@cremieuxrecueil A 20 point MADRS drop means the depression got significantly better . Are you being sarcastic or not understanding the study conclusions?
@RecoveryDoctor A Madrs score drop from 30 to 10 in both groups is pretty great actually Why would you conclude that ketamine didn’t work from the study? This study doesn’t tell you that.
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🚨This is a VERY important clip. I speak at more college campuses and with more college kids than perhaps anyone else in the country and what this man is saying is 100% true. Watch and have your eyes opened.
.@danawhite Thank you so much for your deep understanding and appreciation of VISION QUEST. It’s a huge part of my life and contributed so much to my personal character. The ultimate wrestling match is with ourselves, right? How far are we willing to push ourselves to achieve a goal? What life lessons do we learn along the way. Louden Swain definitely helped me become a better human being. I’m glad he - and the movie - has so positively inspired and impacted people the world over. What could be better than that!
11 thoughts from Roger Scruton on his 80th birthday today:
1. Scruton on the fundamental right-wing impulse: "Conservatism starts from the sentiment that good things are easily destroyed, but not easily created."
2. The hypocrisy of liberals: "Liberty is not the same thing as equality, and that those who call themselves liberals are far more interested in equalizing than in liberating their fellows."
3. Scruton on when to ignore a writer: "A writer who says that there are no truths, or that all truth is 'merely relative,' is asking you not to believe him. So don’t. Deconstruction deconstructs itself, and disappears up its own behind, leaving only a disembodied smile and a faint smell of sulphur."
4. It's impossible to even have a personal identity without social relations: "We are not born free, nor do we come into this world with a self-identity and autonomy of our own. We achieve those things, through the conflict and cooperation that weave us into the social fabric. We become freely choosing individuals only by acquiring obligations to parents, siblings, institutions and groups: obligations that we did not choose."
5. In 1998, Salon asked Roger Scruton about censorship. He said: "Yes, I am in favor of censorship, but it has to be conducted by people like me. And that's the difficulty." Then he laughed. (He was talking about censoring porn.)
6. Tribes need Gods: "Tribes survive and flourish because they have gods, who fuse many wills into a single will, and demand and reward the sacrifices on which social life depends."
7. Love is the source of the conservative worldview: "The real reason people are conservatives is that they are attached to the things that they love, and want to preserve them from abuse and decay. They are attached to their family, their friends, their religion, and their immediate environment."
8. Tradition is never arbitrary: "In discussing tradition, we are not discussing arbitrary rules and conventions. We are discussing answers that have been discovered to enduring questions."
9. Real art is always meaningful: "Art moves us because it is beautiful, and it is beautiful in part because it means something. It can be meaningful without being beautiful; but to be beautiful it must be meaningful."
10. Liberty inevitably leads to inequality and people obsessed with equity have no answer to this conundrum. Scruton: "If liberation involves the liberation of individual potential, how do we stop the ambitious, the energetic, the intelligent, the good-looking and the strong from getting ahead?"
11. The entrepreneur who builds matters more than the bureaucrat who manages. Scruton: "The important person in a free economy is not the manager but the entrepreneur – the one who takes risks and meets the cost of them."
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If interest payments on our national debt become the largest line item in our federal budget, we’re done as a country. Answer: get the oil & gas out from under our ground, sell it, and pay down our national debt. Avoid pointless foreign wars & end >90% of foreign aid. Slash 75% of the federal bureaucracy. That’ll put us back on track without touching Social Security.
@joel_whitcomb@dreddcnc Chappaquiddick is Ted Kennedy. RFK is a stud but if you want to give him a name that’s vaguely inappropriate, he does have a story about how he got his fritzy voice
@kevinnbass@MattAHay Bio-identical does not increase heart disease risk, and supports almost every system in the body. I am confident you will feel differently about this when you are 50 . Donate blood every two months and you’re good to go. I’ve done my research. What’s insane is living at low T.
@kevinnbass@MattAHay You’ve shown yourself to be capable of being open minded. I would suggest you research bio-identical testosterone replacement , and see if you can maintain that it’s unhealthy. Maintaining an optimum T is one of the best things you can do as an anti-aging strategy.