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In short, I review clinical research on an almost daily basis. What I post tends to be articles that are relevant to the readers in addition to some curiosities that have intriguing potential.
As a hobby, I truly enjoy the puzzle-solving play that statistics and programming as in the python language bring to the table. I just do not enjoy problem-solving, I love problem-solving and the childlike inspiration and exploration of that innocent exhilaration of discovering something new.
Enjoy ;-)
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Confidence in government linked to willingness to vaccinate
Public Release: 2-Feb-2015 Study looked at 2009 swine flu vaccine use in United States COLUMBUS, Ohio – A new study suggests that confidence in government may play a key role in the public’s willingness to get at least some vaccines…. Read More ›
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Researchers determine how the brain controls robotic grasping tools
Findings could lead to assistive technologies benefitting the disabled University of Missouri-Columbia COLUMBIA, Mo. – Grasping an object involves a complex network of brain functions. First, visual cues are processed in specialized areas of the brain. Then, other areas… Read More ›
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Drug makers and the FDA hid from the public Risperdal side effects
PHILADELPHIA (CN) – Regulators failed to act on signs that the popular antipsychotic Risperdal causes teenage boys to grow breasts, a federal complaint from the law firm Sheller PC alleges. Sheller notes in the Jan. 29 action that it represents… Read More ›
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DoD Says it No Longer Has Exclusive Access to Most Breakthrough Technology
22:50 30.01.2015(updated 08:29 31.01.2015) Spokeswoman for the US Deputy Secretary of Defense says Pentagon no longer has exclusive access to the world’s cutting-edge military technologies. MOSCOW, January 30 (Sputnik), Alexander Mosesov — The US Department of Defense no longer has… Read More ›
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FOIA Documents Reveal Massive DEA Program to Record American’s Whereabouts With License Plate Readers
01/26/2015 License Plate Scanners By Bennett Stein, ACLU Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project & Jay Stanley, Senior Policy Analyst, ACLU Speech, Privacy & Technology Project at 7:15pm (Updated below) The Drug Enforcement Administration has initiated a massive national license plate… Read More ›
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New Greek Govt Arrives in Residence – Finds No Power, No Wifi password, No Soap
Thursday, 29 January 2015 Things in Greece are bad. So bad, that the outgoing government of Antonis Samaras decided to not only leave the new inhabitants of the official residence of the Greek prime minister, the Maximos Mansion, without… Read More ›
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Does getting an ‘expensive’ drug affect how much patient benefits?
Public Release: 28-Jan-2015 American Academy of Neurology MINNEAPOLIS – People’s perceptions of the cost of a drug may affect how much they benefit from the drug, even when they are receiving only a placebo, according to a new study of… Read More ›
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When aid brings conflict, not relief
Public Release: 28-Jan-2015 University of Illinois College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences URBANA, Ill. – Although you might expect that providing aid to impoverished villages in the Philippines could only bring them relief, a University of Illinois study found… Read More ›
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UCI, fellow chemists find a way to unboil eggs
Public Release: 26-Jan-2015 Ability to quickly restore molecular proteins could slash biotechnology costs Irvine, Calif., Jan. 23, 2015 – UC Irvine and Australian chemists have figured out how to unboil egg whites – an innovation that could dramatically reduce costs… Read More ›
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Anti-austerity Syriza storms to historic Greek victory
Election victory puts the country on a collision course with the EU and international creditors Radical left party Syriza swept to power in Greece on Sunday promising to end years of painful austerity policies, in an election victory that puts… Read More ›
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Rubella vaccination used to induce behavioral problems in children
Psychoneuroendocrinology. 1998 May;23(4):337-51. Influence of socioeconomic status on behavioral, emotional and cognitive effects of rubella vaccination: a prospective, double blind study. – Effects of vaccination with live attenuated Rubella virus on psychological parameters measured in 12-year-old girls with low socioeconomic… Read More ›
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US Emergency Services to Depend On Russian Satellites?
18:24 22.01.2015(updated 18:41 22.01.2015) The US Federal Communications Commission is mulling routing 911 emergency location calls through Russia’s GLONASS satellite system. MOSCOW, January 22 (Sputnik) — Russia’s GLONASS precision navigation and timing satellite system may be used in the US… Read More ›
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American liberals and conservatives think as if from different cultures
Public Release: 22-Jan-2015 University of Virginia Political conservatives in the United States are somewhat like East Asians in the way they think, categorize and perceive. Liberals in the U.S. could be categorized as extreme Americans in thought, categorization and perception…. Read More ›
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Profitable phishing schemes slyly tinker with our heads, then rip us off
Public Release: 22-Jan-2015 ‘The claws that catch’ alter cognitive processing to get what they want University at Buffalo BUFFALO, N.Y. – In the first study of its kind, researchers at the University at Buffalo have found evidence that the incredible… Read More ›
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What went wrong?
Peer-reviewed pocket-calculator climate model exposes serious errors in complex computer models and reveals that Man’s influence on the climate is negligible Science China Press IMAGE: This graph shows near-term global warming projections (brick-red region) on[0.13, 0.50] K decade-1, compared with observations… Read More ›
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Four in 10 American children live in low-income families, new report shows
Public Release: 21-Jan-2015 Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health January 21, 2015 — Four out of every ten American children live in low-income families, according to new research from the National Center for Children in Poverty (NCCP) at Columbia… Read More ›
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Rubella vaccine used in experiments to induce depression and behavior problems in young children
Ann N Y Acad Sci. 2000;917:478-87. Illness, cytokines, and depression EEV: Full study is currently on evesdrift.com. It will have four of the missing graphs added to it later on today.. Based on analysis of levels of antibodies to rubella, subjects… Read More ›
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Atoms can be in 2 places at the same time
Public Release: 20-Jan-2015 Researchers of the University of Bonn have shown that cesium atoms do not follow well-defined paths University of Bonn The Bonn team has developed a measurement scheme that indirectly measures the position of an atom. In essence,… Read More ›
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China is trying to deny it stole the plans for the Lockheed’s F-35 Joint Strike Fighter
2015-01-20 13:28:33 BEIJING, Jan. 20 (Xinhuanet) — According to a report carried in the Australian Associated Press, U.S. National Security Agency whistle-blower Edward Snowden has claimed that Chinese spies stole a huge volume of data related to Lockheed’s F-35 Joint… Read More ›
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Unknown Flying Object Explodes Over City in Russian Far East
EEV: Initial footage just coming in: A fireball disintegrates into a number of pieces with a dazzling flash. The glaring white tail remains for two hours and is captured on film by a number of residents. Tissint meteorite MOSCOW, January… Read More ›
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Truth Matters: DxE Investigators Expose “Humane” Fraud at Whole Foods
Published on Jan 7, 2015 DxE investigators find shocking mistreatment of animals at a “humane” Whole Foods supplier…. and attempt to rescue a little hen named Mei from the brink of death. http://directactioneverywhere.com/
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Planets outside our solar system more hospitable to life than thought
Public Release: 15-Jan-2015 TORONTO, ON – A study by astrophysicists at the University of Toronto suggests that exoplanets – planets outside our solar system – are more likely to have liquid water and be more habitable than we thought. “Planets… Read More ›
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US Politicians Giving $$$ Contracts to Spouses, Relatives
Saturday, 17 January 2015 Ever wonder how lowly US paid lawmakers leave office filthy rich? Sen. Dianne Feinstein is showing how it’s done. The US Postal Service plans to sell 56 buildings — so it can lease space more expensively… Read More ›
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Lavender aroma increases trust in anyone
Lavender aroma increases trust in anyone – Inexpensive way to increase trust -Test persons gave significantly more money to the other person when they were exposed to the aroma of lavender, compared to persons who had been exposed to the… Read More ›
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Holder Sets New Rules for Prosecuting Reporters
Thursday, January 15, 2015 WASHINGTON (CN) – Attorney General Eric Holder on Wednesday revised the Department of Justice’s policies on “questioning, arresting, or charging members of the news media.” In a 3-page Memorandum to all Department Employees, Holder said the… Read More ›
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People can be convinced they committed a crime that never happened
PUBLIC RELEASE: 15-JAN-2015 ASSOCIATION FOR PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE Evidence from some wrongful-conviction cases suggests that suspects can be questioned in ways that lead them to falsely believe in and confess to committing crimes they didn’t actually commit. New research provides lab-based… Read More ›
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Nearly half the systems crucial to stability of planet compromised
PUBLIC RELEASE: 15-JAN-2015 New data and assessments suggest that resilience of the planet is now at risk Almost half of the processes that are crucial to maintaining the stability of the planet have become dangerously compromised by human activity. That… Read More ›
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German Double Agent Stole Names of 3,500 Spies World-Wide
Wednesday, 14 January 2015 Investigators have found a list reportedly compiled by a BND agent accused of working for the US, containing the names and aliases of 3,500 German intelligences employees, Bild newspaper reports. The 32-year-old, identified as Markus… Read More ›
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People conform to the norm — even if the norm is a computer
PUBLIC RELEASE: 14-JAN-2015 Researchers explore the effect of journeying through the artificial, virtual world of video gaming Often enough it is human nature to conform. This tendency makes us follow the lead of computers, even if the machines give us… Read More ›
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Princeton Study: US No Longer a Democracy
Tuesday, 13 January 2015 A new study from Princeton spells bad news for American democracy—namely, that it no longer exists. Asking “[w]ho really rules?” researchers Martin Gilens and Benjamin I. Page argue that over the past few decades America’s political… Read More ›
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Rubella Vaccines possibly linked to acute arthritis in 13 to 15% of women
January 13, 2015 Editors note: Requested Peer reviewed citations from earlier studies: – Evidence Concerning Rubella Vaccines and Arthritis, Radiculoneuritis, and Thrombocytopenic Purpura Institute of Medicine (US) Committee to Review the Adverse Consequences of Pertussis and Rubella Vaccines; Howson… Read More ›
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Trust through the olfactory fragrance of lavender
PUBLIC RELEASE: 13-JAN-2015 Aromatherapy Sellaro and her fellow researchers were the first to investigate whether the calming olfactory fragrance of lavender has a positive effect on mutual trust. Aromatherapists already known that aromatic compounds can alter one’s mood, cognitive, psychological… Read More ›
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Phone Data Collection by United States Reauthorized
Monday, January 12, 2015 By WILLIAM DOTINGA (CN) – The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court reauthorized the federal government’s bulk collection of telephone metadata last month, according to a declassified order made public by the director of National Intelligence on… Read More ›
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Do viruses make us smarter?
Public Release: 12-Jan-2015 A new study from Lund University in Sweden indicates that inherited viruses that are millions of years old play an important role in building up the complex networks that characterise the human brain. Researchers have long been… Read More ›
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A VIRUS that kills every one of its victims, by wiping out part of their immune system, has been accidentally created by an Australian research team
Requested Re-post from our evesdrift.com site, on the horrifying potential of a certain type of disease vaccine engineering. New Scientist issue: 13th January 2001 ( Historical ) An engineered mouse virus leaves us one step away from the ultimate bioweapon A VIRUS… Read More ›
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Multiple researchers potentially exposed to biological warfare agent at USAMRIID
EEV: Further details will be posted on evesdrift.com when and if available Posted: Sunday, January 4, 2015 2:00 am By Sylvia Carignan News-Post Staff While sitting in a boiling hot water bath in a Fort Detrick lab, a plastic tube… Read More ›
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Petraeus-compromise the Archive
The Link: Petraeus-compromise the Archive All my links have been busted under categories. You can test the Category links yourself on the right side of the main page. This will give you the link to the full 53 archived articles….. Read More ›
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High Fructose Corn Syrup found to kill animals almost twice as fast as table sugar
High Fructose Corn Syrup found to kill animals almost twice as fast as table sugar – SALT LAKE CITY, Jan. 5, 2015 – When University of Utah biologists fed mice sugar in doses proportional to what many people eat, the… Read More ›
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Infamous study of humanity’s ‘dark side’ may actually show how to keep it at bay
Public Release: 9-Jan-2015 University of Wisconsin-Madison MADISON, Wis. — In 1961, with memories of Holocaust atrocities and the prosecution of Nazi officials at Nuremburg still fresh, psychologist Stanley Milgram undertook a series of now infamous experiments on obedience and reprehensible… Read More ›
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Researchers work to counter a new class of coffee shop hackers
– Studying Side-channel Emission Issues If you’re sitting in a coffee shop, tapping away on your laptop, feeling safe from hackers because you didn’t connect to the shop’s wifi, think again. The bad guys may be able to see what… Read More ›
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Govt fires employee who skipped work for 24 years – India
IndiaToday.in New Delhi, January 8, 2015 | UPDATED 22:17 IST An executive engineer at the Central Public Works Department was fired on Thursday after being absent from duty for more than 24 years. AK Verma was fired after last appearing… Read More ›
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Expressing anger linked with better health in some cultures
Public Release: 7-Jan-2015 Association for Psychological Science In the US and many Western countries, people are urged to manage feelings of anger or suffer its ill effects — but new research with participants from the US and Japan suggests that… Read More ›
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Navy Officer Admits He Took Bribes
SAN DIEGO (CN) – A Navy commander on Tuesday pleaded guilty to bribery, including accepting prostitutes and cash to give a defense contractor classified ship schedules and other internal Navy information. Commander Jose Luis Sanchez, 42, is the fifth of… Read More ›
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One of America’s most famous lawyers, Alan Dershowitz, is being accused of having sex with an underage girl
Except letters from the Business Insider…. We reached out to Dershowitz for comment and will update this post if we hear back. The entire statement from Cassell and Edwards is included below: Out of respect for the court’s desire to… Read More ›
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Prince Andrew named in child sex slave case
JANUARY 05, 2015 5:51AM Palace denies Andrew sex case claim BUCKINGHAM Palace has leapt to the defence of the Duke of York Prince Andrew after it was alleged in an American court he had had sex with an underage ‘sex… Read More ›
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Monsanto and others conspired with an Army experiment to secretly poison people with toxic chemicals, a class action claims in City Court.
Requested Repost. Articles will be held at my sister site EVESDRIFT Army Poisoned People in ’50s, Class Claims By JOE HARRIS ST. LOUIS (CN) – Monsanto and others conspired with an Army experiment to secretly poison people with toxic chemicals… Read More ›
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Would the Stress Vaccine Change Behavior and Moral Judgment?
American Medical Association’s online ethics journal Virtual Mentor. January 2012, Volume 14, Number 1: 60-67. OP-ED An Ethical Take on the “Stress Vaccine” Jennifer M. Ladd and Leo D. J. Ungar, MTS Chronic stress has been linked to severe declines… Read More ›
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Pakistan captures two Indian fishing boats, 12 fishermen detained
IndiaToday.in New Delhi, January 4, 2015 | UPDATED 21:23 IST On December 31 night, Coast Guard intercepted a Pakistani fishing boat allegedly carrying explosives off the coast of Gujarat. )Four days after Coast Guard intercepted a Pakistani fishing boat allegedly… Read More ›
Engineering Evil 