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Fort Hood Shooting

NPR has an interesting interview from someone who knows stuff about the shooter's time at Walter Reed: ZWERDLING: I want to add something else about Hasan at Walter Reed. The psychiatrist I talked to today said that he …
Questions about the Fort Hood Murders No one will ask

One has some questions not being raised in the press about the psychiatrist who killed at fort Hood. These questions won't be asked, because they are too sensitive in our"PC" world, so don't get excited when I say the u…
Latte causing hallucinations? Not really

cross posted from BNN The “fake scientific study” of the day is the one that announced that four cups of coffee would make you see visions. It got a lot of press, of course, with even the staid National Geographic rep…
Life Liberty and the Pursuit of high blood pressure

The silly season must be with us again, because two economists havedone a study in Europe that correlates happiness with blood pressure.The higher the blood pressure, the less happy the people.From a report on Meds…
Airport custody Death might have had a medical problem

Even in the Philippines we are following the bizarre story of that fighting lady who died in police custody.If the news is to be believed, her family are VIP’s, so expect a major lawsuit.But this storyhas a hint th…
Politicizing Soldier's suicide: the spin and the reality

Yup, the anti war spin today are in the headlines suggesting a huge increase in the rate of suicides among US soldiers. Here is how the normally non partisan Washington Post phrases it’s headline: War Stress Pushin…
Does talking about problems make them worse?

The latest news about the need to discuss problems is this: talking actually makes it worse, at least for women. The study, which will appear in the July issue of the American Psychological Association journal Devel…
Women, the brain, and the blahs

In the good old days when Freud was king, we had "psychosomatic" illnesses, saying the illness was "all in your head" i.e. imaginary. Naturally, patients resented the implication they were either making up the illness o…