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Bill Gleason

Minneapolis, MN
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Posted on 11/24/10 at 11:51 am in response to Once a medical device mecca, Ireland is now an economic disaster

A good article, Thomas.

Could you please attempt to answer the question:

Were the tax breaks offered by Ireland ultimately the reason for the economic collapse? I am not equipped to answer this question but respect your judgement.

In Minnesota right now, as you know and have written about, we have to make some serious decisions about how to grow jobs.

There seem to be - simplistically - two options. The GOP insists - and perhaps they are right? - that cutting...

Posted on 11/24/10 at 11:57 am in response to Now that the U of M has chosen a new president, is a new U to follow?

I always feel about an inch high after reading one of Gregg's wonderful outbursts...

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Posted on 11/24/10 at 08:33 am in response to Now that the U of M has chosen a new president, is a new U to follow?

The call for a general public discussion of what we want from our state university is well in order.

For some thoughts, please see an article I wrote for the Chronicle of Higher Education:

World Class Research, Coming to a Land Grant University Near You?

link: http://bit.ly/9GhDSB

Unfortunately, the current administration has not been interested in engaging in a discussion about the direction of the...

Posted on 11/18/10 at 10:49 pm in response to Of homeopathy, witchcraft and the placebo effect

Exactly, Dan

"It surprises me that CHEST would publish an article (March 2005) on the effect of a therapeutic agent when in fact the patients received none of the agent mentioned in the title of the article."

"It is not mentioned in the title, but reading the article reveals that the 'potassium dichromate' was a homeopathic C30 dilution. That is a dilution by a factor of 10^60 [ten raised to the sixtieth power], and for those of us who believe in the Avogadro number, that means...

Posted on 11/18/10 at 11:36 am in response to Of homeopathy, witchcraft and the placebo effect

Dan-

Having been around the track - over homeopathy - for quite some time, I think it is pretty useless to argue with these folks.

About all you can do is to provide some links for the average person to follow up, in case they are interested.

But you aren't going to convince these folks that homeopathy doesn't work. Pointing out that there is no medicine in the medicine doesn't even faze them.

People still believe in witchcraft, exorcism, and faith healing. Not...

Posted on 11/17/10 at 10:26 pm in response to Of homeopathy, witchcraft and the placebo effect

You are right Mirman, we don't have much to discuss.
There is this thing called Avogadro's number...

You'd like to learn. I'll bet. If you know as much about homeopathy as you claim, you are certainly aware - or should be - of this study. It is a by now classic example of homeopathetic quackery and has even been cited by the Director of the Center of Spirituality and Healing at the Academic Health Center at the University of Minnesota.

I've given you some links to use...

Posted on 11/17/10 at 05:01 pm in response to Of homeopathy, witchcraft and the placebo effect

I've written for some time about the disgraceful situation at the Academic Health Center at the University of Minnesota which is, apparently, a hotbed of homeopathy. The director of the Center of Spirituality at the University has written in glowing terms about the use of dichromate as a a homeopathetic remedy. She cited an article in Chest that was subsequently debunked in the same journal.

Sad, indeed, that an institution that claims to be practicing science based medicine would...

Posted on 11/12/10 at 05:43 pm in response to Tom Emmer states bluntly that he will not be involved in any 'stalling tactics' on recount

Maybe Mr. Emmer has learned from the example of the Norm. Better to stand down gracefully and run again, than to be an idiot and have no political future in Minnesota?

Posted on 11/13/10 at 12:01 pm in response to 10 questions for the U of M presidential candidates

Dear Academic Health Center Administration:

Characterizing the past 15 years as exhibiting a "remarkable series of ethical and legal scandals" is a slap in the face...

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Trying to blow off the fact that the past 15 years HAS been a "remarkable series of ethical and legal scandals" by nitpicking some of the cases is a smokescreen.

I assume you've read Carl Elliot's book? He is one of the co-authors of these ten questions and his book "White...

Posted on 10/31/10 at 08:28 pm in response to Legacy of Ashland's industrial past on Lake Superior poses toxic problem

Good Christ, this post makes me ill.

And anyone who wonders why government regulation of this sort of stuff is necessary should be forced to read this post...

Anyone who ever complained about the EPA or gubbiment regulations should read this piece.

Disgusting.