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The comments section on that is pure genius. I couldn't have written it better myself.

Research methods is required in MA programs here, too. And for psychology students, they start with research methods as sophomores in college. But social sciences generally don't use the null hypothesis. Having experienced both humanities research methods and scientific ones, I think it's more...

One thing: she's sort of exaggerating about anti-depressants. Only first generation anti-depressants suppress the dopamine circuits, and even the ones that do are entirely necessary for certain treating certain illnesses. Libido suppression is already present in depressed people, so to blame...

Helen Fisher does a lot of really interesting work. Masturbation is whatever. The best cure for what you have would be actually getting in a relationship with the person. Once you get to know who she really is, rather than what you imagined that she was, you'll calm down. Men like idealize...

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Social sciences in general don't work according to the null hypothesis even if they use controls (which is very hard to do in general and isn't always possible...) Witness, for example, this gem: Viewing Cute Images Increases Behavioral Carefulness No null hypothesis! Just a bunch of lame...

You don't have to convince me... I've seen some really ridiculous shit masquerading as "data"... The worst was when I realized that sociologists don't use the null hypothesis or any type of control (usually) in their studies. (It really was kinda disappointing. Call me Pollyanna...) You might...

More denialism I don't know, T, those results seem believable (if ehh a little trivial) to me. Ok this is tangentially related too but it's relevant re denialism in its various incarnations... a blogpost about the hypocrisy and ignorance of the autism-deniers/anti "biomed autism" movement...

Nneka is definitely hot but when it comes to tomboys Kristen Stewart is my dream girl only I didn't even know her name until I just searched "girl from twilight"...and I really know nothing about her...

But that's NOT what the guy's saying... good lord, Sloane makes a really good point and you twist it. It may be just as important to pay for "infastructure" in Africa--I agree, but I also know what usually happens due to corruption when foreign aid comes in for those things. I agree with...

Yeah, I know what you mean... I think there's an old thread on that topic... the whole lizard people thing seems like a good metaphor for the observation that sociopaths and the power-hungry tend to reach positions of power and influence before the worthy and upstanding... The thing is, every...

Tangentially related but interesting article in the NYTimes today. What seems strange to me about the "it must be a conspiracy!" reaction to complex phenomena, and I'm not just thinking about AIDS denialism here but all sorts of half-baked theories that arise out of ignorance and paranoia, is...

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Very true... it's kind of disturbing.

Yeah, it's weird about AZT, since (iirc) it was originally a chemotherapy agent. Nobody was making much money from it, or not inordinate amounts based on the fact that cancer is pretty common in the industrialized West. Then someone realized it may help HIV patients by killing the same proteins...

Nobody dies from AIDS, they die from AIDS-related complications, usually an opportunistic infection or cancer.

Awesome, hadn't heard about the ins and outs of CCR5--so it's the homozygous recessive allele combination that confers immunity and the heterozygous dominant that confers resistance, I imagine? Sounds sort of like cystic fibrosis, but in reverse. Good to know! It's so sad how much I love...

unauthorized insomniac rant I meant to respond to this weeks ago and I forgot. This quote neatly sums up why, although I agree with many of the criticisms of globalized market-driven social organization that come from the crit theory perspective, I ultimately have a hard time with the idea...

Not to mention the massive subsidies paid to corn farmers that has led to a diet filled with corn-derived sugars/starches, fueling the junk-food industry and contributing to the obesity epidemic.

Why should HIV infection be "proportionate" in Canada and the U.S.? What law states that every country in the world should be hit by every illness in a "proportionate" manner and at the same time? HIV has hit different countries, different continents, and different population groups in waves...