Op911 - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Evidence based medicine is extremely frustratin (Score 1) 1064

by Op911 on Monday March 02, 2009 @02:57AM (#27037429) Attached to: Why Doctors Hate Science

So you seriously want your physician to prescribe you something he/she knows has no physiological effect, but tell you, or at least allow you to believe that it will work solely so that you can benefit from the placebo i.e. psychological effect?

Essentially what you are suggesting that physicians do is let their patients believe that sugar pills mixed with water work to cure disease X; or, at least, fail to re-educate patients with such notions.

Submission + - Vista vs. the Gibbon 4

Submitted by ricegf on Monday October 22, 2007 @12:04AM

ricegf writes: If you had 7 computers running various versions of Windows and Linux, on which machine would you choose to do most of your work? Rupert Goodwins describes his experience thus: 'So here's the funny thing. I've used Windows since 1.0. I've lived through the bad times of Windows/386 and ME, and the good times of NT 3.51 and 2K. I know XP if not backwards, then with a degree of familiarity that only middle-aged co-dependents can afford each other. Then how come I'm so much more at home with Ubuntu than Vista?'

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