Tag: prejudice
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Schizophrenia. Voices. Being “logical”.
Scientists have identified problems in a connection between brain structures that may predispose individuals to hearing the ‘voices’ that are a common symptom of schizophrenia. Researchers linked the problem to a gene deletion. This leads to changes in brain chemistry that reduce the flow of information between two brain structures involved in processing auditory information.…
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People prejudice, hurricanes, females…
People view hurricanes with names such as Alexandra and Kate as less dangerous than hurricanes called, say, Alexander and Danny, reports a team led by business graduate student Kiju Jung and psychologist Sharon Shavitt, both of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. As a result, those in the path of an oncoming “female” hurricane are…
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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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