Francis Collins, the Director of the NIH, has started a new effort to socialize part of the research effort. There is a huge barrier between basic science and practical development of therapy. That barrier is MONEY. Francis Collins, Director of the NIH, wants to solve this by creating a government-r[...]
Archive for January, 2011
January 23rd, 2011 - 11:31 am § in Uncategorized
Colin Powell on RATIONAL Approches to the Budget.
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January 23rd, 2011 - 9:24 am § in Uncategorized
Example: How the Free Market Can Distort Research
This article from Dr. Humphreys hit home. I have seen the same story before. The problem is not the company’s fault, the problem is a huge crack in how the free market works together with the scientific method to hurt the interests of science and of patients. Let me offer another example. Ever[...]
January 23rd, 2011 - 9:18 am § in China
Photocopying censored at Chinese University
from Macleans Police ask students and faculty to report subversive materials Chinese police have ordered students and faculty at Peking University to stop photocopying materials critical of the government. The order posted to the wall by local Yanyuan Police in 29 copy rooms read, “Materials that [...]
January 23rd, 2011 - 8:20 am § in Schools & Colleges
Grayling is experimenting with an American-style modal to find a solution to the higher education debate.
The nineteenth century historian Jacob Burkhardt said that the Renaissance of the fourteenth to sixteenth centuries comprised a ‘discovery of the world and of man’. This discovery of ‘man’ primarily meant investigating the ‘cult of the individual’, in which the human condition was[...]
January 23rd, 2011 - 1:07 am § in Uncategorized
Update: Should Pope’s Blood Be Withdrawn as a Therapeutic?
When the Federal Drug Administration finds evidence that a treatment does not work, we expect the FDA to withdraw its approval. Should the Vatican meet the same standard? An earlier post at TA discussed the decision by a church in Poland to make some blood of John Paul II, the former Pope, into a ho[...]
January 22nd, 2011 - 9:32 am § in America
Sunday Revelations: Religions of Peace
from CrossExamionation Blog Arlandson quotes from the Quran to establish his factual claim about Muhammad: 24:2 Strike the adulteress and the adulterer one hundred times. Do not let compassion for them keep you from carrying out God’s law—if you believe in God and the Last Day—and ensure that [...]
January 22nd, 2011 - 6:22 am § in Uncategorized
Sunday Revelations: How to treat acne.
“Anyone with such a defiling disease must wear torn clothes, let their hair be unkempt, cover the lower part of their face and cry out, `Unclean! Unclean!”‘ Leviticus 13:45 proclaims. “As long as they have the disease they remain unclean. They must live alone; they must live [...]
January 21st, 2011 - 9:30 pm § in UW
When Schools Become Charities
Excerpted from Johann Neem at United Faculty of Washington According to … Governor (Gregoire)’s logic, …parents who no longer have kids in school, adults without children, and parents who can send their children to private schools do not have to share the burden. But if the benefits ar[...]
The Tea Party Eats the Republicans
Lugar, the ranking member on the Senate Foreign Relations committee, is expected by many to be challenged by a Tea Party-supported candidate when he seeks the Republican nomination for his Senate seat in 2012. After Lugar met with Indiana Tea Party leaders in December, the head of one group said, &#[...]