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Mothers Who LieEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
I’ll let you in on a little secret. All three of my children “slept through the night” at three months of age! For real! I’m not lying! Except, then they didn’t. Inevitably my 3-month-old would cut her first tooth, get a cold, or just plain decide it was nice to have her mama comfort her back to sleep in the night. So can I say in all honesty that my children slept through the night at three months of age? Not quite. Image courtesy of Lorenzo González I think a significant number of mothers are not completely honest about how things are going in their mothering journey. For some reason, mothe...
Source: Breastfeeding 1-2-3 - February 5, 2010 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Angela White, J.D., breastfeeding counselor Tags: mothering sleep anti-CIO crying-it-out motherhood sleep training Source Type: blogs

Omega 3 the perfect anti-depression brain foodEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Fish oil may be more beneficial than drugs in the treatment of mental disease and depression. Sixty percent of your brain solid matter is composed of essential fatty acids that are a large portion of their communicating membranes of the brain. Brain cells have omega-3 in every cell membrane. If they don’t function well, neither will your brain.Only 5% of those on fish oil went on to develop full-blown psychosis versus 28% of those who got psychotherapy alone. As a medical physician for over 51 years, I strive to give you the best medical information on controversial medical subjects, and hel...
Source: Dr. Needles Medical Blogs - February 5, 2010 Category: Physicians With Health Advice Tags: OMEGA 3 THE PERFECT ANTI-DEPRESSION BRAIN FOOD Source Type: blogs

Seroxat and the myth of the ‘chemical cure’ – dead in the waterEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This study contributes to the extensive research that has helped to characterize the role of antidepressants,” which “are an important option, in addition to counseling and lifestyle changes, for treatment of depression.” A spokesperson for Pfizer, which makes Zoloft, also cited the “wealth of scientific evidence documenting [antidepressants'] effects,” adding that the fact that antidepressants “commonly fail to separate from placebo” is “a fact well known by the FDA, academia, and industry.” Other manufacturers pointed out that Kirsch and the JAMA authors had not studi...
Source: seroxat secrets... - January 31, 2010 Category: Mental Illness Authors: admin Tags: Anti-depressant Drug Marketing Source Type: blogs

Advice from Howard ZinnEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Howard Zinn is gone, now, but he left us plenty. Here is a short piece he wrote a little over ten years ago in Z Magazine (hat tip, SR). It's typical of his style: inspiring, humble, practical, especially in these times: On Getting Along Howard Zinn, March, 07 1999 You ask how I manage to stay involved and remain seemingly happy and adjusted to this awful world where the efforts of caring people pale in comparison to those who have power? It's easy. First, don't let "those who have power" intimidate you. No matter how much power they have they cannot prevent you from living your life, speaking your mind, thinking indepe...
Source: Effect Measure - January 30, 2010 Category: Epidemiologists Tags: Anti-war Source Type: blogs

Howard Zinn, 1922 -2010Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Howard Zinn died on Wednesday. He was a colleague and more than an acquaintance but a friend, although not a close friend. I knew him for 40 years, although hadn't seen him recently, the last time was a few years ago when we shared a platform together. The auditorium was packed, not to see me but to see him and he was his usual feisty self. But it was a feistiness that was full of kindness and compassion. Just to be in his presence conveyed a strange kind of empowerment. He made you believe you could make a difference, even when it was crystal clear the one who was really making a difference was Howard Zinn. Howard's colle...
Source: Effect Measure - January 29, 2010 Category: Epidemiologists Tags: Anti-war Source Type: blogs

“Attention grocery shoppers!”Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
“We have a special going on in our natural foods aisle, right now! You can get your specialty questions answered by our very own over-educated scientist-grocery stocker! That’s right, weekends and evenings only, over in our natural foods aisle! And THANK YOU for shopping your local supermarket chain grocery!” Oh, boy. It’s one thing to be helping [...] (Source: Andrea's Buzzing About:)
Source: Andrea's Buzzing About: - January 24, 2010 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: andrea Tags: Anti-Quackery Arthritis Auditory Processing Disorder Critical Thinking Food Hypermobility Prosopagnosia Science Work / Employment Source Type: blogs

U.S., Hungary, 2010, 1989, 1956Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Martin Luther King's birthday is an official holiday in the US, but King's example of non-violent resistance is not a US idea. So once again we have decided this non-traditional version of We Shall Overcome is appropriate. I've heard and sung this in churches, union halls, in the streets and in concerts for four decades and it inspires wherever and whenever it is sung. This 1996 version features Diana Ross in full concert hall regalia, backed by a symphony orchestra. The venue is Budapest, Hungary and more than one member of the orchestra and the audience were undoubtedly thinking of their own history. A bloody uprising in...
Source: Effect Measure - January 18, 2010 Category: Epidemiologists Tags: Anti-war Source Type: blogs

6 Types of GamblersEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Gambling can become compulsive People in recovery may recognise one or more of these types of gambler. 1 – Professional gamblers make their living by gambling and thus consider it a profession. They are skilled in the games they choose to play and are able to control both the amount of money and time spent gambling. Thus, professional gamblers are not addicted to gambling. They patiently wait for the best bet and then try to win as much as they can. 2 – In contrast to professional gamblers, antisocial or personality gamblers use gambling as a way to get money by illegal means. They are likely to be involved in ...
Source: Recovery Is Sexy.com - January 16, 2010 Category: Addiction Authors: Sparrow Tags: Addictions Emotions Gambling Recovery anti-social casual compulsive Custer escape professional Source Type: blogs

Michael Savage: Still Banned in the UKEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
By Jason KuznickiIn my Policy Analysis “Attack of the Utility Monsters,” I noted that U.S. talk radio host Michael Savage had been preemptively banned from entering the United Kingdom, for fear that he would incite hatred on arrival. I also noted that the ban had been rescinded — which, anyway, it appeared to have been at the time. Today I read that Savage’s travel ban is back on again. What had Savage done that was so terrible? I’m not exactly sure, but here are some things that he’s said: On homosexuality, he once said: “The gay and lesbian mafia wants our children. If it can win...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - January 13, 2010 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Jason Kuznicki Tags: Law and Civil Liberties Trade and Immigration anti-gay autism extremist extremists michael savage radio talk radio tolerant society travel United Kingdom Source Type: blogs

Afghanistan/Iraq/Israel/Palestine: crow on the cradleEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
My little ones now have little ones of their own, just barely out of their cradles. When this song was written, the prospect of global nuclear annihilation wasn't far fetched. Each side had massive overkill. There are still nuclear weapons so the threat isn't gone. But it's not a threat of nuclear winter. There are several reasons for this, including a world wide anti-nuclear movement. What would have happened had there been no opposition to nuclear weapons? I'm glad to say we'll never know. Unfortunately even without nuclear weapons the words of this song are still applicable to cradles rocking in Iraq or Afghanistan or I...
Source: Effect Measure - January 9, 2010 Category: Epidemiologists Tags: Anti-war Source Type: blogs

Afghanistan/Iraq/Israel/Palestine/India: Chanda mamaEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
When I was growing up "world music" didn't exist as a genre and didn't exist for me in any form. Now it's just a keystroke away. This is a different world for the younger generation, not just musically. Despite all the wars and the problems in the headlines, I think it's a better one. Chanda Mama is a folk tune from Chennai, India. Like a lot of music, it's also from Argentina and Lisbon and Toulouse and South Africa and on and on. Here it is from Playing for Change via musicians from four continents: Read the comments on this post... (Source: Effect Measure)
Source: Effect Measure - January 7, 2010 Category: Epidemiologists Tags: Anti-war Source Type: blogs

Afghanistan/Iraq/Israel/Palestine: salaam shalomEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
If you don't share the sentiments, just enjoy the music. But why wouldn't you share the sentiments? Read the comments on this post... (Source: Effect Measure)
Source: Effect Measure - January 6, 2010 Category: Epidemiologists Tags: Anti-war Source Type: blogs

Afghanistan/Iraq/West Bank: twelfth gradersEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conscientious refusal to participate in acts which are immoral although legal is a world wide phenomenon. It isn't new. We don't hear about the brave souls in highly repressive countries that risk death or imprisonment, but they exist. We celebrate them when they resist regimes we don't like, as in Iran. But we have our own prisoners of conscience. We know more about the ones in freer societies and their voices also deserve to be heard. There are thousands in Israel. One group are the Shministim, "twelth graders": On April 28, 1970, a group of high school seniors about to be drafted sent a letter to Prime Minister Golda...
Source: Effect Measure - January 5, 2010 Category: Epidemiologists Tags: Anti-war Source Type: blogs

Afghanistan/Iraq: looking for answersEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
I was also a conscientious objector, in another war. I couldn't in conscience claim the kind of religious grounds that young Joshua Casteel did, but I have to hand it to the kid. This is an amazing story: Read the comments on this post... (Source: Effect Measure)
Source: Effect Measure - January 4, 2010 Category: Epidemiologists Tags: Anti-war Source Type: blogs

Afghanistan: be a sportEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Here's some forgotten history. Not ancient history, but nonetheless forgotten. Just a week over 30 years ago, the end of 1979, Afghanistan had a functioning government, the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan (DRA). The fact that it functioned, which now sounds remarkable, was not a good thing as far as the US was concerned because this was also a communist government allied to the Soviet Union (just over its border to the north). In the flight from reality known as The Cold War, the US wished the functioning government in Afghanistan would be toppled. Does the phrase, "Be careful what you wish for" come to mind? Read the r...
Source: Effect Measure - January 3, 2010 Category: Epidemiologists Tags: Anti-war Source Type: blogs

Afghanistan: War is KindEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
We've had other wars besides Iraq and Afghanstan djinned up or whipped on by our "free press." Sometimes it's good to remember that "the power of the press" also meant the power of the person who owned the printing press. People like William Randoph Hearst, who had the power to make "the splendid little war" known as the Spanish American War. The same power also gave us The Philippines via Commodore Dewey's Battle of Manila Bay (referred to by a British historian as "more a military execution than a real contest"). The power that gave us domination over Cuba in the name of Cuban independence from Spain. The power that gave...
Source: Effect Measure - January 2, 2010 Category: Epidemiologists Tags: Anti-war Source Type: blogs

Afghanistan: In Times like TheseEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
First day of a new year. First day of a new decade. It's dark out. So it's important to keep even a small light on in Times Like These: Lyrics for In Times Like These by Arlo Guthrie In times like these, when night surrounds me and I am weary, my heart is worn And the songs they're singing don't mean nothing, cheap refrains play on and on The storm is here, the lightning flashes, between commercials, they're taking names singers run to where the cash is, it's just another link in slavery's chain I see the storm clouds rise above me, the sky is dark and the night has come I walk alone along this highway, where strange...
Source: Effect Measure - January 1, 2010 Category: Epidemiologists Tags: Anti-war Source Type: blogs

Afghanistan: perspectiveEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Last day of 2009, another year of war. A good time to step back and try for perspective. We'll let a young Nanci Griffith do it for us with this wonderful song by Julie Gold: Happy New Year to all our readers, whether near or from a distance. The Reveres, New Year's Eve, 2009 Read the comments on this post... (Source: Effect Measure)
Source: Effect Measure - December 31, 2009 Category: Epidemiologists Tags: Anti-war Source Type: blogs

Afghanistan: conscientious objectionEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
When the US still had "mandatory" conscription for males it was still possible to claim exemption on the basis of a conscientious objection to war. While this usually required a religious basis and was almost impossible for doctors because of a supposed non-combattant role, we were still given full C.O. status as a doctor without a religious basis. The explanation for this legal certification is not relevant and it didn't happen without a protracted struggle which we had no reason to believe would turn out as it did. Its lack of relevance is because the end of the draft or the war did not end our status as a conscientious ...
Source: Effect Measure - December 30, 2009 Category: Epidemiologists Tags: Anti-war Source Type: blogs

Journal of Public Health 2009 (Vol 31 No 4)Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This article looks at a longitudinal study which attempts to determine whether death and disability by the fifth decade are strongly associated with antisocial behaviour at an early age. (Print subscription held at Fade Library) Posted in Current Awareness, Journals Tagged: Anti-Social Behaviour, Ill Health, Life Expectancy, Premature Death (Source: Fade Library)
Source: Fade Library - December 30, 2009 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: mevlux Tags: Current Awareness Journals Anti-Social Behaviour Ill Health Life Expectancy Premature Death Source Type: blogs

Afghanistan: thumb on the scaleEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Some needs to edit this to add faces from the Obama administration to those from the Bush administration. Because lives are still in the balance and Obama has his thumb on the scale. Jackson Browne: Read the comments on this post... (Source: Effect Measure)
Source: Effect Measure - December 29, 2009 Category: Epidemiologists Tags: Anti-war Source Type: blogs

Afghanistan: one bulletEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
War can take and spoil lives in many ways. The killing doesn't stop when the war is over or a combat role is ended. This year again has seen record suicide rates for the US military, but one can assume the same is true for those fighting on the other side and for the millions of civilians caught up in it. This song by Canadian singer-songwriter Garnet Rogers is not about Afghanistan or Iraq or Vietnam. It could be about any war. And one bullet: Read the comments on this post... (Source: Effect Measure)
Source: Effect Measure - December 28, 2009 Category: Epidemiologists Tags: Anti-war Source Type: blogs

Afghanistan: a war lost before it even beganEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Nina Serbedzija is the actress daughter of Croatian Serb actor-musician Rade Serbedzija. She wrote and sings this poignant song. If any part of the world knows about cruel and pointless wars, it's the Balkans: Read the comments on this post... (Source: Effect Measure)
Source: Effect Measure - December 27, 2009 Category: Epidemiologists Tags: Anti-war Source Type: blogs

Afghanistan: red poppies and green fieldsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Poppies grow in France, too. In fields that are now green but were once red with blood. And no one seems to know why. Two million died in vain. The Fureys and another moving Eric Bogle song: Read the comments on this post... (Source: Effect Measure)
Source: Effect Measure - December 26, 2009 Category: Epidemiologists Tags: Anti-war Source Type: blogs

The Lack Of Torture Betrays Everything America Stands For!Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Progressive Nation » Blog Archive » Hoekstra Blames Obama For Fort Hood Massacre:"Hoekstra and Rep. Mike Rogers (R-MI) charged that terror-fighting tools used until recently by the intelligence community had lately been restricted or placed off limits by the administration. “We know that there are tools and methods that were in use just a few months ago are not in use today,” said Rogers. “That is a problem.”The GOPers declined to say which tools they were referring to, or to produce any other evidence to back up their claim. Nonetheless, they blamed the Obama administration’s political philosophy. Rogers refer...
Source: Graphictruth - December 26, 2009 Category: Autism Tags: torture ethics International Law anti-torture Source Type: blogs

Afghanistan: from No Man's Land to Everyone's LandEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Here's another wonderful song about the Christmas truce of 1914, this one by Mike Harding. What happened 95 years ago today shines down through the years. Let's transform Afghanistan from No Man's Land to Everyone's Land. Because but for some accident of birth any of us could be an Afghan or a soldier, fighting for who knows what. Just like No Man's Land, 1914: Read the comments on this post... (Source: Effect Measure)
Source: Effect Measure - December 25, 2009 Category: Epidemiologists Tags: Anti-war Source Type: blogs

Afghanistan: both ends of the rifleEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
A Christmas tradition in the Revere household is that I make Mrs. R. cry by playing this beautiful song by John McCutcheon about the Christmas truce of 1914. It's 2009 and bitter cold in the trenches of Afghanistan. The Reveres, Christmas Eve, 2009 Read the comments on this post... (Source: Effect Measure)
Source: Effect Measure - December 24, 2009 Category: Epidemiologists Tags: Anti-war Source Type: blogs

Afghanistan: we shall have peace one dayEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Afghanistan is out of the headlines but we have continued to signal the existence of this unnecessary war every day since Obama announced his attention to escalate and thus make the Afghan War Obama's War. Given the projections of how long it will take to satisfy whatever vague and ill-defined criteria of "success" needed to conclude our occupation, we would have to keep finding new YouTube clips for years. I'm not sure even YouTube has enough appropriate clips for that. The real truth is The Reveres are having a hard time -- a very, very hard time -- letting go of the topic of the War in Afghanistan. We continue posting ...
Source: Effect Measure - December 23, 2009 Category: Epidemiologists Tags: Anti-war Source Type: blogs

Anti-Cancer Drugs to Be Put in Junk Food?Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Would you eat junk food that had anti-cancer medications? Would you buy the stuff? How expensive would it be? Wouldn’t it be easier just to not eat it in the first place or would more people start eating junk food or increase their consumption because of the anti-cancer properties? All these questions – but with good reason. Because according to news reports, Health Canada is thinking about doing just that. If this was April 1, I’d be checking for an April Fool’s joke, for sure. This was first reported on December 15th, when news came out that Health Canada wanted to add nutrients to a wide variety ...
Source: Healthbolt - December 23, 2009 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Marijke Durning, RN Tags: Cancer Food and Drink anti-cancer rugs asaparaginase chips french fries Junk Food Source Type: blogs

Afghanistan: not too lateEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
As of yesterday it's winter, astronomically speaking. At the moment, it doesn't look like it's ushering in a Season of Peace. But it's not too late. A young Judy Collins on Pete Seeger's 1960s TV show with Pete's musical setting of Ecclesiastes with his added verse: Read the comments on this post... (Source: Effect Measure)
Source: Effect Measure - December 22, 2009 Category: Epidemiologists Tags: Anti-war Source Type: blogs

Afghanistan: hollow log editionEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The public doesn't want this war. We who don't outnumber the ones that are going along with a bad decision. Whose land is it, anyway? Arlo Guthrie's dad, Woody, had the answer and penned a song you all know. But what's great about this performance is that when Arlo looked around him he realized his grand daughters had joined him on the stage with daughter Sarah Lee and her spouse Johnny and son Abe was on keyboard. Which prompted him to stop halfway through and tell a story he attributed to his dad: Read the comments on this post... (Source: Effect Measure)
Source: Effect Measure - December 21, 2009 Category: Epidemiologists Tags: Anti-war Source Type: blogs

Would You Take an Anti-Aging Pill?Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
It seems that getting old is the worse thing that can happen to some people. I mean, it must be if you think about all the money and effort that is spent in trying to maintain the appearance of youth. Personally, I think growing old is a great thing considering the alternative: not growing old at all because you’re dead. Seriously. I’m not shy about saying that I’m 48 years old. That means in a year and a half I’ll be 50 – a half a century. Wow, that sounds kind of shocking when you say it that way, but it is what it is, right? There’s a difference between wanting to look good and wantin...
Source: Healthbolt - December 21, 2009 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Marijke Durning, RN Tags: Across the Pond Beauty anti-aging pill donnatella versace photo Innéov Fermeté Source Type: blogs

Afghanistan: there is a road to peaceEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
It's Christmas week and we are struggling not to let our despair and anger overcome us. For a while, anyway, the mood will be up beat. Not to make you forget but to make you remember that there's work to be done, the work of making this a better world for our families, friends and neighbors, for people we don't know but who aren't fundamentally different from us and for our children and grandchildren and their children and grandchildren and on and on. Pete Seeger: Read the comments on this post... (Source: Effect Measure)
Source: Effect Measure - December 20, 2009 Category: Epidemiologists Tags: Anti-war Source Type: blogs

Afghanistan: hunger strikeEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This is not the first time we've done this poem by ee cummings. Alas. I guess it has to be done periodically. Because the steaming pile we are being asked to eat keeps mounting: i sing of Olaf glad and big i sing of Olaf glad and big whose warmest heart recoiled at war: a conscientious object-or his wellbelovéd colonel(trig westpointer most succinctly bred) took erring Olaf soon in hand; but--though an host of overjoyed noncoms(first knocking on the head him)do through icy waters roll that helplessness which others stroke with brushes recently employed anent this muddy toiletbowl, while kindred intellects evoke ...
Source: Effect Measure - December 19, 2009 Category: Epidemiologists Tags: Anti-war Source Type: blogs

Afghanistan: a soldier keeps on fighting from his wheelchairEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Tomas Young is a veteran in a wheel chair. He was shot in the spine by a sniper in Iraq. His story was featured in Phil Donahue's film, "Body of War," the story of Young's conversion from soldier to anti-Iraq war activist. You can see Young and others in the slides taken back stage at the Lollapalooza concert in Chicago, 2007. This is a tribute to Tomas Young by Eddie Vedder and Pearl Jam: Read the comments on this post... (Source: Effect Measure)
Source: Effect Measure - December 18, 2009 Category: Epidemiologists Tags: Anti-war Source Type: blogs

Afghanistan: asking for more troubleEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
While the Obama administration makes its choices, ordinary people in the rest of the world don't want more trouble: (Source: Effect Measure)
Source: Effect Measure - December 17, 2009 Category: Epidemiologists Tags: Anti-war Source Type: blogs

Guidance on the consumption of alcohol by children and young people. A report by the Chief Medical OfficerEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Title: Guidance on the consumption of alcohol by children and young people Skinny: Over the last decade, public concern about the impact of alcohol on health and society has steadily mounted. Particular concern has centred on the level and pattern of drinking among children and young people and its consequences on health, crime, violence and antisocial behaviour. Built on the work of Professor Mark Bellis at Liverpool John Moores University this guidance details: Nature and extent of the problem provides an overview of drinking patterns and some of their consequences in young people in the UK. Guidance for the consumption...
Source: Fade Library - December 17, 2009 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: western4uk Tags: Alcohol Children Grey Literature Young People Anti-Social Behaviour Crime Prevention and Control Guidance Violence Source Type: blogs

Comedy gold in parliament and tragedy from Prince of Wales: editorial in British Medical JournalEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This article was meant to celebrate their collective efforts and to celebrate the fact that those efforts are beginning to percolate upwards to influence the powers that be. It seems invidious to pick on one example, but if you want an example of beautiful and trenchant writing on one of the topics dealt with here, you’d be better off reading Andrew Lewis’s piece "Meddling Princes, Medical Regulation and Licenses to Kill” than anything in a print journal. I was a bit disappointed by removal of the comment about the Prince of Wales. In fact I’m not particularly republican compared with ma...
Source: DC's goodscience - December 17, 2009 Category: Professors and Educators Authors: David Colquhoun Tags: AIDS Anti-science Ben Goldacre Department of Health NHS NICE Pittilo Prince Charles Prince of Wales Prince's Foundation Robert Gordon's university acupuncture antiscience badscience blogosphere herbal medicine herbalism h Source Type: blogs

Afghanistan: Obama's legacyEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The truth of this is disheartening. But truth often is: Hat tip reader Erin. Read the comments on this post... (Source: Effect Measure)
Source: Effect Measure - December 16, 2009 Category: Epidemiologists Tags: Anti-war Source Type: blogs

Afghanistan: Falklands editionEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
A reminder that many nations fight stupid wars. Remember the Falklands? Mark Knopfler's version of the Dire Straits song, Brothers in Arms. Read the comments on this post... (Source: Effect Measure)
Source: Effect Measure - December 15, 2009 Category: Epidemiologists Tags: Anti-war Source Type: blogs

Afghanistan: John Brown's body is not in his graveEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Bob Dylan recorded this in 1962 but it wasn't released until decades later. By then there were many more John Browns. And we are producing them in quantity in Afghanistan. Read the comments on this post... (Source: Effect Measure)
Source: Effect Measure - December 15, 2009 Category: Epidemiologists Tags: Anti-war Source Type: blogs

Afghanistan: Hope and necessityEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Obama's election opened Pandora's Box and one of the things that flew out was Hope. No good change comes without Hope as one of its wellsprings. There is much justified anger at Obama's War on Afghanistan. You've seen it here and you'll see more of it as the Afghanistan debacle continues to take and spoil lives and sap our strength as a people. But Hope remains a necessary ingredient for those of us who oppose this war. We know it will draw cynical comments from those who see it as pie-in-the-sky utopianism (although pie-in-the-sky pushed by religion or politicians is OK?). Cynicism for them is just "realism," not the pr...
Source: Effect Measure - December 13, 2009 Category: Epidemiologists Tags: Anti-war Source Type: blogs

Afghanistan: spoiled livesEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
I usually choose music clips featuring the performer and the song. I prefer live performances. I don't like videos with graphic or powerful images because they often distract from the music and I am powerfully affected by the music itself. But this is an exception in two ways. First, this is contemporary music, a 2009 Dash Berlin remix video of the still extant 1980s alternative band, Depeche Mode; and this time it is the powerful video that takes center stage, not the music. Long after there is peace on the battlefield the war will go on in the lives of its victims, on both sides. This hit single is called Peace but it ...
Source: Effect Measure - December 12, 2009 Category: Epidemiologists Tags: Anti-war Source Type: blogs

Afghanistan: Nobel Peace Prize editionEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
President Obama made his Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech yesterday. Full of irony, thoughtful, analytic, nuanced, humble. So much more elegant than George Bush could ever hope to do. Other than that, same bottom line, only now it's the Obama Doctrine, dressed up. I'm not buying it. I'm as angry as ever. I'm not ready to make nice: Read the comments on this post... (Source: Effect Measure)
Source: Effect Measure - December 11, 2009 Category: Epidemiologists Tags: Anti-war Source Type: blogs

Afghanistan: making it back is only half the battleEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
We're saving lives on the battlefield. Lives that would have been lost in previous wars. That's good. War takes too many lives. But there are ways to take lives that don't involve killing someone. And we're taking a lot of lives that way, many more than before. Here's Liam Clancy with the great song by Australian singer-song writer Eric Bogle: Read the comments on this post... (Source: Effect Measure)
Source: Effect Measure - December 10, 2009 Category: Epidemiologists Tags: Anti-war Source Type: blogs

Afghanistan: when a soldier makes it homeEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
We're talking about sending 30,000 more soldiers to Afghanistan. We're not talking about the ones that are coming home. I used to work for the VA. There's lots to talk about. Let's start now: Read the comments on this post... (Source: Effect Measure)
Source: Effect Measure - December 9, 2009 Category: Epidemiologists Tags: Anti-war Source Type: blogs

Afghanistan: something for the Generals from the rest of usEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, testified in Congress yesterday. Not surprisingly he said what Generals always say: "we" can win. Back in 1963 Pete Seeger gave a concert in Melbourne, Australia. If you never saw him in concert, this is what he was always like. The Australians are hesitant at first, unlike typical American audiences, so the pay-off doesn't come until near the end (around 7:07), where Pete asks, wouldn't it be great if all the Generals around the world could be there to hear them sing this song. The response is immediate and spontaneous. That's what most people around the wo...
Source: Effect Measure - December 8, 2009 Category: Epidemiologists Tags: Anti-war Source Type: blogs

Information tribunal rejects appeal by University of Central Lancashire. Freedom of Information wins!Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusion 62 It is for these reasons that we uphold the Decision Notice. We record our gratitude for the helpful and succinct submissions of counsel on both sides and the incisive contribution of Professor Colquhoun. We wish to add that, whilst we have not accepted the great majority of the arguments advanced by UCLAN, we do not in any way seek to cast doubt on the veracity of the evidence of its witnesses, nor the honesty and loyalty with which they have sought to serve its interests. 63 Our decision is unanimous. Signed David Farrar Q.C. Watch this space to see what can now be revealed. Follow-up (Source: DC's goodscience)
Source: DC's goodscience - December 8, 2009 Category: Professors and Educators Authors: David Colquhoun Tags: Academia Anti-science CAM Central Lancashire Freedom of Information Act Malcolm McVicar Quality assessment UCLAN University of Central Lancashire antiscience badscience homeopathy management bollocks vice-chancellors Informatio Source Type: blogs

Epilepsy Drugs Don’t Cause Suicide Risk: StudyEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Still more controversy over this group of medications. A new study suggests that patients with bipolar disorder who take these anti-epileptic drugs do not have an increased risk of committing suicide, despite FDA warnings to the contrary (back story here). Bipolar patients treated with antiepileptics attempted suicide at the same rate as patients who received no medication or lithium. The rate of suicide attempts was higher before patients began taking the meds than afterwards, according to the study in the Archives of General Psychiatry (see abstract). And compared with patients taking no drugs, those on a single antiepil...
Source: Pharmalot - December 8, 2009 Category: Pharma Commentators Authors: Ed Silverman Tags: Uncategorized Anti-epilepsy Drugs Antidepressants Robert Gibbons Suicide Source Type: blogs