"I Had Already Made Up My Mind"

If I had... If my wife had cancer of the breast.

Mistakes I Have Made in My Research Career.

I started in psychiatry at the Maudsley Hospital and Institute of Psychiatry, London, in October 1972, and spent the next 3 years completing my basic training. I was then offered a research post studying the excretion of dimethyltryptamine (DMT) in patients with schizophrenia. DMT is a hallucinogen used by Amazonian Indians in their religious ceremonies, as well as a minor street drug, and the ...

Why I changed my mind about water fluoridation.

46. Jacobsen SJ, O'Fallon WM, Melton III IJ. Hip fracture incidence before and after fluoridation of the publicwater supply, Rochester, Minnesota. American Journal of Public Health 83 743-745 1993.47. Suarez-Almazor ME, Flowerdew G, Saunders LD et al. The fluoridation of drinking water and hip fracturehospitalization rates in 2 Canadian communities. American Journal of Public He...

Can “I” prevent you from entering my mind?

Shaun Gallagher has actively looked into the possibility that psychopathologies involving “thought insertion” might supply a counterexample to the Cartesian principle according to which one can always recognize one’s own thoughts as one’s own. Animated by a general distrust of a priori demonstrations, Gallagher is convinced that pitting clinical cases against philosophical arguments is a worthw...

When Religion Had a Mind

ritten in 1779 by the playwright and philosopher Gotthold Lessing, Nathan the Wise http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1463609019 /ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325& creativeASIN=1463609019&linkCode=as2&tag=thenewrep08!20 ranks among the most powerful arguments for religious tolerance in the entirety of the eighteenth century. Germany in the age of Enlightenment was still tre...