Introductory psychology textbooks accused of spreading myths and liberal-leaning bias
By Christian Jarrett
Is the job of introductory psychology textbooks to present students with a favourable and neat impression of psychology or to give them a warts and all account of the field? This is a key question raised by a new analysis of the treatment of controversial theories and recognised myths by 24 best-selling US introductory psychology texts.
Writing in Current Psychology, Christopher Ferguson at Stetson University and his colleagues at Texas A&M International University conclude that intro textbooks often have difficulty covering controversial topics with care, and that whether intentionally or not...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - December 22, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Textbooks Source Type: blogs
FDA “Revolving Door” Gets Slammed
Last week, several news outlets wrote articles about the “revolving door” at the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA), stemming from a research letter published in the BMJ. The bulk of the articles excoriated FDA employees who leave the FDA to go work for private companies in the pharmaceutical industry.
The original research letter, authored by researchers Vinay Prasad and Jeffrey Bien of Oregon Health and Science University, found that nearly sixty percent of medical reviewers who left the FDA went on to work for, or consult with, the pharmaceutical industry. Prasad found the estimated figures astounding...
Source: Policy and Medicine - October 2, 2016 Category: American Health Authors: Thomas Sullivan - Policy & Medicine Writing Staff Source Type: blogs
Why We Can ’t Accept Ourselves — and Small Steps to Start
There are all sorts of obstacles that stop us from accepting ourselves. For starters, it might be a combination of scarce self-knowledge and wounds from our past, said Alexis Marson, LMFT, a psychotherapist who specializes in working with individuals, couples, families and children.
We often lack knowledge and awareness about our emotions. And the most damaging past wounds tend to stem from our caregivers. Marson shared this example: You feel angry and interpret your parents as disconnecting from you. You do everything you can to dismiss or ignore your anger so you can maintain the connection. “If we’ve cut off ou...
Source: World of Psychology - September 19, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Margarita Tartakovsky, M.S. Tags: General Happiness Mental Health and Wellness Relationships Self-Esteem Self-Help Stress accepting ourselves Authenticity brene brown diminished self-worth Embarrassment Emotions Good Life healthy coping Imperfections less t Source Type: blogs
The European Commission ’s War against Pro-Growth Corporate Tax Policy
I have a love-hate relationship with corporations.On the plus side, I admire corporations that efficiently and effectively compete by producing valuable goods and services for consumers, and Iaggressively defend those firms from politicians who want to impose harmful and destructive forms of taxes, regulation, and intervention.On the minus side, I am disgusted by corporations thatget in bed with politicians to push policies that undermine competition and free markets, and I strongly oppose all forms of cronyism and coercion that give big firms unearned and undeserved wealth.With this in mind, let ’s look at two controver...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - August 26, 2016 Category: American Health Authors: Daniel J. Mitchell Source Type: blogs
8 Reasons Why Your Child ’s Doctor Pushes Vaccines
Conclusion
Many parents are unaware that doctors’ reasons for recommending dozens of vaccinations may not be tied to the health of children, but to other reasons, such as financial incentives, paid meals, lack of unbiased information about vaccines, and negative peer pressure. Moms and dads trust their health care providers to help them make the best choices about their little ones’ health, but physicians are unable to do so when their job security and financial bonuses are tied to the the widespread use of vaccines.
Informed parents must take the threat of vaccine injury seriously and do their own research well in adv...
Source: vactruth.com - August 6, 2016 Category: Allergy & Immunology Authors: Missy Fluegge Tags: Logical Missy Fluegge Recent Articles Top Picks truth about vaccine vaccine injury Vaccine Injury Compensation Program VAERS VICP Source Type: blogs
What You Need to Know to Protect Your Daughter from the Gardasil Vaccine Disaster
The HPV vaccine has proven to be a disaster. This vaccine, developed to protect young women from cervical cancer, has failed to provide protection. In fact, it has succeeded in doing the opposite by increasing cervical cancer rates in those vaccinated.
Reports of health damage caused by this vaccine are immense. The HPV vaccination has been linked with life-threatening autoimmune disorders, cancer, paralysis, infertility and death. In fact, several countries have opposed the vaccine, as evidenced through public warning or lawsuits.
A lead researcher of the vaccine has advised parents not to use it. One independent group of...
Source: vactruth.com - March 24, 2016 Category: Allergy & Immunology Authors: Michelle Goldstein Tags: Logical Michelle Goldstein Recent Articles American Medical Association (AMA) autoimmune disorders blood clots brain inflammation Centers for Disease Control (CDC) Cervarix disabling fatigue eizures facial paralysis gardasil Guil Source Type: blogs
The Gardasil Vaccine Disaster and Why You Must Investigate This Vaccine Yourself
The HPV vaccine has proven to be a disaster. This vaccine, developed to protect young women from cervical cancer, has failed to provide protection. In fact, it has succeeded in doing the opposite by increasing cervical cancer rates in those vaccinated.
Reports of health damage caused by this vaccine are immense. The HPV vaccination has been linked with life-threatening autoimmune disorders, cancer, paralysis, infertility and death. In fact, several countries have opposed the vaccine, as evidenced through public warning or lawsuits.
A lead researcher of the vaccine has advised parents not to use it. One independent group of...
Source: vactruth.com - March 24, 2016 Category: Allergy & Immunology Authors: Michelle Goldstein Tags: Logical Michelle Goldstein Recent Articles American Medical Association (AMA) autoimmune disorders blood clots brain inflammation Centers for Disease Control (CDC) Cervarix disabling fatigue eizures facial paralysis gardasil Guil Source Type: blogs
“Some of you spotted this #ExtremeCloseUp no problem!...
"Some of you spotted this #ExtremeCloseUp no problem! It's our #genitalwart necklace in a jar. MUCH closer than you could get by seeing it in our museum gallery, and larger than life too. We know that sometimes it can be difficult to see some of our #specimens #CloseUp in our small museum, especially through our 19th Century cabinet glass… What would you like to see in a #MutterCloseUp? #Medical #MedicalMystery #medicalmuseum #histmed #STD #HPV #warts" By muttermuseum on Instagram. Posted on infosnack. (Source: Kidney Notes)
Source: Kidney Notes - March 8, 2016 Category: Urology & Nephrology Authors: Joshua Schwimmer Source Type: blogs
The War on Death
By SAURABH JHA, MD
Thomas Hobbes described life as pitifully “nasty, brutish, and short.” Thanks to the free market and the state, life is no longer a Hobbesian nightmare. But death has become nasty, brutish, and long.
Surgeon and writer, Atul Gawande, explores the medicalization of ageing and death in Being Mortal. Gawande points to a glaring deficiency in medical education. Taught to save lives and fight death, doctors don’t bow out gracefully and say enough is enough. We’re not taught about dying. We’re taught about not dying.
In our lexicon, life is a constant war against the Grim Reaper. We say inactivity ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - January 8, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Simon Nath Tags: OP-ED THCB Saurabh Jha Source Type: blogs
Was Martin Shkreli Arrested For Hiking Drug Prices?
By SAURABH JHA, MD
I don’t subscribe to conspiracy theories. I never believed a second shot was fired. Nor do I believe that Bill Clinton was stalked on the grassy knoll. So I won’t speculate that Martin Shkreli’s arrest for alleged securities fraud that happened years ago is related to his raising Daraprim’s price by 5500 %.
Just because something isn’t suspicious doesn’t mean that it isn’t odd.
Shkreli is a perfect poster child for rapacious pharmacocapitalism – so perfect that it’s odd. He openly admits “I have a sworn duty to my shareholders to maximize profit.” Shkreli’s admission is odd not f...
Source: The Health Care Blog - December 22, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Simon Nath Tags: THCB Saurabh Jha Source Type: blogs
Martin Shkreli and Pharmacocapitalism’s Inconvenient Truth
By SAURABH JHA, MD
I don’t subscribe to conspiracy theories. I never believed a second shot was fired. Nor do I believe that Bill Clinton was stalked on the grassy knoll. So I won’t speculate that Martin Shkreli’s arrest for alleged securities fraud that happened years ago is related to his raising Daraprim’s price by 5500 %.
Just because something isn’t suspicious doesn’t mean that it isn’t odd.
Shkreli is a perfect poster child for rapacious pharmacocapitalism – so perfect that it’s odd. He openly admits “I have a sworn duty to my shareholders to maximize profit.” Shkreli’s admission is odd not f...
Source: The Health Care Blog - December 22, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Simon Nath Tags: THCB Saurabh Jha Source Type: blogs
Assessing Jeb Bush’s Pro-Growth Tax Plan
In my 2012 primer on fundamental tax reform, I highlighted the three biggest warts in the current system.
1. High tax rates that penalize productive behavior such as work and entrepreneurship.
2. Pervasive double taxation that undermines saving and investment.
3. Corrupt loopholes and cronyism that lure people into using resources inefficiently.
These problems all need to be addressed, along with additional problems with the internal revenue code, such as worldwide taxation and erosion of constitutional freedoms and civil liberties.
Based on these criteria, I’ve already reviewed the tax reform plan put forth by Marco Rub...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - September 9, 2015 Category: American Health Authors: Daniel J. Mitchell Source Type: blogs
Does Donald Trump Think Washington Politicians Should Have More of Our Money to Prop Up the Entitlement State?
I have a very straightforward rule when assessing politicians. Simply stated, if they are open to tax hikes, then it’s quite likely that they have no desire to control the size, cost, and power of the federal government.
Based on that rule, I’m skeptical about Donald Trump.
To understand my doubts, here are some passages from a story on the topic in the New York Times.
For years, Republicans have run for office on promises of cutting taxes… But this election cycle, the Republican presidential candidate who currently leads in most polls is taking a different approach… Mr. Trump has…suggested he would increase taxe...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - September 2, 2015 Category: American Health Authors: Daniel J. Mitchell Source Type: blogs
Dr. Google is in the house. All hail Dr. Google!
Dr. Google has been the brunt of numerous jokes and various denigrations from the medical community for some time. The most recent such offering to come to my attention was from Tanya Feke who seems to want Dr. Google sued for malpractice. As one who was instrumental in the construction of the Internet, which allowed the creation of Dr. Google, I read these attacks with mixed emotions. I clearly understand the common and troubling search result describing a miracle cure for cancer that also removes warts and erases wrinkles, but I also understand that many in the medical community are so focused on this issue of bad ...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - August 30, 2015 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Jerry Segers Tags: Tech Primary care Source Type: blogs
HPV Myths – BUSTED
There’s an awful lot of misinformation out there about HPV and the HPV vaccine. Let’s see what I can do to clear up the confusion. Here are eight myths I find myself having to continually address with my patients. Let’s bust ’em!
Myth#1 – HPV is forever
Wrong. 90-95% of the time, HPV infections clear without any treatment. For those women with persistent HPV infection, we have pap smears to detect and treat precancerous lesions (dysplasia) years before they become invasive cancer.
Myth #2 – If I’ve had the HPV vaccine, I don’t need Pap smears.
Wrong again. While the HPV vaccine is h...
Source: The Blog That Ate Manhattan - August 17, 2015 Category: Primary Care Authors: Margaret Polaneczky, MD Tags: HPV HPV & Cervical Cancer abnormal pap Cervarix Gardasil HPV Vaccine Source Type: blogs
