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Feb 23, 2010
Do you need to have high cholesterol to take a cholesterol drug? Apparently not.
Competition matters: more hospitals mean lower costs.
Temper dysregulation with dysphoria: It is what causes children to thrown temper tantrums.
5 Responses to “Boredom Kills, FDA Approves Cholesterol Drug for People Without High Cholesterol, and What Really Causes a Child’s Temper Tantrums?”
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Helium
February 23rd, 2010 at 9:55 am
Last item confirms my suspicion. All human behavior will eventually be classified as some kind of mental illness.
February 23rd, 2010 at 10:14 am
If you can die of boredom, Obama’s health plan is pushing me over the edge.
February 23rd, 2010 at 10:28 am
Note that the 7,500 subjects in the boredom study are London civil servants.
I’m thinking civil service might be what killed these people…
February 23rd, 2010 at 10:41 am
If your child is suffering from temper dysregulation with dysphoria, does the DSM V explain the most effective therapy identified by “evidence-based medicine” is a couple swift swats on the child’s rump, coupled with an hour of isolation in a (toy free) bedroom?
February 23rd, 2010 at 10:44 am
It seems we’re reminded almost daily of two things: 1) that simple economic laws, such as competition driving price, work to the betterment of humankind and 2) those economic laws are routinely ignored by policy makers.