Heuristics and free will: did Kahneman and Tverski denied free will?

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6399109/

https://suebehaviouraldesign.com/kahneman-fast-slow-thinking/

Judgment under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases
https://www.its.caltech.edu/~camerer/Ec101/JudgementUncertainty.pdf

http://www.aei.org/publication/nobel-laureate-daniel-kahneman-on-a-i-its-very-difficult-to-imagine-that-with-sufficient-data-there-will-remain-things-that-only-humans-can-do/


Neurobiology of free will

"Aucune observation neurobiologique ne peut à l'heure actuelle réfuter l'affirmation de Socrate selon laquelle il souhaitait boire le poison qui lui avait été administré. Que ce soit sa décision libre ou non, la neurobiologie ne peut pas le dire parce qu'elle n'a pas accès à sa volonté indépendamment de ce qu'il fait ou de ce qu'il dit. développer des outils de connaissance dans ce sens est un préalable"

Some confusion between freedom and free will.
https://www.embopress.org/cgi/doi/10.1038/embor.2011.229

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/03/philosophers-and-neuroscientists-join-forces-see-whether-science-can-solve-mystery-free?utm_campaign=SciMag&utm_source=JHubbard&utm_medium=Facebook


https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2019/09/free-will-bereitschaftspotential/597736/?fbclid=IwAR0umZYJqDoRRhjDHQImRxLnG2ncm4JD4Oushr7b2ADFOcm3T6QHwem9gV8

Left political bias in US universities

https://www.dailywire.com/news/30222/how-politically-biased-are-universities-new-study-james-barrett


https://www.onlinecollegeplan.com/most-political-universities/


https://www.timeshighereducation.com/features/are-universities-hotbeds-left-wing-bias

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-social-science-politically-biased/

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2017/02/27/research-confirms-professors-lean-left-questions-assumptions-about-what-means

Among the key findings:

• Faculty members were more likely to categorize themselves as moderate (46.1 percent) than liberal (44.1 percent). Conservatives trailed at 9.2 percent.
• Faculty members, when examined by sector, differed widely. At community colleges, 19 percent of faculty members called themselves conservatives, and only 37.1 percent said they were liberals. Liberal arts college faculty members were most likely to identify as liberal (61 percent, compared to only 3.9 percent as conservatives).
• When it came to voting, professors (even in the humanities) were not a monolith, with 15 percent in the humanities saying they had voted for President Bush in his re-election bid. Bush won just under a third of the vote in business and just over a third in computer science and engineering. And Bush won a narrow majority of votes from faculty members in the health sciences.
• The professors approaching their emeritus years were significantly to the left of those coming into academe. Among those aged 50-64, 17.2 percent identified themselves as left activists, while only 1.3 percent of those aged 26-35 did so.
• On social issues, professors had strong views in support of gay rights and abortion rights, and most believed Bush misled the nation about Iraq. But professors were split on affirmative action.

Some criticized the study for not viewing any imbalances in political attitudes as troubling, while others defended the study and said it challenged the notion that everyone in academe was liberal and voted for Democrats (or Ralph Nader). The study was conducted by Neil Gross, then at Harvard University and now at Colby College, and Solon Simmons, of George Mason University.

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2016/10/03/voter-registration-data-show-democrats-outnumber-republicans-among-social-scientists

A focus on social sciences departments should have been far worst!

French farmers do have less cancers and less blood cancers than the non farmer population...

http://cancerspreventions.fr/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/AGRICAN.pdf

It is highly improbable, due to the large use of glyphosate, that this molecule increases the rate of NHL and/or other cancers.

But there are pieces of evidence linking waste incinerators and their byproducts in the increased rate of NHL.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2587460/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6720705/

Pesticides? rather improbable even in other countries
https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/11/4/4449/htm

Dépenses sociales

https://drees.solidarites-sante.gouv.fr/IMG/pdf/infographie-cps.pdf

La tactique trotskyste: nier la biologie pour tout reconstruire avec le communisme

https://ripostelaique.com/jean-louis-touraine-il-ny-a-pas-de-droit-a-lenfant-a-avoir-un-pere.html?fbclid=IwAR0UwPRbc8PjVvB--1H9Ix6TEYv9leHxKbKtSRdii1F6vEaWp3WAz0ryMlM

SIMCODE the study about statins and depression

COPENHAGEN – The tantalizing prospect that statins could be repurposed as adjunctive antidepressant drugs in a defined subgroup of patients with major depression is finally about to undergo rigorous testing.

Several lines of preliminary evidence, including large observational cohort studies as well as three small, short-duration randomized trials, suggest that this might indeed be the case. It’s an extremely attractive possibility, since patients and physicians wish that antidepressant therapy were more effective, statins are among the most widely prescribed drugs worldwide, and their safety profile is thoroughly established. The expectation is that a definitive answer as to whether repurposing of statins as antidepressants is worthwhile will be provided by the SIMCODE trial, recently approved for funding by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research, Christian Otte, MD, announced at the annual congress of the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology.

SIMCODE is a multicenter, double-blind, placebo-controlled randomized trial to be conducted at eight German academic medical centers. Participants, all of whom must have major depressive disorder and comorbid obesity, will be randomized to simvastatin or placebo on top of standard antidepressant therapy with escitalopram, an SSRI which, like simvastatin, is available as a relatively inexpensive generic, explained Dr. Otte, professor and vice director of the department of psychiatry and psychotherapy at Charite University in Berlin.

For Dr. Otte, SIMCODE will close a circle he helped open with his 2012 report from the Heart and Soul Study, a prospective longitudinal study of nearly 1,000 San Francisco Bay Area patients with coronary heart disease who were assessed annually for depressive symptoms for 6 years. The 65% of patients who were on statin therapy, albeit in nonrandomized fashion, had an adjusted 38% lower risk of developing depression (J Clin Psychiatry. 2012 May;73[5]:610-5).

His was one of seven observational studies involving more than 9,000 patients included in a subsequent meta-analysis showing that statin users were 37% less likely to develop depression than were nonusers (J Affect Disord. 2014 May;160:62-7).

At a symposium on repurposing statins as antidepressants held at ECNP 2019, Dr. Otte was joined by other researchers who have made key contributions in this area. All agreed that the verdict isn’t in yet as to statins’ effectiveness as adjunctive antidepressants, and that the subgroup of patients with major depression who are most likely to gain added antidepressive effect from a statin are those with what the speakers variously described as comorbid cardiometabolic disease, immunometabolic disease, or simply, as in SIMCODE, obesity. These are patients with a high degree of systemic inflammation, which often makes their depression less responsive to standard antidepressant therapies. The working hypothesis is that the pleiotropic anti-inflammatory effects of statins will result in a greater response to conventional antidepressants.

Animal studies point to multiple potential mechanisms by which statins might have antidepressant efficacy in clinical practice, according to Dr. Otte. Beyond their anti-inflammatory effects, these include the drugs’ documented effects on glutamatergic N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptors, dopamine receptors, brain-derived neurotrophic factor, glucocorticoid receptors, and hippocampal serotonin 2A receptors.

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https://www.mdedge.com/cardiology/article/207875/depression/statins-may-do-double-duty-antidepressants?utm_source=News_MDedge_eNL_091119_F&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Statins+for+depression%3F+%7C+More+uninsured+%7C+And+more&fbclid=IwAR3mcmiGFRJ_Gs-WXMANdiVZuYUiyKurkgd2KBJIgTdFJv4vf3mqU9qJgxc


https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6413672/

Les sénateurs LR et la GPA... Qu'en pense Retailleau? Mais il n'y a pas que cela: des sénateurs dirigistes et plus à gauche que la gauche

https://www.liberation.fr/france/2013/02/07/alain-milon-senateur-ump-favorable-au-mariage-pour-tous-a-la-pma-et-a-la-gpa_880073

Et bien sur ces braves gens socialistes de "droite" compte sur la sécu pour financer les agapes sociétales. Alain Milon ne peut pas continuer longtemps cette imposture.

1/ Les sénateurs veulent vous faire prendre des risques
"Sur les missions des hôpitaux de proximité, la commission présidée par Alain Milon encadre également les choses. Le gouvernement avait accepté une proposition des députés de maintenir une activité de chirurgie dans certains de ces établissements labellisés, selon une dérogation basée sur une liste d’actes autorités. Pour les sénateurs, seuls les actes « programmés » doivent entrer dans ce champ."
2/ Le machin numérique obligatoire (nous sommes de gauche et étatistes invétérés) "Pour que cet outil soit « efficace », les sénateurs ont préféré l’ouverture de l’espace à « tous les usagers du système » (sauf opposition de la personne).
3/ H Maurey un centriste très à gauche veut des mesures coercitives sur l'installation des médecins.
Ce sont de vrais losers.

Milon:

"J’y suis en effet favorable pour une raison scientifique. Une femme qui n’a pas d’ovule peut avoir un enfant, grâce à la procréation médicalement assistée (PMA). Mais une femme ayant un problème d’utérus n’y aurait pas droit puisque la GPA est interdite. Il faut remédier à cette inégalité."

Et cette perle, le don un sénateur qui raisonne comme si tout le monde vivait d'argent public...


"Je suis tout à fait opposé à la marchandisation du corps. C’est pourquoi, je proposais que la GPA soit un don, que la démarche soit encadrée par un juge. Je souhaite aussi que les frais de grossesse, d’accouchement et les suites de couche soient pris en charge par la Sécurité sociale. Avec le groupe de travail, nous avions évalué entre 100 et 400 les «besoins» nationaux de GPA par an et avions estimé qu’entre 200 et 300 femmes se déclaraient prêtes à être donneuses."

L'esclavage d'état. 

Un médecin de paille...

Monkeys are conservative: they exhibit gender choices in keeping with their biological sex!

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/science-environment-29418230/monkey-test-shows-gender-choices?fbclid=IwAR0V0HbVDcWnnXDSARVqhc3z6F3RsPF6icBR1JJz6QKUDi7C4amQYXydL9I

A paper you might read several times

https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-einstein-lost-his-bearings-and-with-them-general-relativity-20180314/

Piketti contredit par les faits

https://www.bilan.ch/finance/le_fmi_publie_une_etude_qui_contredit_la_these_de_thomas_piketty

UBI: rationalizing the welfare state?

https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2019/9/5/20849020/alaska-permanent-fund-universal-basic-income?utm_campaign=the_download.unpaid.engagement&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=76587544&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8LpX-LLXPITrrbRnMQuAKAALC9dhZqgozp35zbRij1sGslm2-d76AqCWJkHrnETiwI9Fzb3kywqEsyxuLW-TtVA4u7pnrZQqpzvXkUGg9AUBPy-XE&_hsmi=76587544

Immigration

http://www.micheletribalat.fr/441822147

Le chaos migratoire des frontières ouvertes et de l’état  Providence le plus rémunérateur 

https://www.causeur.fr/chiffres-immigration-france-2018-michele-tribalat-162552

Du vivre côte à côte à la guerre civile: après la partition la conquête

Pompiers français dans un "quartier" c'est à dire une zone de partition en 2019. L'intention de tuer patente avec une boule de pétanque.

Le vivrensemble n'existe pas. Ce qui existe dans certains pays c'est l'état de droit. En France c'est fini depuis 40 ans. Des exemples comme celui là sont au nombre de milliers. L'état a peur. Il a décidé de laissez faire la pègre et les islamistes. L'état est complice car il laisse les frontières ouvertes et augmente les subsides à l'immigration. Pour ce faire il écrase les français de taxes et diminue les retraites, les redistributions aux autochtones. Les français laissent faire et se paupérisent lentement. La situation sera bientôt favorable à un Anschluss.

Mais ce n’est pas fini,  L’argent public finance le terrorisme.

http://www.leparisien.fr/faits-divers/deux-soeurs-jugees-pour-avoir-finance-le-terrorisme-avec-l-aide-sociale-08-09-2019-8147994.php#xtor=AD-1481423552

Pain is still very unknown

https://nccih.nih.gov/research/results/spotlight/pain-signals-may-travel-fast-as-touch-signals-in-human-nerve-cells?fbclid=IwAR2162Mxk5QDFttQI-tOFOCMHwzG7Lwosjhm1Xq7MNeERoPSVCSHWQ-AhJo

Socialisme et nazisme sont des jumeaux monozygotes élevés séparément

https://www.causeur.fr/stalinisme-nazisme-combat-seconde-guerre-mondiale-urss-165420?fbclid=IwAR3BTYhBU25sKqvdCL1WhuhwX8-4JGpPc-PqYSZd43l0Q-0aj1kp_FwrVtg

Attention le Parlement européen est gangréné par les communistes et les collectivistes. Si on condamne le nazisme il faut condamner le socialisme pas le stalinisme. Sinon il faut dans une logique imparable parler d'hitlérisme et de stalinisme...