Tag Archives: greed

The overhyped personalized medicine frontier — biology and clinical reality intrude 0

© 2013 Peter Free Citation — to an overview article Ralph I. Horwitz, Mark R. Cullen, Jill Abell, and Jennifer B. Christian, (De)Personalized Medicine, Science 339 (6124): 1155-1156, DOI: 10.1126/science.1234106 (08 March 2013) Greed has transformed medicine in undesirable ways — and “personalized” medicine is going to be another avenue for corporate-sponsored medical fraud Greed [...]

Making it all up as we go along — the Max Planck Institute’s scientifically flawed revision of the global risk for catastrophic nuclear power radiation escapes — the group expects that contamination of more than 40 kilobecquerels per square meter will occur approximately every 50 years in Western Europe 0

Citation Jos Lelieveld, Daniel Kunkel, and Mark G. Lawrence, Global risk of radioactive fallout after major nuclear reactor accidents, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 12(9): 4245-4258, doi:10.5194/acp-12-4245-2012 (12 May 2012) Note A currently free version of the paper is here. Good science in aid of bad premises turns into poor predictions The above paper is a [...]

A scientifically worthless abstract about the unattractive ethics displayed by higher social class — written by apparently sensation-seeking academic psychologists 0

These guys should be ashamed of themselves The entirety of their abstract reads: Seven studies using experimental and naturalistic methods reveal that upper-class individuals behave more unethically than lower-class individuals. In studies 1 and 2, upper-class individuals were more likely to break the law while driving, relative to lower-class individuals. In follow-up laboratory studies, upper-class [...]

Now we can kill more people even more easily — just wait till the bad guys get hold of this “advance” 0

From the Office of Naval Research By combining several metals with standard manufacturing techniques, High-Density Reactive Material (HDRM) has the potential to dramatically increase the explosive impact of most weapons with little or no compromise in strength or design. Unlike conventional munitions, the innovative materials approach integrates the casing with approved warhead explosives for increased [...]

Battling the Greedy Right with humor 0

Look at Tom Tomorrow’s “Language Is a Virus” cartoon http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/04/11/965457/-Language-is-a-Virus?detail=hide