The Golden Calf Explains How Economism Lead to the Divine Right of CEOs

Our fellow blogger (on Hooked: Ethics, Medicine and Pharma), family physician and bioethicist Dr Howard Brody, has written a book on economic ideology that helps explain some of the issues we frequently discuss.Dr Brody's book, The Golden Calf, is about how the social science of economics has been taken over by an ideology he and others call "economism."  EconomismEconomism consists of these major ideas:"'The economy' is a separate and distinct...

Live Blogging from the Paleo Summit IX: Chris Kresser

Link:  Chris KresserTitle:  An Update on CholesterolRatings:☼ ☼ ☼ ☼ ☼  Entertainment Value☼ ☼ ☼ ☼ ☼  Content☼ ☼ ☼ ☼ ☼  Informational Accuracy☼ ☼ ☼ ☼ ☼  OverallSummary:Hands down the most informative and important presentation yet.  Go listen.  NOW.  You can read this later!  This one trumps O'Bryan's gluten presentation because I don't think any of us escape the insidious reach of "cholesterol". ...

Live Blogging from the Paleo Summit VIII: Denise Minger

Link:  Denise MingerTitle:  How to Win an Argument with a Vegetarian?Ratings:☼ ☼ ☼ ☼ ☼  Entertainment Value☼ ☼ ☼ ☼ ☼  Content☼ ☼ ☼ ☼ ☼  Informational Accuracy☼ ☼ ☼ ☼ ☼  OverallSummary: Although her presentation is entitled How to Win an Argument with a Vegetarian, she mostly talks about a little of this and a little of that.  This is an enjoyable listen, though I think mostly the same as what she...

World Class Welsh Sport: Geraint Thomas' View

Happy St Davids Day! Dydd Gwyl Dewi Hapus!In our fourth and final installment of opinion pieces to mark today's special celebrations we hear from Olympic and World champion cyclist, Geraint Thomas MBE, about what he thinks makes Wales such a great sporting nation.“It’s no secret that I’m a proud Welshman and that I’ve never forgotten my roots wherever I’ve been racing with Team Sky and the GB guys....

A distasteful result of data mining, "artifical intelligence" and hospital advertising

A distasteful result of data mining, "artificial intelligence" and hospital advertising:Last night in some ad-hoc Internet wanderings I ended up at a YouTube video of the touching ending of the movie "Ghost" with Demi Moore and the late Patrick Swayze.A computer-generated ad popped up, advertising the prowess of a local big-name hospital in treating pancreatic cancer.I really don't want to see medical...