The film “An Inconvenient Truth” with Al Gore is a chilling example of what can happen when scientific findings clash with political objective and entrenched economic interests. The science can be made to disappear even when it is impeccable and even when unanimity has been achieved within the scientific community itself. We saw the same […]
Los Angeles has been riveted over the last few months by the trial in Santa Monica of an elderly driver who mowed down numerous bystanders at an open-air farmer’s market, killing ten people and wounding nearly 70, many of them seriously. His car traveled over 1000 feet through the market, managing to avoid all encounters […]
Even a regular visit to a cardiologist is an occasion for a sobering appraisal of one’s lifestyle. It is Judgment Day of a sort, as one’s cumulative neglect of dietary prescriptions, exercise mandates, and stress management regimens come to be exposed in the language of the heart waveform pouring out on the chart paper while […]
On March 23rd the Washington Post reported in a front-page article on the findings just released from NIMH’s 35-million dollar “Sequenced Treatment Alternatives to Relieve Depression” study. The study results were met with mixed reviews. The url: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/22/AR2006032202450.html The results from this study were published in three articles and discussed in an editorial in the […]
The recent newsletter on this subject was intended to highlight the impulse within science to present a complete theory, in the face of the ineluctable reality that completeness can never be proved. We are bound by our hypotheses, and to assert that these allow for no reality beyond the hypotheses is to confuse the map […]
Sense and Nonsense on Autism: Beyond Genetics
Sense and Nonsense about Autism: Beyond Genetics “Autism is currently, in our view, the most important and the fastest-evolving disorder in all of medical science and promises to remain so for the foreseeable future.” —-Dr. Jeffrey A. Lieberman, chairman of the department of psychiatry at Columbia University’s school of medicine. A few months back David […]