RE: [tips] CHRONICLE: Are Psychiatric Medications Making Us Sicker?

2011-09-22 Thread Bourgeois, Dr. Martin
From: Mike Wiliams [jmicha5...@aol.com] Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2011 2:25 AM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: [tips] CHRONICLE: Are Psychiatric Medications Making Us Sicker? >There is no evidence placebos have a biological basis. They represent >cognition working

[tips] What is a religious immigrant?

2011-09-22 Thread michael sylvester
Religion may play an essential role in the lives of some immigrants especially if the church provides an avenue for assimilation and integration into the host country.I find this to be true for catholics from the Americas and Asia.It provides help with immigration services and a sense of collec

Re: [tips] What is a religious immigrant?

2011-09-22 Thread Ken Steele
On 9/22/2011 7:59 AM, michael sylvester wrote: Btw, why the British use the term Anglican and in the U.S it is referred to as Episcopalian? Is Angican used in Canada? Michael "omnicentric" Sylvester,PhD Daytona Beach,Florida The separation occurred during the American revolution to establ

[tips] hurray for Switzerland!

2011-09-22 Thread John Kulig
Edward Tufte should be happy. Switzerland, which is so democratic even a single person can start a political party, already has an Animals Party, a Men's party, a Swiss Fool's Party (devoted to restricting top salaries at public companies), a Green Party, a Pirate Party (for internet freedom), a

Re: [tips] intuition = belief in a higher being

2011-09-22 Thread sblack
On 21 Sep 2011 at 23:22, Jim Clark wrote: > The Pew organization has much information on religion around the > world. One informative graph that I use in my culture and psychology > class is at: > > http://www.pewglobal.org/2002/12/19/among-wealthy-nations/ > Revealing, interesting data. Altho

Re: [tips] intuition = belief in a higher being

2011-09-22 Thread Beth Benoit
> > Stephen Black pointed out: > Certainly, the deities > worshipped do not appear to have tangibly rewarded those most devoted > to them (excluding, once again, the US of A). > > I always thought it was interesting that there's a failsafe for a bad result after prayer and devotion fail: "God m

Re:[tips] hurray for Switzerland!

2011-09-22 Thread Allen Esterson
But do they have an equivalent of the Raving Loony Party? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Official_Monster_Raving_Loony_Party http://www.omrlp.com/http://www.omrlp.com/ Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London allenester...@compuserve.com http://www.esterson.org

[tips] CHRONICLE: Are Psychiatric Medications Making Us Sicker?

2011-09-22 Thread Mike Wiliams
On 9/23/11 1:00 AM, Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) digest wrote: Although it's probably futile to do so, since you have beeen consistently ignoring all contrary evidence to your claims (e.g. all the people who have pointed out that many treatment studies include objective observa