You must log in to your account to leave comments. If you do not have an account, simply register and begin posting comments on articles now. To register, you will need to create a user name and provide a valid email address. Your privacy is guaranteed--your email and information will never be shared. Your password will be sent to your registered email. Thank you!
Your Medication Can Kill You; Call Your Lawyer!
The Days of Warm Prosperity
Capitalism and Psychopathology
Feminism: Left and Right
American-style free market healthcare can often leave consumers confused. If you are a typical denizen of the U.S. you have surely been exposed to thousands of television and internet ads by big pharmaceutical companies promoting...
In the days of warm prosperity, it is rather a simple matter to accept as gospel all that you are told. After all, comfort and pockets filled with cash can do much to numb the...
When greed, material riches, and selfishness are the norm and when the law becomes whatever the leaders say it is, then the whole society suffers. When a society’s system endangers the lives of its people...
Attempts to compare left- and right-wing strains of feminism will encounter the collective ambivalence Americans feel about the effects of the sexual revolution and the women’s movement. While Third Wave feminist discourse (which is what...
American-style free market healthcare can often leave consumers confused. If you are a typical denizen of the U.S. you have surely been exposed to thousands of television and internet ads by big pharmaceutical companies promoting products that do everything from thinning blood to improving erections. Currently only the United States and New Zealand allow...
Read More »
When greed, material riches, and selfishness are the norm and when the law becomes whatever the leaders say it is, then the whole society suffers. When a society’s system endangers the lives of its people and the viability of the planet, and when that system’s leaders refuse to take the steps that must be...
Read More »
If neuroscience is to have any value as a human endeavor, then it’s not just what neuroscience informs and teaches. It’s about what we do with the knowledge we acquire. Neuroscience and its technologies are powerful tools. But like any tools, the responsibility to use them -- and the knowledge and capabilities they bring...
Read More »
In the days of warm prosperity, it is rather a simple matter to accept as gospel all that you are told. After all, comfort and pockets filled with cash can do much to numb the senses narrowing the vision from our eyes. In those days, I was a happy and heartfelt democrat; I always...
Read More »
Attempts to compare left- and right-wing strains of feminism will encounter the collective ambivalence Americans feel about the effects of the sexual revolution and the women’s movement. While Third Wave feminist discourse (which is what most of liberal feminism claims to participate in) generally rejects the value of a universal feminine ideal or essence,...
Read More »
Two years ago The New England Journal of Medicine, likely the most prestigious journal in all of medicine, published a study, Testosterone in Older Men or TOM trial, that showed the dangerous effects of testosterone in men over the age of 65 years of age. The results, so dramatic, with cardiovascular event rates TEN...
Read More »
On Tuesday, April 30, 2012, the House of Commons’ Culture, Sports and Media Committee issued its report “News International and Phone-hacking”: “We conclude, therefore, that Rupert Murdoch is not a fit person to exercise the stewardship of a major international company.” They describe Murdoch as having “exhibited willful blindness to what was going on...
It is always comforting to read American history. North Americans are always portrayed as the good guys in these narratives. We have this great national model for government and all with grand and dignified institutions. A history filled with giants and legends, slave holders, power brokers and of course, land speculators. But we do...
Pro-life groups in the United States tend to promote one goal: making abortion illegal. While they have failed thus far to overturn Roe v. Wade or to ban abortion outright in smaller jurisdictions, the pro-life movement has succeeded in cutting off funding to Planned Parenthood and has made it more difficult to obtain a...
It appears the battered working and middle classes are beginning to grasp the true nature of the Republican project. If the ludicrous and ever-increasing concentration of wealth at the top of the income scale over the last several decades hasn’t awakened their ire, then mounting economic pain and decaying living standards surely must. They...
