The (sort of, partial) Father mRNA Vaccines Who Now Spreads Vaccine Misinformation (Part 2)
By DAVID WARMFLASH, MD
This is part 2 of David Warmlash’s takedown of Robert W. Malone’s appearance (transcript) on the Rogan podcast. Part 1 is here
Menstruation and Fertility
Much more than the line about reproductive damage in the Wisconsin News clip that we used to open the story, Malone used the Rogan interview to dive more deeply into the topic, starting with:
…there’s a huge number of dysmenorrhea and menometrorrhagia…
By that, he meant excessive menstrual cramping and very heavy, often irregular, bleeding, which he followed up with:
…they DENY it…
Judging by other parts ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - March 18, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: COVID-19 Health Policy antivaxxer COVID-19 vaccine David Warmflash Joe Rogan Robert Malone Source Type: blogs
Russia Shows the Limits of Propaganda
Will DuffieldDespite widespread concerns about the influence of English ‐language Russian state media such as Russia Today and Sputnik, Russian claims about its invasion of Ukraine have not taken hold abroad. This failure seems puzzling.Journalists andpoliticians have alleged that potent Russian information operations tipped the 2016 American election to Trump, and the Brexit vote to “leave”. We need not assess those claims here. Instead, a closer look at the differences between 2016 and now point toward a better understanding of misinformation online, an understanding favoring “more speech” rather t...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - March 8, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: Will Duffield Source Type: blogs
Reflective practice
In occupational therapy and some other health professions, reflective practice is a vital part of professional clinical activity. In others – not so much. And the term reflective practice has a heap of assumptions attached to it, so it may mean different things to different people.
I thought I’d unpack a bit about reflective practice today because I think it needs to be part of working with people experiencing pain. It helps us get out of our own mindset (when it’s done well), and opens a space for questioning what we do and why we do it – and as you probably all know, questioning is part of who...
Source: HealthSkills Weblog - February 13, 2022 Category: Anesthesiology Authors: BronnieLennoxThompson Tags: Clinical reasoning Pain Professional topics Research Science in practice Therapeutic approaches critical thinking Health healthcare reflective practice supervision Source Type: blogs
All Roads Lead to Big Government: Heritage Takes on Big Tech
ConclusionAlthough not persuasive as policy analysis, Frederick ' s paper is of use to those interested in the history and anthropology of American conservatism. The paper embraces the use of political buzzwords such as " woke, " and " left-wing orthodoxy " while using words such as " monopoly " and " oligopoly " in a manner that suggest they have suddenly changed meaning. This kind of rhetoric will be familiar to those who have been paying attention to " Big Tech " policy debates over the last couple of years. Much of it is not a surprise. What may well be a surprise to many readers is that America ' s leading conservativ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - February 9, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: Matthew Feeney, Ryan Bourne Source Type: blogs
A Cautious View of the Benefits of Senolytic Therapies
In conclusion, senolytic drugs have shown promising results in the elimination of senescent cells and in alleviating various diseases in animal models. However, in patients, there is a paucity in data on the efficacy and safety of senotherapeutics from clinical trials, including systemic effects and side-effects. In this regard it is important to assess the specificity of senolytics in killing targeted senescent cells and their cytotoxic effects, to identify reliable markers for intervention responses, to elucidate interactions with comorbidities and other drugs, and to standardise administration protocols.
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Source: Fight Aging! - January 19, 2022 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
Your patient has psychosocial risk factors: what now?
Congratulations! You’re an insightful clinician who’s offered your patient a screening assessment to find out if she or he has psychosocial risk factors – and yes! they do! Well done. Now what?
Do you…
send your patient to the nearest psychologist?spend at least one treatment session offering pain neurobiology education?scramble to find a “psychologically informed physio” to send them to, because it takes really highly trained and special clinicians to work with these peoplegive your patient the same exercise prescription you were going to anyway because, after all, they still have...
Source: HealthSkills Weblog - January 16, 2022 Category: Anesthesiology Authors: BronnieLennoxThompson Tags: Back pain Chronic pain Clinical reasoning Occupational therapy Pain conditions Physiotherapy Professional topics Psychology Research Science in practice biopsychosocial healthcare pain management Therapeutic approaches Source Type: blogs
Enhancement of old colour photographs using Generative Adversarial Networks
It’s almost Christmas, I haven’t posted anything in a while and I see that WordPress has an Image Compare feature, so let’s have some colourful fun.
When I’m not at the computer writing R code, I can often be found at the computer processing photographs. Or at the computer browsing Twitter, which is how I came across Stuart Humphryes, a digital artist who enhances autochromes. Autochromes are early colour photographs, generated using a process patented by the Lumière brothers in 1903. You can find and download many examples of them online. Stuart uses a variety of software tools to clean, enhanc...
Source: What You're Doing Is Rather Desperate - December 23, 2021 Category: Bioinformatics Authors: nsaunders Tags: multimedia enhancement gan image photography processing python Source Type: blogs
We Mistake Information We ’ve Googled For Our Own Knowledge
By Emily Reynolds
In many ways, the internet has democratised knowledge, allowing people to access more information than they could possibly dream of reading. No matter where your interests lie, there is almost certainly something new to learn online.
But is this immediately accessible trove of information making us confused about what knowledge is ours and what is the internet’s? According to a new paper, it might be. Authored by Adrian F. Ward of University of Texas at Austin and published in PNAS, the series of eight studies finds that those searching online are sometimes unable to distinguish what knowledg...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - December 13, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Memory Source Type: blogs
Public Accommodation Regulation Won ’t Work For Social Media
Discussion. ” The panel, which focused on proposals to regulate the content moderation decisions made by prominent social media firms, featured a presentation by Georgetown Law Professor and Cato InstituteSenior Fellow Randy Barnett. Barnett presented an argument for social media regulation grounded in public accommodation law that I have not addressed yet. While among the most interesting arguments in favor of requiring social media firms to host more content, it fails thanks to a few conceptual flaws.Those who have been following the policy debates surrounding social media content moderation will be fami...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - November 23, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: Matthew Feeney Source Type: blogs
Making first contact: what to do with all that information! part 1
Last post I wrote I said I’d continue with a process for structuring and synthesising the information we gather from the initial contact we make with the person. This process is integral to clinical reasoning, and somewhat surprisingly, there’s not a great deal of research to give us guidance on the best way to do this – and it’s even more challenging for those of us working in an interprofessional team setting, where different professions, personalities and assumptions are part of it.
If we work backwards from the end point, we might get some clues about what to do. Our end point is to help this...
Source: HealthSkills Weblog - November 21, 2021 Category: Anesthesiology Authors: BronnieLennoxThompson Tags: ACT - Acceptance & Commitment Therapy Assessment Clinical reasoning Interdisciplinary teams Occupational therapy Pain Pain conditions Physiotherapy Professional topics Psychology Science in practice Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Eric Hoffer and the Power of Self-Education
I recently read The True Believer by Eric Hoffer. It’s a book about how mass movements evolve. With a lot of historical examples, the book explains the patterns and common threads among them. It’s an insightful book and reading it was a great learning experience for me.
What I’d like to share with you here is not the content of the book, though. Instead, I’d like to share with you about the author.
You see, I didn’t know about Eric Hoffer before. But I imagined he must be a famous professor from a well-known university. I mean, what else could explain the depth of his insights? The True Believer is an i...
Source: Life Optimizer - November 5, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Donald Latumahina Tags: Learning Source Type: blogs
Dr .K.A.Abraham : India lose a pioneering cardiologist
With deep regret, reporting the demise of Dr. KA Abraham, cardiologist, par excellence in our part of the world(Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.) He was a man of great knowledge, wisdom, and integrity and was an inspiration to generations of cardiologists like us.
Dr.K.A Abraham 1942-2021
A life, that was fully dedicated to all those heart patients, many of them sick children in his den, the Railway hospital, Chennai for three decades. Though, never had the privilege to be associated with him either directly, nor does he know me, one could feel instantly the greatness and simplicity in him. It’s 1994-95, vividly recal...
Source: Dr.S.Venkatesan MD - October 24, 2021 Category: Cardiology Authors: dr s venkatesan Tags: Uncategorized cmc vellore cardiologist Dr.A K.Abraham great cardiologist of India pioneering cardiologist india tribute to dr k a abraham Source Type: blogs
Easy come, easy go – a song
Listen on BandCamp and SoundCloud
Having put together a song for Mrs Sciencebase that was about some of our shared experiences and made some kind of lyrical sense – The people we can be – I thought I’d go back to my usual unintelligible, stream-of-consciousness approach to lyric writing for my next song.
Basically, start a tune in demo form, ad lib some lyrics, burble a few of them incomprehensibly, write them down as best I can and then edit into a useable form for a proper recording. The only difference with this one is that I had a go at recording it using a Wikiloops instrumental backing track called ...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - October 19, 2021 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Music Source Type: blogs
Ad libbed likes are just so easy come, easy go in some of my songs
Listen on BandCamp and SoundCloud
Having put together a song for Mrs Sciencebase that was about some of our shared experiences and made some kind of lyrical sense – The people we can be – I thought I’d go back to my usual unintelligible, stream-of-consciousness approach to lyric writing for my next song.
Basically, start a tune in demo form, ad lib some lyrics, burble a few of them incomprehensibly, write them down as best I can and then edit into a useable form for a proper recording. The only difference with this one is that I had a go at recording it using a Wikiloops instrumental backing track called ...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - October 19, 2021 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Music Source Type: blogs
Ad libbed lyrics are just so easy come, easy go in some of my songs
Listen on BandCamp and SoundCloud
Having put together a song for Mrs Sciencebase that was about some of our shared experiences and made some kind of lyrical sense – The people we can be – I thought I’d go back to my usual unintelligible, stream-of-consciousness approach to lyric writing for my next song.
Basically, start a tune in demo form, ad lib some lyrics, burble a few of them incomprehensibly, write them down as best I can and then edit into a useable form for a proper recording. The only difference with this one is that I had a go at recording it using a Wikiloops instrumental backing track called ...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - October 19, 2021 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Music Source Type: blogs
