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- March 22, 2011
- 07:43 AM
- 498 views
The Extinction of Religion?
by The Twenty-first floor in The Twenty-first floor
Keir Liddle explores the idea, put forward in a paper published online, that in nine countries religion may face extinction.... Read more »
Daniel M. Abrams, Haley A. Yaple, & Richard J. Wiener. (2010) A mathematical model of social group competition with application to the growth of religious non-affiliation. Physics and Society. arXiv: 1012.1375v2
- July 21, 2010
- 06:32 PM
- 626 views
Evidence Based Policy? Throw Away The Keys!
by The Twenty-first floor in The Twenty-first floor
The Twenty-First Floor's series on evidence-based policy continues with a look at Ken Clarke's plans to reduce the prison population. What sort of effects does prison have on people? Does it deter them from future crime, or teach them to become better criminals?... Read more »
AVINASH SINGH BHATI . (2008) Estimating the Impact of incarceration on subsequent offending trajectories: Deterrent, crimogenic or null effect?. THE JoLfRNAL OF CRIMINAL L A W * CRIMINOLOGY, 1(98), 207-253. info:/
- July 15, 2010
- 03:00 AM
- 491 views
The Sound of the Sea
by The Twenty-first floor in The Twenty-first floor
Far from being "The Silent World", the oceans are alive with sound. Marine biologist Andrew Guerin discusses how sound is important to marine animals and what effect noise pollution from human endeavours may have on ocean ecosystems.... Read more »
Slabbekoorn, H., Bouton, N., van Opzeeland, I., Coers, A., ten Cate, C., & Popper, A. (2010) A noisy spring: the impact of globally rising underwater sound levels on fish. Trends in Ecology , 25(7), 419-427. DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2010.04.005
- July 10, 2010
- 09:02 AM
- 501 views
Evidence Based Policy? Dipsomania!
by The Twenty-first floor in The Twenty-first floor
In the first of a likely irregular column on politics and evidence based policy, Keir Liddle looks at proposals to introduce minimum pricing for alcohol, querying what effects it may have and whether the policy seems justified.... Read more »
Purshouse, R., Meier, P., Brennan, A., Taylor, K., & Rafia, R. (2010) Estimated effect of alcohol pricing policies on health and health economic outcomes in England: an epidemiological model. The Lancet, 375(9723), 1355-1364. DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(10)60058-X
- May 25, 2010
- 07:00 PM
- 504 views
Homeopathic “Training” Scrapped at Gartnavel
by The Twenty-first floor in The Twenty-first floor
Encouraging signs that the funding of homeopathy by the NHS in Scotland may be coming to an end? Best sign the petition just to make sure!... Read more »
Hartog, C. (2009) Elements of effective communication—Rediscoveries from homeopathy. Patient Education and Counseling, 77(2), 172-178. DOI: 10.1016/j.pec.2009.03.021
- April 7, 2010
- 07:00 PM
- 844 views
Have the lunatics taken over the asylum? (3)
by The Twenty-first floor in The Twenty-first floor
Part three of our exploration of the DSM-5 and psychiatric diagnosis - focusing on the proposed inclusion of Coercive Paraphilic Disorder (which could perhaps be considered the medicalisation of rape).... Read more »
Knight, R. (2009) Is a Diagnostic Category for Paraphilic Coercive Disorder Defensible?. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 39(2), 419-426. DOI: 10.1007/s10508-009-9571-x
Thornton D. (2010) Evidence regarding the need for a diagnostic category for a coercive paraphilia. Archives of sexual behavior, 39(2), 411-8. PMID: 19941047
- April 7, 2010
- 06:20 AM
- 654 views
When Eric Eats A Banana…
by The Twenty-first floor in The Twenty-first floor
…No Amazing Transformation Occurs
Paolo Boffetta, Elisabeth Couto, Janine Wichmann, Pietro Ferrari, Dimitrios Trichopoulos, H. Bas Bueno-de-Mesquita, Fränzel J. B. van Duijnhoven, Frederike L. Büchner, Tim Key, Heiner Boeing, Ute Nöthlings, Jakob Linseisen, Carlos A. Gonzalez, Kim Over (2010).
Fruit and Vegetable Intake and Overall Cancer Risk in the European Prospective Investigation Into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC) Journal of the National Cancer Institute : doi:10.1093/jnci/djq072........ Read more »
Paolo Boffetta, Elisabeth Couto, Janine Wichmann, Pietro Ferrari, Dimitrios Trichopoulos, H. Bas Bueno-de-Mesquita, Fränzel J. B. van Duijnhoven, Frederike L. Büchner, Tim Key, Heiner Boeing, Ute Nöthlings, Jakob Linseisen, Carlos A. Gonzalez, Kim Over. (2010) Fruit and Vegetable Intake and Overall Cancer Risk in the European Prospective Investigation Into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC). Journal of the National Cancer Institute. info:/doi:10.1093/jnci/djq072
- April 1, 2010
- 10:02 PM
- 629 views
Magnets, Morality and Misrepresentation
by The Twenty-first floor in The Twenty-first floor
Have you ever read a science story in a newspaper and just not understand what the point of the research was?
Alex Buque looks at the recent moral compass and magnets hoo-haw and wonders what all the fuss is.... Read more »
Young L, Camprodon JA, Hauser M, Pascual-Leone A, & Saxe R. (2010) Disruption of the right temporoparietal junction with transcranial magnetic stimulation reduces the role of beliefs in moral judgments. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. PMID: 20351278
- March 2, 2010
- 01:00 PM
- 655 views
Dawkins.net: Storm in a teacup 2.0?
by The Twenty-first floor in The Twenty-first floor
Anyone in the skeptical and atheist community who hasn't heard of the row that erupted over changes to richarddawkins.net forum probably still uses a 56K modem and a dialup connection.
This post summarises the fallout and explores the issue of online communities: are they real or illusory?... Read more »
Haythornwaite, C. (2008) Chapter 9: Social Networks and Community, Oxford handbook of internet psychology – Edited by Adam Joinson. British Journal of Educational Technology, 39(3), 561-562. DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8535.2008.00855_4.x
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