…opic du jour. Even though I can’t find anything on the site, I’m told that today’s “Good Morning America” had a short piece on high school varsity basketball player Brad Hennefer. No matter. There’s still an active link to the story from WPVI in New Jersey: CHERRY HILL, N.J. — A remarkable young athlete has developed a big following. At first glance, it was just your run of the mill three-pointer in a high school hoops game. “He comes down with th…
…on it as well as the use of contingent electric shock for the treatment of rumination as far back as the 1970s so I have to put my two cents worth on the aversives issue. Note to readers – the SIBIS was an early shock device that was much less painful than the device currently employed at the JRC. Exercising this rare opportunity to ask an “authority” on aversives a question in a public forum, I challenged Linscheid (who had talked about the impor…
Just out today, the Seattle Weekly has an in-depth article exploring the uncertainties surrounding a medical prognosis of having six-months to live and its implications for impending legislation for legalization of assisted suicide in Washington state. From the article: The law has deeply divided doctors, with some loath to help patients end their lives and others asserting it’s the most humane thing to do. But there’s one thing many on both side…
…I hope this is the end of it, but today’s edition of the Concord Monitor carried Wagman’s essay, using the gentler, but less accurate title of “It’s time to pull out the tubes and allow my father to die.” FYI – Unlike the LA Times, the Monitor provides a “comments” section for this op-ed. Nothing there. So far….
…least on my system) But you can also reach it directly by clicking here. I’ll do my best to get a transcript of my part of the interview up by the end of today. If I don’t manage that, it will be up by sometime on Monday. –Stephen Drake…
