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I've been doing a blog about the nutritionist Patrick Holford. His Food for the Brain Foundation has a wonderful online questionnaire to diagnose health problems (this organisation has got plenty of positive UK media coverage - e.g. on ITV's Tonight programme). I used to think I was pretty...

From another thread, which got me wondering... Two things I'm thinking about: There are predictions that in a relatively few years, the landline telephone will be extinct, or nearly so, as everyone will have a cell phone; I know a lot of people - Mrs. BPSCG, my mother, Mrs. BPSCG's mother...

Well, this is a revoltin' development. CNN Reports that people with diagnosed mental illness, some of them on anti-depressants, are being forced to fight in Iraq. There have been twenty-two suicides, one fifth of all non-combat deaths. Of course, there is a very good reason. Yeah, like the...

A story from http://www.antiwar.com/blog/index.php?id=P2315 quote: I'll See Your Barbaric Decapitation Videos... And raise you a death and dismemberment porn site. A reader alerts me to this post... http://justworldnews.org/archives/001398.html#more ... by journalist Helena Cobban about a...

So true Helen, so true.

"I may not agree with what you say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it You here this line alot but does anyone truley mean it?? Who actually goes out and defends people they dont like just because they feel its the right thing to do?? THe ACLU maybe? I cant think of anyone else.

STOCKHOLM (AFP) - Some 90 percent of murderers are mentally ill, a higher percentage than believed previously, according to a Swedish study. For the study in the scientific magazine "Forskning och Framsteg" -- which has also been published by The American Journal of Psychiatry -- researchers...

I have a couple of questions about mental illness in families: What's the data on parenting by mentally ill parents? What kinds of effects are there on children? If a mother or father is diagnosed with a mental illness, should the children be taken away and put into foster homes? Why or why...

After my month or so of private thinking, I came up with this idea, although it is probably not new in the least. My title is tongue-in-cheek, but still accurate. Here we go. Premises: ------------ 1) We will take believer's statements about their religion at face value when the statement is...

First of all, I want to say hello. My name is Brian, and I was once quite the skeptic myself. I didn't really believe in God, and I didn't really believe in the paranormal. I searched for years and years to find what I so desperately wanted to, to no avail, and I eventually began to find such...

What's going on? I keep trying to post a poll, which I've done a zillion times, and somehow it keeps going wrong. Would the moderators remove the last two threads I've started? Thanks.

If the resources are available, should people diagnosed with or suspected of having mental illness be forcibly committed by family members? What about the state? If not, why not? If yes, under what circumstances and for what purpose? By what principles are you deciding?

The guy was caught with prostitutes in 1988 and 1991 and was stupid enough to bounce a check to a prostitute in 1988. Yet, somehow, this man is called upon to lead a congregation. Story

One quarter of Americans are mentally ill? Story Coincidentally, I heard Rush Limbaugh talking about this report on his show this afternoon. He said he was surprised that is was such a low number "considering some of the crazy stuff we hear from our friends on the Left every day." :rolleyes:

In categorizing offences and deciding punishments, judges are guided mainly by vaguely worded laws and general principles of Islamic jurisprudence on crimes and punishment which are subject to different interpretations by different Islamic jurists. For example, it is the judge who decides what...

US spies monitor whisky plant Will someone please tell the DTRA that it's haggis which the Scots are planning to use as a WMD, not whisky?

Here's the latest from Canada, home of KC, toronto and of course Randi. http://www.herald.ns.ca/stories/2003/09/18/f159.raw.html What other form of anti-gay hate is there? Aside from the odd high schooler declaring it's just "not right", and promptly going off to look at hot lesbian pr0n...

I wonder how often these words are said, and then the person who says them promptly forgets all about it. It's just one of those curiosity things. Like "How many people whistle while they whizz?" I find it odd to think that some people might ACTUALLY go home and add "that guy I met today" to...

As noted on slashdot, Laser Rifles! Warning: 127kB PDF file. Why in science, you say? This is a white paper with crude diagrams and some proposal for working gas-dynamic laser rifles.