I don't know where Jim got the false impression that I thought he was
praising speed up. For the record, I'll say it one more time: my point is
simply that there might not be the causal relationship between speed up and
productivity growth that most people assume there is. It has nothing to do
wit
Charles Brown wrote:
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> CB: I agree with your general approach of relating genes and environment as a
>dialectical whole, but specifically, when testosterine flow is begot, it is not
>through genes being turned on is it ? It would be glands, not genes. Genes function
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Prozac & Productivity
by Carrol Cox
27 June 2002 04:02 UTC
There was a fine science column in last Friday's WSJ -- on the way
environment turns genes off and on. For example, if you've been without
sex for awhile and are expecting to get some tomorrow your beard may
grow
Title: RE: [PEN-L:27264] Re: Prozac & Productivity
> > A WSJ columnist, Holman Jenkins, today praised Prozac et al for
raising worker productivity. <<
-Original Message-
From: Tom Walker
This is what I was trying to tell Jim Devine about speed up -- post
There was a fine science column in last Friday's WSJ -- on the way
environment turns genes off and on. For example, if you've been without
sex for awhile and are expecting to get some tomorrow your beard may
grow faster: sexual activity triggers a flow of testosterone, but
apparently even thinking
This is what I was trying to tell Jim Devine about speed up -- post hoc ergo
prozac.
> > A WSJ columnist, Holman Jenkins, today praised Prozac et al for raising
> > worker productivity.
Tom Walker
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The support for national health care: Good health => higher productivity
=> higher profits. I hope that he has a bad night.
On Wed, Jun 26, 2002 at 05:59:25PM -0700, Eugene Coyle wrote:
> Jenkins did say that placebos work as well. But he used that as an attack on
> the FDA. He wants the FDA
Jenkins did say that placebos work as well. But he used that as an attack on
the FDA. He wants the FDA to approve drugs even if they can't be shown to
work better than placebos -- because that would permit more placebos in the
market.
I missed how the column could be read to support national
But he says that placebos work as well. You could read the article to
support national health care.
On Wed, Jun 26, 2002 at 10:53:47AM -0700, Eugene Coyle wrote:
> A WSJ columnist, Holman Jenkins, today praised Prozac et al for raising
> worker productivity. The suggestion is that the jump in
A WSJ columnist, Holman Jenkins, today praised Prozac et al for raising
worker productivity. The suggestion is that the jump in prescriptions
over the past years have resulted in a jump in productivity. And as the
economy moves more toward service work, involving meeting customers,
future gains
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