On Tue, Sep 09, 2008 at 01:21:43PM -0500, Jason Resch wrote:
One of the concerns people have with free will or the lack thereof is that
if physics is deterministic, one's future actions can predicted beforehand,
without them even having to exist. However, an interesting consequence of
According to Brent Meeker:
I don't think that's a good example of not considering the evidence.
Ignorance is a relative term - he didn't know a child was about to run out in
the street, but he (and most people) know there are children in residential
areas and that they may run out in the
According to Stathis Papaioannou:
Why would you not include the well-known fact that driving at high
speed is more likely to kill someone as evidence? If the driver
honestly did not know this, say due to having an intellectual
disability, then he would have dimminished responsibility for the
According to Stathis Papaioannou:
Given that even in case (c) doctors were completely wrong, the way we test
new treatments now is more stringent. However, evidence is still evidence,
including evidence of past failures from medical history, which must be
included in any risk/benefit
According to Rich Winkel:
Medicine is not like astronomy.
In that ignorance can be toxic.
Rich
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According to Stathis Papaioannou:
The best we can do in science as in everyday life is to accept
provisionally that things are as they seem. There is no shame in
this, as long as you are ready to revise your theory in the light
of new evidence, and it is certainly better than assuming that
things
According to Stathis Papaioannou:
On the other hand, about 1/3 of people who present with psychotic
symptoms will have either a complete or a near-complete response
to medication with minimal side-effects, and it would be tragic if
they missed out due to anti-psychiatry prejudice or (more
At the risk of wasting more bandwidth than I alread have I'd like
to apologize for any discomfort I've caused on the list. Sometimes
I feel like a jewish person arguing the reality of the holocaust
to doubters. Such is the hidden record of psychiatry and the power
of its PR machine. Please
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