Second thoughts

Second thoughts about fluoride.

L ong before the passionate debates over cigarettes, DDT, asbestos or the ozone hole, most Americans had heard of only one environmental health controversy: fluoridation. Starting in the 1950s, hundreds of communities across the U.S. became embroiled in heated battles over whether fluorides—ionic compounds containing the element fluorine—should be added to their water systems. On one side was a...

Euripides' Second Thoughts

Second Thoughts on Ayurveda

This article takes up a few "riddles" in the theory of Ayurveda and suggests explanations. It also looks into the Mahabhutas in pharmacology and discusses the real causes of diseases starts with. An interesting graphic representation of the six rasas, is also presented.

A Case for Second Thoughts.

A Case jor Second Thoughts ALTHOUGH physicians are well aware that many of their patients have overt anxiety and other evidence of psychiatric disability, they still, in the main, adopt a conservative attitude and will attempt to eliminate organic causes in a vast proportion of such cases. This usually brings a sharp rebuff from the psychiatrist who demands a more positive approach to the probl...

Second thoughts on development accounting

We estimate the relative roles of factor inputs and productivity in explaining the level of economic development, which is measured as output per worker. For a large sample of countries, we show that alternative identifying productivity assumptions and alternative measures of human capital have a large impact on the relative weights of factor inputs and productivity in a decomposition of output...