RE: Re: Prozac & Productivity

2002-06-27 Thread Devine, James
Title: RE: [PEN-L:27264] Re: Prozac & Productivity > > A WSJ columnist, Holman Jenkins, today praised Prozac et al for raisingĀ  worker productivity. << -Original Message- From: Tom Walker This is what I was trying to tell Jim Devine about speed up -- post hoc ergo prozac. COMMENT

Re: Re: Prozac & Productivity

2002-06-26 Thread Carrol Cox
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

Re: Re: Re: Prozac & Productivity

2002-06-26 Thread Michael Perelman
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

Re: Re: Prozac & Productivity

2002-06-26 Thread Eugene Coyle
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