• Homeopathy and BPD don’t mix

    I have an interest in BPD (Borderline Personality Disorder). For today’s post, I thought I’d see what homeopaths had to say about it. Here’s an old (2003) article on treating psychiatric patients in your homeopathic practice. It was actually hard to find. My initial searches all led to definitions of BPD and mainstream treatments. Example. A good sign overall for…

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  • Big Pharma

    A topic which I’m sure will get me plenty of negative attention. I believed for a long time that mental health drugs were bad, that all mental disorders were a lack of willpower. Then I got desperate. My current impression is that some people really need chemicals to help them regulate, but that some people get put on more medications…

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  • Scientists are not psychics

    I was shown this picture recently: (click for larger picture in new window) It’s from a 1954 Popular Mechanics magazine. Some scientists at RAND made a model of what they predicted a home computer would look like 50 years later. Apparently that’s not true. It’s from a submarine. That explains the steering wheels. My friends and I had gotten to the point of…

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  • Another introduction

    Hello everybody, it’s Vera. I’ll be giving you some science later, but first, something about me. I’ve been preparing for qualifying exams lately. I’m taking them next week. These are mildly terrifying exams. I have to take two written exams, three orals, and do a presentation on the research I’ve done so far. This is terrifying, because if I don’t…

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