jeudi 6 novembre 2014

SFA dairy and CVD

http://www.health.gov/dietaryguidelines/dga2015/comments/uploads/CID813_AJCN_Editorial_SFA_Astrup.pdf


You can also read in french a comment of a member of our team on the last BMJ paper on milk in the electronic media Atlantico!

Use of knowledge in society

http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2014/11/05/360351551/how-much-is-that-mri-really-massachusetts-shines-a-light?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=202505

http://evankozierachi.com/uploads/The_Use_of_Knowledge_in_Society_-_Hayek.pdf


"The peculiar character of the problem of a rational economic order
is determined precisely by the fact that the knowledge of the circumstances
of which we must make use never exists in concentrated or
integrated form, but solely as the dispersed bits of incomplete and
frequently contradictory knowledge which all the separate individuals

possess."

Presently the web and aggregation engines have completely reshape the landscape of information.


"The example of used cars captures the essence of the problem. 
From time to time one hears either mention of or surprise at the 
large price difference between new cars and those which have just 
left the showroom. The usual lunch table justification for this 
phenomenon is the pure joy of owning a "new" car. We offer a 
different explanation. Suppose (for the sake of clarity rather than 
reality) that there are just four kinds of cars. There are new cars 
and used cars. There are good cars and bad cars (which in America 
are known as "lemons"). A new car may be a good car or a lemon, 
and of course the same is true of used cars. "

http://www.iei.liu.se/nek/730g83/artiklar/1.328833/AkerlofMarketforLemons.pdf

Le conseil de l'ordre des médecins et des infirmiers sont ils utiles?

http://www.lequotidiendumedecin.fr/actualite/exercice/infirmiere-sexy-medecin-chippendale-une-clinique-scandalise-les-ordres

"Cette campagne n’est pas à la hauteur de la médecine et « ne respecte pas le code de déontologie », estime l’Ordre des médecins. Pour FleurBarbequot, présidente du conseil départemental de l’Ordre des infirmiers de Loire (CDOI), elle se sert « de l’image dégradée d’un être humain pour créer du buzz et faire parler de son établissement ». Le CDOI et le Conseil de l’Ordre des médecins comptent bien mettre un terme à cette campagne d’affichage."

« Les manquements visés par la plainte concernent le fait que la médecine n’est pas un commerce, que les médecins ne peuvent pas tolérer de publicité sur leur activité médicale, qu’ils ont un devoir de confraternité vis-à-vis de leurs confrères, ainsi que vis-à-vis des autres professionnels de santé », a expliqué mardi matin, sur France BleuSaint-Etienne, le Dr Jean-François Janowiak, secrétaire général de l’Ordre des médecins de la Loire.
« Cette publicité, à la limite du bon goût vis-à-vis des autres professionnels de santé, n’est ni éthique, ni déontologique », a-t-il ajouté, estimant que son confrère incriminé « encourt sans doute un avertissement ou un blâme ».
Ils vont poursuivre le directeur médical de cette clinique.
Vite dépéchez vious de prendre les problèmes du système de soins par le bout de al lorgnette ou on ne voit rien...



Il s'agirait d'une publicité 

mercredi 5 novembre 2014

Gordon Tullock

His work had an immense influence on political science and legal scholarship, as well as economics. Many economists believe that Tullock deserved to share the Nobel Prize with Buchanan, since his contributions to the development of public choice were of at least comparable significance. As Tyler Cowen notes, Tullock became one of the greatest economists of his time, even though he did not have even an undergraduate degree in economics, and only took one economics course in his life.

Babel's tower

http://mentalfloss.com/sites/default/files/196.jpg

La prière dans l'islam

http://sami-aldeeb.com/files/fetch.php?id=338

Cave paintings

http://m.youtube.com/watch?list=PL5A4nPQbUF8AYyl_xiwB0PyyYYGBzm4iL&v=74woCKzVEIc

Gravitation

http://m.youtube.com/watch?list=PL5A4nPQbUF8AYyl_xiwB0PyyYYGBzm4iL&v=74woCKzVEIc

mardi 4 novembre 2014

IQ before and after cannabis use: is it sufficient?

Persistence of regular cannabis useN% maleAge 7–13 y full-scale IQAge 38 y full-scale IQΔ IQ effect size*
Never used24238.8499.84 (14.39)100.64 (15.25)0.05
Used, never regularly50850.59102.27 (13.59)101.24 (14.81)−0.07
Used regularly at 1 wave4772.34101.42 (14.41)98.45 (14.89)−0.20
Used regularly at 2 waves3663.8995.28 (10.74)93.26 (11.44)−0.13
Used regularly at 3+ waves4178.0596.00 (16.06)90.77 (13.88)−0.35

http://www.pnas.org/content/109/40/E2657/1/T6.expansion.html
 
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