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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Nigel Farage caught admitting he would privatise NHS |
| merrymadscientist |
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Posted: 27 Nov 2014, 5:41 pm
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| I've been studying health economics. Free markets fail when it comes to health because in order to work they require many assumptions that are not fulfilled in health. Some of these include imperfect information (free markets assume that consumers have perfect information as to how utility can be ma... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Everything I hear sounds like gibberish |
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Posted: 29 Feb 2012, 3:38 pm
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| This sounds like slow processing of verbal information. I used to be a bit like this with English as a kid. I would say 'what' all the time, thinking I hadn't heard, but realised that if I left it a bit the sentence would start to make sense, as my brain slowly processed it. However, I didn't speak ... |
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Forum: Bipolar, Tourettes, Schizophrenia, and other Psychological Conditions Topic: Bipolar/Aspergers support and chat thread |
| merrymadscientist |
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Posted: 04 Feb 2012, 3:45 pm
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| I actually have no diagnoses of either AS or manic depression, but have been using this site for years because I feel I fit in. To be honest, it is quite strange that I have not been diagnosed with anything officially despite being hospitalised twice. My general impression is that my symptoms of dep... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Social Anxiety Test |
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Posted: 09 Dec 2011, 4:24 pm
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Replies: 17
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| I got 59 which is mild social phobia. Probably about right for nowadays, although I realised that my answers were frequently of two types - there were ones that had low levels of fear, but I almost always avoided them. These were generally social ones that were optional so I could avoid them (I some... |
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Forum: Bipolar, Tourettes, Schizophrenia, and other Psychological Conditions Topic: Antipsychotic WARNING! |
| merrymadscientist |
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Posted: 09 Dec 2011, 3:35 pm
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| I can see from the posts here than antipsychotics work for some people and are hell for others. To be honest it has been the same story for myself. The first one I took (dipixel - an old - fashioned one) seemed to work, although I put on a lot of weight and spent a lot of time sleeping. However, tha... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Anti Depressants and Side Effects |
| merrymadscientist |
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Posted: 09 Dec 2011, 2:42 pm
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| I imagine that the doctor thinks that your side effects are depression symptoms. Real effects (both specific and side effects) will follow a dose-response curve (although this can level off at one or both ends, or shoot upwards dramatically when you reach a certain threshold etc.). I would be very w... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Absolute Morality/Natural Law? |
| merrymadscientist |
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Posted: 17 Sep 2011, 4:06 pm
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| Like many other human attributes, morality is a complex trait that has both inherited and environmental components. Most people have the innate ability to develop morality (but there are always a small percentage of people that do not), simply because it is evolutionarily advantageous for the societ... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: If a girl is raped and pregnant, should she keep the baby? |
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Posted: 22 Aug 2011, 3:14 pm
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| Just interested to see what the pro-lifers think of this quandary. It is possible that a woman having an abortion at one stage of her life, will then go onto have children that she wouldn't have had if she hadn't had the abortion to start with. For example, a woman may abort a seriously disabled foe... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: If a girl is raped and pregnant, should she keep the baby? |
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Posted: 19 Aug 2011, 3:26 pm
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| No woman should be discouraged from having an abortion for a pregnancy that results from a rape. Forcing women to keep children of rape perpetuates the genes of the rapist (what the rapist wanted all along, even if subconsciously). Usually rapists are people that women would not normally choose to b... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: My thoughts on the English riots. |
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Posted: 19 Aug 2011, 2:49 pm
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| I come from Sheffield - the largest city which did NOT riot in England. By some estimates the third largest city in the UK, by others more like 7th (depends upon exactly where limits are drawn), but probably in the top 5 on average. Why did we not riot here? We have extreme poverty - as much as any ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Reading the Mind in the Eyes test: Is it really valid? |
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Posted: 08 Jul 2011, 3:01 pm
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| My general feeling from experience and having read Cordelia Fine's book is that Simon Baron-Cohens conclusions are not right. The problem with psychology is that it is so open to multiple interpretations, and Fine's idea that women tend to rate themselves as more empathetic because they think they o... |
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Forum: Bipolar, Tourettes, Schizophrenia, and other Psychological Conditions Topic: depression: is medication a safe way to escape reality? |
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Posted: 08 Jul 2011, 2:44 pm
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| My personal experience is that anti-depressants don't do anything. They certainly don't numb the brain, but scientifically they are in fact no better than enhanced placebos (that is, placebos that give side-effects), something which has conveniently been covered up by the companies that make them. P... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Evolution selected socialism |
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Posted: 07 Jul 2011, 3:16 pm
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| Given that we evolved as a social species, a certain level of cooperation is required for our continued success. Our current society is not even capitalist according to strict criteria - rather the rich have a form of socialism whilst the poor do not. Certainly some level of inequality is necessary ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: How do I ask a man out? |
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Posted: 07 Jul 2011, 2:58 pm
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| I am not very experienced with this so I don't know why I am giving you advice but I would say that next time you are on his bus, you could maybe ask him when his shift finishes and then perhaps suggest meeting for a drink afterwards (cafe or bar depending upon time). The only thing I would be wary ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Aspies can't lie |
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Posted: 07 Jul 2011, 2:49 pm
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Replies: 114
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| I dislike lying although to say I can't do it would be disingenious. In fact I can't BS, and I hate these type of lies people tell to one another and accept but don't believe. The main area where I have lied is when I was married telling my husband that I loved him. Well I did as a friend, but I kne... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Happiness vs truth |
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Posted: 07 Jul 2011, 2:35 pm
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Replies: 37
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| Forcing myself to be happy does not work. Antidepressants do not work on me (in fact they are no better than enhanced placebos - I didn't know this when I first took them, but now know why they didn't work, I am not susceptible to the placebo effect). In general depression is a way of the body sayin... |
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