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Category: Psychiatry
In 2007, the American Psychological Association commissioned their Task Force on Appropriate Therapeutic Responses to Sexual Orientation. The background is this: early in the history of mental health treatment efforts, homosexuality was considered to be an illness. Therefore, it was...
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Category: economy
Just goes to show how lobbying reform hasn't gone anywhere near far enough: Bank Lobbyists Are Not Only Trying to Kill NEW Legislation, They Are Trying to Weaken EXISTING Regulations By George Washington of Washington's Blog. Everyone knows that the...
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 at 7:47 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Bioethics
The topic of neural enhancement has created controversy. This came to wide attention in late 2007, upon the publication of various articles in Nature, as noted by Shelley Batts, Janet Stemwedel, David Dobbs, Daniel MacArthur, Scicurious and others. But so...
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 at 12:41 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Social Issues
This is kind of strange: a post about an insurance company, that has nothing to do with health care. Guideone Mutual Insurance Company recently settled a lawsuit in which religious discrimination was alleged. This had to do with a "product"...
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Category: Politics
A fair amount has been written about the topic of motivated reasoning. Jonah Lehrer explains the relationship between motivated reasoning and the political process; Orac addresses the issue with regard to quantum woo. (Plus more at Mixing Memory, here)...
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 at 8:59 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Psychiatry
Psychology is turning out to be a rather important field these days. Nate Hagens has a post on The Oil Drum, The Psychological and Evolutionary Roots of Resource Overconsumption Revisited. He reviews the evolutionary psychology of poor economic decision-making. Calculated...
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 at 9:06 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Medicine
It was the second-most-blogged article on the NYT when I got up this morning; now, it is the first-most-blogged. It is the article that reports on a survey that shows 72% support for a government-run health insurance program. The program...
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 at 8:24 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Medicine
When I first heard about the American Medical Association (AMA) opposing Obama's health care reform, I was troubled. I almost wrote a post about it, but by the time I got home, I found that others had beaten me to...
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Category: Medicine
Market Folly writes of a new hedge fund strategy, and asks if there are any more ideas like this: We came across this interesting piece in Dealbook the other day and thought it was very intriguing. Simply put: hedge funds...
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Category: Energy
This is a continuation from last time. Sort of. Last time I wrote about some things from a recent program at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, in conjunction with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. ...
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