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Dec 28 - "Some Brighter Hopes on the Horizon for Alzheimers Prevention and Treatment"
by GreenMother
JANUARY 2015 - TENTATIVE OPEN THREAD & POTLUCK MONTH - a.k.a. "winter break"...
we'll still be here, just takin' it easy for a few weeks ;-) This is our fallback position, but if you have a diary to contribute during this time (specifically January 18 or 25), please send me a kosmail at your earliest opportunity so that we can get it scheduled.
January 4 - OPEN THREAD NIGHT & POTLUCK: New Year's Resolutions — for health or humor?
Jan 11 - working title: aruvedic healing coupled with BigPharma for emotional trauma, by boatsie
Jan 18 - OPEN THREAD NIGHT & POTLUCK: bring a favorite bumpersticker!
Jan 25 - OPEN THREAD NIGHT & POTLUCK: bring a favorite surprising medical/health thing you've found out about or that you wonder about.
February 1 - OPEN THREAD NIGHT & POTLUCK: bring a favorite late winter/early spring easy recipe!
Feb 8 - “Never Again: Coming to Grips with Life After Stroke - Year 1...and 23”
by Steven Park
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March 1 - OPEN THREAD NIGHT & POTLUCK: bring a favorite bad joke!
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Banking Culture Breeds Dishonesty, Scientific Study Finds -
LONDON (Reuters) - A banking culture that implicitly puts financial gain above all else fuels greed and dishonesty and makes bankers more likely to cheat, according to the findings of a scientific study.
Researchers in Switzerland studied bank workers and other professionals —Business culture and dishonesty in the banking industry, Nature:International Weekly Journal of Science, 4 December 2014— in experiments in which they won more money if they cheated, and found that bankers were more dishonest when they were made particularly aware of their professional role.
When bank employees were primed to think less about their profession and more about normal life, however, they were less inclined to dishonesty...
...The proportion of subjects cheating was 26%.
The same experiments with employees in other sectors - including manufacturing, telecoms and pharmaceuticals - showed they don't become more dishonest when their professional identity or banking-related information is emphasized.
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Picking multiple topics for email notification may flood your inbox, since a tremendous number of medical journals worldwide contribute articles to Medscape, so it's a good idea to start with few or just one notification topic, and see how it goes (or none, if you prefer access without emails).
Many Medscape articles are commentable - if you use a screen-name for privacy, it's worth devising one that won't undermine your own comments' impact.
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Keep in mind that the competitive nature of publishing can skew writing to suggest certainties not fully supported by findings, and there are always the basics to watch out for, e.g., "Many Studies Have 'Elementary Statistical Errors'" and It Ain't Necessarily So: Why Much of the Medical Literature Is Wrong and Data Re-analysis Changes 35% of Trial Conclusions and Published trial reports contain less than half of the patient-outcomes data contained in company-controlled documents, according to an analysis published online October 2013 in PLoS Medicine.. Medical science, like every realm of human endeavor, is a work in progress. Read critically for best results.
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