Xylocopa
Tales of an academic prole
Patrick D Hahn
- Location
- Baltimore, Maryland, USA
- Birthday
- June 07
- Bio
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MY RECENT POSTS
- Rachel Carson: worse than
Hitler?
September 11, 2012 09:13PM - Silent Spring, 50 years on
September 11, 2012 08:14PM - Last night in Ghana
August 10, 2012 05:02PM - In search of Nsusun
July 09, 2012 01:37PM - World Vision: giving Ghanaian
women a second chance
June 11, 2012 03:11AM
MY RECENT COMMENTS
- “Next year wil be the
hundredth anniversary of the
War On
Drugs (Happy
Birthday!).…”
January 14, 2013 02:47PM - “It's good to see you
back.”
January 07, 2013 10:22PM - “Jonathan Frid once said
he always felt ridiculous when
they
made him wear those
p…”
January 05, 2013 11:30AM - “I don't know what to
say. You don't need any advice
for me.
You already have
disp…”
November 18, 2012 08:39PM - “@Bobbot:
You
got that right. I just got off
the telephone with an old
family
frien…”
October 30, 2012 08:57AM
Patrick D Hahn's Links
- The Gold Coast
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- Last night in Ghana
- In search of Nsusun
- World Vision: Giving Ghanaian women a second chance
- The Gold Coast Regiment
- Return to Mole National Park
- In search of Aboatia Part 2
- The flying fish of Nzema
- The sea turtles of Nzema
- In search of Aboatia Part 1
- Taking a break from Open Salon
- The crocodiles of Egyambra
- The elephants of Mole National Park
- The Castle of Saint George at Elmina
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- The Holy Ark of the Covenant in Ethiopia
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- Gondar
- Harar
- The Castle of Saint George at Elmina
- Imrahana Christos
- Lalibela
- Debra Zion
- Tana Kirkos
- The Church of Saint Mary at Axum
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- The Land of Burnt Faces
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- Only in Ethiopia
- Ethiopian cuisine
- The Red Terror Museum in Addis Ababa
- Axum
- Trampled Rose: Giving Ethiopian women a second chance
- The diagnosis
- The Land of Burnt Faces
- The Cradle of Humanity
- The Medical-Industrial Complex
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- Ya gotta die of something
- Taking a bite of out dental care costs
- The Vampire of the Caribbean
- One of the deadliest prescription drugs ever
- News flash: public playgrounds harbor germs
- Are statin drugs the new thalidomide?
- GlaxoSmithKline: making a killing UPDATED
- Kermit Gosnell update
- A fat-headed idea
- Doctor Kermit Gosnell's little shop of horrors
- Im memory of David Reimer
- The House of Frankenstein
- Time to re-think our strategy in the War On Cancer
- Trampled Rose: giving Ethiopian women a second chance
- The diagnosis
- I hope he fails
- President Obama, health care reform, and "Animal Farm"
- Animal experimentation and the shining city on the sea
- The checkup
- Health care, breast cancer, and "benefits-eligible" employees
- Death panels, prostate cancer, and health care rationing
- Letter from physicians to the American people and my reply
- Pulling the plug on Grandma
- They're as mad as heck and they're not gonna take it anymore
- The most important thing to remember about health care
- Review of "Our Daily Meds" by Melody Peterson
- Time to pull the plug on employer-based health insurance
- The health care industry tips its hand
- Has medicine become the modern-day substitute for religion? Part 2
- Should doctors kill Part 3
- Remembering Doctor Heller
- Physician, heal thyself
- Should doctors kill Part 2 EDITOR'S PICK
- On driving a spike through a child's eye sockets
- Has medicine become the modern-day substitute for religion?
- Free market versus socialized medicine = a false choice
- Blaming the uninsured EDITOR'S PICK
- A tepid defense of animal experimentation
- Why do people say heart transplants save lives? UPDATED
- The perils of genetic engineering
- Should doctors kill?
- Vassals of the Medical-Industrial Complex
- Shopping Amazon.com
- The Psycho-Pharmaceutical Industrial Complex
- $4.95/mo Web Hosting
- "A carrot growing out of my forehead"
- Just say No to TeenScreen
- Listening to Peter Kramer
- Chantix: killing more than just your desire to smoke
- Chantix: for people who are dying to quit smoking UPDATED
- Chantix: is suicide an "expected event?"
- Exploding the antidepressant myth
- Throughput in the psychiatrist's office
- A depressing proposal
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- Anatomy of an epidemic
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- Part 6: Why psych meds are not like insulin for diabetes continued
- Part 5: Why psych meds are not like insulin for diabetes
- Part 4: A manufactured epidemic
- Part 3: An invented disorder UPDATED AGAIN
- Part 2 UPDATED
- Part 1
- Amazon Best Sellers
- Big fat lies
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- Part 12: A jab for flab
- Part 11: News flash: exercise burns fat
- Part 10: Chunky monkeys
- Part 9
- Part 8
- Part 7
- Part 6 UPDATED AGAIN
- Part 5 UPDATED
- Part 4 UPDATED A FOURTH TIME
- Part 3
- Part 2
- Part 1
- Shopping Amazon.com
- Is screening for cancer a giant con job?
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- Part 10
- Part 9
- Part 8
- Part 7
- Part 6 UPDATED
- Part 5
- Part 4
- Part 3
- Part 2
- Part 1 UPDATED
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- The War On Drugs
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- Part 5: Jose Guerena shooting update
- Part 4
- Part 3 UPDATED AGAIN
- Part 2
- Part 1
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- The Nutritional-Industrial Complex
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- MyPlate: Should the government be telling us what to eat?
- Big surprise: Heart Attack Grill spokeman dies at 29
- Eat your vegetables -- or else! UPDATED
- Fresh takes up where Food Inc. leaves off
- Food Inc. pulls back the veil
- High-fructose corn syrup and highly misleading advertising
- Michael Pollan's subversive proposal Part 2
- Michael Pollan's subversive proposal: eat food
- War On Food EDITOR'S PICK
- Amazon Hot New Releases in Books
- Personal Reminiscences
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- Remembering Mom UPDATED FOR MOTHER'S DAY 2012
- Bully for you
- An extraordinary woman
- The lizards of Echo Canyon Park
- The greatest summertime song EVER
- Thoughts on Valentine's Day
- Goodbye to All That
- Remembering Grampa
- Remembering Uncle Walter
- Remembering Doctor Heller
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- Personal Essays
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- The Small Girl
- The Washouts
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- Scientific Articles
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- Scared to Death
- Dead Man Walking
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- Books of Interest
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- Opium: a History by Martin Booth
- The Second Sin by Thomas Szasz M.D.
- Words to the Wise by Thomas Szasz M.D.
- Ceremonial Chemistry: The Ritual Persecution of Drugs, Addicts, and Pushers by Thomas Szasz M.D.
- The Myth of Mental Illness by Thomas Szasz M.D.
- Romancing Opiates: Pharmacological Lies and the Addiction Bureaucracy by Theodore Dalrymple M.D.
- Blood Feud: The Man Who Blew the Whistle on One of the Deadliest Prescription Drugs Ever by Kathleen Sharp
- How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter by Sherwin Nuland M.D.
- The Origins of AIDS by Jaques Pepin M.D.
- Anatomy of an Epidemic: Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illnerss in America by Robert Whitaker
- The Emperor's New Drugs: Exploding the Antidepressant Myth by Irving Kirsch Ph.D.
- Overdiagnosed: Making People Sick in the Pursuit of Health by H. Gilbert Welch M.D., M.P.H.
- Buried Alive: The Terrifying History of Our Most Primal Fear by Jan Bondeson
- Blaming the Brain: The Truth About Drugs and Mental Health by Eliot Valenstein Ph.D.
- Our Daily Meds by Melody Peterson
- In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan
- Overdo$ed America by John Abramson M.D.
- The Truth About the Drug Companies by Marcia Angell M.D.
- Selling Sickness by Ray Moynihan and Alan Cassels
- Uninsured in America: Life and Death in the Land of Opportunity by Susan Sered Ph.D. and Rushika Fernandopoulle Ph.D.
- Sick Girl by Amy Silverstein
- Sick: The Untold Story of America's Healthcare Crisis -- and the People Who Pay the Price by Jonathan Cohn
- Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine is Making Us Sicker and Poorer by Shannon Brownlee
- Worried Sick by M. Nortin Hadler, M.D.
- My Lobotomy by Howard Dully
- Should I Be Tested For Cancer? Maybe Not and Here's Why by H. Gilbert Welch, M.D., M.P.H.
- The Lobotomist by Jack El-Hai
- Medical Nemesis by Ivan Illich
- Confessions of a Medical Heretic by Robert S. Mendelsohn M.D.
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April 10, 2012 04:12AM
“Its because of your hard work that all these other people can enjoy their holiday. If that's any consolation. Hang in there.”
About: Another "Crappy" Holiday.
“Its because of your hard work that all these other people can enjoy their holiday. If that's any consolation. Hang in there.”
About: Another "Crappy" Holiday.
April 10, 2012 03:41AM
“Just take it one step at a time. Hang in there.”
About: Fear and Loathing at the Disability Hearing
“Just take it one step at a time. Hang in there.”
About: Fear and Loathing at the Disability Hearing
April 08, 2012 09:04AM
“Wonderful post. We're turning into a nation of fusy, fearful hypochondriacs. Thanks for your reminder that there is another way.”
About: That Chipped Teacup Feeling: Life after Breast Cancer
“Wonderful post. We're turning into a nation of fusy, fearful hypochondriacs. Thanks for your reminder that there is another way.”
About: That Chipped Teacup Feeling: Life after Breast Cancer
April 06, 2012 01:20PM
“Oh, how could I forget? "Chrstma Canon Rock" by the Trans-Siberian Orchestra, which is playing this very moment on my PC.”
About: This Atheist’s Favorite Religious Songs
“Oh, how could I forget? "Chrstma Canon Rock" by the Trans-Siberian Orchestra, which is playing this very moment on my PC.”
About: This Atheist’s Favorite Religious Songs
April 06, 2012 01:18PM
“My favorites: Joy to the World For Onto Us a Child is Born Pretty much anything by J.S. Bach And my all-time favorite: "Mary's Boy Child"by Boney…”
About: This Atheist’s Favorite Religious Songs
“My favorites: Joy to the World For Onto Us a Child is Born Pretty much anything by J.S. Bach And my all-time favorite: "Mary's Boy Child"by Boney…”
About: This Atheist’s Favorite Religious Songs
April 05, 2012 12:21PM
“Good Lord. Please forgive what might sound like a really naive question, but don't they have Disability Insurance and Medicare for people like you?”
About: My Hunger Games
“Good Lord. Please forgive what might sound like a really naive question, but don't they have Disability Insurance and Medicare for people like you?”
About: My Hunger Games
April 03, 2012 09:57AM
“Did you become bipolar before or after you began taking psychiatric "medicines?" The proportion of Americans disabled by mental illness has sk…”
About: Pre-existing Condition
“Did you become bipolar before or after you began taking psychiatric "medicines?" The proportion of Americans disabled by mental illness has sk…”
About: Pre-existing Condition
April 02, 2012 03:50PM
“Thanks for posting this. I just finished looking at the Cochrane Collaboration review on statins for primary prevention of heart disease that came out…”
About: Two Things Most People Don't Know About Statin Drugs
“Thanks for posting this. I just finished looking at the Cochrane Collaboration review on statins for primary prevention of heart disease that came out…”
About: Two Things Most People Don't Know About Statin Drugs
April 02, 2012 10:51AM
“Sleeping in a spare bed in a friend's foreclosed home, living on $200 a month disbility pension for cancer, and he think's he's gonna find a girlfriend…”
About: The Safety Net Isn't Big Enough
“Sleeping in a spare bed in a friend's foreclosed home, living on $200 a month disbility pension for cancer, and he think's he's gonna find a girlfriend…”
About: The Safety Net Isn't Big Enough
March 30, 2012 03:56PM
“The witch's name was Endora. Hang in there.”
About: A day in the life of a single mom Expat
“The witch's name was Endora. Hang in there.”
About: A day in the life of a single mom Expat
March 29, 2012 08:05AM
“I've been looking into this. If and when we return to the United States, my wife and I will have to pay something like $3300 a year for the cheapest po…”
About: Life Without Health Insurance
“I've been looking into this. If and when we return to the United States, my wife and I will have to pay something like $3300 a year for the cheapest po…”
About: Life Without Health Insurance
March 29, 2012 07:30AM
“That wasn't the Old Testament. That was Y'shua the Nazerene, from the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew Chapter 5). Glad to hear things seem to continue on…”
About: A Little Bit of This and That
“That wasn't the Old Testament. That was Y'shua the Nazerene, from the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew Chapter 5). Glad to hear things seem to continue on…”
About: A Little Bit of This and That
March 28, 2012 04:12PM
“The real clowns sit in corner offices and unfortunately don't wear bright red noses to identify themselves.”
About: Photos in my work cell phone
“The real clowns sit in corner offices and unfortunately don't wear bright red noses to identify themselves.”
About: Photos in my work cell phone
March 28, 2012 03:49PM
“I am sorry about everything, especially your student loan debt. Speaking as one who has worked for almost twenty years as a university teacher, this I…”
About: Life Without Health Insurance
“I am sorry about everything, especially your student loan debt. Speaking as one who has worked for almost twenty years as a university teacher, this I…”
About: Life Without Health Insurance
March 27, 2012 11:42AM
“Congratulations on quitting smoking. Hope things continue to get better for you.”
About: Pain for Sale
“Congratulations on quitting smoking. Hope things continue to get better for you.”
About: Pain for Sale
March 23, 2012 05:45PM
“Saw a program on Nat Geo Wild about the cane toad. Appalling. Disgusting. Thanks for posting this.”
About: The Crocodile and the Cane Toad.
“Saw a program on Nat Geo Wild about the cane toad. Appalling. Disgusting. Thanks for posting this.”
About: The Crocodile and the Cane Toad.
March 23, 2012 10:09AM
“Hi Linda, I encourage you to look into martial arts training for your son. Thanks for reading and commenting.”
About: Bully for you
“Hi Linda, I encourage you to look into martial arts training for your son. Thanks for reading and commenting.”
About: Bully for you
March 23, 2012 04:55AM
“They're afraid of a little girl selling cupcakes? Sheesh. What a bunch of fearful little mice we have become. Americans are hands down the most fearful…”
About: When Your Child Is Busted For Dealing.
“They're afraid of a little girl selling cupcakes? Sheesh. What a bunch of fearful little mice we have become. Americans are hands down the most fearful…”
About: When Your Child Is Busted For Dealing.
March 22, 2012 03:09PM
“Great post. Some day historians will read about our era and shake their heads and wonder how people could have been so gullible to believe an essential…”
About: Diet, Exercise, and Hold the Statins, Please
“Great post. Some day historians will read about our era and shake their heads and wonder how people could have been so gullible to believe an essential…”
About: Diet, Exercise, and Hold the Statins, Please
March 22, 2012 12:33PM
“Good post. Most of us go through some rough patches growing up, but then we turned out more or less okay. I fear the currently fashionable mentality th…”
About: Growth Spurt
“Good post. Most of us go through some rough patches growing up, but then we turned out more or less okay. I fear the currently fashionable mentality th…”
About: Growth Spurt
March 22, 2012 12:29PM
“I fear the consequences of making "sensitivity" the principle, or even the only, virtue. This will not end well for anyone.”
About: Pity
“I fear the consequences of making "sensitivity" the principle, or even the only, virtue. This will not end well for anyone.”
About: Pity
March 22, 2012 04:36AM
“Hi Kathy, I can't help but think their whole approach is misguided from the get-go. I think the focus ought to be on raising children to be strong self-…”
About: Bully for you
“Hi Kathy, I can't help but think their whole approach is misguided from the get-go. I think the focus ought to be on raising children to be strong self-…”
About: Bully for you
March 21, 2012 05:21AM
“Great title. Too many people talk at other people, rather to them.”
About: I would rather share from the heart than pontificate
“Great title. Too many people talk at other people, rather to them.”
About: I would rather share from the heart than pontificate
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