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Health

Exercise and Depression

By Ken Niemann Summary Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) presents a considerable challenge to public health in the United States. Estimates of lifetime prevalence are 22.9% in females and 15.1% in males and the condition is likely increasing among younger cohorts. Successful treatment does not seem to increase with rising costs…
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Intelligent Design

Revolutionary: The Mystery of Molecular Machines

[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ToSEAj2V0s[/embed] See Also: Giving Up Darwin Membrane Patterns Carry Ontogenetic Information That Is Specified Independently of DNA Evolution: A View from the 21st Century , Signature in the Cell: DNA and the Evidence for Intelligent Design The genetic code is a highly complicated flow of information that often resides outside…
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Intelligent Design

DNA and the Flow of Information

See Also: Wells: Homology in Biology" A Problem for Naturalistic Science Michael Denton in Bio-Complexity Design of Life- General Notes Membrane Patterns Carry Ontogenetic Information Evolution: A View from the 21st Century , Signature in the Cell: DNA and the Evidence for Intelligent Design  Giving Up Darwin [embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrO_oOJWyL8[/embed] The genetic…
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Bioethics

BMJ: Medical Error Is Third Leading Cause of Death in US

[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=278&v=KxUfPBhipLA[/embed]   Medical Error Is Third Leading Cause of Death in US Medical error is the third leading cause of death in the United States, after heart disease and cancer, according to findings published today in BMJ. As such, medical errors should be a top priority for research and resources, say authors…
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Bioethics

Philosophical Problem with the Brain Disease Model of Addiction: Epiphenomenalism

​The essay below so perfectly articulates my view on epiphenomenalism and its importance to psychology that I couldn't resist sharing it. (Epiphenomenalism is a self-referentially refuting concept.) Please give Steven Slate some traffic if you are interested in either Philosophy of Mind or Addiction: "Behaviorists believe that materialist determinism is…
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Health

Epigenetics And Addiction

By Ken Niemann Important controls in the switching on and off of genes include but are not limited to: timing, gravity, spatial organization, environmental cues, and epigenetic mechanisms. It is the latter that we are exploring here. Epigenetics may be defined as changes in gene expression that don’t involve changes…
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Bioethics

Johns Hopkins Psychiatrist: Transgender is ‘Mental Disorder;’ Sex Change ‘Biologically Impossible’

See also: Study: Nearly Four-Fifths Of "Gender Minority" Students Have Mental Health Issues By Michael W. Chapman | June 2, 2015 | 1:34 PM EDT Dr. Paul R. McHugh. (Photo: Johns Hopkins Medicine) (CNSNews.com) --  Dr. Paul R. McHugh, the former psychiatrist-in-chief for Johns Hopkins Hospital and its current Distinguished Service Professor of Psychiatry, said…
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Bioethics

Beyond determinism and materialism, or isn’t it time we took consciousness seriously?

Locke, E. A. (1995). Beyond determinism and materialism, or isn’t it time we took consciousness seriously? Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 26(3), 265–273. BEYOND DETERMINISM AND MATERIALISM The author launches a devastating attack on materialism, behavioralism, epiphenomenalism, psychological determinism, etc. However, he does make some errors not critical to…
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Health

Editors of World’s Most Prestigious Medical Journals: “Much of the Scientific Literature, Perhaps HALF, May Simply Be Untrue”…

Editors of World’s Most Prestigious Medical Journals: “Much of the Scientific Literature, Perhaps HALF, May Simply Be Untrue"... Lancet and the New England Journal of Medicine are the two most prestigious medical journals in the world. It is therefore striking that their chief editors have both publicly written that corruption…
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Evironmentalism

Straight Truth on Fracking

I will add links to this post in the future, but here is a recommended meta-analysis out of Stanford and a summary of the paper by Science 2.0: Environmental Scientists Make The Environmental Case For Fracking A strange thing happened during climate change policy debates: Advances in hydraulic fracturing -…
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Intelligent Design

Wells: Membrane Patterns Carry Ontogenetic Information That Is Specified Independently of DNA

Membrane Patterns Carry Ontogenetic Information That Is Specified Independently of DNA Abstract Embryo development (ontogeny) depends on developmental gene regulatory network(dGRNs), but dGRNs depend on pre-existing spatial anisotropies that are defined by early embryonic axes, and those axes are established long before the embryo’s dGRNs are put in place. For…
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Intelligent Design

A Universe from Nothing?

[embed]http://youtu.be/V82uGzgoajI[/embed] Here, William Lane Craig debates atheist Larry Krauss who holds the view that something may come from nothing thereby undermining the Cosmological Argument for the existence of a transcendent creator. Craig's best point, in my view, was a reference to Columbia philosopher David Albert's  point that Krauss equivocates on…
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