Monthly Archives: August 2021

Health beliefs (8-19-21)

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Diagnosis, Therapy, and Evidence: Conundrums in Modern American Medicine

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Who Cares About Afghanistan?

From a Yale Law paper: If Americans know one thing about their system of government, it is that they live in a democracy and that other, less fortunate people, live in dictatorships. Dictatorships are what democracies are not, the very … Continue reading

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The CDC confuses Americans on masks (8-16-21)

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The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds

Michael Lewis writes in his 2016 book The Undoing: * All the leading behaviorists were WASPs—a fact that didn’t go unnoticed by young people entering psychology in the 1950s. Looking back, a casual observer of the field at that time … Continue reading

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