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Pleiotropism as a mechanism behind the genetic correlation between personality and psychopathology.


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Re: "War On Kids"

I'd like to comment on the War on Kids movie review link I posted. I have not yet been able to see it but I am so relieved someone finally touched on this in a real way. It's just too bad that this came out when the country was busy with Tiger Woods, all 24 hours of its daily "news" spent shamelessly engaged in moral prosthelytizing. I think it's a real issue though that needs serious attention: Psychiatrists and other doctors pushing the propogandized phrase "mental illness" until it's common vernacular and the default descriptor for any nuance in neurocognitive behavior. Doctor's offices are bathed with paraphernalia of the pills being peddled to "cure" an ironically increasing number of people with "mental health issues," now including children. At the risk of continuing my paroxysm, I think too many children are being indefinitely fed pills that don't have clear mechanisms of functioning, for vaguely defined diseases.
The movie, I believe looks more at the problems with the education system (which is a big proponent of medicating children with controlled substances) and various underlying issues. Well now after I blindly recommended it I guess I should go see it :)

This is something I would really like to see make it past the dangerous inchoate state where all too many of my lofty ambitions and projects seem to take up residence

http://saistout.blogspot.com/

Semester-end report on investor relations aka finance 101

when i was five I taped some coins to a branch, stuck it in a pot, and proudly refuted my parents' dogma regarding money and trees, IR final shouldn't be a problem, I'm a natural ;)

Basically what I have learned this semester is:

a.) Efficiency market theory might work if our CEOs didn't make market-altering business decisions like menopausal women
b.) If you're going to "interpret" accounting principles to suit your denial do it with some finesse and exhibition of financial prowess, don't pour "boring" in the wound.
c.) The gold standard can only be distilled once...distill the resulting paper that's dubious in value and it apparently becomes pretend paper that's dubious in value. People may play poker for a number of things, but "nothing" is not one of them.
d.)Saddest of all, the "street" has been stripped of analytical skill and now values the skill of speedy "button pressing" first and foremost