Robert Novak on George W’s Greens: “Intense secrecy inside the Bush administration and blanket denials that
there are no disagreements cannot hide the truth. For weeks, a contingent of greens inside the
administration has been pressing the president to look more and more like Al Gore. Bush has been forced to fight his own advisers in order to maintain his rejection of the Kyoto
treaty and his call for more science to determine the true causes of climate change.” Yahoo!
Day: June 17, 2001
The nuclear power industry’s “attempt to rehabilitate the image of nuclear power is understandable,
since not a single nuke has been ordered in the US since 1973. To
overcome opposition, the industry will have to overcome not only
economic obstacles but its own reputation as the quintessentially scary
technology. Several recent events have given the industry what they see
as an opportunity to make a comeback,” notably the California energy shortage and concern about global warming … and the Shrub in the White House. Alternet
OnStar system reports accident the car’s owner tried to flee and conceal Risks Digest [via Red Rock Eaters]
Work or die. Fox news commentator Bill O’Reilly proposes torturing heinous criminals in a gulag-style work camp in Alaska as an alternative to the death sentence.
Failure at nonconscious goals explains negative ‘mystery moods’: “Have you ever been in a bad mood that you couldn’t explain and wondered what put you in a funk?
A researcher at Ohio State University found that such negative “mystery moods” can occur when people fail at a goal that they didn’t even
know they had.” EurekAlert!
Stalking Dr. Steere Over Lyme Disease: “Last year, Dr. Allen Steere, one of the
world’s most renowned medical
researchers and rheumatologists, began to
fear patients. It was not so much the ones he
had treated, though he occasionally had to
worry about them too, but the ones who
had started to call his office, threatening
him, claiming he was responsible for their
suffering. They insisted that he was denying
them treatment for an acute form of chronic
Lyme disease, a strand of the ordinarily
more modest infection that they believed
slipped into the bloodstream undetected
and remained there for years, causing joint
pain, chronic fatigue, suicidal depression,
paralysis and even death. Affirming their
diagnoses were a growing number of
patient advocacy groups, practitioners and
psychiatrists who argued that the disease
had become a full-scale epidemic, a
modern-day plague crippling thousands of
Americans.
As the world’s foremost expert on the illness,
however, Steere did not believe many of
them had Lyme disease at all, but
something else — chronic fatigue or mental
illness or fibromyalgia — and he had
refused to treat them with antibiotics. Many
doctors and insurance companies had
followed his lead, and in turn, hordes of
patients had started to stalk him. ” New York Times Magazine I’m of two minds on this issue which is at the crux of modern medicine’s difficulty dealing with the mind-body problem. I agree with him that many people ill with psychiatric conditions desperately push to have their dysfunction explained in terms of a bodily ailment instead. But we understand just the very tip of the iceberg about the effects of physical illness on the “black box” of the CNS. Surely it is not true that what is merely not yet proven is automatically “unscientific.”
Stalking Dr. Steere Over Lyme Disease: “Last year, Dr. Allen Steere, one of the
world’s most renowned medical
researchers and rheumatologists, began to
fear patients. It was not so much the ones he
had treated, though he occasionally had to
worry about them too, but the ones who
had started to call his office, threatening
him, claiming he was responsible for their
suffering. They insisted that he was denying
them treatment for an acute form of chronic
Lyme disease, a strand of the ordinarily
more modest infection that they believed
slipped into the bloodstream undetected
and remained there for years, causing joint
pain, chronic fatigue, suicidal depression,
paralysis and even death. Affirming their
diagnoses were a growing number of
patient advocacy groups, practitioners and
psychiatrists who argued that the disease
had become a full-scale epidemic, a
modern-day plague crippling thousands of
Americans.
As the world’s foremost expert on the illness,
however, Steere did not believe many of
them had Lyme disease at all, but
something else — chronic fatigue or mental
illness or fibromyalgia — and he had
refused to treat them with antibiotics. Many
doctors and insurance companies had
followed his lead, and in turn, hordes of
patients had started to stalk him. ” New York Times Magazine I’m of two minds on this issue which is at the crux of modern medicine’s difficulty dealing with the mind-body problem. I agree with him that many people ill with psychiatric conditions desperately push to have their dysfunction explained in terms of a bodily ailment instead. But we understand just the very tip of the iceberg about the effects of physical illness on the “black box” of the CNS. Surely it is not true that what is merely not yet proven is automatically “unscientific.”
Stalking Dr. Steere Over Lyme Disease: “Last year, Dr. Allen Steere, one of the
world’s most renowned medical
researchers and rheumatologists, began to
fear patients. It was not so much the ones he
had treated, though he occasionally had to
worry about them too, but the ones who
had started to call his office, threatening
him, claiming he was responsible for their
suffering. They insisted that he was denying
them treatment for an acute form of chronic
Lyme disease, a strand of the ordinarily
more modest infection that they believed
slipped into the bloodstream undetected
and remained there for years, causing joint
pain, chronic fatigue, suicidal depression,
paralysis and even death. Affirming their
diagnoses were a growing number of
patient advocacy groups, practitioners and
psychiatrists who argued that the disease
had become a full-scale epidemic, a
modern-day plague crippling thousands of
Americans.
As the world’s foremost expert on the illness,
however, Steere did not believe many of
them had Lyme disease at all, but
something else — chronic fatigue or mental
illness or fibromyalgia — and he had
refused to treat them with antibiotics. Many
doctors and insurance companies had
followed his lead, and in turn, hordes of
patients had started to stalk him. ” New York Times Magazine I’m of two minds on this issue which is at the crux of modern medicine’s difficulty dealing with the mind-body problem. I agree with him that many people ill with psychiatric conditions desperately push to have their dysfunction explained in terms of a bodily ailment instead. But we understand just the very tip of the iceberg about the effects of physical illness on the “black box” of the CNS. Surely it is not true that what is merely not yet proven is automatically “unscientific.”
Happy Father’s Day: Can Fatherhood Be Optional? New York Times Op-Ed
In This Death Penalty Case, the Choices Were Too Few: “On Tuesday, the federal government is scheduled to conduct its second
execution in less than two weeks, after there were none for a
generation. Juan Raul Garza will be put to death for several drug-related
murders he committed a decade ago. One could argue that Timothy McVeigh’s
exceptional crime made him a likely candidate for execution in any society that
employs the death penalty. But the Garza case forces us to confront troubling
questions about not only the general fairness of a capital punishment system that
has a disproportionate impact on African-Americans and Hispanics, but also the
fairness of depriving Mr. Garza of a basic protection that every other federal
inmate on death row has received.” New York Times Op-Ed
Timothy Garton Ash: Joining the Continent to Unite the Kingdom: “Europe used to worry about the German Question.
Now it has a British Question. Will Britain at last fully commit to Europe?
And, with the growing autonomy of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, what
will remain of the old United Kingdom? … (H)istorians may look back on this election as the beginning of a new
Britain: a federal kingdom of Britain, within a larger federal Europe. New York Times Op-Ed
Stalking Dr. Steere Over Lyme Disease: “Last year, Dr. Allen Steere, one of the
world’s most renowned medical
researchers and rheumatologists, began to
fear patients. It was not so much the ones he
had treated, though he occasionally had to
worry about them too, but the ones who
had started to call his office, threatening
him, claiming he was responsible for their
suffering. They insisted that he was denying
them treatment for an acute form of chronic
Lyme disease, a strand of the ordinarily
more modest infection that they believed
slipped into the bloodstream undetected
and remained there for years, causing joint
pain, chronic fatigue, suicidal depression,
paralysis and even death. Affirming their
diagnoses were a growing number of
patient advocacy groups, practitioners and
psychiatrists who argued that the disease
had become a full-scale epidemic, a
modern-day plague crippling thousands of
Americans.
As the world’s foremost expert on the illness,
however, Steere did not believe many of
them had Lyme disease at all, but
something else — chronic fatigue or mental
illness or fibromyalgia — and he had
refused to treat them with antibiotics. Many
doctors and insurance companies had
followed his lead, and in turn, hordes of
patients had started to stalk him. ” New York Times Magazine I’m of two minds on this issue which is at the crux of modern medicine’s difficulty dealing with the mind-body problem. I agree with him that many people ill with psychiatric conditions desperately push to have their dysfunction explained in terms of a bodily ailment instead. But we understand just the very tip of the iceberg about the effects of physical illness on the “black box” of the CNS. Surely it is not true that what is merely not yet proven is automatically “unscientific.”
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