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  1. Re:Replacement available on Psychiatrists Cast Doubt On Biomedical Model of Mental Illness · · Score: 1
    You could, you know, try meditation.

    Taking a pill isn't a cure for having no control over your thoughts. The problem is still there, you're just hiding the symptoms. Perhaps, maybe, just maybe, those thoughts are a direct result of what YOU are doing with your life.

  2. Re:Replacement available on Psychiatrists Cast Doubt On Biomedical Model of Mental Illness · · Score: 1

    Welcome to allopathic medicine! This stupidity doesn't only apply to mental 'illness'.

  3. Re:Replacement needed on Psychiatrists Cast Doubt On Biomedical Model of Mental Illness · · Score: 1

    DSM isn't for lay people. Those in the know all know what normal is.

  4. Re:Replacement needed on Psychiatrists Cast Doubt On Biomedical Model of Mental Illness · · Score: 1
    Not sure what your point is, or what exactly you are responding to in the parent.

    Anyways, most of the foods you listed aren't bad. It's the sulfites and preservatives. Fermented food is actually one of the best things you could be eating, also one of the hardest to actually find since the US food industry did away with most fermented foods and replaced them with food with chemical additives to give the flavour and texture of fermented foods.

    As an aside, I used to suffer from weekly migraines my whole life. Fixed it up solely through diet and meditation, the doctors were just quacks prescribing random medications.

  5. Re:Car Analogy on Psychiatrists Cast Doubt On Biomedical Model of Mental Illness · · Score: 1
    Perhaps god did leave a manual. You know, in spiritual texts all around the world.

    It is not suprising that a society that encourages and allows sin(things which may have negative consequences) has a lot of problems.

  6. Re:Car Analogy on Psychiatrists Cast Doubt On Biomedical Model of Mental Illness · · Score: 1

    emulsion

  7. Re:Would most people be better off undiagnosed? on Psychiatrists Cast Doubt On Biomedical Model of Mental Illness · · Score: 1
    Welcome to western medicine. It's descriptions of symptoms all the way down.

    Some people don't understand this because they mistake mechanisms for causes, e.g. stomach ulcers.

  8. Re:Practice works on Brain Zapping Improves Math Ability · · Score: 1
    When there's a genuine mind and not an uncooperative memorizing machine of course.

    The problem with math in the US is that most of the population are unthinking sheep.

  9. Re:Would most people be better off undiagnosed? on Psychiatrists Cast Doubt On Biomedical Model of Mental Illness · · Score: 1

    For example, a locved one died yesterday and you're feeling down. In previous versions, that was an explicit exclusion but now it's clinical depression and you should take a pill to feel better.

    No, no it wouldn't.

  10. Re:Science Goose on Brain Zapping Improves Math Ability · · Score: 1

    I believe it's called living in a country with a substandard education system, but it doesn't matter because everybody there just knows they're the greatest thing to happen to earth since oxygen.

  11. Re:It's Leaches all over again. on Brain Zapping Improves Math Ability · · Score: 1

    umm, you do know that leaches and bloodletting are useful and still in use today right?

  12. Re:Practice works on Brain Zapping Improves Math Ability · · Score: 1

    What works even better is actually UNDERSTANDING math.

  13. Re:What do they PREDICT, not what do they FEEL on 97% of Climate Science Papers Agree Global Warming Is Man-made · · Score: 1
    It's just cosmically funny how you blame others for exactly what you do.

    Your tag just shows you're a selfish little prick who can't be bothered to do what's right because you want more than your fair share of the pie. USian right?

  14. Re:What do they PREDICT, not what do they FEEL on 97% of Climate Science Papers Agree Global Warming Is Man-made · · Score: 1
    Heisenberg would disagree with you.

    You're also an idiot. You keep spouting off about science being rooted in facts and then just tell us that those scientists are idiots and we should listen to you who isn't doing any science.

  15. Re:There are more papers in the study... on 97% of Climate Science Papers Agree Global Warming Is Man-made · · Score: 1
    You're a bit of an idiot aren't you?

    When you have a closed homeostatic system and then add in an extra influence you have a problem. You cannot tell what amount of extra input the system can deal with and that is a problem. We KNOW humans are contributing (if you can't see that you're a double idiot) and we know they aren't doing anything real to counteract those effects, therefore we have a problem as we push a stabilized system towards instability.

  16. Re:I do believe it because it based on sound scien on 97% of Climate Science Papers Agree Global Warming Is Man-made · · Score: 1

    The article does say, the summary is misleading.

  17. Re:I do believe it because it based on sound scien on 97% of Climate Science Papers Agree Global Warming Is Man-made · · Score: 1

    and you would be stupid for doing so since the summary is incorrect.

  18. Re:And what do we learn from this ? on Larry Page's Vocal Cords Are Partially Paralyzed · · Score: 1
    Do not confuse unengineered for your inability to understand the engineered decisions.

    You do know the problems with most of the human body is not the design of the body itself, but the inability of the humans to use it properly. USian focus on 'individuality' compounds the stupidity drastically. Compare group gymnastics by the USA to any asian country.

  19. Re:Mosquitos on Genetically Modified Plants To Produce Natural Lighting · · Score: 2

    and say goodbye to mosquito pollinated fruit?

  20. Re:Prescribe religion on Belief In God Correlates With Better Mental Health Treatment Outcomes · · Score: 1
    No. I found god because I lacked faith and didn't understand other humans. So I turned to studying every bit of human culture I could get my hands on since the beginning of recorded history. After all, humanity as a whole describes the possibilities of the human experience. So why is it that some people have faith and others do not. Why is it that some people have profound 'god experiences' that causes them to try and express that experience to those around them. What is it about others that believes them?

    More importantly, what kept me, as an autist who interpreted everything literaly, from not only experiencing god, but from experiencing other people. What part of the human possibilities of expression was I lacking?

    Remember, 'god' is a description of a human experience, it is not the dogma that grows up around these experiences. To be truly human, one must 'know thyself'. Cutting yourself off from the possibilities of human expression littles you. To know yourself is to know others. We have two brains, and like our two eyes, some people choose to ignore one of them, picking and choosing the parts of reality they find pleasing, or hiding from the horrors they see. Any one who wears glasses should automatically ask themselves, what am i focusing on? What am I ignoring? Why? Awareness of what you are ignoring brings you to completion. Watch the TED talk 'Stroke of Insight'

  21. Re:Disappointed. on 'Master Gene' Makes Mouse Brain Look More Human · · Score: 1
    No. No they aren't.

    However, they do believe they are when they post their made up statistics on slashdot.

  22. Re:Copyright. on Ask Slashdot: Are There Any Good Reasons For DRM? · · Score: 1

    You have a lot of dumb friends if they think burning a cd equates to more work than, oh, i don't know, the artists having to compose, play, and record those songs.

  23. Re:Income on Ask Slashdot: Are There Any Good Reasons For DRM? · · Score: 1
    All humans are creative. A tiny fraction of those get paid well for their creative works. Truly creative work is not simply 'creating' under a task master with an already laid out plan.

    Careful about expanding your limited knowledge of Hollywood to any other country in the world besides the USA.

  24. Re:Art doesn't need remuneration on Ask Slashdot: Are There Any Good Reasons For DRM? · · Score: 1

    And yet some of us don't create, even if we can and want to, because we have to do things like eat and pay rent. It's almost impossible for a potter to have the resources to create that one off beautiful piece when t build those resources he has to compete against machine made copies at a fraction of the cost to the consumer. Even good quality handmade pottery can be had from china at a cost that wouldn't even compensate the potter for his materials and expendables let alone his time.

  25. Re:DRM is 90% about Obedience/Submission on Ask Slashdot: Are There Any Good Reasons For DRM? · · Score: 2
    That's probably the stupidest analogy ever.

    Pringles are consumed when they're consumed. It's one use only.

    If you are sharing the pringles AFTER you've already enjoyed them, well, you're one sick bastard.