I just saw this, tweeted by Annabel Bentley in London. David Tredinnick, a conservative politician in the UK made an “Early Day Motion” (appropriate, really):
That this House welcomes the double-blind study conducted at the outpatient clinic at Jundiai Medical School in São Paulo, Brazil, which consisted of patients with moderate to severe depression; notes...
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I’m about to do a George Lucas, and start after the beginning (although it’s a race against the clock to get this done before pt 1 publishes as scheduled).
I want in this post to talk about the notion that withholding belief does not require justification or evidence – rather, belief does. I want...
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“Who’s the more foolish? The fool, or the fool who follows him?”
- Obi Wan Kenobi, in Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
I bang on a lot about the importance of rationality, and critical thinking; not blindly accepting information as given, but checking it out first. However, there is a lot of information out...
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Got a few things in the works, for posting soon:
1. A summary of a new paper reporting the current state of play with antidepressants in pregnancy – always a difficult area.
2. A revamped version of a letter a colleague and I wrote, critical of a recent article in the Australian and New Zealand Journal...
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Yesterday I received 3 invitations to a “dialogue with” a mindfulness meditation teacher who is “internationally known for his work in “integrative medicine”. These were sent out under the letterhead of our health service (which makes me despair somewhat), for me to distribute to interested colleagues.
“Integrative medicine”? you ask. “integrative medicine indeed. You might...
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