How interesting to see Forbes run a story on the way Big Pharma is manipulating research to support their drugs, but every effort to expose this dangerous and possibly criminal behavior on the part of these mega-companies is welcome. How Manufacturer-Funded Research Compromises Patient Care Robert Pearl, M.D.7/24/2014 To improve patient care, doctors rely on … Read more
There are some things about President Obama’s first term that we may find infuriating and disappointing, even though his record, though vilified by the opposition, actually shows some amazing improvements that aren’t sufficiently touted in the mainstream media. So yeah, there are some disappointments, especially given the promise and the hope that he awoke in us when … Read more
Because of all their awkwardness and social ineptitude, and due to their literalist interpretation of things, autistic people may often seem to be blind to a reality that’s obvious to the rest of us. But sometimes that’s a two-way street because they can often see as obvious what the rest of us may be blissfully … Read more
Over the past few years, TED has grown into a household name due to the amazing lectures and presentations that they’ve made publicly available to the entire world. TEDTalks are presentations about ideas that are worth spreading. Well, Nick Hanauer decided to give a talk about an idea he considered worth spreading: how we’ve been … Read more
I’m really busy at the moment (grading finals and term papers), and don’t have time to get into a long introduction to the fantastic TEDTalk presentation below, but suffice it to say that in a time in which the politicization of women’s issues (whether they should have the right to choose or to have or not have … Read more
One of the recurring themes in human history has been the blindness that those in power experience with regard to those they manage to subjugate. The question of the interests of the latter seldom breach the surface of the former’s consideration. We may feel enlightened that we’re way in the process of overcoming sexism, nationalism, … Read more
So the Kony campaign about which I reported recently has been making the news everywhere, first because of its viral popularity, and then because of questions of sincerity, possible embezzlement on the part of its executives, questions of a hoax, impracticality, sweeping generalizations of a more complex problem, the evangelical Christian fundamentalism of its spokesman, … Read more