The minister at the church my wife and I have been attending told this joke a couple Sunday's ago:
http://www.officejest.com/2005/12/lol-gods-chauffeur.html
as kind of an ice breaker in her sermon. I thought it was pretty hilarious, so enjoy!
Friday, February 29, 2008
Thursday, February 28, 2008
Just forwarded buddyroo.com here.
I have the domain name buddyroo.com and I used to just forward it to my page at Yale in the Gerstein lab. But I think I'll try to start using this blog more, so I have forwarded buddyroo.com here. Easy to remember domain name. I still keep hoping somebody will come along and offer me like $100,000 for buddyroo.com (its just so catchy, isn't it?), but the good old wild west days of the web are long over (where things like this used to happen) and unfortunately it hasn't happened yet so I might as well start trying to use it. FYI, buddyroo was my nickname in college and I still like to use it for fun (like the name of my domain and this blog!) There is also a famous reference in the book "Catcher in the Rye" by JD Salinger: "go ahead, be a buddyroo!"
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
anti-depressants don't work
A very interesting recent study shows that anti-depressants don't work better than placebos:
http://www.blog.newsweek.com/blogs/labnotes/archive/2008/02/25/depressing-news-on-antidepressants.aspx
The placebo effect seems quite powerful and interesting and should really be studied more. I also came across this very interesting article related to this:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/related_features/surprise_yourself/article3432227.ece
A potentially very negative side-effect of this study --- I wonder if the effectiveness of anti-depressants will now go DOWN. Many people will probably see articles about
this study showing anti-depressants don't really work and so now the major placebo effect aspect of the anti-depressants is gone (since people now know they don't really work). I.e. they worked before because people truly believed they worked, but now they know they don't so they will lose their effectiveness. Too bad, because we might start seeing a lot more depressed people.
http://www.blog.newsweek.com
The placebo effect seems quite powerful and interesting and should really be studied more. I also came across this very interesting article related to this:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk
A potentially very negative side-effect of this study --- I wonder if the effectiveness of anti-depressants will now go DOWN. Many people will probably see articles about
this study showing anti-depressants don't really work and so now the major placebo effect aspect of the anti-depressants is gone (since people now know they don't really work). I.e. they worked before because people truly believed they worked, but now they know they don't so they will lose their effectiveness. Too bad, because we might start seeing a lot more depressed people.
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