Not exact matches
(a) Religion tells people not only what they should believe, but what they are morally obliged to believe on pain of divine retribution, whereas science, economics,
medicine etc. has no «sacred cows» in terms of doctrine and go where the
evidence leads;
(a) Christianity tells people not only what they should believe, but what they MUST believe under threat of «burning in hell» or other of divine retribution, whereas science, economics,
medicine etc. has no «sacred cows» in terms of doctrine and go where the
evidence leads them;
(a) Religion tells people not only what they should believe, but what they must believe under threat of divine retribution, whereas science, economics,
medicine etc. has no «sacred cows» in terms of doctrine and go where the
evidence leads them;
(a) Religion tells people not only what they should believe, but what they MUST believe under threat of «burning in hell» or other of divine retribution, whereas science, economics,
medicine etc. has no «sacred cows» in terms of doctrine and go where the
evidence leads them;
(a) Religion tells people not only what they should believe, but what they are morally obliged to believe on pain of divine retribution, whereas science, economics,
medicine etc. has no «sacred cows» in terms of doctrine and go where the
evidence leads them;
I am (a) A victim of child molestation (b) A r.ape victim trying to recover (c) A mental patient with paranoid delusions (d) A Christian The only discipline known to often cause people to kill others they have never met and / or to commit suicide in its furtherance is: (a) Architecture; (b) Philosophy; (c) Archeology; or (d) Religion What is it that most differentiates science and all other intellectual disciplines from religion: (a) Religion tells people not only what they should believe, but what they are morally obliged to believe on pain of divine retribution, whereas science, economics,
medicine etc. has no «sacred cows» in terms of doctrine and go where the
evidence leads them; (b) Religion can make a statement, such as «there is a composite god comprised of God the Father, Jesus and the Holy Spirit», and be totally immune from experimentation and challenge, whereas science can only make factual assertions when supported by considerable
evidence; (c) Science and the scientific method is universal and consistent all over the World whereas religion is regional and a person's religious conviction, no matter how deeply held, is clearly nothing more than an accident of birth; or (d) All of the above.
In fact, there is no
evidence that co-sleeping
leads to bad behavior, according to a study by the United States National Library of
Medicine (source).
The NHS should stop promoting complementary
medicines and instead use the money for treatments based on «solid
evidence», a group of
leading doctors said today.
«Until we have further
evidence on the efficacy of medical cannabis for the treatment of sleep apnea, and until its safety profile is established, patients should discuss proven treatment options with a licensed medical provider at an accredited sleep facility,» said
lead author Dr. Kannan Ramar, professor of
medicine in the division of pulmonary and critical care
medicine at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota.
The research,
led by Moriah Thomason, a developmental neuroscientist at Wayne State University School of
Medicine in Detroit, Michigan, and published this week in Scientific Reports, provides the first direct
evidence of altered brain function in fetuses that go on to be born prematurely.
«Our findings add to the growing
evidence that the new laws, although controversial to some, were associated with marked improvements in road safety,» said
lead author Jeffrey Brubacher, associate professor of Emergency
Medicine at UBC, researcher with Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute and a VCH Emergency Department physician.
«We often think of hearing loss as an inevitable part of the aging process, but these findings provide
evidence that potentially modifiable risk factors, such as maintaining a healthy weight and staying physically active, may help in the prevention of hearing loss or delay its progression,» said Sharon Curhan, MD, ScM,
lead author of the paper and a researcher in the Channing Division of Network
Medicine at BWH.
«While enthusiasm for medical marijuana is very strong among some people, good - quality research has not caught up,» said Mike Allan, director of
evidence - based
medicine at the University of Alberta and project
lead for the guideline.
«Overall, we found
evidence that stronger firearm laws are associated with decreased homicides due to firearms,» says
lead author Lois Lee, MD, MPH, of Boston Children's Hospital's Division of Emergency
Medicine and Harvard Medical School.
The assessment of headaches depends on identifying the relatively rare instances where serious underlying causes are suspected, says
lead author John N. Mafi, MD, a fellow in the Division of General
Medicine and Primary Care at BIDMC, who notes that
evidence - based guidelines for routine headache, including those from the American Academy of Neurology, suggest conservative treatments such as counseling on stress reduction or avoiding dietary triggers.
Some of the clearest
evidence comes from the Cognitive Function and Aging Study (CFAS),
led by Carol Brayne, professor of public health
medicine at the University of Cambridge.
«The compelling results seen in this global study provide unequivocal
evidence supporting the clinical utility of Oncotype DX to risk - stratify patients with early stage breast cancer, and indicate that the findings are generalizable to everyday clinical practice,» said
lead author Joseph A. Sparano, MD, vice-chairman of medical oncology at Montefiore Einstein Center for Cancer Care, and professor of
medicine and of obstetrics, gynecology, women's health at Albert Einstein College of M
medicine and of obstetrics, gynecology, women's health at Albert Einstein College of
MedicineMedicine.
Analyzing the WHIMS data revealed that «there is absolutely no
evidence that estrogen plus progestin protects cognition,» says Stephen Rapp, a psychologist at Wake Forest University School of
Medicine in Winston - Salem, North Carolina, and the
lead author of the study.
The findings, from a multisite study
led by researchers at the Stanford University School of
Medicine, add to a growing body of
evidence supporting the value of parents» involvement in anorexia treatment.
A new study
led by the University of Utah School of
Medicine and Chung - Ang University provides
evidence that several regions of the brain are hyperconnected in adolescent boys diagnosed with Internet gaming disorder (lines between colored areas, colored areas represent specific brain networks).
«Our results strongly support other
evidence about the power of public policies to reduce excessive drinking and related medical and social problems,» said Timothy Naimi, MD, MPH, a pediatrician at BMC and associate professor of public health and
medicine at BUSPH, who was the study's
lead investigator.
Data collected during a long - term health study provides additional
evidence for a link between increased risk of cancer in individuals with advanced gum disease, according to a new collaborative study
led by epidemiologists Dominique Michaud at Tufts University School of
Medicine and Elizabeth Platz of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Kimmel Cancer Center.
«This first study of this problem in mice adds to the growing body of
evidence that inhalation of particulate matter from implantation through the second trimester of pregnancy is potentially dangerous,» says
lead author and investigator Jason Blum, PhD, MS, assistant professor in the Department of Environmental
Medicine at NYU School of
Medicine.
Led by researchers at the Perelman School of
Medicine and the Center for Health Incentives and Behavioral Economics at the University of Pennsylvania, this study is a follow - up to a recent JAMA viewpoint suggesting that there's little
evidence that wearable devices alone can change behavior and improve health for those that need it most.
«There is very little
evidence to suggest that we can change people's beliefs or knowledge in a way that will
lead to increased immunizations,» said study co-author Allison Kempe, MD, MPH, professor of pediatrics at the University of Colorado School of
Medicine.
«This clinical - based
evidence can assist physicians in counseling patients about the important role diet plays,
leading to improved preventive care, a key consideration in the osteopathic philosophy of
medicine.»
Allan is the
lead author of a review published in the Journal of General Internal
Medicine that examines the
evidence for 10 common beliefs about vitamin D.
Convincing
evidence for that came in 1979 from a team at the Hutch
led by E. Donnall Thomas, who later won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or
Medicine for his pioneering work.
Brain imaging using radioactive dye can detect early
evidence of Alzheimer's disease that may predict future cognitive decline among adults with mild or no cognitive impairment, according to a 36 - month follow - up study
led by Duke
Medicine.
A study by the Nova Southeastern University (NSU) Save Our Seas Shark Research Center and Guy Harvey Research Institute (GHRI) and the Cornell University College of Veterinary
Medicine just published in the journal BMC Genomics (
lead author, postdoctoral associate Nicholas Marra,) now provides the first
evidence that some shark and ray immunity genes have undergone evolutionary changes that may be tied to these novel immune system abilities.
«As with many things in
medicine, technology evolves and our knowledge grows and we have presented good evidence that the DT, which has been in use for nearly 30 years, is no longer necessary,» says lead author Jeff Healey, associate professor of medicine, in the Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine at McMaster Uni
medicine, technology evolves and our knowledge grows and we have presented good
evidence that the DT, which has been in use for nearly 30 years, is no longer necessary,» says
lead author Jeff Healey, associate professor of
medicine, in the Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine at McMaster Uni
medicine, in the Michael G. DeGroote School of
Medicine at McMaster Uni
Medicine at McMaster University.
«While
evidence shows that joint replacement surgery improves pain, function, and quality of life for the osteoarthritis patient, the impact of cardiovascular health has not been confirmed,» explains
lead study author Yuqing Zhang, D.Sc., Professor of
Medicine and Epidemiology at Boston University School of
Medicine in Boston, Massachusetts.
«Our research provides some reassuring
evidence suggesting that there is no determinantal effect of infrequent, relatively light use of marijuana on kidney function among healthy adults under age 60,» commented
lead investigator Murray A. Mittleman, MD, DrPH, Professor of Epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Associate Professor of
Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and a practicing preventive cardiologist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.
Two new studies
led by researchers at the Perelman School of
Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania have found
evidence that such cost - sharing arrangements are associated with significant reductions in access to these drugs.
AllTrials is an international initiative of Ben Goldacre, BMJ, Centre for
Evidence - based
Medicine, Cochrane Collaboration, James Lind Initiative, PLOS and Sense about Science and is being
led in the US by Sense About Science USA, Dartmouth's Geisel School of
Medicine and the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy & Clinical Practice.
A review of published
evidence on the effect of antidepressants on suicidal behaviour and violence in healthy people is published in Journal of the Royal Society of
Medicine with the authors reporting «antidepressants double the occurrence of events in adult healthy volunteers that can
lead to suicide and violence.»
«With a large sample size, long follow - up period and objective assessment of hearing loss, our study provides strong
evidence that smoking is an independent risk factor of hearing loss,» said study
lead author Dr. Huanhuan Hu, from the National Center for Global Health and
Medicine, in Japan.
«This research provides really robust
evidence that mercury exposure from fish consumption at levels commonly seen in [the] U.S. and similar countries is not linked to an increased risk of cardiovascular disease,» says Dariush Mozaffarian, MD, the
lead author of the study and an associate professor of cardiovascular
medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, in Boston.
A September 2008 study
led by the same author, Thomas E. Rohan, MD, PhD, an epidemiologist at the Albert Einstein College of
Medicine, in New York City, found similarly disturbing
evidence in a study of women taking estrogen and progestin: Combined HT raised a womans risk of benign breast disease by 74 %.
In a new review of the
evidence on statins» effectiveness, researchers
led by Rory Collins, professor of
medicine and epidemiology at the University of Oxford, report in the Lancet that concerns about the side effects of statins may be overblown, and that appreciation of the drugs» benefits are under recognized.
Dr. Datis Kharrazian is a one - of - a-kind clinician whose passion for research and
evidence - based
medicine led him to spend years in laboratories such as Immunosciences Lab in California and Cyrex Labs in Arizona, as well as in universities such as Harvard Medical School, Loma Linda University School of Medicine, Bastyr University California, and Lincoln College of Professional, Graduate and Continuing Ed
medicine led him to spend years in laboratories such as Immunosciences Lab in California and Cyrex Labs in Arizona, as well as in universities such as Harvard Medical School, Loma Linda University School of
Medicine, Bastyr University California, and Lincoln College of Professional, Graduate and Continuing Ed
Medicine, Bastyr University California, and Lincoln College of Professional, Graduate and Continuing Education.
Leading experts discuss the latest lab protocols,
evidence - based research, pharmacology, dietary interventions and physical
medicine techniques for managing small intestine bacterial overgrowth.
The University of Arizona Center for Integrative
Medicine (UACIM) is
leading the transformation of health care by training a new generation of health professionals and by empowering individuals and communities to optimize health and wellbeing through
evidence - based, sustainable, integrative approaches.
The University of Arizona Center for Integrative
Medicine is
leading the transformation of health care by training a new generation of health professionals and by empowering individuals and communities to optimize health and wellbeing through
evidence - based, sustainable, integrative approaches.
Autism is a «really complicated» disorder, and the
evidence to date suggests that a combination of genes and so - called environmental factors — some of which may increase the risk of both autism and schizophrenia — are involved, says Patrick F. Sullivan, M.D.,
lead author of the study and director of the Center for Psychiatric Genomics at the University of North Carolina School of
Medicine, in Chapel Hill.
This is the recommendation of the
leading specialists in captive wolf husbandry and
medicine, and it is largely the result of
evidence that the previous practice of feeding raw meat based diets to captive wolves
led to poorer quality nutrition and health than the current practices.
In an effort to
lead by example, the Sunnyside Pet Healthcare Center will strive to practice pain
medicine in accordance with scientific principles and the latest
evidence - based research in order to give animals a better chance at living pain - free and happy lives, even in the face of serious illnesses such as cancer.
A study
led by researchers from the Washington University School of
Medicine provides first
evidence that house cats are not that different from cats in the wild.