Sunday, January 25, 2015
PLOS Medicine: A Comparison of DSM-IV and DSM-5 Panel Members' Financial Associations with Industry: A Pernicious Problem Persists
And we wonder why we are constantly pummeled by TV prescription drug ads, pharmacies and hospitals hounding us to get flu shots (which in this year have roughly about a 30% chance of success in the elderly, and "new" diagnoses every day (of course the y are ones which would benefit from pharmaceutical drugs).......PLOS Medicine: A Comparison of DSM-IV and DSM-5 Panel Members' Financial Associations with Industry: A Pernicious Problem Persists
Most adults would likely fail this 1912 8th grade test—try it
"Now HERE is a reality test!" (So much for "No child left behind!)
Most adults would likely fail this 1912 8th grade test—try it
Most adults would likely fail this 1912 8th grade test—try it
Saturday, January 24, 2015
Thursday, January 22, 2015
7 Big Lies 'American Sniper' Is Telling America | Alternet
"The film American Sniper, based on the story of the late Navy Seal Chris Kyle, is a box office hit, setting records for an R-rated film released in January. Yet the film, the autobiography of the same name, and the reputation of Chris Kyle are all built on a set of half-truths, myths and outright lies that Hollywood didn't see fit to clear up." CLICK HERE TO READ....
Tuesday, January 13, 2015
Monday, January 12, 2015
Why Is the Real American Sniper -- a Hate-Filled Killer -- Being Treated as a Hero? | Alternet
When I read this exceptional review, I felt compelled to share it. As a part of my life's path, I have known several snipers, up close and personal. It has provided an acute sense of the folks they really are "down under". While the views I have garnered are quite varied, no doubt because of the character of the person before they even engaged in that "job". I say job, because there are many types of training, "employers", time in active duty, length of time performing the job, and the entire ecology of that person, etc.
I confess, when in any danger, I would be thrilled to have one of these folks "at my six" with their generally superlative training and keen instincts. At the same time, we would be naive not to take into account the percentage of sociopaths in any one of our services. How a Kyle could have made it as far as he did, with his disturbing statements and clear proclivities, remains to be seen....and see we will.
The "Kyles" in our services/ops are a psychologically interesting sort with much that forms them. So, my likely intention is to see the film. The trailers do intrigue me, not the least of which is Bradley Cooper, immensely pleasing to the eyes. But that is a point from which to proceed...the eyes, that is. In each of the trailers, Cooper plays the role with sharpness and clarity, in being able to fix his eyes in a vacuous, "sold my soul to the devil", "no one is really home here", chilling sort of way. His wife is oblivious to this...amazing. But it is clear something is stirring in her soul. It may be that to really acknowledge that, she must face her own demons head on. Whether she does that will be revealed in the film.
Quotes author and former Daily Beast writer Max Blumenthal. “Kill every male you see,”Rania Khalek quoted, calling Kyle an “American psycho”.
But, see for yourself...let me make that, your Self. ~ by Madelaine Watson
Why Is the Real American Sniper -- a Hate-Filled Killer -- Being Treated as a Hero?
January 9, 2015
"I have to confess: I was suckered by the trailer for American Sniper. It’s a masterpiece of short-form tension – a confluence of sound and image so viscerally evocative it feels almost domineering. You cannot resist. You will be stressed out. You will feel. Or, as I believe I put it in a blog about the trailer, “Clint Eastwood’s American Sniper trailer will ruin your pants.”
But however effective it is as a piece of cinema, even a cursory look into the film’s backstory – and particularly the public reaction to its release – raises disturbing questions about which stories we choose to codify into truth, and whose, and why, and the messy social costs of transmogrifying real life into entertainment." CLICK HERE TO CONTINUE
Is the U.S. Crazy? | Alternet BY ANN JONES
Is the U.S. Crazy?
January 11, 2015
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"Americans who live abroad -- more than six million of us worldwide (not counting those who work for the U.S. government) -- often face hard questions about our country from people we live among. Europeans, Asians, and Africans ask us to explain everything that baffles them about the increasingly odd and troubling conduct of the United States. Polite people, normally reluctant to risk offending a guest, complain that America’s trigger-happiness, cutthroat free-marketeering, and “exceptionality” have gone on for too long to be considered just an adolescent phase. Which means that we Americans abroad are regularly asked to account for the behavior of our rebranded “homeland,” now conspicuously in decline and increasingly out of step with the rest of the world.
In my long nomadic life, I’ve had the good fortune to live, work, or travel in all but a handful of countries on this planet. I’ve been to both poles and a great many places in between, and nosy as I am, I’ve talked with people all along the way. I still remember a time when to be an American was to be envied. The country where I grew up after World War II seemed to be respected and admired around the world for way too many reasons to go into here.
That’s changed, of course. Even after......" CLICK HERE TO CONTINUE READING
Saturday, January 10, 2015
Monday, January 5, 2015
The scientific evidence against spanking, timeouts, and sleep training - Quartz
Be aware that Bryson is NOT saying to abstain from any discipline and/or training. (I can see the emails, now!)
"Bryson is not alone in this approach. She is part of a progressive new group of scientists, doctors, and psychologists whose goal is ambitious, if not outright audacious: they want to redefine “discipline” in order to change our culture. They want to rewrite, or perhaps more precisely said, rewire how we approach interacting with kids, and they want us to understand that our decisions about parenting affect not only our children’s minds, but ours as well." CLICK HERE TO CONTINUE READING...)
"Bryson is not alone in this approach. She is part of a progressive new group of scientists, doctors, and psychologists whose goal is ambitious, if not outright audacious: they want to redefine “discipline” in order to change our culture. They want to rewrite, or perhaps more precisely said, rewire how we approach interacting with kids, and they want us to understand that our decisions about parenting affect not only our children’s minds, but ours as well." CLICK HERE TO CONTINUE READING...)
Saturday, January 3, 2015
Plash | The Power of Meditation and How It Helps Us Rediscover Happiness and Productivity
"Ever since my dad tried to convince me to meditate when I was about 12, I’ve been fairly skeptical of this practice. It always seemed to be so vague and hard to understand that I just decided it wasn’t for me.
More recently, I’ve actually found how simple (not easy, but simple) meditation can be and what huge...."CLICK HERE TO CONTINUE READING...
Thursday, January 1, 2015
The Anti-Resolution That Could Change Your Life | Psychology Today
"There are many good reasons not to make New Years Resolutions. For one, we know from personal experience and from depressing statistics that they are highly likely to fail. The act of making grand resolutions every year, it turns out, isn’t always the best way to make positive and lasting changes. More often it just leaves us feeling frustrated and disappointed in ourselves....."CLICK TO CONTINUE
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