA new BBC poll is garnering plenty of press attention for its striking finding that 78% of global respondents believe that Internet access “should be a fundamental right of all people.” Fascinating!  Except… what exactly does that mean? The obvious problem here is that, at least as it’s worded in English, the question is ambiguous between two equally plausible readings.  Especially when juxtaposed with another question about whether the Internet should be regulated by government, it could be understood as asking whether there’s a fundamental negative right to be free to use the Internet — to read and communicate free of government censorship or other onerous barriers.  That’s probably how we’d interpret a parallel question... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3346444 Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:46:09 +0100 3346444 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3326966&cid=t_96445_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FPIRWFNkp4lk%2F By Julian SanchezThis morning’s Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on global Internet freedom opened with Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) announcing that he would “introduce legislation that would require Internet companies to take reasonable steps to protect human rights or face civil or criminal liability.”  Durbin’s staff tell me they’re in the early phases of hammering out a draft, so exactly what that amounts to isn’t clear yet, but my first-pass gut reaction is that this has the potential to do as much harm as good. The argument for establishing some such set of rules is pretty straightforward: You don’t want the perverse scenario where corporations worry they’re shirking their fiduciary responsibility to their shareholders if they fail to com... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3326966 Tue, 02 Mar 2010 19:55:36 +0100 3326966 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3239551&cid=t_96445_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FYgDEqrpv3mE%2F By Ilya ShapiroHastings College of the Law, a public law school in California, has a policy prohibiting discrimination on the basis of “race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, disabilities, age, sex or sexual orientation.” In 2004, the Christian Legal Society, a religious student organization at the school, applied to become a “recognized student organization” — a designation that would have allowed CLS to receive a variety of benefits afforded to about 60 other Hastings groups. While all are welcome to attend CLS meetings, CLS’s charter requires that its officers and voting members abide by key tenets of the Christian faith and comport themselves in ways consistent with its fundamental mission, which includes a prohibition on “unrepentan... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3239551 Thu, 04 Feb 2010 13:40:19 +0100 3239551 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3197823&cid=t_96445_132_f&fid=35021&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FYourBonesGotALittleMachine%2F%7E3%2FlJP_RGSJQF0%2F Normally I stick to posts about science and technology on this blog. Like most Australians, I vote in elections, try to remain informed, but otherwise stay away from getting involved in politics. However, occasionally certain things become important enough issues that they need to be advertised more widely. As you may know, the Australian Federal Government is attempting to censor the Internet within Australia by forcing ISPs to block a list of websites. This proposed internet filter will not be optional; it will effect all Australians, and the blocklist will compiled by a small group of people. The list of blocked sites will remain secret, so the Australian public will find it difficult to determine if this power is being abused. It will not prevent the spread of illegal material, which i... Your bones got a little machine. blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3197823 Fri, 22 Jan 2010 00:28:49 +0100 3197823 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3171888&cid=t_96445_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FGR6RfZoeMQk%2F By Julian SanchezYesterday’s bombshell announcement that Google is prepared to pull out of China rather than continuing to cooperate with government Web censorship was precipitated by a series of attacks on Google servers seeking information about the accounts of Chinese dissidents.  One thing that leaped out at me from the announcement was the claim that the breach “was limited to account information (such as the date the account was created) and subject line, rather than the content of emails themselves.” That piqued my interest because it’s precisely the kind of information that law enforcement is able to obtain via court order, and I was hard-pressed to think of other reasons they’d have segregated access to user account and header information.  And as M... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3171888 Wed, 13 Jan 2010 16:58:41 +0100 3171888 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3029789&cid=t_96445_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FtU7CEmv67Fc%2F Former Google executive turned Obama administration deputy chief technology officer Andrew McLaughlin made some unfortunate comments at a law school technology conference last week equating private network management to government censorship as it is practiced in China. By many accounts, President Obama’s visit to China was unimpressive. It apparently included a press conference at which no questions were allowed and government censorship of the president’s anti-censorship comments. On its heels, McLaughlin equated Chinese government censorship with network management by U.S. Internet service providers. “If it bothers you that the China government does it, it should bother you when your cable company does it,” McLaughlin said. That line is wrong on at least two counts. F... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3029789 Wed, 25 Nov 2009 17:14:18 +0100 3029789 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2939274&cid=t_96445_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FmHspvR8s3dw%2F Last night I spoke at “The Little Idea,” a mini-lecture series launched in New York by Ari Melber of The Nation and now starting up here in D.C., on the incredibly civilized premise that, instead of some interminable panel that culminates in a series of audience monologues-disguised-as-questions, it’s much more appealing to have a speaker give a ten-minute spiel, sort of as a prompt for discussion, and then chat with the crowd over drinks. I’d sketched out a rather longer version of my remarks in advance just to make sure I had my main ideas clear, and so I’ll post them here, as a sort of preview of a rather longer and more formal paper on 21st century surveillance and privacy that I’m working on. Since ten-minute talks don’t accommodate footnotes ... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2939274 Wed, 28 Oct 2009 22:07:10 +0100 2939274 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2814767&cid=t_96445_180_f&fid=38613&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.stevepavlina.com%2Fblog%2F2009%2F09%2Ffree-speech-in-online-communities-the-delusion-of-entitlement%2F Back in 2004 and 2005 when people asked me what I did for a living, I’d tell them I was a blogger. I got a lot of blank stares and invariably had to explain what a blog was. After that, people would lower their eyes, figuring that I was obviously on some ridiculous dead-end path with my “online diary.” In January 2006 I gave a 90-minute Power Point presentation to explain blogging to a group of about 60 speakers in Las Vegas. By that time I was earning a decent sustainable living from blogging (a few thousand dollars a month). I predicted that blogs would be everywhere within a few years. That wasn’t a difficult prediction to make since Technorati was reporting such phenomenal growth month after month with no end in sight. You didn’t have to be particularly pr... Steve Pavlina's Personal Development Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2814767 Mon, 21 Sep 2009 11:33:02 +0100 2814767 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2793115&cid=t_96445_86_f&fid=38272&url=http%3A%2F%2Flaikaspoetnik.wordpress.com%2F2009%2F09%2F14%2Fthe-trouble-with-wikipedia-as-a-source-for-medical-information%2F Image via Wikipedia Do you ever use Wikipedia? I do and so do many other people. It is for free, easy to use, and covers many subjects. But do you ever use Wikipedia to look up scientific or medical information? Probably everyone does so once in a while. Dave Munger (Researchblogging) concluded a discussion on Twitter as [...] (Source: Laika's MedLibLog) Laika's MedLibLog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2793115 Mon, 14 Sep 2009 07:38:14 +0100 2793115 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2469435&cid=t_96445_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FhjY9Z_ziPZA%2F So when China blocked social networking sites for the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen square massacre, were they successful? Not entirely. (Source: Cato-at-liberty) Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2469435 Wed, 10 Jun 2009 18:19:38 +0100 2469435 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2441310&cid=t_96445_87_f&fid=34595&url=http%3A%2F%2Fnhsblogdoc.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F05%2Fspartacus-defence-protecting.html I am SpartacusFollowing on from yesterday's post, Nadine Dorries is silenced, Dizzy now has a detailed report on the precise sequence of events.  Bloggerheads, meanwhile, points out that Nadine Dorries is no blogger, and no blogging hero.There are unspoken rules to which serious bloggers adhere. The most important of those rules is that comments should be open to all and not moderated by the blog owner. Nadine broke that rule right from the beginning by not allowing comments at all and thus reducing her blog to the status of pseudoblog. NHS BLOG DOCTOR readers are familiar with the pseudoblog run by Kent Independent Midwives. Nadine did start allowing comments, but they were moderated, and who knows what did not get through.I hold no brief for Nadine Dorries, but what happened to her is ... NHS Blog Doctor blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2441310 Sun, 24 May 2009 20:22:00 +0100 2441310 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2441313&cid=t_96445_87_f&fid=34595&url=http%3A%2F%2Fnhsblogdoc.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F05%2Fnadine-dorries-is-silenced.html Late last night I was reading reports that David Cameron was furious with Nadine Dorries for suggesting that MPs were stressed about having their venal expenses claims exposed in the Daily Telegraph. I went on to her website to find that her blog had been taken down. It was still, at the time, available in the Google cache and so I saved it. You may still catch it all here. It seemed likely that she had taken it down as a result of pressure from David Cameron. Poor old Nadine, heart in the right place, brain not in gear. I printed her last two articles and went to bed.Early this morning, (does he not go to bed like normal people?) Dizzy revleaded a much more worrying story. Nadine’s blog had been taken down, not by Tory Central Office, but by the Daily Telegraph lawyers.Nadine Dorries ha... NHS Blog Doctor blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2441313 Sat, 23 May 2009 19:01:00 +0100 2441313 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2442534&cid=t_96445_135_f&fid=35246&url=http%3A%2F%2Faids-write.org%2F%3Fp%3D1598 chers— i am pleased to invite you to a series of poetry readings in my new neighbothood (& around town too). i want you to come listen. i want you to come read. i want you to come have coffee, dinner or deserts while we’re doing it, at the atomic cafe, down the street from my new residence. annette & tony are putting together a special menu for the sunday night rmid-city LA readings. the first two are scheduled may 24 and june 7. also join in & help celebrate my 58th birthday (5-26-long, long, ago). in addition, i will be reading poetry friday, may 22 at pure life alternative healing anniversary (registered patients only), & saturday night at cafe audrey (6701-B Hollywood Blvd. @Las Palmas, Admission is FREE, $2 parking at the Kodak w/validation). naps between perfo... aids-write.org blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2442534 Thu, 21 May 2009 02:19:10 +0100 2442534 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2209479&cid=t_96445_86_f&fid=34448&url=http%3A%2F%2Flibeducation.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F02%2Funder-category-of-challenge-public.html Under the category of Challenge - the public library board in Topeka, KS, has voted to restrict 4 books on sex based on a challenge from the community:From the International Herald Tribunehttp://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2009/02/20/america/NA-US-Library-Sex-Books.phpAnother news story on this event, with responses from the library community:Library Peers Dismayed at Board's Decisionhttp://www.cjonline.com/stories/022109/kan_396302566.shtmlAnd on the Topeka ABC affiliate's web page, a local lawyer says that the ACLU may become involved. Check out the poll at the bottom of the page - it is currently ahead on "Yes, children must be protected from exposure to certain books" http://www.ktka.com/news/2009/feb/20/local_attorney_people_want_legal_action_against_li/ (Source: User Education Resources ... User Education Resources for Librarians blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2209479 Mon, 23 Feb 2009 21:26:00 +0100 2209479 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2163544&cid=t_96445_87_f&fid=34595&url=http%3A%2F%2Fnhsblogdoc.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F02%2Fshit-hits-fan-jeni-barnett-and-lbc.html “And David put his hand in his bag, and took thence a stone, and slang it, and smote the Phillistine in his forehead, that the stone sunk into his forehead, and he fell upon his face to the earth.” (I Samuel 17:49)++++++++++Shortly after Ben Goldacre drew attention (see below) to the appalling LBC broadcast by Jeni Barnett on MMR and measles, the LBC lawyers appeared waving writs at Ben, telling him that posting a reference to the broadcast on Bad Science was a breach of copyright.Ben Goldacre is a junior hospital doctor. OK, he makes a few bob (emphasis on few) from his writing and from speaking, but he is  not in a position to take on the £400 an hour lawyers from a big corporation. So he has taken the reference down.Jeni Barnett, meanwhile, has had the grace to admit that she was ... NHS Blog Doctor blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2163544 Thu, 05 Feb 2009 23:17:00 +0100 2163544 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2147632&cid=t_96445_134_f&fid=35187&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FDiabetesDaily%2F%7E3%2FeXBMr4bTw3Q%2Fhow-a-community-should-handle-eating-disorders.php I would like advice from the community. From time to time, someone on Diabetes Daily shows symptoms of an eating disorder. He or she will start detailing increasingly dangerous eating habits and the painful side effects that inevitably follow. The level of desperation will steadily increase and so will our concern. How should we handle this situation?I think we'll all agree that the first step is to express concern privately.... (Source: Diabetes Daily) Diabetes Daily blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2147632 Fri, 30 Jan 2009 17:46:55 +0100 2147632 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2067909&cid=t_96445_87_f&fid=36050&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FBreastfeeding123%2F%7E3%2FaMTekZ9IsX8%2F Today at the Facebook headquarters in Palo Alto, California, a relatively small group of dedicated lactivists showed up while nearly 2,000 people were there with them in spirit at the virtual nurse-in on Facebook itself. Jill Asher of the Silicon Valley Moms Blog headed over to Palo Alto to film the following video of the nurse-in. My favorites are the interview with the organizer’s mother-in-law, Sheri Farley, mother of eight breastfed children and grandmother to 19 breastfed grandchildren out of 20 total, and the interview with one of the fathers in attendance. Local newspaper The Mercury News also reported on the event. Because today is a Saturday there was no comment from Facebook headquarters, but Andi of Mama Knows Breast found this previous statement quoted in the New York Ti... Breastfeeding 1-2-3 blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2067909 Sun, 28 Dec 2008 04:42:46 +0100 2067909 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1770681&cid=t_96445_88_f&fid=35612&url=http%3A%2F%2Ftheknifeman.blogspot.com%2F2008%2F09%2Fon-censorship.html BBP hints at some skullduggery in the ED.I like him, I enjoy his blog, I enjoy working with him; he is good at his job.I am curious to know what has been afoot. I have been off the floor working with small people again, so can't speculate.Freedom of speech. I'm a big fan; censorship is a bad thing. It's next to book burning. And yet... there must also be limits. Right? Does freedom of expression extend to someone who wants to come to work andshout obscenities at me? In general, no. I'll have him removed.If something goes wrong at work, should it be public knowledge. There must be transparancy, but do people need to know everything? If you hide something, no matter how small, is it the first step down a slippery slope?I think maintaining the moral high-ground is difficult. If I make a mista... The KnifeMan blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1770681 Sat, 06 Sep 2008 10:57:00 +0100 1770681 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1709108&cid=t_96445_133_f&fid=35082&url=http%3A%2F%2Fautism.gbrettmiller.com%2F2008%2F08%2Fa-meditation-on-individual-expression%2F A couple of weeks ago, I posted a meditation on censorship. In light of all the recent discussion surrounding the film Tropic Thunder, I thought I should post this companion meditation on individual expression: Emperors uphold censorship, But extreme repression leads to extreme reaction. Individualists believe in freedom, But extreme expression leads to extreme reaction. To answer the question I posed in my last post, “No, I don’t believe the creators of pop-culture have a responsibility for limiting their content to what is ‘acceptable’.” The nature of art is individual expression, and in that the ‘artist’ is responsible only to himself. As the meditation above states, though, this unlimited expression might result in “extreme reaction.&#822... 29 Marbles blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1709108 Sat, 16 Aug 2008 12:02:25 +0100 1709108 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1649011&cid=t_96445_133_f&fid=35082&url=http%3A%2F%2Fautism.gbrettmiller.com%2F2008%2F07%2Fa-meditation-on-censorship%2F The following meditation on censorship comes from 365 Tao (June 13). It’s been on my mind lately, and Kristina Chew’s recent post The R Word and Not So Nice Language has prompted me to share. Emperors uphold censorship, But extreme repression leads to extreme reaction. Individualists believe in freedom, But extreme expression leads to extreme reaction. The challenge, of course, is learning how to live and act in between these two extremes, and how to deal with those who inhabit the extremes. (Source: 29 Marbles) 29 Marbles blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1649011 Thu, 24 Jul 2008 00:20:09 +0100 1649011 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1352714&cid=t_96445_117_f&fid=34612&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thedoctorweighsin.com%2Fjournal%2F2008%2F4%2F5%2Fscience-and-censorship.html by Pat Salber, MDThere is a pretty disturbing article in the April 5, 2008, NY Times that describes government censorship of a database search function. Johns Hopkins University, one of the most prestigious universities in the country, manages a population database known as Popline.  Popline, according to the Times, is the “world’s largest database on reproductive health.” It contains more than 360,000 records and articles related to family planning, fertility, and sexually transmitted diseases. Hopkins recently disclosed that it had programmed its computers to ignore the word “abortion” as a search term. Excuse me…a database on articles related to reproductive health and you can’t search for articles with the word abortion! (Typing “ab... The Doctor Weighs In blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1352714 Sat, 05 Apr 2008 19:15:52 +0100 1352714 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=818858&cid=t_96445_135_f&fid=35273&url=http%3A%2F%2Fblogswana.org%2F2007%2F08%2F23%2Fcommittee-to-protect-bloggers-reactivated%2F Our parent organization, the Committee to Protect Bloggers, has come out of its hiatus. Visit the site and subscribe to the fee for up-to-the-minute information on threatened bloggers and threats to bloggers worldwide. Committee_to_Protect_Bloggers, threatened_bloggers, censorship, free_speech, human_rights (Source: Blogswana) Blogswana blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=818858 Thu, 23 Aug 2007 21:20:27 +0100 818858 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=686945&cid=t_96445_87_f&fid=34595&url=http%3A%2F%2Fnhsblogdoc.blogspot.com%2F2007%2F06%2Fdoom-manhunt-2-duke-nukem-and-british.html Having admitted that I like motor racing, I might as well go on to make a full confession. I used to play video games. Not for a while now, but years ago I downloaded Doom from the internet (you could not buy it over the counter) and jolly good fun it was too. I do not think I was psychologically damaged by it, but who knows. I also had a copy of something called Duke Nukem but I never managed to get that running properly.The British Board of Film Classification has recently decided to ban a new game, Manhunt 2, because of its “unremitting bleakness and encouragement of casual sadism.”Rockstar Games trail the game in the following way:One chance. They took your life. Time to take it back. Manhunt 2. Coming Summer 2007.Today, The Times reports:David Cooke, the director of the BBFC, said... NHS Blog Doctor blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=686945 Wed, 20 Jun 2007 21:14:00 +0100 686945 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=675673&cid=t_96445_133_f&fid=35452&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.graphictruth.com%2F2007%2F06%2Fat-cbs-eighth-deadly-word-is-gays.html Mass. Lawmakers Block Gay Marriage Vote, Constitutional Amendment Would Have Let Voters Decide Whether To Ban Gay Marriage - CBS News: "Mass. Lawmakers Block Gay Marriage Vote"Great story and all that, hurrah, triumph for civil liberties... but the REALLY funny part is that CBS is censoring the comments submitted by readers, and one of the words censored is "gays." Now, I was not aware that "gays" was deemed an offensive word. And it does rather make it awkward to write coherently about the right to gay marriage without, you know, THE FUCKING PLURAL FORM!But I guess that's their objection, that if they DID allow the word "gays," somehow their readers would jump to the conclusion that The Grey Lady was approving of plural gay fucking within the sanctity of marriage.However, as I pointed out... Graphictruth blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=675673 Thu, 14 Jun 2007 04:00:00 +0100 675673 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=644625&cid=t_96445_125_f&fid=34819&url=http%3A%2F%2Fflapsblog.com%2F%3Fp%3D5017 A woman supporter of Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez displays a doll representing Chavez during a demonstration organized by Venezuela’s embassy in Managua, Sunday May 27, 2007. The demonstration was to support Chavez’s decison of not renewing the license to broadcast of RCTV, Radio Caracas Television channel, the sole opposition-aligned TV station with nationwide reach. The [...] (Source: FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog) FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=644625 Wed, 30 May 2007 19:01:10 +0100 644625 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=644618&cid=t_96445_125_f&fid=34819&url=http%3A%2F%2Fflapsblog.com%2F%3Fp%3D5024 An opponent to the Venezuelan government waves a flag in front of the police during a protest 28 May 2007, in Caracas, in the aftermath of the closure of private network RCTV (Radio Caracas Television). The United States called on Venezuela’s leftist president, Hugo Chavez, Tuesday to reverse his decision to close the country’s oldest [...] (Source: FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog) FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=644618 Wed, 30 May 2007 19:01:10 +0100 644618 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=405598&cid=t_96445_86_f&fid=34464&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FDavidrothmannet%2F%7E3%2F88277401%2F Above: Embedded video of KJCT8 News (Grand Junction, CO) story I’ll be processing this one for a while. I respect and admire the library’s wish to avoid censorship of patron-created displays, but I also loathe this sort of anti-gay claptrap and am uneasy with the library being used to spread an evangelistic message that is openly hostile to some of the library’s users. While I respect the library’s view and want to be whole-hearted in my support of their decision, I’d be pretty upset really ticked off if a public display at my local library suggested that Jews (for example) couldn’t be fit parents. A display suggesting that any ethnic or religious minority couldn’t be fit parents would (rightly) cause massive public outcry…what makes this an... davidrothman.net blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=405598 Fri, 09 Feb 2007 01:15:07 +0100 405598