There’s an interesting discussion going on in this
In the Agora post about experimentally reproducing religious experiences. I
thought that the
skirmishers might find it interesting.
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Head Like a Hole
…or at least a hole in the head. What in heaven’s name is wrong with these people?!?
International Trepanation Advocacy
Group
ITAG is a grass roots organization comprised of people from many backgrounds and races who have experienced the benefits of being trepanned. Some of us are willing to present ourselves publicly so that the old stigma associated with making a hole in the skull will be worn down over time.
Sapir-Whorf Redux?
The classes I’ve taken in cognitive psychology and cognitive neuroscience led me to believe that the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis had been discredited. It seems, however, that research of a similar vein has been published. Maybe there’s something to the idea after all.
Deafening Silence
You know of Christopher Reeve's determination to walk again, right? Well, you'd think that if some paraplegics began walking again, Mr. Reeve and his supporters would be pretty excited–Mr. Reeve is a quadriplegic, and therefore has a more severe injury, but this is still an immense leap!
This is not the case, because those two young women began to walk thanks to their own adult stem cells. And since politics does trump science (and ethics…), I have yet to see this article in the NY Times, Washington Post, Wired, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, or anywhere else but Zenit.org and Lifenews.com.
Had this been done with embryonic stem cells, which is the horse that Mr. Reeve bet on, I imagine there'd be quite a bit more hype.
If adult stem cells provided a cure to quadriplegia, and if Mr. Reeve accepts that treatment, will we learn of it? Will the media continue to spin it so that we really should keep pushing for embryonic research against all ethics and evidence? It won't fail to be interesting, I'm sure. Stay tuned!
Shake a Leg
I suffer from mild RLS. My mom has it pretty bad. My grandmother had it really bad.
It’s good to know that it’s finally getting the research attention and press coverage
it deserves. Before it was a common diagnosis, doctors told my mom it was all in
her head – in a psychological rather than neurological sense.
Study
Says Restless Leg Syndrome Common
By EVAN BERLAND, Associated Press Writer
“TRENTON, N.J. – About one in 10 people suffer weekly from a syndrome that causes
leg discomfort and leads to sleeplessness, and few are properly diagnosed by their
physicians, according to a drug company-funded study to be released Tuesday.”