And is anyone actually being harmed by this "shadow banking"? If so, I'd be interested in a concrete example.
Off the top of my head? How about the people who live in the year 2013 who are still living in poverty? How about the children who died this year from preventable and curable disease that couldn't get the treatment they needed because their area doesn't have money to afford things like clinics and hospitals that the developed world takes for granted.
The program involved me sitting in a dentists chair while I had electrodes on my head. I played a dumbed down version of pac-man with my mind.
The basic way it works is when your brain is creating the ideal waves for 'focus' the pacman moves through the maze. The idea is that the child will focus on the pacman moving and through practice will learn to move the pacman through the maze without stopping.
Eventually we ended the program because it just made me so tired I would fall asleep in the chair. Booooring as shit. I suspect something like this would probably work better for an adult who cares more and has the focus to do it. I think I was too young at the time to really care to put more effort into it.
Warfarin, originally used as rat poison, is still the number one anti-coagulant. However it requires regular monitoring (blood tests) to ensure therapeutic levels are being taken or there is a risk of embolism or internal bleeding.
When Plavix came out ten or so years ago the major draw for a lot of patients was that it required no regular monitoring which is a pain in the ass for users of warfain. Unfortunately because Plavix works by a completely different method of action it can't be used as a universal anticoagulant like Warfarin (the method of action for Warfin has been well understood for a long time now.)
Conditions like Factor V Leiden mutation are still being treated with Warfarin with very low or no side effects where as with Plavix you run the risk of Severe Neutropenia and unlike Warfarin, who's effects can begin to be negated with a vitamin K injection, there is no antidote for Plavix.
It makes me wonder how much of an improvement in treatment was really made. Maybe it was worth it to some people to not have to get blood drawn every month. But for all that research to be done and have it not work for all conditions and have many more unpredictable side effects (even if they may be in low occurrence) tons of people have switched from paying $3 a month for warfarin to $60 for plavix, which, if you don't have health insurance, is about the same price if not more expensive than getting a simple blood test.
Geeze the more I talk about it the more I imagine a hamster running around in a wheel.
Even chemotherapy treatments these days haven't changed too much. Methotrexate and Vincristine are still among the number one chemo drugs used in leukemia and lymphoma treatment regimens after almost sixty years.
The difference these days is that we know what doses are better for treatment and we know what drugs to use in combination with them to ensure a better prognosis
People with compromised immune systems like to eat out too.
On a personal level I agree with you, I mean shit, I make sushi for a living and eat plenty of fun bacteria at the end of every shift and when I'm at home I'm happy to just wipe down the sink with soap and water once in a while but when I'm working it's not my job to strengthen people's immune systems, It's to serve them safe food, that's what they expect and that's what they are paying for.
People set up their cold energy producers in a fashion similar to this and get measurable current and then think they've found cold fusion. Other people cant reproduce the results because until recently it's been seriously misunderstood what's happening to create this measurable energy.
Old programmers never die, they just become managers.