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Comment Follow up to Angell article (Score 1) 542

by jnorden on Sunday July 17, 2011 @02:14AM (#36791080) Attached to: Mass Psychosis In the USA?

The NYT piece by Marcia Angell is excellent, really worth reading all the way through. The second part of her article can be found here:
here.

I found the most infuriating bit of information to be that Irving Kirsch had to use the freedom of information act to get the FDA to release all of the study data it had on the antidepressants he analyzed. I assume he succeeded because the patents had expired, so the FDA was no longer able to treat the data as "proprietary". It is really criminal that drug companies aren't forced to release all the information that they've collected about a drug once it is approved.

Man Wants to Donate His Heart Before He Dies 456

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday July 29, 2010 @11:36AM from the cart-before-the-horse dept.

Gary Phebus wants to donate his heart, lungs, and liver. The problem is he wants to donate them before he dies. Gary was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, better known as Lou Gehrig's disease, in 2008. Phebus says he'd like to be able to donate his organs before they deteriorate, and doesn't consider his request suicide because he's "dead anyway."

Massive EU Program To Study Three-legged Dogs 85

Posted by samzenpus on Tuesday July 20, 2010 @10:14AM from the all-I-really-need-to-know-I-learned-from-a-three-legged-dog dept.

DMandPenfold writes "A multi-billion dollar European Union IT research fund will help study the behavior of three-legged dogs, it has been revealed. The fund will support extensive studies into how three-legged dogs move. There is a particular focus on how the dogs balance and function, given their missing limb."

Building a Homemade Nuclear Reactor In NYC 219

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday June 24, 2010 @10:37AM from the extreme-diy dept.

yukk writes "Mark Suppes, a web developer for Gucci, is working on his own personal fusion reactor. His work in a NYC warehouse using $35,000 of his own money and $4,000 raised on a website has made him the 38th independent researcher recognized as creating a working fusion reactor. How's that for a hobby?"

Measuring the Speed of Light With Valentine's Day Chocolate 126

Posted by samzenpus on Tuesday February 16, 2010 @04:04PM from the speed-of-the-sound-of-loneliness dept.

Cytotoxic writes "What to do with all of those leftover Valentine's Day chocolates? — a common problem for the Slashdot crowd. The folks over at Wired magazine have an answer for you in a nice article showing how to measure the speed of light with a microwave and some chocolate. A simple yet surprisingly accurate method that can be used to introduce the scientific method to children and others in need of a scientific education."

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