samedi 20 avril 2019

Table.

Amount of Required Sedation in Regular Cannabis Users Compared With Nonusers

	Amount of Sedation Required			P Value
Sedative	Cannabis Nonusers (n=225)	Cannabis Users (n=25)	Greater Requirement, %	t Test	Mann-Whitney U Test
Fentanyl, μg	109.91	125.93	14	.029	.003
Midazolam, mg	7.61	9.15	19.6	<.001	<.001
Propofol, mg	13.83	44.81	220.5	.026	.001

Notre Dame de Paris: un incendie dans une société où le risque majeur doit être assuré mais aussi un évènement dans un contexte criminel indéniable alors qu'on nous explique que c'est sur c'est accidentel

Les assurances
https://www.lepoint.fr/culture/incendie-de-notre-dame-de-paris-7-questions-autour-des-assurances-17-04-2019-2308108_3.php

https://www.lepoint.fr/faits-divers/notre-dame-l-entreprise-de-renovation-impliquee-dans-un-autre-depart-de-feu-18-04-2019-2308432_2627.php#xtor=CS2-238

https://news.suavelos.eu/lechafaudage-de-notre-dame-de-paris-installe-en-avril-2018-etait-quasiment-un-chemin-de-promenade-regulier/?fbclid=IwAR2hCQRb2ZkVyw1nwdjKOXfEL5XTMmGUBAU3txgVqj_1rAoyhS2-tb2cHQo

Vendredi 1er mars – Landes. Sainte-Eulalie-en-Born. Vandalisme et vol dans l’église Sainte-Eulalie. Source : https://www.christianophobie.fr/carte/vandalisme-et-vol-dans-une-autre-eglise-des-landes

Vendredi 1er mars – Vienne. Saint-Julien-l’Ars. Profanation et vol dans l’église Saint-Julien. Source : https://www.christianophobie.fr/carte/profanation-et-vol-dans-une-quatrieme-eglise-de-la-vienne

Samedi 2-dimanche 3 mars – Seine-Saint-Denis. Saint-Denis. Actes de vandalisme dans la basilique Saint-Denis. Source : https://www.christianophobie.fr/carte/orgue-vandalise-vitraux-brises-en-la-basilique-de-saint-denis

Vendredi 3-mercredi 13 mars (entre ces dates) – Vienne. L’Isle-Jourdain. Profanation et vol dans l’église Saint-Gervais-et-Saint-Protais. Source : https://www.christianophobie.fr/carte/profanation-et-vol-dans-une-eglise-de-lisle-jourdain-vienne

Mardi 5 mars (date du signalement) – Maine-et-Loire. L’Hôtellerie-de-Flée (ancienne commune rattachée à la nouvelle commune de Segré-en-Anjou-Bleu). Statue de la Vierge décapitée dans une réplique de la Grotte de Lourdes. Source : https://www.christianophobie.fr/carte/une-statue-de-la-vierge-decapitee-en-maine-et-loire

Mardi 5-mercredi 6 mars (nuit du) – Bas-Rhin. Reichstett. Vandalisme et tags sur l’église Saint-Michel. Source : https://www.christianophobie.fr/carte/tags-et-vandalisme-sur-une-eglise-du-bas-rhin

Mercredi 6 mars (date du signalement) – Ille-et-Vilaine. Corps-Nuds. Croix arrachée et renversée au lieudit « La Croix au chêne ». Source : https://www.christianophobie.fr/carte/croix-arrachee-et-renversee-en-ille-et-vilaine

Mardi 6 mars – Gers. Auch. Tombes chrétiennes vandalisées dans le cimetière municipal. Source : https://www.christianophobie.fr/carte/tombes-vandalisees-a-auch-dans-le-gers

Jeudi 7 mars – Indre-et-Loire. Sorigny. Profanation et vol dans l’église Saint-Pierre-ès-Liens. Source : https://www.christianophobie.fr/carte/profanation-et-vol-dans-leglise-de-sorigny-en-indre-et-loire

Vendredi 8 mars – Charente. Confolens. Profanation et vol dans l’église Saint-Barthélémy. Source : https://www.christianophobie.fr/carte/profanation-et-vol-dans-leglise-de-confolens-dans-la-vienne

Vendredi 8-samedi 9 mars (nuit du) – Charente. Angoulême. Vandalisme et vol dans l’église protestante Espoir & Vie (Assemblées de Dieu). Source : https://www.christianophobie.fr/carte/eglise-evangelique-vandalisee-a-angouleme-en-charente-video

Samedi 9 mars (date du signalement) – Hérault. Sète. Environ 90 tombes vandalisées dans le cimetière Marin et le cimetière du Py. Source : https://www.christianophobie.fr/carte/deux-cimetieres-profanes-a-sete-en-herault

Samedi 9 mars – Vienne. Charroux. Vols dans l’église Saint-Sulpice. Source : https://www.christianophobie.fr/carte/vol-dans-une-eglise-de-charroux-dans-la-vienne

Samedi 9 mars (date du constat) – Charente. Confolens. Profanation et vol dans l’église Saint-Maxime. Source : https://www.christianophobie.fr/carte/une-deuxieme-eglise-profanee-et-volee-a-confolens-en-charente

Dimanche 10 mars (date du signalement) – Aude. Narbonne. Tombe vandalisée dans le cimetière de Bourg. Source : https://www.christianophobie.fr/carte/tombe-familiale-vandalisee-dans-un-cimetiere-de-narbonnedans-laude

Lundi 11 mars – Bas-Rhin. Strasbourg. Profanation et vandalisme dans l’église Saint-Louis-de-la-Robertsau. Source : https://www.christianophobie.fr/carte/eglise-profanee-et-vandalisee-a-strasbourg-dans-le-bas-rhin

Lundi 11 mars – Vosges. Vittel. Remise en place d’une effigie en métal du Christ sur une croix de chemin, préalablement vandalisée. Source : https://www.christianophobie.fr/carte/une-croix-de-chemin-vandalisee-a-vittel-dans-les-vosges

Mardi 12 mars – Bouches-du-Rhône. Marseille. Un prêtre dominicain agressé à cause de son habit religieux. Sourde : https://www.christianophobie.fr/carte/un-dominicain-agresse-a-marseille

Mardi 12 mars (date du signalement) – Calvados. Caen. La presse régionale signale l’arrestation d’un pilleur de troncs qui écumait des églises du département depuis 2017. Source : https://www.christianophobie.fr/carte/calvados-un-pilleur-de-troncs-deglises-arrete

Mardi 12 mars (date du signalement) – Haute-Corse. Bastia. Vandalisme dans un local de l’église Notre-Dame-de-Lourdes. Source :https://www.christianophobie.fr/carte/vandalisme-a-la-paroisse-notre-dame-de-lourdes-de-bastiahaute-corse

Samedi 16 mars – Charente-Maritime. Saintes. Vol et profanation dans la basilique Saint-Eutrope. Sources : https://www.christianophobie.fr/carte/profanation-dans-la-basilique-saint-eutrope-a-saintes-encharente-maritime

Samedi 16-dimanche 31 mars (entre ces deux dates) – Haute-Savoie. Annecy. Profanation dans la chapelle du Centre Hospitalier Annecy Genevois Source : https://www.christianophobie.fr/carte/profanation-dans-la-chapelle-de-lhopital-dannecy-en-hautesavoie

Dimanche 17 mars – Paris. Incendie criminel dans l’église Saint-Sulpice (VIearrondissement). Source : https://www.christianophobie.fr/carte/incendie-dans-leglise-saint-sulpice-a-paris

Lundi 18 mars – Loire. Saint-Chamond. Vol dans l’église Saint-Pierre. Source : https://www.christianophobie.fr/carte/un-pilleur-deglises-interpelle-a-saint-chamond-dans-la-loire

Lundi 18-mardi 19 mars (entre ces dates) – Moselle. Berig-Vintrage. Profanation d’un ossuaire sous l’église Saint-Hippolyte. Source : https://www.christianophobie.fr/carte/troublant-pillage-de-lossuaire-dune-eglise-en-moselle

Mardi 19 mars – Seine-Maritime. Le Tréport. Vol dans l’église Saint-Jacques. Source : https://www.christianophobie.fr/carte/vol-dans-une-eglise-du-treport-en-seine-maritime

Mardi 19-mercredi 20 mars (entre ces deux dates) – Vosges. Vittel. Une croix de chemin vandalisée pour la deuxième fois. Source : https://www.christianophobie.fr/carte/une-croix-de-chemin-vandalisee-a-vittel-dans-les-vosges

Mercredi 20 mars (date du signalement) – Vosges. Vittel. Effigie du Christ de nouveau vandalisée sur une croix de chemin. Source : https://www.christianophobie.fr/carte/une-croix-de-chemin-vandalisee-a-vittel-dans-les-vosges

Jeudi 21 mars (date du signalement) – Var. Cuers. Tags sur la chapelle Notre-Dame-de-Santé. Source : https://www.christianophobie.fr/carte/une-chapelle-taguee-a-cuers-dans-le-var

Jeudi 21-vendredi 22 mars (nuit du) – Pyrénées-Orientales. Vernet-les-Bains. Tags sur l’église anglicane St George. Source : https://www.christianophobie.fr/carte/une-eglise-taguee-a-vernet-les-bains-dans-les-pyreneesorientales

Vendredi 22 mars (date du signalement) – Ardèche. Villeneuve-de-Berg. Vandalismes et profanation dans l’église Saint-Louis. Source : https://www.christianophobie.fr/carte/profanation-de-lautel-et-benitier-souille-dans-leglise-devilleneuve-de-berg-en-ardeche

Samedi 23 mars (date du signalement) – Averyon. Veyreau. Vandalisme au prieuré Saint-Jean-des-Balmes. Source : https://www.christianophobie.fr/carte/le-prieure-de-saint-jean-des-balmes-vandalise-en-aveyron

Samedi 23-vendredi 29 mars (entre ces deux dates) – Haute-Vienne. Limoges. Vols dans la chapelle Saint-Aurélien. Source : https://www.christianophobie.fr/carte/vols-dans-une-chapelle-de-limoges-en-haute-vienne

Dimanche 24 mars (date du signalement) – Vosges. Betrimoutier. Tombes vandalisées dans le cimetières municipal. Source : https://www.christianophobie.fr/carte/cimetieres-vandalises-dans-les-vosges

Dimanche 24 mars (date du signalement) – Vosges. Provenchères. Tombes vandalisées dans le cimetières municipal. Source : https://www.christianophobie.fr/carte/cimetieres-vandalises-dans-les-vosges

Dimanche 24 mars (date du signalement) – Vosges. Colroy. Tombes vandalisées dans le cimetières municipal. Source : https://www.christianophobie.fr/carte/cimetieres-vandalises-dans-les-vosges

Dimanche 24–dimanche 31 mars (entre ces deux dates) – Deux-Sèvres. Parthenay. Vols dans le cimetière municipal. Source : https://www.christianophobie.fr/carte/vols-a-repetition-dans-le-cimetiere-de-parthenay-dans-les-deuxsevres

Mardi 26 mars (date du signalement) – Somme. Péronne. Vols à répétition dans l’église Saint-Jean-Baptiste. Source : https://www.christianophobie.fr/carte/vols-a-repetition-dans-une-eglise-de-peronne-dans-la-somme

Samedi 30 mars – Haut-Rhin. Uffholtz. Crucifix vandalisé. Source : https://www.christianophobie.fr/carte/crucifix-abattu-a-uffholtz-dans-le-bas-rhin

Dimanche 31 mars – Pyrénées-Atlantiques. Hendaye. École catholique vandalisée. Source : https://www.christianophobie.fr/carte/une-ecole-catholique-vandalisee-a-hendaye-dans-les-pyreneesatlantiques

Climate paleo memory in modern humans: puzzling subject

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.180695

The researchers found that the lowest average temperatures came to 8 degrees C (generally at night, when people turn down thermostats) and the highest mean maximum was 36 degrees C. The researchers then split up Earth into cells half a degree longitude and latitude in size, and plugged in actual average temperatures for each cell. They compared the averages for homes in the U.S. with their cell data and found that people in the U.S. set the environmental conditions inside their homes in a way that very nearly matches environmental conditions in western Kenya and other parts of eastern Africa. They noted that conditions in Kenya also tend to be quite dry, similar to the U.S. They further noted that Kenya and nearby areas are believed to be the places where modern humans first appeared on the planet. They conclude by suggesting that modern humans are setting their thermostats to give them roughly the same climate they were exposed to during the period when they had no control over the weather. It is apparently the climate in which we are still most comfortable.

https://phys.org/news/2019-03-americans-thermostat-african-environmental-temperatures.html?fbclid=IwAR2X0OPUVnTq6CuBidb9lzJdbeY0qIwEGmweDsTovNqUbiPpprDoqMuJ-Bc

La mémoire climatique paléo chez l'homme moderne: un sujet déroutant

vendredi 19 avril 2019

Péguy

« Les patries sont toujours trahies par les intellectuels et défendues pas les gueux. »

Jews in Europe: England

The Edict of Expulsion of 1290

http://www.heretical.com/british/jews1290.html?fbclid=IwAR1FFzXURNt4dedVhTBPQXlyErB1Zm8VAiBeDeZqzq8ugs5WGW4CaRPneLs

Ranking of world hospitals

2019

France: public debt is paralysing the entire society

Is there any other exit?

Attali joins EAT-Lancet for the worst of public health

https://www.lesechos.fr/idees-debats/editos-analyses/jacques-attali-notre-modele-actuel-dalimentation-ne-peut-pas-durer-1012751

Personalized drug dosage

https://www.thermofisher.com/blog/materials/creating-personalized-medicine-with-hot-melt-extrusion-and-3d-printing/?cid=li-emspec&fbclid=IwAR3wgfjOBMjbftj9kVc6uLwE9C5n0KGU0BeD4bi9rKDlDsFmtXE5XcQ2Sok

https://players.brightcove.net/pages/v1/index.html?accountId=665001591001&playerId=rybRJCbfuW&videoId=5794448337001&autoplay=true

Aujourd'hui: Pessah et Vendredi Saint, libération d'un peuple et résurrection d'un juif

I do not discuss here the founding myths but I wonder about the calendar concomitance.
The Haggadah, the resurrection of Jesus are founding myths whose historicity is a subject of research, on the other hand, their calendar concordance and their resemblance are a source of questions.

"J'ai beaucoup de doutes ( archéologiques) sur la libération et encore plus sur la résurrection !"

"Je ne discute pas ici les mythes fondateurs mais je m'interroge sur la concomittance calendaire.
La Haggadah, la résurrection de Jésus sont des mythes fondateurs dont l'historicité est un sujet de recherche, en revanche leur concommittance calendaire et leur ressemblnce sont une source d'interrogations."
Modifier ou supprimer

"le dernier repas de Jésus était celui du seder (repas de fête de Pessah). Si les chrétiens avaient gardé le calendrier hébraïque, les fêtes seraient concomitantes chaque année."

"Bien sur mais cette année c'est le cas, magnifique."

Jean Tirole NP on the French job market and structural unemployment as a product of the French welfare state

https://www.challenges.fr/economie/les-verites-de-jean-tirole-sur-le-chomage-de-masse_641416

jeudi 18 avril 2019

Preparing to touring ski in Alps: Chamonix Zermatt

https://www.barrabes.com/fr-fr/blog-montagne/reportages/2-8778/chamonix--zermatt-haute-route

mercredi 17 avril 2019

Nutritional supplements

Re-posting here, as a stand-alone comment, since I fear it may have gotten lost within the thread, and at least some parts of it bear repeating...
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Yes, sadly, carrageenan and gums are quite pervasive and, what's more, because of FDA and Health Canada regulations, these substances aren't always listed in the ingredients. That is certainly the case with many dairy products (sometimes, these things are incorporated as the carriers for the added vitamins

), which is why I think it's always important to try different brands and take note of one's reactions before simply concluding that one is "intolerant" to dairy or a certain food.

This goes with added gums, cellulose, carrageenan, peptides, polyester fat substitutes and many other such easily persorbed substances, including the large proportion of them being used in the processing of these foods.

As just a few of many such examples...

"Drugs and nutritional supplements frequently contain microparticulate titanium dioxide (a Group 2 carcinogen according to IARC) and silica [the FDA recognizes the carcinogenicity of crystalline silica, but they 'expect' amorphous silica to be non-carcinogenic

], to make attractive tablets. Those things are sometimes included in encapsulated vitamins and powdered thyroid, to speed filling and reduce static electric charges. Toothpastes frequently contain titanium dioxide for whiteness and opacity, and fumed silica to give it a thicker consistency.

For many people, 'foods' are probably their main source of exposure to industrial particulate matter. The FDA allows up to 1% of the weight of food to be titanium dioxide, and up to 2% fumed silica.

[...]

Besides the material that HAS to be listed on the label, things that are called 'processing aids', which get into the food incidentally to their manufacture, don't have to be mentioned on the label. For example, there are 'food grade lubricants', kosher and halal lubricants, which can include particles of fluorinated hydrocarbons, identical to the material in Teflon, as well as fumed silica. Silica is widely used in spray drying foods to prevent clumping of the powders." (the above excerpt is from Ray's latest newsletter).
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It's important to keep in mind a few things here.

Namely, that as is the case with all such things (including, say, adding fluoride to our water supplies), the actual mathematical models used to establish safety are heavily flawed and biased towards the manufacturer, and actual vs. theorized exposure never, ever takes into consideration the many outliers and outlying factors (age, health, total exposure via other means, etc.).

There is no "conspiracy theory" per say here. I want this to be CRYSTAL CLEAR, as I am in no way insinuating there is this "BIG FOOD INDUSTRY" dude at the top, orchestrating all of this, hoping to slowly poison the people. Not at all.

But there most definitely is a system rigged in favour (subsidies galore!) of the profit-generating magnates who will go to great lengths to turn industrial waste products into so-called "super foods" (whey powder, fish and seed oils, fluoride, titanium oxide, cellulose, pulp-dissolving enzymes, etc.) or to continually push their safety margins for the purpose of easing their processing and distribution methods.

Runners versus swimmers: Is there any useful news in this unlikely comparison?

But even now, he says, “an important message is that all of the athletes showed better function than a normal person off the street, which supports the message that exercise is good for hearts.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/03/well/move/heart-health-swimming-running-exercise.html

So let us read the paper:

"A new study finds that the answer may be yes, and the differences, although slight, could be telling and consequential, even for those of us who swim or run at a much less lofty level."

How it is that slight differences could be useful for you?

First emphasis on the filling LV:

"While presently debated, there is evidence to suggest an association between aerobic exercise training and enhanced early diastolic filling, ..."

1/ why do authors don't include triathletes in their study?

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fphys.2018.01700/full

Gene therapy

https://www.europeanscientist.com/fr/sante/therapie-genique-science-croisee-des-chemins/

Thérapie génique
https://www.europeanscientist.com/en/public-health/gene-therapy-science-at-a-crossroads/

L'UNEF s'enracine dans le marxisme postmoderniste: Hafsa Askar une racialiste décomplexée

http://www.lefigaro.fr/vox/politique/l-indifference-de-militants-de-l-unef-devant-notre-dame-ou-le-vrai-visage-des-enfants-de-bourdieu-20190417?utm_source=sendinblue&utm_campaign=Tribune_dans_le_Figaro_sur_Notre_Dame_et_lUNEF&utm_medium=email

https://twitter.com/FallaitPasSuppr/status/1117894827520086016

Une "dirigeante"

Lille est la ville de Martine Aubry

PM 2,5 dans le monde

https://www.climato-realistes.fr/pollution-aux-particules-fines-48-283-deces/

mardi 16 avril 2019

Socialized medicine

Left-wing Democrats in Congress have decided on a new version of “Medicare for All.” Turns out its going to be nothing like the Medicare program seniors are used to. What they have in mind is what we see in Canada.

Everyone (except American Indians and veterans) will be in the same system. Health care will be nominally free. Access to it will be determined by bureaucratic decision making.

Here’s what to expect.

Overproviding to the Healthy, Underproviding to the Sick.The first thing politicians learn about health care is this: most people are healthy. In fact, they are very heathy – spending only a few dollars on medical care in any given year. By contrast, 50% of the health care dollars will be spent on only 5% of the population in a typical year.

Politicians in charge of health care, however, can’t afford to spend half their budget on only 5% of the voters, including those who may be too sick to vote at all. So, there is ever-present pressure to divert spending away from the sick toward the healthy.

In Canada and in Britain, patients see primary care physicians more often than Americans do. In fact, the ease with which relatively healthy people can see doctors is probably what accounts for the popularity of these system in both countries.

But once they get to the doctor’s office British and Canadians patients receive fewer services. For real medical problems, Canadians often go to hospital emergency rooms – where the average wait in Canada is four hours. In Britain, one of every ten emergency room patients leave without ever seeing a doctor.

The proportion of middle-aged Canadian women who have never had a mammogram is twice the U.S. rate.
Three times as many Canadian women have never had a pap smear.
Fewer than 20% of Canadian men have ever been tested for prostate cancer, compared with about 50% of U.S. men.
Only 10% of adult Canadians have ever had a colonoscopy, compared with 30% of US adults.

These differences in screening may partly explain why the mortality rate in Canada is 25% higher for breast cancer, 18% higher for prostate cancer, and 13% higher for colorectal cancer.

A study by Brookings Institution scholar Henry Aaron and his colleagues found that:

Britain has only one-fourth as many CT scanners as the U.S. and one-third as many MRI scanners.
The rate at which the British provide coronary bypass surgery or angioplasty to heart patients is only one-fourth of the U.S. rate, and hip replacements are only two-thirds of the U.S. rate.
The rate for treating kidney failure (dialysis or transplant) is five times higher in the U.S. for patients age 45 to 84 and nine times higher for patients 85 years of age or older.

We can see the political pressure to provide services to the healthy at the expense of the sick in our own country’s Medicare program. Courtesy of Obamacare, every senior is entitled to a free wellness exam, which most doctors regard as virtually worthless. Yet if elderly patients endure an extended hospital stay, they can face unlimited out-of-pocket costs.

Rationing by Waiting. Although Canada has no limits on how frequently a relatively healthy patient may see a doctor, it imposes strict limits on the purchase of medical technology and on the availability of specialists. Hospitals are subject to global budgets – which limit their spending, regardless of actual health needs.

In addition to having to wait many hours in emergency rooms, Canadians have some of the longest waits in the developed world for care that could cure diseases and save lives. The most recent study by the Fraser Institute finds that

In 2016, Canadians waited an average of 21.2 weeks between referral from a general practitioner to receipt of treatment by a specialist – the longest wait time in over a quarter of a century of such measurements.
Patents waited 4.1 weeks for a CT scan, 10.8 weeks for an MRI scan, and 3.9 weeks for an ultrasound.

Similarly, a survey of hospital administrators in 2003 found that:

21% of Canadian hospital administrators, but less than 1% of American administrators, said that it would take over three weeks to do a biopsy for possible breast cancer on a 50-year-old woman.
50% of Canadian administrators versus none of their American counterparts said that it would take over six months for a 65-year-old to undergo a routine hip replacement surgery.

Jumping the Queue. Aneurin Bevan, father of the British National Health Service, declared, “the essence of a satisfactory health service is that rich and poor are treated alike, that poverty is not a disability and wealth is not advantaged.” Yet, more than thirty years after the NHS was founded an official task force (The Black Report) found little evidence that the creation of the NHS had equalized health care access. Another study (The Acheson Report), fifty years after the NHS founding, concluded that access had become more unequal in the years between the two studies.

In Canada, studies find that the wealthy and powerful have significantly greater access to medical specialists than less-well-connected poor. High-profile patients enjoy more frequent services, shorter waiting times and greater choice of specialists. Moreover, among the nonelderly white population, low-income Canadians are 22% more likely to be in poor health than their U.S. counterparts.

These results should not be surprising. Rationing by waiting is as much an obstacle to care as rationing by price. It seems that the talents and skills that allow people to earn high incomes are similar to the talents and skills that are useful in successfully circumventing bureaucratic waiting lines.

No Exit. The worst features of the U.S. health care system are the way in which impersonal bureaucracies interfere with the doctor-patient relationship. Those are also the worst features of Canadian medical care. In Canada, when patients see a doctor the visit is free. In the U.S., the visit is almost free – with patients paying only 10 cents out of pocket for every dollar they spend, on average. In both countries, people primarily pay for care with time, not with money. The two systems are far more similar than they are different.

In Britain, private sector medicine allows patients to obtain care they are supposed to get for free from government. Middle and upper-middle income employees frequently have private health insurance, obtained through an employer. A much larger number of Britons use private doctors from time to time. The rule seems to be, “If your condition is serious, go private.”

Canada, by contrast, has basically outlawed private sector medical services that are theoretically provided by the government. If doctors, patients and entrepreneurs think of better ways of meeting patient needs they have no way of acting on those thoughts.

This is where the U.S. system is so much better—even though, as in the Canadian system, U.S. Medicare pays doctors the same way it did in the last century, before there were iPhones and email messages. Many U.S. employer plans are just as bad.

But because U.S. employers are free to meet the needs of their employees rather than live under the dictates of a politically pressured bureaucracy, one of the fastest growing employee benefits is concierge care. For as little as $50 a month for a young adult, patients can have 24/7 access to a doctor by phone and email and all the normal services that primary care physicians provide.

Uber-type house calls, consultations by phone, email and Skype, cellphone apps that allow people to manage their own care and other innovations in telemedicine are taking some parts of the private sector by storm.

These are the kinds of innovations that would be outlawed if the congressional Democrats have their way.

JC Goodman

For more on these and other issues, interested readers may want to consult my congressional testimony, delivered with Linda Gorman, Devon Herrick and Robert Sade.

Visit the Goodman Institute and follow me on Twitter.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/johngoodman/2019/03/05/what-socialized-medicine-looks-like/#6c843faa625b

lundi 15 avril 2019

La France des mensonges: l'incroyable croissance du nombre de fonctionnaires: Hollande et Macron

Effectifs de la fonction publique depuis 2011 (Source : INSEE – EA = Emplois aidés)

Le manque de moyens!

https://leblogdenathaliemp.com/2019/04/15/fonction-publique-ce-quon-voit-et-ce-quon-ne-voit-pas/?fbclid=IwAR19NVP7AhMKXnarEHO20y6Y7RVaxu9cugxBn3CvMl8la5vFn1guPdOeQLI

Claire Etcherelli, Simone de Beauvoir l'illusion de devenir et la réalité d'être

http://www.berlol.net/fac/2017/01/05/hiver-2017-cours-sur-elise-ou-la-vraie-vie-de-claire-etcherelli/

http://secure.journaux-collection.com/JC/fr/basket/Signin.aspx?chapsid=a9420a98-f311-4915-8716-5e048778bc56

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claire_Etcherelli

Twin studies are landmarks in biological sciences: now they are used in space!

https://science.sciencemag.org/content/364/6436/eaau8650

Is paracetamol (acetaminophen) a social disrupting drug?

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00538/full

Black Holes

https://audiovisual.ec.europa.eu/en/video/I-171307

Niall Ferguson

Fantastic Sunday Times piece on the new totalitarianism by Niall Ferguson.

A new red army is out to silence debate. We must rise up and resist it

by Niall Ferguson
14 April 2019, 12:01am

Seventy years ago this month Nato was established to protect western Europe and the freedoms of its inhabitants from the threat of Soviet communism. It has become clear to me that we now need a similar organisation to protect western intellectuals from a growing threat to academic freedom.

The North Atlantic Treaty, signed by 12 governments in Washington on April 4, 1949, was a treaty of mutual defence “to safeguard the freedom, common heritage and civilisation of their peoples, founded on the principles of democracy, individual liberty and the rule of law”. Article 5 of the treaty states that “an armed attack against one or more of [the signatories] . . . shall be considered an attack against them all”.

It would be an oversimplification to say that this alone deterred the Soviet Union from attempting to extend its power any further west than the River Elbe. Nevertheless, the commitment of successive American presidents to Nato, along with the presence of US troops and missiles in western Europe, may be said to have worked. During the Cold War, Moscow sought to expand its influence in Latin America, the Middle East, east Asia and Africa. It left western Europe alone.

In those days a small but courageous group of western academics did what they could to expose the wickedness of communism and to support political and religious dissidents in the Soviet sphere of influence. A member of that group was Roger Scruton. During the 1980s he travelled to communist-controlled Czechoslovakia to assist an underground education network run by the Czech dissident Julius Tomin. In 1985, during a trip to Brno, Scruton was arrested and expelled.

A philosopher of international renown, a prolific author, a composer and a polymath, Scruton has one of the most powerful minds I have encountered. But he is one of those rare thinkers who seek to change the world as well as to understand and explain it. There was a time when those qualities were venerated. In 1998 he was awarded the Czech Republic’s Medal of Merit by its then president Vaclav Havel, himself a former dissident. A knighthood came in 2016. And last year he was appointed chairman of the government’s commission on buildings.

Almost immediately after that, however, the attacks from the left began. The campaign against him culminated last week in the publication of a cynical hit-piece in the New Statesman, which misrepresented his views on a number of issues — the influence of George Soros, China’s policies of social control and the origins of the term “Islamophobia” — in order to portray him as a racist. The government took the bait. James Brokenshire, the secretary of state for housing, immediately sacked him. A spokeswoman for the prime minister described his comments as “deeply offensive and completely unacceptable”.

In reality, Scruton had been framed. The author of the New Statesman hatchet job, George Eaton, had edited quotations and inserted his own commentary with the clear intention of getting him sacked. He further massaged the “gotcha” quotes (“outrageous remarks”) on social media. Having achieved his objective, Eaton jubilantly published a photograph — later deleted — of himself drinking champagne from a bottle with the tagline: “The feeling when you get right-wing racist and homophobe Roger Scruton sacked as a Tory government adviser.”

A month rarely passes without some such tale of a conservative academic being “taken down”. In March it was the turn of the Canadian psychologist Jordan Peterson, who was informed by Cambridge that the visiting fellowship he had been offered by the faculty of divinity was being cancelled. The reason? At a book signing he had been photographed standing next to a man with a T-shirt bearing the (obviously facetious) slogan “I’m a proud Islamophobe”.

Before that it was the US political scientist Samuel Abrams, who now faces a “tenure review” at Sarah Lawrence College in New York. His thoughtcrime? An article pointing out that academic administrators are even more left-leaning than professors.

January’s cause célèbre was that of Peter Boghossian, a philosopher at Portland State University, who is being investigated by his own institution. Why? Because he was one of the perpetrators of the brilliant “grievance studies” hoax, which exposed the ease with which supposedly scholarly journals could be duped into publishing bogus articles.

Then there’s Roland Fryer, the Harvard economist who has been suspended for more than a year because of highly questionable allegations of sexual harassment. I have a hunch those allegations might never have been made if Fryer, an African-American, had not published a paper concluding that the police did not, after all, use lethal violence more readily against black suspects than white.

And let’s not forget Professors Nigel Biggar and Bruce Gilley, both denounced last year for daring to point out that not every aspect of the history of the British Empire was a crime against humanity. I could go on, but you get the picture.

In every case, the pattern is the same. An academic deemed to be conservative gets “called out” by a leftist group or rag. The Twitter mob piles in. Mindless mainstream media outlets amplify the story. The relevant authorities capitulate.

The most striking common feature is the near-complete isolation of the target. Did Abrams’s colleagues step up to defend his (and their own) academic freedom? On the contrary: 40 of his fellow professors endorsed the student leftists’ demand that his tenure be reviewed. Did Fryer’s fellow Harvard economists question the way their only black colleague was being treated? Not one has publicly defended him.

My message to all professional thinkers — academics, public intellectuals, writers of any stripe — is this: we either hang together or we hang separately. Even being an avowed progressive won’t help you if you fail just one weakness test, as Bret Weinstein did when he objected to the idea of a “day of absence” for all white students and faculty at Evergreen State College in Washington state.

A direct descendant of the illiberal, egalitarian ideology that once suppressed free speech in eastern Europe is now shutting down debate in the West. For those, like Scruton, who once helped Czech dissidents to get degrees in theology from Cambridge, the irony is bitter indeed.

The lesson of the Cold War is clear. From now on an attack on one of us must be considered an attack on all of us. I, therefore, invite all who believe in the fundamental human freedoms to sign a new Non-conformist Academic Treaty.

The present danger to free thought and speech is not Red Army tanks pouring through the Fulda Gap in Germany; it is the red army of mediocrities waging war on dissent within academia and the media. It is time to confront these people with the one thing that will deter them, as it once deterred the Soviets: massive retaliation.

Divided we shall fall. But united we can ensure that the reputation destroyed last week was not Sir Roger Scruton’s but the New Statesman’s.

Niall Ferguson is the Milbank Family senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford

This letter is a good signal for the Deal of the Century: EU has always failed to bring a deal in the ME.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/apr/14/europe-must-stand-by-the-two-state-solution-for-israel-and-palestine

VNZ

https://www.insolent.fr/2019/04/le-venezuela-comme-metaphore.html

Un doyen inoxydable pisse froid et jamais responsable

Sibilia récidive:

https://www.lequotidiendumedecin.fr/actualites/article/2019/04/11/fin-du-numerus-clausus-pas-une-suppression-mais-une-revision-recadre-le-patron-des-doyens-de-medecine_867839

Progressivism and the recent laws in west countries forbidding spanking.

"This does not mean that any kind of spanking is all right for a child. I want to make it clear that there is a "right" kind of spanking and a "wrong" kind. By the wrong kind, I mean a cruel and sadistic beating. This fills a child with hatred and a deep desire for revenge. This is the kind that is administered with a strap or stick or some other type of parental "weapon." Or it could also mean a humiliating slap in the face. The right kind of spanking needs no special paraphernalia. Just the hand of the parent administered a few times on the kid's bottom. The right kind of spanking is a positive thing. It clears the air, and is vastly preferable to moralistic and guilt-inducing parental lectures."
F. Dodson

Le terrorisme palestinien est il le seul terrorisme non condamné par la communauté internationale?

"Pourquoi les terroristes palestiniens échappent-ils à la condamnation universelle? La seule explication, si l’on excuse un seul terrorisme, c’est que leur cible est très particulière, c’est des Juifs."
André Glucksman

"Pourquoi les médias occidentaux ont beaucoup d’indulgence pour le terrorisme palestinien ?
- Le terrorisme des Irlandais (l’IRA): condamné par tout le monde;
- Le terrorisme des Basques: condamné par tout le monde;
- le terrorisme des Corses: condamné par tout le monde
- Le terrorisme ou simplement la résistance armée des Tchétchènes: condamné par tout le monde. Ça a beau être une guerre coloniale menée depuis 300 ans par les Russes: pas question.
Le TERRORISME - l’attaque DÉLIBÉRÉE, INTENTIONNELLE, de gens sans défense par des gens armés.

Il n’y a qu’un terrorisme, durant ces 10 dernières années, qui a été excusé, expliqué, avec plus ou moins de complaisance, ou bien héroïsé par d’autres, c’est le terrorisme des Palestiniens.

Est-ce par ce qu’ils sont musulmans? Non, puisque les Tchétchènes le sont aussi !

Alors pourquoi une unicité de la cause palestinienne?
Pourquoi les Palestiniens échappent-ils à la condamnation universelle ?

La seule explication, si l’on excuse un seul terrorisme, c’est que leur cible est très particulière, c’est des juifs."

Cette démonstration est elle contestable?
Y a-t-il des contre-exemples?