Special
terms: bell curve,
bromides, cognitive dissonance, crapolla, diabesity, fellow-feeling, fructation, modus
operandi, respondeat superior, stress,
tobacco ethics, tobacco Science,
Bell curve
fallacy: a form of cherry picking: assuming that the best cases are
a subset that
have a net positive effect from the treatment, rather it is the entire bell
curve has moved to the left, thus with a placebo that person would have healed
faster than he did with the drug.
Bromides long stand beliefs, a term once used
in chemistry comparing it to compounds that are stable on the shelf, like
sodium bromide.
Cognitive
dysfunction: a situation in which a
person cannot decide what to do because of the number of choices
Crapolla: bad science, bad logic; a replacement for bull
shit
Diabesity: diabetes and obesity (in
the dictionary)
Fellow feeling: the emotional attachment, such as love of
country, pet, etc., distinguished from
romantic love. Created by David Hume
around 1750.
Fructation: glycation occurring with fructose; a
non-enzymatic bonding of fructose to biological substrates such as amino acids,
used instead of fructosylation
Modus operandi: Latin for method of operation; the process
producing a result
Respondeat
superior: the
principle in law of
blaming the superior. I use this phrase
to blame the system rather than those at the top or below.
Stress: overloading a biological system, or the
dysfunction consequences of that overload, e.g., ethanol overloads various
system in the liver that in sufficient amounts long-term that modifies the
functions of the hepatocytes; the stressed hepatocytes then stress other types
of cells.
Tobacco science and Tobacco
ethics: point
out that the business model of the
tobacco industry which is used throughout a system based upon maximization of
profits.
Phrases
favorite:
Brain rules, the devil is in the detail, food manufactures, herd behavior, illness care industry, lipstick on
a pig, pill pushers and pill poppers,
profits before people, slime under every rock, you can’t change
human nature,