Category: Prejudice
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Pills, language tests, state control. Just... f*%$#CK everyone! (materialism included)
Until recently, it's been used exclusively in U.S. government agencies and military schools. But now, a test for how easily a person will become fluent in a foreign language could be made available for civilians. Nautilus - the site where the article appeared - calls the test "one of the first civilian benefits to come…
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Guidelines, scientific dogmatism, biased thinking...
The BBC has to adopt "clear editorial guidelines" for its reporting on the issue of climate change, MPs have said. The Science and Technology Committee said the organisation played a "central" role in informing the public. But some editors were "poor" at determining viewers' and listeners' level of expertise and sometimes pitted lobbyists against "top…
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Bad science, humility, virtues.
Among Stanford University's palm trees and sandstone arches—the picture of ivory-tower—there's going to be a center dedicated to chipping away that ivory, The Economist reports. The university plans to open a Meta-Research Innovation Center: a center for the study of bad science. The center will take aim at biomedical studies that are poorly designed, are…
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Midwifery. Witch hunts. Men’s prejudice. Medicine & dogmatism.
The first clear evidence of clinical benefit from hand hygiene came from Semmelweis, working in the Great Hospital in Vienna in the 1840s. The hospital had two obstetric departments, and women were admitted alternately, whatever their clinical condition, to one or the other. In the first, they were attended by medical students who moved straight…
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Life expectancy - The lie of modern medicine.
Life expectancy is the expected (in the statistical sense) number of years of life remaining at a given age. It is the main argument of atheists everywhere to confuse Science with Philosophy and Religion. But how many know what it really is? Really, does anyone believe that during the Middle Ages people died en masse…
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