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 'hierarchies'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:58:29 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3914944&cid=t_105197_87_f&fid=34902&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.futurepundit.com%2Farchives%2F007445.html Do you feel special? So special that you think you live in a unique time? Andrew Stuttaford thinks vanity is behind the belief of many people who believe they live in the end time or in the time where great disaster will befall us. I’ve long suspected that amongst those who believe that the apocalypse is just round the corner, a certain vanity may well be at work – the belief that their time is somehow special. Stuttaford points to a Scientific American article on why humans have a tendency to believe they live in a special end time: it is all about the desire to feel special. The desire to treat terrible events as the harbinger of the end... (Source: FuturePundit) FuturePundit blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3914944 Sat, 28 Aug 2010 23:00:00 +0100 3914944 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3701665&cid=t_105197_87_f&fid=34902&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.futurepundit.com%2Farchives%2F007278.html Mickey Foley takes a look at the underlying motivations of people who predict collapse of society as a result of Peak Oil, Anthropogenic Global Warming, or other causes. Foley sees Doomers motivated by an underlying desire to lower the status of others in order to boost their own relative status. The Doomer is motivated by much more than a perverse sense of altruism. He mainly desires to see everyone brought down to his level. His fondest wish is for everyone to be as emotionally crippled as he is, and, if they could also be paralyzed fiscally, that would be great too. The argument for the necessity of disaster is merely an excuse for his vindictive fantasies. This is the Doomer's... (Source: FuturePundit) FuturePundit blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3701665 Wed, 23 Jun 2010 23:00:00 +0100 3701665 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=645192&cid=t_105197_133_f&fid=35084&url=http%3A%2F%2Fballastexistenz.autistics.org%2F%3Fp%3D389 The concern has been growing in my mind lately that a lot of autistic people see psychiatric classifications of people as a value-neutral system that is essentially benevolent, scientific, accurate, and probably useful in understanding the way that human beings operate. A few of them have actually experienced psychiatry, but mostly in a cursory way that has avoided the nastier features. A few have experienced the nastier features of psychiatry and believe that if they just put themselves into the right classifications and frenetically avoid the wrong ones (while promoting stereotypes about those they do see as belonging to the wrong ones) then they’ll be okay. Most haven’t experienced much if anything of psychiatry at all and are speaking from a position of immense privilege. W... Ballastexistenz blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=645192 Wed, 30 May 2007 08:41:22 +0100 645192 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=487194&cid=t_105197_133_f&fid=35098&url=http%3A%2F%2Fclub166.blogspot.com%2F2007%2F03%2Fdirty-laundry.html I almost titled this post "The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly". I figured I'd link to Thursday's post for the "good", Friday's for the "bad", and today's would elucidate the "ugly". But then I thought that might be too tacky.What I want to talk about today is something I have been thinking about for awhile. It's how hierarchies are developed in the disabled world, especially when it comes to those with autism spectrum disorders.A side discussion on this started in the comments section on AutismVox, but I thought it deserved a topic of its own.Developing hierarchies within minority communities is nothing new. Within the African-American community in the US, skin color has served for a long time as one of the primary factors in developing an internal hierarchy within the community. Those who we... Club 166 blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=487194 Sun, 04 Mar 2007 20:47:00 +0100 487194