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Tobacco and Smoking MythsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Nicotine Addiction – Myths & Facts Many publications and even some commercials have made statements that nicotine is a poison that kills, but is it true? Nicotine is said to be both a bad habit that people can just lay down, but others claim that it is as addictive as heroin or cocaine. The claims that nicotine is used in insecticides have been circulating for years, so is it? All of these informational tidbits sound unreasonable and unbelievable. Which is the truth and which is fiction? Is nicotine deadly, or just someone’s mission to put the tobacco industry under? Here we will expose some of the most common myth...
Source: Recovery Is Sexy.com - February 9, 2010 Category: Addiction Authors: Sparrow Tags: 12 Step Fellowships Addictions Disease Nicotine Nicotine Anonymous Smoking Treatment bad habit myths Nicotine Addiction nicotine deadly tobacco industry Source Type: blogs

Moments of geniusEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Sorry no column this week, I’ve got some fun stuff in the pipe, as they say, and a lot on. In case you miss me, here’s my shouty contribution to Radio 4’s “Moments Of Genius”, a eulogy to the startlingly new idea of systematic reviews. Other bits and bobs… …I’m on Quote Unquote this week [...] (Source: badscience)
Source: badscience - February 8, 2010 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Ben Goldacre Tags: bad science onanism podcast Source Type: blogs

Bad omics word of the day: religionomeEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
And so they go - on and on. I am addicted to bad omics words. They are a bit fascinating ion that the spread of the ome suffix is astonishing. And here is one that is both funny and a bit sad: religionome. Not that new. But out there. And winner of today's "Bad omics word of the day." Not sure exactly where it started but here is one of the first uses I could find: We have a lot of new data we are working on, and one of the thoughts I’ve come up with recently is can we create something similar to the human genome – perhaps we can call it the religionome – with which we can begin to...
Source: The Tree of Life - February 7, 2010 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Jonathan Eisen Tags: bad omics words of the day Source Type: blogs

Oldy but baddy: bad omics word of the day - "speechome"Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
I know I swore to quit but I could not help myself here. I was going through old draft blog posts that I never finished and found this link to an article about the "Human Speechome Project" BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | Big brother untangles baby babble Basically, the idea is they are recording everything a particular child hears and says and categorizing it all to create "the Human Speechome project" "Just as the Human Genome Project illuminates the innate genetic code that shapes us, the Speechome Project is an important first step toward creating a map of how the environment shapes human development and learni...
Source: The Tree of Life - February 6, 2010 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Jonathan Eisen Tags: bad omics word of the day Source Type: blogs

End (at least for while) of the bad omics word awardsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Well this is it. I am declaring that I am (mostly) done with the posts about bad omics words. I will on occasion I am sure rail about one word or another with my Worst New Omics Word Award, but I will try to let ome words rest in peace, at least for a while. Mostly this is because the task is too overwhelming. There are simply too many bad omics words out there. I would like to note however, that as I have browsed around, I have noticed many other bloggers doing similar occasional snarky complaints about omics words here and there. That was good to see. But most amazing was that there is in fact published literature...
Source: The Tree of Life - February 4, 2010 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Jonathan Eisen Tags: bad omics word of the day Worst New Omics Word Award Source Type: blogs

Bad omics word of the day: vaccinomicsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The more I look at the litany of omics words, the more I fret. So let's just get straight to the point. Todays bad omics word is "Vaccinomics" which was defined as follows:Vaccinomics encompasses the fields of immunogenetics and immunogenomics as applied to understanding the mechanisms of heterogeneity in immune responses to vaccinesI do not like this word but if you want to learn more I guess you could look here. Not really much more to say. -------- This is from the "Tree of Life Blog" of Jonathan Eisen, an evolutionary biologist and Open Access advocate at the University of California, Davis. For short updates, follow...
Source: The Tree of Life - February 1, 2010 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Jonathan Eisen Tags: bad omics word of the day Source Type: blogs

Bad omics word of the day: connectomeEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Well, I have decided that I need to look beyond just new omic words to snark about here (I have been giving a "Worst New Omics Word Award" every once in a while"). So I am now going to post, as often as I can, a little ditty about any bad omics word that is out there. Yesterday's winner was "phenogenomics" which I posted only to twitter.Today's winner is "connectome" (see for example NIH Launches the Human Connectome Project to Unravel the Brain's Connections, July 15, 2009 News Release - National Institutes of Health (NIH)). I think it's first major use was here but not sure. It even has a wikipedia entry which says:A con...
Source: The Tree of Life - January 31, 2010 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Jonathan Eisen Tags: bad omics word of the day Worst New Omics Word Award Source Type: blogs

Oh, I found you a new jobEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
I thought you might be interested in this job advert from the Independent. It’s from the nice people at Maperton Trust. You can go and see them for a diagnosis with their magical machines, although the best product is their Head Lice Repelling Unit or HELRU (right) which various people have emailed me about over the years, [...] (Source: badscience)
Source: badscience - January 30, 2010 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Ben Goldacre Tags: bad science Source Type: blogs

The Wakefield MMR verdictEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Here’s a very brief piece I bashed out for the Guardian newsdesk today on the Wakefield finding, the further reading below will be more helpful if you’re interested in the story. Ben Goldacre, The Guardian, Thursday 28 January 2009 In medicine, “untoward incident inquiries” tend to look for systems failures, rather than one individual to blame. [...] (Source: badscience)
Source: badscience - January 28, 2010 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Ben Goldacre Tags: bad science Source Type: blogs

12 Monkeys. No… 8. Wait, sorry, I meant 14.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Ben Goldacre, The Guardian, Saturday 23 January 2010 Like many people, you’re possibly afraid to share your views on animal experiments, because you don’t want anyone digging up your grandmother’s grave, or setting fire to your house, or stuff like that. Animal experiments are necessary, they need to be properly regulated, and we have some of [...] (Source: badscience)
Source: badscience - January 23, 2010 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Ben Goldacre Tags: bad science Source Type: blogs

Voices of the ancientsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Ben Goldacre, The Guardian, Saturday 16 January 2010 Every now and then you have to salute a genius. Both the Daily Mail and the Metro report new research analysing the positions of Britain’s ancient sites, and the results are startling: primitive man had his own form of “sat nav”. Researcher Tom Brooks analysed 1,500 prehistoric monuments, [...] (Source: badscience)
Source: badscience - January 16, 2010 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Ben Goldacre Tags: bad science Source Type: blogs

Writing Beyond Blue: Keeping My End of the BargainEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Last week saw the publication date for my book, Beyond Blue: Surviving Depression & Anxiety and Making the Most of Bad Genes, which means it is now in bookstores (theoretically anyway). So I wanted to reflect on why I wrote it … I’m a tad over hearing about how depression and other mood disorders are yuppie diseases for folks with the time and resources to ruminate and obsess. I could do without all the advice on how to transform my thoughts into happy campers, even as I try every mindfulness strategy and cognitive-behavioral trick in the book. And I’d like to, one day, be able to tell family and frie...
Source: World of Psychology - January 13, 2010 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Therese J. Borchard Tags: Bipolar Depression General Medications Mental Health and Wellness Personal Personality Policy and Advocacy Psychology Psychotherapy Random Brain Bits Relationships Treatment Women's Issues Bad Genes Bookstores Campers Can Source Type: blogs

If you want to be trusted more: claim lessEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Ben Goldacre, The Guardian, Saturday 8 January 2009 “Public sector pay races ahead in a recession” shouted the front page of this week’s Sunday Times. “Public sector workers earn 7% more on average than their peers in the private sector — a pay gulf that has more than doubled since the recession began.” The Telegraph followed [...] (Source: badscience)
Source: badscience - January 9, 2010 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Ben Goldacre Tags: bad science Source Type: blogs

The Ongoing Battle with Breast CancerEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
I am getting back on track. I have found some great supplements which includes a foul tasting green powder full of vegetables. Thanks to all of you for responding to my lament on my blog about my bad habits; I received some great advice and tips and I am really feeling motivated. I have even decided to follow Weight Watchers to make sure I am eating good food and the right portions. The doctor’s decision that I switch from Tamoxifen to Femera is still a little concerning to me. I figure if I really get on track and in good physical condition then I will be able to note any changes Femera wreaks on my body more quic...
Source: Life with Breast Cancer - January 8, 2010 Category: Cancer Authors: admin Tags: Breast cancer community Breast cancer lifestyle Breast cancer treatment Tamoxifen Uncategorized bad habits blog breast cancer blog breast cancer support Everyday Health Femera Kathy-Ellen Kups Life with Breast Cancer online suppo Source Type: blogs

Introducing Therese Borchard’s New Book, Beyond BlueEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Unless you’ve been living under a rock this past year, you probably noticed that one of our regular contributors here has been Therese Borchard. However, she blogs more often and more regularly on her beliefnet.com blog, Beyond Blue. It was actually her wonderfully witty and touching writing there that led me to invite her to blog more regularly here. Therese is a rare find, combining a love of prose with a wealth of personal experiences with depression and other concerns to make for always engaging reading. So it’s no wonder she was able to bundle up that wisdom and publish her first book, Beyond Blue: Surviv...
Source: World of Psychology - January 7, 2010 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: John M Grohol PsyD Tags: Alcoholism Brain and Behavior Depression Disorders General Health-related Mental Health and Wellness Bad Genes Borchard Boundaries Cable Guy Colorful Words Com Blog Demons Depression Anxiety Diagnostic And Statistical Manual Source Type: blogs

An open letter to Google.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Dear Google, I know this is kind of awkward for both of us, but please don’t slam the door in my metaphorical face before I get my chance to discuss a matter which is really beginning to itch like a nasty case of an unfortunately personal fungal infection. I request no special consideration and only ask that you read the words I write, and then do what is right, Google. I know that we have a somewhat complicated and fraught history, you an I. I have even come to accept with a degree of equanimity our symbiotic relationshit relationship vis-a-vis people determined to shove objects (usually of a stiletto variety) up ...
Source: Mission: Impossible (or adventures in infertility, pregnancy....parenting?) - January 3, 2010 Category: Infertility Authors: g Tags: google bad Source Type: blogs

Standing Up For Yourself: From a Recovering People-PleaserEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
I think some people grow up believing in their heart and soul that they are loved and accepted and so therefore don’t have to depend so much on other people to give them their daily dose of attaboys, the approval ratings that determine if they’ll be able to function properly throughout the day. Me? I know, in my adult, neo-cortex, sophisticated part of my brain that I am loved. But the reptilian, immature brat part of my brain does most of the thinking in my noggin. So this girl is petrified of not being liked, of doing anything that might hurt somebody’s feelings, of the slightest confrontation, because ...
Source: World of Psychology - December 27, 2009 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Therese J. Borchard Tags: General Health-related Mental Health and Wellness Parenting Personal Psychology Psychotherapy Relationships Self-Esteem Women's Issues Approval Ratings Awkwardness Bad Stuff Bold Move Brain Cells Brat Christmases Confront Source Type: blogs

Goldfish resting by an open fireEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
What a day! There’s nothing so “fun” as grocering the day before a holiday, especially when the meteorology report is dire. Guess what I found while stocking the doggy chews? Yes indeedy, The Bad Goldfish were back, undeterred by the possibility of ending up as frozen fish from the weather. Planning for their Christmas, they had [...] (Source: Andrea's Buzzing About:)
Source: Andrea's Buzzing About: - December 25, 2009 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: andrea Tags: Humor/ Fun Stuff The Bad Goldfish Work / Employment Source Type: blogs

Today’s bible readingEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
On the birthday of Jesus Christ – who was clearly a very nice guy, giant sky wizard issues aside – I can think of no better bible reading than this, Daniel 1:8, a description of the first ever clinical trial. Daniel and his people have been dragged off to the court of king Nebuchadnezzar, [...] (Source: badscience)
Source: badscience - December 25, 2009 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Ben Goldacre Tags: bad science Source Type: blogs

Mental Health Year in Review: 2009Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Another year is over, and so brings us to the close of another year of great stories, great friends, and great insights into the world of psychology — our annual Year in Review of Mental Health. Conflicts of Interest, Lawsuits and Transparency Perhaps 2009 will be noted as the year of reckoning for pharmaceutical companies, who have not enjoyed good press this year. In January, we noted how Eli Lilly settled a Zyprexa lawsuit for $1.4 billion with 30 states due to its off-label marketing of the atypical antipsychotic drug for use in dementia and Alzheimer’s disease. Philip over at Furious Seasons puts the tota...
Source: World of Psychology - December 20, 2009 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: John M Grohol PsyD Tags: Best of the Web General Mental Health and Wellness Policy and Advocacy Psychology 8 Ways Antipsychotic Drug Array Autism Asperger Bad Habits Charles Grassley Chronic Infection Conflicts Of Interest Continuing Medical Education Source Type: blogs

The year in nonsenseEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Ben Goldacre, The Guardian, Saturday 19 December 2009 It’s been a vintage year for dodgy science in government. We saw reports on cocaine that were disappeared, dodgy evidence to justify DNA retention, and some government advisors who estimated the cost of piracy at 10% of GDP, to media applause, and then failed to tell everyone they’d [...] (Source: badscience)
Source: badscience - December 19, 2009 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Ben Goldacre Tags: bad science Source Type: blogs

Diarrhoea and Aids for ChristmasEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Last year I ran into Ariane Sherine. She had found that no charity would publicly take money from a book written by atheists at Christmas, since Christians give so much money for good work, and they didn’t want to annoy them. Luckily the Terence Higgins Trust stepped up to this bizarre challenge, which is [...] (Source: badscience)
Source: badscience - December 16, 2009 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Ben Goldacre Tags: bad science Source Type: blogs

Playboy Model Bolt OnsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Doris Mar was the unlucky... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit MyWebsite.com for full links, other content, and more! ]] (Source: Awful Plastic Surgery)
Source: Awful Plastic Surgery - December 15, 2009 Category: Plastic Surgeons Authors: The Staff Tags: Bad Breast Augmentation breast implants Doris Mar Source Type: blogs

Bad Habits and Breast CancerEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Both my boys are living away from home now and I am finding it hard to get motivated for the Christmas season. This used to be such a huge holiday for me. I have been so busy this fall with working and taking classes at college that the fall has zoomed by. The other thing that has happened is that I have fallen back into some pretty bad habits. I am not eating as well as I should since junk food and fast food drive ups seem to fit my schedule better. This is not good. Every now and then I get that little nudge from that little voice that reminds me that I can’t take my health for granted. Breast cancer survivors know...
Source: Life with Breast Cancer - December 14, 2009 Category: Cancer Authors: admin Tags: Breast cancer community Breast cancer lifestyle Breast cancer treatment Cancer support Uncategorized bad habits breast cancer blog Breast cancer survivor Christmas Everyday Health Kathy-Ellen Kups online support sons weight Source Type: blogs

The greatest show on earthEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Ooh, starting tomorrow is this year’s run of our amazing super-nerd-comedy-musical spectacular Nine Lessons and Carols for Godless People. It’s a galaxy of stars, Richard Dawkins, Johnny Ball, Barry Cryer, Chris Addison off the Thick of It, Brian Cox, Richard Herring, Simon Singh, me, and many many more random people. This is variety at its [...] (Source: badscience)
Source: badscience - December 14, 2009 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Ben Goldacre Tags: bad science Source Type: blogs

The Worst Socialite Boob JobEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Amy Lumet is the clear winner... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit MyWebsite.com for full links, other content, and more! ]] (Source: Awful Plastic Surgery)
Source: Awful Plastic Surgery - December 13, 2009 Category: Plastic Surgeons Authors: The Staff Tags: Amy Lumet Bad Breast Augmentation breast implants Source Type: blogs

Copenhagen climate change blah blahEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Sorry, this felt a bit rushed and PollyFillaesque, I hope it’s vaguely interesting… Ben Goldacre, The Guardian, Saturday 12 December 2009 So as we career towards a mediocre outcome in Copenhagen, why do roughly half the people in this country not believe in man-made climate change, when the vast, overwhelming majority of scientists do? It certainly predates the [...] (Source: badscience)
Source: badscience - December 12, 2009 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Ben Goldacre Tags: bad science Source Type: blogs

Criticising the GM industryEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
I just finished recording Any Questions on Radio 4 (you can hear the programme here). Since it was recorded in a pesticides research base, I was hoping for a question on GM, because there’s an interesting dark corner here that needs a bit more attention. Regular readers will know that I’m very critical of [...] (Source: badscience)
Source: badscience - December 11, 2009 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Ben Goldacre Tags: bad science Source Type: blogs

Libel ReformEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Yesterday morning I helped to launch the libel reform campaign in parliament with Index on Censorship, English PEN and Sense About Science. To be fair, the best line came the day before at the celeb launch from Alexei Sayle, who explained that he was once sued for libel by someone, and it cost over £100,000 [...] (Source: badscience)
Source: badscience - December 11, 2009 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Ben Goldacre Tags: bad science Source Type: blogs

9 Holiday Depression BustersEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
My “9 Holiday Depression Busters” are featured in a Beliefnet gallery. You can get to it by clicking here. It’s supposed to be the most wonderful time of the year–but not if negative emotions take hold of your holidays. So let’s be honest. The holidays are packed with stress, and therefore provoke tons of depression and anxiety. But there is hope. Whether I’m fretting about something as trite as stocking stuffers or as complicated as managing difficult family relationships, I apply a few rules that I’ve learned over the years. These 9 rules help me put the joy back into the festiv...
Source: World of Psychology - December 8, 2009 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Therese J. Borchard Tags: Depression General Mental Health and Wellness Psychology Stress Array Bad Behavior Cheery Thought Cheese Basket Diapers Family Relationships Festivities Good Sleep Guilt High Cholesterol Holiday Depression Last Decade Mis Source Type: blogs

So brillliantly you’ve presented a really transgressive case through the mainstream mediaEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Ben Goldacre, Saturday 5 December 2009, The Guardian Here is a mystery. Rom Houben, a Belgian man, was diagnosed as being in a coma for 23 years, and he has now made a partial recovery. This has been demonstrated with a series of recently developed brain scanning techniques (whose predictive value is not entirely known, but [...] (Source: badscience)
Source: badscience - December 5, 2009 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Ben Goldacre Tags: bad science Source Type: blogs

By me in the BMJ: the dodginess of drug company trialsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Here’s a piece by me in the British Medical Journal this week, published online already, and in the print edition this Friday. It’s a head to head with Vincent Lawton, who until recently was head of Merck in the UK. Briefly, I set out the quantitative evidence demonstrating the scale of the problem, and he [...] (Source: badscience)
Source: badscience - December 1, 2009 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Ben Goldacre Tags: bad science Source Type: blogs

10 Types of Female FriendsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Awhile back I wrote about the four kinds of friends you need in your life to become more resilient. Now let’s talk about the kind of friends you actually have! Or at least the 10 types of female friends described by author Susan Shapiro Barash in her new book, Toxic Friends: The Antidote for Women Stuck in Complicated Friendships. (I promise to follow up with one for the guys, okay?). For her book, Shapiro interviewed 200 women of assorted backgrounds and ages, and asked them all kinds of nosy questions about their friends. The result is a labyrinth of 10 types of female friendships. I have excerpted the following de...
Source: World of Psychology - December 1, 2009 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Therese J. Borchard Tags: General Mental Health and Wellness Personal Personality Psychology Relationships Self-Esteem Women's Issues Antidote Bad News Closeness Crisis Hits Decisions Doormat Female Friends Female Friendships Hard Time Intimate Fr Source Type: blogs

When All Else Fails: Brain SurgeryEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Like many others, I’ve never been a big fan of surgery as a solution for mental disorders like obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) or depression. A medical procedure done on a bodily organ whose functioning we’re only beginning to grasp — the brain — seems a little premature. It hits too close to the thinking behind frontal lobotomies and the justifications doctors used for them back in the 1950s and 1960s, “By cutting and removing the front part of the brain, we help quiet the unrest in these troubled minds.” As we later found out, we also quieted the entire person to the point of many ...
Source: World of Psychology - November 29, 2009 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: John M Grohol PsyD Tags: Brain and Behavior Depression Disorders General Health-related Mental Health and Wellness OCD Research Treatment Bad Shape Brain Power Brain Surgeries Brain Surgery Butler Hospital Consent Documents Conservative Approach De Source Type: blogs

Agony Aunt, edition 20.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Is it wrong to realise that a semi-regular feature column has now reached the less-wrinkled decade immediately below your own, and feel accordingly slightly jealous? Oh, how I loved being twenty. Well, apart from all the crippling self-conciousness, drunken vomits and general lack of financial liquidity, anyway. Bring it, Google. I’m ready. ….and so it begins again. I decide that I cannot let Goog.le proclaim me the font of all knowledge with regard to ‘geriatric backboarding’ and the Giant Bathing Suit with Frills On The Arse like, without remembering that those who live in cellulitic houses shoul...
Source: Mission: Impossible (or adventures in infertility, pregnancy....parenting?) - November 27, 2009 Category: Infertility Authors: g Tags: Agony Aunt google bad questions Source Type: blogs

But where are Kelly Bensimon’s Playboy photos?Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: Awful Plastic Surgery - November 26, 2009 Category: Plastic Surgeons Authors: The Staff Tags: Kelly Bensimon bad breast implants Source Type: blogs

But where is Kelly Bensimon’s Playboy photos?Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: Awful Plastic Surgery - November 26, 2009 Category: Plastic Surgeons Authors: The Staff Tags: Kelly Bensimon bad breast implants Source Type: blogs

Rose Mc Gowan’s face collapsesEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Rose claims that her new look... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit MyWebsite.com for full links, other content, and more! ]] (Source: Awful Plastic Surgery)
Source: Awful Plastic Surgery - November 23, 2009 Category: Plastic Surgeons Authors: The Staff Tags: Rose McGowan bad facelift Rose Mc Gowan Source Type: blogs

Talk Therapy: How Honest Are You?Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
I pay my therapist $120 every other week. I should, theoretically, feel like I can tell her anything. But I don’t. Because I want her to like me. It’s part of being a stage-four people-pleaser. I didn’t realize the extent to which I was holding back until, the other day, when I mentioned to my therapist something that I had told Dr. Smith–the psychiatrist that I see every four to six weeks–about positive thinking just not cutting it when you plummet to such a low depression. My therapist asked me to back up and tell her more about that. Because either I hadn’t said anything about that ...
Source: World of Psychology - November 22, 2009 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Therese J. Borchard Tags: Brain and Behavior General Mental Health and Wellness Personal Personality Psychology Psychotherapy Random Brain Bits Relationships Self-Esteem Treatment Women's Issues anxiety Bad Mood Battlefield Blood Work Couch Culpri Source Type: blogs

Oh, that was quickEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Ben Goldacre, Saturday 21 November 2009, The Guardian Once your medicines regulator decides it should change the side effects warnings on the patient information of a drug taken by millions of people, how long do you think it would take for that change to be implemented? In February 2008 the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory [...] (Source: badscience)
Source: badscience - November 21, 2009 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Ben Goldacre Tags: bad science Source Type: blogs

8 Reasons We Don’t Do Things We Should and How To Break the MouldEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Our lives are full of things we “should” do but for a range of reasons we don’t do them. Whatever it is – exercise, healthy eating, saving money – most of the time we choose to take the easier road, the road well traveled. While I’m certainly not immune to this, there are plenty of things I don’t do that I know I should, I feel that understand the why is the first step to making real progress. 1. Being Comfortable (and Lack of a Burning Desire) It all starts with how we feel about our life. How we feel greatly affects our motivations. Most people are in some form of comfort, but it...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - November 19, 2009 Category: Life Coaches Authors: David Turnbull Tags: self improvement bad habits david turnball good habits motivation pickthebrain routine success Source Type: blogs

12 Bad Habits of TherapistsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Psychotherapy is a unique relationship, a kind of connection that is unlike any other kind of relationship a person has in their life. In some ways, it can be more intimate than our most intimate relationships, but it also paradoxically values a vestige of professional distance between therapist and client. Therapists, alas, are just as human as the clients they see and come with the same human foibles. They have bad habits, as we all do, but some of those habits have the very real potential of interfering with the psychotherapy process and the unique psychotherapy relationship. So without further ado, here are twelve thin...
Source: Recovery Is Sexy.com - November 15, 2009 Category: Addiction Authors: Sparrow Tags: Recovery Relapse Relationships Treatment bad habit therapist Source Type: blogs

ADE651: wtf?Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Ben Goldacre, Saturday 14 November 2009, The Guardian It’s always interesting when people take pseudoscience out of its natural habitat – Islington – and off into a place where the stakes are quite high. Like the polio vaccine scare in Nigeria. Or Aids denialism in South Africa. Or detecting bombs in Iraq, where the New York [...] (Source: badscience)
Source: badscience - November 14, 2009 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Ben Goldacre Tags: bad science Source Type: blogs

wtf?Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Ben Goldacre, Saturday 14 November 2009, The Guardian It’s always interesting when people take pseudoscience out of its natural habitat – Islington – and off into a place where the stakes are quite high. Like the polio vaccine scare in Nigeria. Or Aids denialism in South Africa. Or detecting bombs in Iraq, where the New York [...] (Source: badscience)
Source: badscience - November 14, 2009 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Ben Goldacre Tags: bad science Source Type: blogs

The Nutt Sack Affair (part 493)Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Ben Goldacre, Saturday 7 November 2009, The Guardian Obviously it’s pleasing to see, in the storm of commentary over Professor Nutt’s sacking, that everyone outside of politics now recognises the importance of scientific evidence in devising laws. But a strange reasoning twitch has appeared, in the arguments of politicians and right wing commentators. Science can tell [...] (Source: badscience)
Source: badscience - November 7, 2009 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Ben Goldacre Tags: bad science Source Type: blogs

How Do You Treat Empty-Nest Depression?Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Several mom friends of mine have lately come down with a bad case of “empty-nest depression” — moms who just dropped off their youngest offspring to college, or moms having difficulty keeping busy now that the youngest is in kindergarten all day. I googled the term “empty-nest depression” to see what I could find on this topic. I was surprised to see the Beyond Blue post I wrote in 2007 at the top of the search results. But, after reading it, I can see why it was so popular. I merely asked a question, and all of you answered it. On the comment box of that post are written different kinds of co...
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Mexico’s Cat LadyEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Facing Problems Head On In RecoveryEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The post I recently did about learning to accept the things I cannot change got me thinking about a negative behavior that I was riddled with in active addiction...not facing problems head on. The behavior of avoiding problematic situations is something that is very common with addicts. See, the key to successfully living in denial about all of your problems is to numb yourself into oblivion until you don't think about them anymore. Simple right? So what happens when you are no longer numbing away your problems with drugs or alcohol? Well, unless you want to continue living a miserable life that is completely based on deni...
Source: What Winners Do - October 31, 2009 Category: Addiction Authors: Erin Tags: addictive thinking addiction recovery avoidance bad behaviors denial Source Type: blogs

Political wooEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Ben Goldacre, Saturday 31 October 2009, The Guardian. Every now and then it’s fun to dip into the world of politics and find out what our lords and masters are saying about science. First we find Brooks Newmark, Conservative MP for Braintree, introducing a bill to reduce the age for cervical cancer screening to 20. The [...] (Source: badscience)
Source: badscience - October 30, 2009 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Ben Goldacre Tags: bad science Source Type: blogs

Why do some women have such a large gap between their breast implants?Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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