This is what passes for UW Advertising. Nothing terrible about it but let me ask this …. who would send their kid to the school in this ad? This annual UW ad comes across as the product of 1950s Mad Ave folks selling a a party school, The UW here looks like a fun place […][...]
Posts Tagged ‘Science’
CHINA: “Jade Rabbit” has landed
China’s first moon rover, Yutu, or Jade Rabbit, separated from the lander early on Sunday, several hours after the Chang’e-3 probe soft-landed on the lunar surface. Read the take on FauxNews![...]
December 12th, 2013 - 3:34 am § in Hypocrisy
Cure by diagnosis …
The media report that the surprise singing star, Susan Boyle has been treated for her depression by being diagnosed as having Asberger’s Sydrome. As far as I know, however, Asberger’s does not have a mechanism or a very precise definition. Susan Boyle emerged as a star singer in 2009 whe[...]
November 25th, 2013 - 8:24 pm § in Uncategorized
The FDA and BAD Science
Not All Bad Science Comes From The Right According to the Associated Press the Food and Drug Administration is ordering 23andMe to halt sales of its personalized DNA test kits because the company has “failed to show that the technology is backed by science.” This is nonsense and a b[...]
Scientific Diversity: African Americans Talk About Why We Have So Few “Divers” Scientists?
Is This a Real Problem? In an era where labs, AMERICAN labs, are filled with Chinese students, how is it we have so African Americans? The sad part here is the use of the term “people of color.” The melanin content of scientists with origins from India, China, Japan, Korea … even[...]
November 13th, 2013 - 3:06 am § in Science
Philippino Man Curses Climate Denialists
Climate denial is today’s blasphemy … once states banned blasphemy out of fear of God’s wrath … the wrath of science is MUCH worse.[...]
November 10th, 2013 - 1:57 pm § in America
Diabetes and The GMO Initiative
The other night at dinner, I had a conversation about Washington States ant 522 initiative requiring labeling of GMP foods. The conversation led to a discussion about the problems most people have understanding the science behind today’s miracle drugs and even foods. For example, David Men[...]
November 10th, 2013 - 11:03 am § in Uncategorized
Science Hype: Building Organs
Actually, the voice over is rather reasonable.[...]
The Public View of Psychiatry
The sad thing about this cartoon is that it is an apt image of how the public sees psychiatry. I understood why anyone with these views would as be afraid of getting help as some fundamentalist would be of being vaccinated to avoid God’s will. Before we had Skinner’s scientific metho[...]