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Cap’n AMatrixca

Cap’n AMatrixca

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Recently we discussed ADD/ADHD and its over-diagnosis.

Now researchers say, it's possible Prozac is mainly a placebo...

Researchers led by Irving Kirsch of the University of Hull reviewed a series of studies, both published and unpublished, on four antidepressants, examining the question of whether a person's response to these drugs hinged on how depressed they were before getting treatment.

They were Eli Lilly and Co's Prozac, also known as fluoxetine, Wyeth's Effexor, also called venlafaxine; GlaxoSmithKline's Paxil, also called Seroxat or paroxetine, and Bristol-Myers Squibb Co's drug Serzone, also called nefazodone, which it no longer markets in the United States.

They are all so-called selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, or SSRIs.

The researchers found that compared with placebo, these new-generation antidepressant medications did not yield clinically significant improvements in depression in patients who initially had moderate or even very severe depression. The study found that significant benefits occurred only in the most severely depressed patients.

"Drug-placebo differences in antidepressant efficacy increase as a function of baseline severity, but are relatively small even for severely depressed patients. The relationship between initial severity and antidepressant efficacy is attributable to decreased responsiveness to placebo among very severely depressed patients, rather than to increased responsiveness to medication," the researchers wrote.
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But, this kind of news comes too late for Polly...

PETS at risk of self-harm are increasingly being prescribed anti-depressants because they cannot discuss problems in their lives with others, a leading veterinarian says.

Zoo and wildlife medicine specialist with the UK’s Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons, Romain Pizzi, told the Telegraph that more pets were being prescribed Prozac.

Tropical birds such as parrots seemed to have been the most affected by depression, Mr Pizzi told the newspaper.
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On the other hand, we have a Glow Ball Warning that even I agree with...

Scientist have nailed down how and when the Earth will cease to exist.

The sun will slowly expand into a red giant, pushing the Earth farther out into space, but not far enough.

Our home planet will be snagged by the sun's outer atmosphere, gradually plunging to its doom inside the fiery stellar furnace.
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But first, we're gonna need to stock up on furs...

Snow cover over North America and much of Siberia, Mongolia and China is greater than at any time since 1966.

The U.S. National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) reported that many American cities and towns suffered record cold temperatures in January and early February. According to the NCDC, the average temperature in January "was -0.3 F cooler than the 1901-2000 (20th century) average."

China is surviving its most brutal winter in a century. Temperatures in the normally balmy south were so low for so long that some middle-sized cities went days and even weeks without electricity because once power lines had toppled it was too cold or too icy to repair them.

There have been so many snow and ice storms in Ontario and Quebec in the past two months that the real estate market has felt the pinch as home buyers have stayed home rather than venturing out looking for new houses.

In just the first two weeks of February, Toronto received 70 cm of snow, smashing the record of 66.6 cm for the entire month set back in the pre-SUV, pre-Kyoto, pre-carbon footprint days of 1950.

And remember the Arctic Sea ice? The ice we were told so hysterically last fall had melted to its "lowest levels on record? Never mind that those records only date back as far as 1972 and that there is anthropological and geological evidence of much greater melts in the past.

The ice is back.

Gilles Langis, a senior forecaster with the Canadian Ice Service in Ottawa, says the Arctic winter has been so severe the ice has not only recovered, it is actually 10 to 20 cm thicker in many places than at this time last year.
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And it's not just anecdotal evidence that is piling up against the climate-change dogma.

According to Robert Toggweiler of the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory at Princeton University and Joellen Russell, assistant professor of biogeochemical dynamics at the University of Arizona -- two prominent climate modellers -- the computer models that show polar ice-melt cooling the oceans, stopping the circulation of warm equatorial water to northern latitudes and triggering another Ice Age (a la the movie The Day After Tomorrow) are all wrong.

"We missed what was right in front of our eyes," says Prof. Russell. It's not ice melt but rather wind circulation that drives ocean currents northward from the tropics. Climate models until now have not properly accounted for the wind's effects on ocean circulation, so researchers have compensated by over-emphasizing the role of manmade warming on polar ice melt.

But when Profs. Toggweiler and Russell rejigged their model to include the 40-year cycle of winds away from the equator (then back towards it again), the role of ocean currents bringing warm southern waters to the north was obvious in the current Arctic warming.

Last month, Oleg Sorokhtin, a fellow of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, shrugged off manmade climate change as "a drop in the bucket." Showing that solar activity has entered an inactive phase, Prof. Sorokhtin advised people to "stock up on fur coats."

He is not alone. Kenneth Tapping of our own National Research Council, who oversees a giant radio telescope focused on the sun, is convinced we are in for a long period of severely cold weather if sunspot activity does not pick up soon.

The last time the sun was this inactive, Earth suffered the Little Ice Age that lasted about five centuries and ended in 1850. Crops failed through killer frosts and drought. Famine, plague and war were widespread. Harbours froze, so did rivers, and trade ceased.
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In short: We can't seem to find real problems in our lives, so we attack windmills...

http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/columnists/story.html?id=332289

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,332429,00.html

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,23271578-1702,00.html

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/rtrs/20080226/thl-uk-depression-drugs-8004a53_1.html
 
You were up all night working on that, weren't you?

Ishmael
 
Ishmael said:
You were up all night working on that, weren't you?

Ishmael
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Ten minutes top, just this morning, all in the news, all on the top o' the stack...




Of course, it's not in Variety, at least not in this format, so I'm not going to convert Dixon any time soon...

;) ;)

He's gonna read it, reach for his Prozac, and fume over the idea us Neo-Neanderthals killing animals for furs and wonder why we're not on Ritalin and why we still can't understand the truth of Rev'rund Al and the Hockey Stick gospels...

Whatta hockey puck!

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Cap’n AMatrixca said:
Ten minutes top, just this morning, all in the news, all on the top o' the stack...




Of course, it's not in Variety, at least not in this format, so I'm not going to convert Dixon any time soon...

;) ;)

He's gonna read it, reach for his Prozac, and fume over the idea us Neo-Neanderthals of killing animals for furs and wonder why we're not on Ritalin and why we still can't understand the truth of Rev'rund Al and the Hockey Stick gospels...

Whatta hockey puck!

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Dammit, I hate it when it all piles up like that.

Ishmael
 
And whether or not you believe in AIDS, we did the same damned thing, blew it up into something it wasn't...

First we killed the gays with AZT, and then we went to every starving corner of the world and fucking faked the data.

All because we've decided that Christian Crusading is the worst thing a society can do, but Secular Crusading, in the name of Altruism, is the bee's knees...

And to quote Cap'n Redlegs Terrel...

"Doin' good's got no end..."




Coming soon, Toyota to reintroduce the Flint-mobile, a pedal-powered alternative to our societal suicide by CO2...
 
*yanks the cap'ns soap box out from 'neath his feet. Points and laughs.*

:D

Ishmael
 
Cap’n AMatrixca: How about a nice cup of coffee? I got some from the local Starbucks where I stood in line for fifteen minutes all the while the clerks were musing with the poet in the corner. What flavor was it? No clue, but everyday the resemblance of coffee is fading. Do you have Ritalin instead?
 
SigmaStigmata said:
Cap’n AMatrixca: How about a nice cup of coffee? I got some from the local Starbucks where I stood in line for fifteen minutes all the while the clerks were musing with the poet in the corner. What flavor was it? No clue, but everyday the resemblance of coffee is fading. Do you have Ritalin instead?
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My coffee is Marine Corps style. Cheap, black, pre-ground and as strong as the basket will hold...




I'll even let you suck it out of my Lifer's cup!
 
Cap’n AMatrixca: No keep it. John Edwards needs a job after all that hard work on the campaign trail. He has a ten gallon hat filled with said buffalo chips.
 
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