Happy New Year, first of all. The other day I happened upon a 2008 paper by Large, Nielssen, Ryan, and Hayes, entitled “The danger of dangerousness: why we must remove the dangerousness criterion from our mental health acts.” (J Med Ethics 2008;34:877-881). I won’t link to it, as it’s not freely available. However, I will...
This tragedy in Norway has left me echoing Peter Rabbit: how do they do it? What can it be? There’s idiocy in everyone but twice as much in them (rhyming never was my strongest suit). Crazydelusionalinsanelooneymadman!!!!11!11!eleven! It was bad enough when people (even PZ Myers, who ought to know better, being a level 20 sceptic with...
I have a few things to blog about, but will do my best to pace myself. Today I’ll have a whinge about a “study” (scare quotes intentional) from La Trobe University in Melbourne that purports to show that a high intake of coffee increases a person’s propensity to experience hallucinations. This has of course...
A Swing … and a Miss I’m disappointed. I’m not surprised, but I’m disappointed. I’m disappointed that in a “mental health package” of 2.2 billion over five years, there is almost nothing aimed at those most in need. In fact I’ll go further: there is absolutely nothing aimed at those most in need, and I’m...
In Which Heavy Metal is Evil, Because Suicide!!1!1
Oh we have ourselves another fool, smothering a plate of idiocy in moron sauce. This time it’s Dr Katrina McFerran, from the University of Melbourne (who, as Guitar World noted, is not Tipper Gore, though you’d be forgiven for thinking so) who is trumpeting the dangers of teh heavy metalz – with a beautifully...
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