The major problem - one of the many major problems with governing people is that of who you get to do it; or rather of who manages to get people to let them do it to them. To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it. To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
Bubbling | TPM More and more the timeline is raising the question of why, if the torture was to prevent terrorist attacks, it seemed to happen mainly during the period when we were looking for what was essentially political information to justify the invasion of Iraq.
Companion Planting Peppers and pigweed or ragweed, Cabbage and dill, Potatoes and sweet alyssum, Collards and catnip, Strawberries and love-in-a-mist, Roses and chives
Great article by Chris Mooney on the Antivaccination movement In discounting the dangers of both the MMR vaccine and thimerosal, the IOM had multiple large epidemiological studies to rely on. For MMR, the IOM examined 16 studies. All but two, which were dismissed because of serious methodological flaws, showed no evidence of a link.
Psychedelic Healing?: Scientific American Mind-altering psychedelics are back but this time they are being explored in labs for their therapeutic applications rather than being used illegally. Studies are looking at these hallucinogens to treat a number of otherwise intractable psychiatric disorders, including chronic depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, and drug or alcohol dependency.
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