For harm reductionists in some countries, smokeless tobacco can be used as a small backfire to help control a larger, more deadly forest fire. For tobacco prohibitionists, smokeless itself is too evil to use even as a tool. For some anti-tobacco scientists, the necessary data may still be...
Physicalism Is Dead The reductionist physicalist position entails that phenomenal consciousness does not exist. Memory 4 Min Read The Challenge of Cognitive Immobility When people leave a place or undergo a life transition, their minds can remain stuck in the past. Happiness 3 Min...
Initially, all the 11 invited pharmacists agreed to participate in the study. Using the snowball technique, it was possible to recruit more eight participants. This technique consists of a type of non-probability sampling that is used when potential participants are difficult to find or if the sa...
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Rius's backtracking is not entirely foolish: people are normally taken in by labels, and consider the Soviet system to be socialistic because it said it was. But to say that the workers controlled the means of production in the USSR is to make a bad joke. It was basically a state ...
practically identical whether the surgery has taken place or not. The rates of improvement and recovery are about the same. It is very important to understand that placebos do not need to be secret. Improvement rates are just as good when people know what they are getting is a placebo ...
A task which is nothing less than to challenge the basis of Western, reductionist thought since the time of Plato. He’s not the first, but may well be the best. From my own rich experience of life, as a husband, a father, a family doctor as it happens, plus a lot else, his ...
Unfortunately, once the nihilism spreads among the intellectuals, it is then turned on science itself, which is "deconstructed" into political privilege and oppression. Thus, the Revolution devours its own. No, the reductionists prove nothing, save their own betrayal of philosophy, and their ...
It is a view or belief more or less casually arrived at, with or without examining the evidence. Is everyone entitled to his opinion? Of course, this is not only permitted, but guaranteed. We are free to act on our opinions only so long as, in doing so, we do not harm others. ...
However, learning how to respond risks a reductionist approach that fails to address the individual needs of women and challenges their agency and control. As recognised by one of the doctors in our study, what is needed is individualised care rather than blanket rules. Asking the woman or ...