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Targeted Drug Shows Dramatic Results for Follicular Lymphoma
The targeted drug, iodine-131 tositumomab (Bexxar), which is easier to take and less toxic than standard chemotherapy, could one day be the treatment of choice for people with late-stage follicular lymphoma. That's the view of the researchers who originally developed Bexxar, based on results from a phase II clinical trial reported in the February 3 New England Journal of Medicine.
Bexxar is currently approved to treat follicular lymphoma after chemotherapy fails, but researchers at the University of Michigan believe it has potential as a first-line treatment.
The phase II trial included 76 patients with advanced-stage follicular lymphoma. Nearly all of the patients (95 percent) responded to treatment, and three out of four were free of the disease after a single course of treatment, the study found. Five years later, most of the patients were in remission, the researchers added. Read more
Looking Back on HHS-NCI Collaborations
When I came to the National Cancer Institute (NCI) in January 2002, I was privileged to join a consortium of agencies guided by the dynamic leadership of U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Tommy G. Thompson. Secretary Thompson has supported NCI's strategic commitment to eliminate the suffering and death due to cancer and initiated steps that would enable us to accomplish this by 2015. Our shared vision also included the belief that the fruits of scientific progress must ultimately be spread beyond our nation's borders and benefit the entire world.
Over the past 3 years, I've had the pleasure of working with the Secretary on a number of critical initiatives, including international cancer programs, prevention initiatives, bioterrorism research and planning, advanced technology programs, HHS public health efforts, and interagency collaborations. Read more
Targeted Drug Shows Dramatic Results for Follicular Lymphoma
The targeted drug, iodine-131 tositumomab (Bexxar), which is easier to take and less toxic than standard chemotherapy, could one day be the treatment of choice for people with late-stage follicular lymphoma. That's the view of the researchers who originally developed Bexxar, based on results from a phase II clinical trial reported in the February 3 New England Journal of Medicine.
Bexxar is currently approved to treat follicular lymphoma after chemotherapy fails, but researchers at the University of Michigan believe it has potential as a first-line treatment.
The phase II trial included 76 patients with advanced-stage follicular lymphoma. Nearly all of the patients (95 percent) responded to treatment, and three out of four were free of the disease after a single course of treatment, the study found. Five years later, most of the patients were in remission, the researchers added.
"We're pleased that almost all the patients responded, but even more important is the number of patients who achieved complete remission," said Dr. Mark Kaminski, who led the trial.
"This regimen compares favorably to even the most aggressive treatments, especially when you consider that it only takes 1 week to administer compared to several months for chemotherapy," Dr. Kaminski explained. However, he added that the only way to know how effective Bexxar is compared with standard chemotherapies is to conduct a randomized trial.
Such a comparative trial is warranted based on the new results, concurred Dr. Joseph Conners of the British Columbia Cancer Agency in an accompanying commentary. He noted, however, that the patient group in the study was overall slightly younger and perhaps healthier than patients in other trials. In addition, Bexxar was not tested on people with more than 25 percent of their bone marrow affected.
Dr. Wyndham Wilson of the Lymphoma Section of NCI's Experimental Transplantation and Immunology Branch cautioned, "These results are promising, but it's not at all clear that they're better than standard treatments." He also hoped the phase II study will "generate a random trial comparing treatments."
New treatments are needed. Current therapies can temporarily control follicular lymphoma, but there is no cure and most patients die of the disease or complications from treatment.
Bexxar was developed 15 years ago by Dr. Kaminski and Dr. Richard Wahl at the University of Michigan. They launched the current trial in 1996 based on preliminary evidence that treating relapsed patients sooner rather than later yielded better responses.
"We knew it worked well late in the disease and wanted to know what would happen if used earlier," said Dr. Wahl, now at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. "The idea was to take your best shot with the best agent early on. If something is working better than chemotherapy, why wait?"
Bexxar is a type of radioimmunotherapy that shrinks tumors through both radiation and an immune response. The drug consists of a radioactive atom (I-131) attached to an antibody on the surface of cells. In the bloodstream, the radioisotope is guided to lymphoma cells by the antibody, where it binds to protein, selectively delivering its radioactivity.
The therapy is tailored to the patient on two levels, explained Dr. Wahl. The drug targets only certain cells in the body, and the dose is determined for each patient individually. Doctors inject the drug and use imaging tools to monitor the body's response. The therapeutic dose is delivered a few days later.
By Edward R. Winstead
Looking Back on HHS-NCI Collaborations
When I came to the National Cancer Institute (NCI) in January 2002, I was privileged to join a consortium of agencies guided by the dynamic leadership of U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Tommy G. Thompson. Secretary Thompson has supported NCI's strategic commitment to eliminate the suffering and death due to cancer and initiated steps that would enable us to accomplish this by 2015. Our shared vision also included the belief that the fruits of scientific progress must ultimately be spread beyond our nation's borders and benefit the entire world.
Over the past 3 years, I've had the pleasure of working with the Secretary on a number of critical initiatives, including international cancer programs, prevention initiatives, bioterrorism research and planning, advanced technology programs, HHS public health efforts, and interagency collaborations.
As Secretary Thompson embarks on a new career after his successful stewardship of HHS, I want to highlight a few of these initiatives and the crucial role that Secretary Thompson and the Department have played in their planning and implementation. On behalf of my colleagues at NCI, I also offer our deep gratitude and sincere best wishes to Secretary Thompson for the future.
The Secretary played an important role in supporting the President's initiatives promoting global health and its contribution to the economy and security of nations. He worked closely with NCI on several international programs, recognizing the growing global burden of cancer. He led delegations, which I was able to join, to Iraq, Jordan, and Russia.
The 2004 delegation to Iraq assessed infrastructure needs for health care. We saw first-hand the achievements of HHS agencies in the rebuilding of Iraq. I was also honored to lead a roundtable with the new Minister of Health of Iraq, the Honorable Dr. Ala'adin Al-Alwan.
Last February, Secretary Thompson and I joined officials from the King Hussein Cancer Center in Jordan, a regional cancer treatment facility that is now saving the lives of many cancer patients from around the Middle East. During our visit, we saw the launch of a state-of-the-art telemedicine system and met with Iraqi children with cancer who were doing well, receiving treatment that would not have been available only a few years ago.
On the home front, HHS has enlisted NCI's help in some national initiatives. When the Interagency Committee on Smoking and Health's Subcommittee on Cessation published its recommendations in February 2004, Secretary Thompson began to address the recommendations by tasking NCI and CDC with developing a national network of tobacco cessation quitlines. On November 10, 2004, the National Network of Tobacco Cessation Quitlines was launched. The toll-free phone number (1-800-QUIT NOW) puts callers in touch with programs that can help them give up tobacco.
Secretary Thompson was also involved with the CEO Cancer Gold Standard, which calls for corporations to actively reduce their employees' risk of cancer through workplace programs. NCI intends to continue these and other collaborations that Secretary Thompson has supported.
With this in mind, we are delighted to welcome another former governor as the new HHS Secretary. Mike Leavitt also comes to the Department after a distinguished career in which he demonstrated that he knows the importance of continuing to strengthen the health care system and to serve the well-being of the American people at all levels of our society and in all communities.
Dr. Andrew C. von Eschenbach
NCI Radiation Oncology Program Tackles Cancer Disparities
For many years, it has been known that certain U.S. populations experience a greater incidence, prevalence, mortality, and overall burden from cancer.
Such disparities are evident throughout the American health care system: People in underserved populations and communities have less awareness of cancer, which translates into less healthy behaviors, less screening, and patients presenting at later stages in the course of disease. In addition, institutions that provide the care for a disproportionate number of medically underserved people are not usually involved in NCI research - and clinicians who treat low-income, ethnic, and minority populations do not typically devise clinical trials.
One NCI response to those circumstances has been to fund six flagship studies in radiation oncology through grants from NCI's Cancer Disparities Research Partnership (CDRP) Program.
"We realized that trying to do cancer research on health disparities was a complex undertaking," says Dr. Frank Govern, deputy director of the Radiation Oncology Sciences Program. "The organizational models developed to conduct research in the mainstream population didn't fit here. We know, for example, that Hispanic males have much greater incidence and mortality of cancers of the stomach, gall bladder, and liver. Too few studies have explored why that may be so."
In the early 2000s, Dr. Govern and Dr. C. Norman Coleman, associate director of the Radiation Research Program in the Division of Cancer Treatment and Diagnosis, hoped to reverse these trends by crafting a blueprint for the CDRP based on a new model. "Rather than hoping centers and physicians in disparities regions would be reached by the cancer centers and cooperative groups, we reversed the dynamics and brought the resources to the disparities regions and empowered them to reach out to the major centers and groups," explains Dr. Govern. Through creative funding approaches to nontraditional organizational models, "We sought to take the high-tech oncology research enterprise directly to the populations and institutions where the people who most need it are not getting its benefits."
Radiation oncology provides "fertile ground for conducting disparities research," Dr. Govern adds. "CDRP is a focused effort to leverage national resources and deliver them to smaller hospitals and treatment centers - and the minority populations they treat - who often don't have access to clinical trials." Several components have been incorporated into the CDRP grant structure: a relationship with a large comprehensive cancer center as a mentor in the conduct of those clinical trials; the use of NCI's TeleSynergy® system to enhance communications; and "patient navigators" to provide one-on-one assistance to patients in the trials.
Dr. Patrick Maguire, principal investigator for one of the six projects, is a radiation oncologist at the Zimmer Cancer Center, part of the New Hanover Regional Medical Center (NHRMC) in Wilmington, N.C. "We hope to establish a presence in our community to enhance cancer awareness for patients and clinicians alike," Dr. Maguire notes. His CDRP trial recruits primarily African Americans for a study of hyperfractionated intensity modulated radiotherapy on stage III and IV-A head and neck cancers.
The nine counties served by NHRMC typify the CDRP focus on underserved populations. The counties are 22.5 percent African American, compared with 12.3 percent for the United States as a whole. Overall, North Carolina's median per capita income of $13,548 is 37 percent lower than the national average. For African Americans in the nine counties, median income is generally even less, ranging from $9,624 to $14,083. These are not the people who typically find their way to government-funded clinical trials, explains Dr. Maguire, "but we do active outreach into the community, and we partner with physicians who refer their patients for our clinical trials."
The CDRP model recasts the major U.S. cancer centers in a mentoring, supportive role. Radiation oncologists from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill advise and consult with Dr. Maguire and other members of the NHRMC treatment staff. Such consultation revolves around clinical research using the TeleSynergy work stations installed at both sites. Physicians several hundreds of miles apart talk with patients and with one another over joint access to medical records, CT and MRI images, and pathology specimens.
The third piece of the partnership is the Patient Navigator program. At each CRDP trial site, NCI's Center to Reduce Cancer Health Disparities provides support for one or more counselors to work with each patient, guiding them through the process, helping to navigate the obstacles they encounter, and ensuring they don't give up or drop out of continuing care. This system is the key to success, according to Tufanna Bradley, the patient navigator for the NHRMC trial. "It's easier to provide individualized support because I can usually establish a bond with patients because I go to their church, or at least I know their neighborhood," she says.
Other CRDP partnerships support trials in Inglewood, Calif.; McKeesport, Pa.; Rapid City, S.D.; Laredo, Texas; and Pascagoula, Miss., reaching other underserved populations and communities, such as Hispanic/Latinos, Native Americans, and the poor in inner-city and rural environments.
By Addison Greenwood
NIH Announces New Ethics Regulation
A new supplemental ethics regulation announced last week by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) will prohibit agency scientists from engaging in a number of outside activities, including consulting arrangements with "substantially affected organizations," which include all pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies and NIH-supported research institutions. Under the new regulation, NIH staff who are required to file specific financial disclosure reports will not be allowed to hold or acquire stock or other financial interests in biotechnology, pharmaceutical, medical device, and other companies involved in research or the development of many medical products.
"Nothing is more important to me than preserving the trust of the public in NIH," said NIH Director Dr. Elias A. Zerhouni. During a news conference on February 1, Dr. Zerhouni stressed that his goal with the new interim regulation was "to create a bright line that is so clear" there will be no "ambiguity in terms of interpreting where that line is."
The new regulation comes amid concerns raised by members of Congress over the past year about consulting or other business arrangements between some NIH scientists and industry that they alleged may have violated federal conflict-of-interest regulations or at least created the appearance of such conflicts.
Other provisions in the new regulation include a prohibition among senior NIH employees on the receipt of gifts or awards valued at more than $200 given because of their official position or from a prohibited source. The exception to the prohibition are awards that are considered among the most prestigious in the fields of medicine or scientific research, such as the Nobel Prize or Lasker Award, or those for which the employee simply receives a plaque or certificate and free attendance at the award event.
"Clearly we do not want to impair scientific interchange that is justified and valid," Dr. Zerhouni noted during the news conference. As a result, activities such as teaching classes, editing and writing of textbooks, and providing continued medical education courses will continue to be allowed. "We do not want to isolate our scientists from the mainstream of science," he said.
The new regulation took effect on February 3, when it was published in the Federal Register, and will remain in effect unless changed by subsequent regulations. The ban on outside activities will allow NIH to put in place the systems needed to effectively manage scientists' outside activities, Dr. Zerhouni said. Over the next year, HHS will review some of the provisions in the regulation, including some of the new prohibitions, and invites comment from the public during the 60-day comment period. That review, Dr. Zerhouni said, will include an evaluation of the regulation's impact on staff recruitment and retention.
Rimer Named Dean of UNC School of Public Health
Dr. Barbara Rimer, former director of NCI's Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences (DCCPS), has been appointed dean of the School of Public Health at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC), effective June 1.
Dr. Rimer is currently an alumni distinguished professor in UNC's department of health behavior and health education and the deputy director for population sciences at the Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center. She served DCCPS from 1997 to 2002, introducing or providing leadership for a number of vanguard initiatives in cancer control, including behavioral research, quality of cancer care, health communications, genes and the environment, cancer survivorship, and tobacco control, among others.
Prior to her tenure with NCI, she held joint appointments at the UNC School of Public Health and Duke University Medical Center's community and family medicine department and its comprehensive cancer center. Dr. Rimer was the first woman and first behavioral scientist to lead NCI's National Cancer Advisory Board - a presidential appointment she held from 1994 to 1997.
Upcoming NCI Science Writer's Seminar
NIH Public Access Policy to be Activated in May
Prostate SPOREs Plan Launch of a Shared Biorepository Network
This project will assess the feasibility of establishing biorepositories to support post-genomic cancer research and evaluate standardized approaches for biospecimen collection, storage, and distribution through an inter-prostate SPORE biomarker validation study. The pilot is designed to enhance the quality and availability of biospecimens and associated data for the scientific community.
Prostate SPORE representatives discussed the interoperable informatics system needed to facilitate resource sharing. Participants demonstrated informatics tools, suggested approaches for managing inter-SPORE partnerships, outlined preliminary use cases, and brainstormed interfaces to the Cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid.
To support the development of the shared biorepository network, NCI issued a request for proposals to identify a contractor to help build the system. A synopsis is available at http://rcb.cancer.gov/rcb-internet/appl/rfp/published_rfps.jsp. NCI expects to hold a preproposal conference for potential applicants this spring.
Medicare Expands Coverage for Cancer Drugs
"We are working with NCI, the oncology community, and cancer patient advocates to ensure that patients get the care they need and to develop the evidence needed by doctors and patients to make informed decisions about their treatment," said CMS Administrator Dr. Mark B. McClellan. "NCI-sponsored clinical trials offer patients safeguards, ensuring appropriate evaluation, selection, and use of cancer chemotherapy."
The actions expand coverage for additional off-label uses in CMS-selected clinical studies for drugs that are already approved for treatment of colorectal cancer, including oxaliplatin (Eloxatin), irinotecan (Camptosar), bevacizumab (Avastin), and cetuximab (Erbitux). Positron emission tomography (PET) scans for certain uses in evaluating patients with brain, cervical, ovarian, pancreatic, testicular, and other cancers will also be covered.
The decisions reflect Medicare's emphasis on ensuring that patients receive high-quality, medically necessary care and on developing better evidence by linking coverage to clinical data collection. The new drug policy will ensure that all Medicare contractors pay for the four anticancer drugs in selected clinical trials sponsored in part by NCI.
"The CMS-NCI partnership will enhance clinical evaluation of new medications to improve decision making about drug approval," said NCI Director Dr. Andrew C. von Eschenbach. "Ultimately, our goal in working with CMS is to improve the quality of and access to care for cancer patients everywhere."
The CMS Council on Technology and Innovation is developing draft guidance on this policy. An open-door forum will be held on February 14 to get public input. Comments can also be submitted to http://www.cms.hhs.gov/providers/cti. More information on CMS coverage decisions is located at http://cms.hhs.gov/coverage.
|FY 2006 Budget News
On February 7, President Bush unveiled his fiscal year 2006 budget request. The President's budget authority request for NIH totaled $28.740 billion, or 0.5 percent more than the FY 2005 budget. The President requested a 0.3 percent increase for the National Cancer Institute. The total request for NCI is $4.842 billion or $16.5 million more than the enacted budget for FY 2005. Of this increase, $12.8 million will be directed to the NIH Roadmap, bringing the total NCI contribution to the NIH Roadmap to $43.3 million.
All NCI funding mechanisms are projected to remain flat in the proposed budget. However, Research Project Grants (RPGs) will receive a slight increase to support the same approximate number of competing awards as in 2005. No inflationary increases are provided for direct, recurring costs in noncompeting RPGs and the average cost of competing RPGs will remain the same as in FY 2005. However, stipends and health benefits for postdoctoral trainees will increase.
The President's Budget will be presented before both the House and Senate during appropriation hearings.


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Book flights to Mexico City
Explore the sights and sounds of Mexico with our great flight deals from British Airways.
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Fly non-stop from the UK to Mexico City and discover the largest city in Latin America. British Airways' frequent, regular flights to Mexico City from London give you greater flexibility in making travel plans.
Sprawling and polluted it may be, but Mexico City's blending of Aztec temples and colonial baroque churches with old café-filled neighbourhoods and markets selling everything from antiques to voodoo paraphernalia make it one of North America's most colourful cities. With excellent attractions such as the Frida Kahlo Museum and some of Latin America's grandest plazas, Mexico City is a city break destination in its own right as well as a starting point for exploring Mexico's regions further.
Flights from London Heathrow to Mexico City airport take just over 11 hours. British Airways' choice of frequent, regular flights to Mexico City means you have plenty of options for timing your visit to this gateway to Mexico.
British Airways flies from London Heathrow (LHR) to Mexico City airport (MEX). Fly to Mexico City with British Airways and you will also benefit from award-winning service and a generous checked baggage allowance of 23kg.
Fly non-stop to Mexico City from London Heathrow for a city break in one of Latin America's most authentic cities. To help make your journey more convenient, you can check in for British Airways flights online or via your mobile phone, where you can also make your seat selection up to 24 hours in advance.
Mexico City airport is located only 3 miles from central Mexico City. The easiest way to cover this distance is using authorised, pre-paid taxis, which can be booked from marked stands within the airport. A security guard-protected bus also runs between the airport and the city centre, as does a metro train departing from Terminal 1. Central Mexico City is served by a 12 line metro system, trolleybuses and tramlines and a modern bus system.
Mexico City airport's Terminal One has restaurants including the somewhat upscale Casa Ávila, which serves fine Mexican-Spanish fusion food covering everything from tacos to paella, and the folksier Cúcara Mácara, which cooks up authentic Mexican home cooking in mock colonial surroundings. A good choice of duty free shopping is available within the departure lounge.

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In 2014, despite continuous efforts of governments and partners to fight hunger in the Sahel, the situation remains of great concern. Since January 2014 and following the early start of the lean season, an increasing number of poor and very poor households with low levels or depleted food stocks will depend on markets to access food until the next harvest (August-September). Without adequate funding, measures that could prevent the food security situation from worsening are delayed and the capacities of vulnerable communities to cope with repeated shocks are further decreasing.
For 2014 and in the framework of the 2014-2016 Sahel Strategic Response Plan, FAO is appealing for a total of USD 116 million to assist more than 7.6 million people with immediate livelihood interventions in the Sahel. Out of this funding, required to support crisis-hit farmers and pastoralists with immediate livelihood interventions, only USD 16.4 million has been received (14 percent of the appeal).
With contributions received, FAO is supporting more than 1.2 million vulnerable people in the Sahel. Quality crop seeds and tools have been distributed to vulnerable farmers for the main agricultural campaign. The assistance is now focusing on the provision of essential agricultural inputs for the preparation of the irrigated cultures and the lean season agricultural campaign, based on vegetable and flood plain recession production. FAO also assists vulnerable pastoralists through the recapitalization of herds, the distribution of veterinary products, water point rehabilitation and trainings. These activities are essential to restore herders' livelihoods following the difficult lean season.
While these activities are crucial to protect the livelihoods of vulnerable people, the remaining needs are significant and funding is still needed for crop production during the main agricultural campaign. Poor and very poor rural households that are unable to access agriculture and do not benefit from livelihood support, will continue to depend on casual labour for income and markets to access food. The most vulneable families started selling their meagre assets, including livestock, as many are becoming indebted.
Partners still have the opportunity in the coming months to support food insecure households by protecting and rehabilitating their livelihoods. Building on recent gains and ensuring resilience of rural communities is crucial and this opportunity should not be missed.


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Financial Solutions for Youwith Suze Orman | Tuesday, 7 p.m.
Up-to-date advice on a broad set of financial issues from Suze Orman, America's most recognized expert in personal finance, include: how to invest; whether to buy or rent a home; saving for retirement; what kind of life insurance to buy; wills and trusts; student loans and more. Orman offers tangible information on managing money today and how to make smarter choices towards a more economically secure future.
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Rock, Pop and Doo WopWednesday | 10 p.m.
Rock and pop legends Jon "Bowzer" Bauman (formerly of Sha Na Na) and Ronnie Spector (of the Ronettes) bring back the best songs from the late 1950s and early 1960s rock, pop and doo wop era in this MY MUSIC concert event. The special, recorded in May 2010, includes live performances and rare, never before available archival classics from the Dick Clark vaults.
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Celtic Woman: EmeraldTuesday | 9 p.m.
Emerald, the all-new stage production from Celtic Woman will celebrate Ireland and the Emerald Isles' spellbinding Celtic heritage through an extraordinary presentation of traditional Irish anthems, pop standards and original music by Emmy-nominated music producer David Downes./p>
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50s and 60s Party SongsFriday | 7 p.m.
As the Master of the "The Twist", along with his other dance hits including "Let's Twist Again", "Pony Time" and "Limbo Rock", Chubby Checker comes to the MY MUSIC stage for the first time ever to present the #1 dance of all time (1960 & 1962's "The Twist").
The show and pledge event present original archival performances from the 1950s and 1960s that had American teens dancing in the 1950s and 1960s. Featuring dance and party tunes from rock pioneers including Bill Haley and Little Richard to frat rock bands The Kingsmen and Tommy James and The Shondells, with Motown masters and more.
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Hugh LaurieLive on the Queen Mary | Tuesday, 11 p.m.
On the 26th of March this year a dream came true for Hugh Laurie. It was a dream born from a moment in his youth when he first heard Professor Longhair's album Live On The Queen Mary. Recorded in 1975, it was to change Longhair's life, catapulting him back into the limelight once again after years in the blues wilderness.
And as Hugh says "Ever since I heard a recording of that show - my life changed too." For it was at that moment that Laurie's musical journey began. "The hairs went up on the back of my neck and I knew this music was for me. Not one day has passed since then when I have not either listened to Professor Longhair's music, or to someone else singing his songs or tried to play them myself." "For me the second coming took place on the Queen Mary in 1975. My view of life, in fact my life, was shaped by the sounds and stories of Professor Longhair."
And now Hugh Laurie will mark the climax of his personal musical odyssey with a tribute to the man who is his greatest inspiration. He is joined by the legendary Copper Bottom Band in the exact same room, on the exact same stage where Longhair delivered his master class to put on a unique, once in a life time, unforgettable performance. Surrounded by the art deco grandeur of this extraordinary ship and featuring classic Longhair favourites "Tipitina" and "Mardi Gras In New Orleans," and Hugh's own renditions of blues classics such as "Staggerlee," "Junco Partner," "Kiss Of Fire" and "Wild Honey," this a show like no other.
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Lent at EphesusThursday | 7 p.m.
Lent at Ephesus tells the fascinating story of how the Nuns came to record their album and details their lives at their monastery. Full length performances of traditional and original chants demonstrate the power and beauty of these Lenten songs. Offering their lives in prayer and sacrifice for priests, The Benedictines of Mary use the work of their hands primarily for the making of priestly vestments. They also take care of gardens, an orchard and a small farm.
The Sisters are young and extremely musical. They do not set foot beyond their Midwest rolling farmland, focusing solely on living an austere, yet joyful life set apart from the world. Working on their farm and mostly living off the land, they sing together eight times a day as part of their daily monastic schedule of Vespers and Divine Office, lifting their hearts to God through music. The order's Prioress, Mother Cecilia, vacated her seat in the horn section with the Columbus Symphony Orchestra in Ohio to enter religious life, despite her conservatory background where music was emphasized over religion.
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Congratulations to WEIU News Watch!Winner of NATAS Mid-America Emmy for Best Newscast
The Mid-America Chapter is one of 19 regional chapters of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS). The Mid-America Chapter was chartered in 1962 and began honoring outstanding achievement in this region with local Emmy awards in 1976. The Mid-America chapter includes the television markets primarily in Missouri, Arkansas and Illinois and surrounding DMAs.
Each year, the chapter also recognizes outstanding work in the classroom by high school and college students. WEIU News Watch has been the recipient of a NATAS Mid-America Chapter student award consistently since 2009. This year's winning entry was a newscast produced on Feb. 28, 2014, and included several stories on a pending winter storm. The newscast was produced by Communication Studies major Margaret Langevin (senior).
30 Days to a Younger Heartwith Dr. Steven Masley | Wednesday, 7 p.m.
Did you know that it's possible to make your heart 10 years younger? Regardless of your body composition, genetics, or age...you can turn back time. And when you do...you will feel healthier, trimmer, fitter, sexier, mentally sharper and better than you have in a decade.
Does it sound too good to be true? It isn't. Steven Masley, MD and his three simple steps have helped thousands of patients turn back the clock...and reverse the onset of aging and disease. He is a board-certified physician, nutritionist, longevity researcher and award-winning educator who is also a highly acclaimed chef, trained at the Four Seasons. In "30 Days to a Younger Heart", Dr. Masley shares the surprising news that Metabolic Syndrome, also known as pre-diabetes - not high cholesterol - is the number one cause of cardiovascular disease. Since the term metabolic syndrome is new to most, the doctor describes how easy it is to determine your risk, and why so many Americans have it. Dr. Masley also educates viewers about the dangers of invasive, often unnecessary cardiovascular procedures. His 3 step Heart Tune-Up program is a guide to making lifestyle changes that significantly reduce the likelihood of developing cardiovascular disease. He specifically discusses the impact food, nutrients and exercise have on making a measurable difference in the reduction of arterial plaque. Discover five new categories of heart-healing foods, learn how the amount of time you exercise isn't as important as you may think plus ensure you receive the five key nutrients many lack but are truly necessary for a younger heart.
No matter how old you are, or how much you weigh or even the health battle you are facing, no one has to be on a one-way street to aging and disability. Patients' lives every day have been saved and transformed with this heart tune-up program that explores the three easy lifestyle corrections that can take 10 years off of your heart's age in just 30 days.
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Friday Music Block
8 p.m. - Live From the Artists Den
Norah Jones: Brooklyn resident Norah Jones didn't have to travel far from home to film her episode of "Live from the Artists Den." In front of 200 invited guests, she performed a stunning career-spanning set at the historic Green Building in Brooklyn's Carroll Gardens neighborhood. The rough-hewn beauty of the former brass foundry was a spectacular backdrop the 20-song retrospective, ranging from her breakthrough hit, "Don't Know Why," to her latest single, "Happy Pills," before concluding with an encore that saw her and her band gathered around an old-time microphone, offering sweet harmonies to send a delighted audience into the night.
9 p.m. - Austin City Limits
Jason Isbell/Neko Case: ACL presents modern roots rock with Jason Isbell and Neko Case. Isbell performs tunes from his acclaimed LP Southeastern, while Case sings songs from her latest album.
Sunday Lifestyle Programming Block
5 p.m. - Illinois Pioneer
5:30 p.m. - Burt Wolf: Travels and Traditions
Connecting The Dots In America: During Burt's 40 years of reporting, he has lived through a half-dozen recessions in the United States and visited dozens of countries during their economic downturns. In this program, he travels across the U.S. talking to people who have made our nation economically stronger - creative entrepreneurs with great imaginations who started small businesses based on their innovative ideas and technology and made fortunes for themselves and the people who helped them get started.
6 p.m. - All-Star Orchestra: Mahler: Love, Sorrow and Transcendence
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- phoenix goodman
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Does the scientific establishment unwittingly suffer from paradigm bias? Does it assume incorrect axioms of existence?
In the light of Thomas Kuhn's "Paradigm Shift" theory, and inspired by the TED controversy of removing Rupert Sheldrake's talk, let us examine the current scientific establishment.
The scientific process is capable of historical meta-analysis to make sense of its own patterns and processes. As Kuhn points out, every generation of scientists tend to assume premises that are fundamentally false but define the paradigm in which they work, and all assumptions flow from those premises.
Two major examples to illustrate are the geocentric/religious paradigm overthrown by Copernicus, and the Newtonian absolute space-time paradigm overthrown by Einstein. Of course, we must look to the actual psyche's of the establishment itself in those contexts. Was Copernicus not considered a heretic? Did not pre-Einsteinian physicists literally just ASSUME absolute spacetime as an axiom when contemplating physics? They are only easily shown to be incorrect in 20/20 hindsight, although up to that point, all the textbooks of school and general consensus among very smart 'experts' propagated those fallacious foundations.
Scientists that are overly specialized, careerist, non-philosophical, and lacking in paradigm shattering intuition/creativity might be the 'gatekeepers' of today, propagating fallacious assumptions themselves, and dismissing all non-establishment positions as heretical.
Has science itself transcended all biases? Has it overcome all incorrect assumptions? Was Newtonian absolute spacetime the final barrier? If not, then we MUST give 'heretics' a shot, should we not? What if they are a paradigm shifter?
As a thought experiment- if we are to contemplate the hypothetical that there are indeed wrong assumptions, what might they be?
Could it be that matter emerges from mind, and not the other way around?
Can Cartesian dualism be solved?
Could it be that the paradigm of Empiricism is merely a subset of the superior Rationalism?
Was Leibniz right?
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Harro PenkMar 26 2013: "At core the "scientific method" is based on a philosophical perspective / belief system, which cannot be proven to anyone that did not "choose" to share that perspective / belief system."
You're right, and I wholeheartedly don't disagree with you. However, now what? If someone has such a completely different view that you can't even present observable facts to them without them questioning the validity of the observations, then ... how can you possibly think that any philosophy you present will ever jive with theirs?
After all, they have a completely bizarre, completely incomprehensible, nonsense, and crazy point of view from which they judge their world in the first place.
Let me also add the following perspective to "philosophy":
Ableism - Absolutism - Absurdism - Acquiescence - Activism - Actual Idealism - Actualism - Advaita Vedanta - Aesthetics - African philosophy - Agnosticism - Agnotology - Altruism - Amor fati - American philosophy - Anti-imperialism - Anti-psychiatry - Antinatalism - Anti-intellectualism - Anti-realism - Antireductionism - Analytic philosophy - Anarchism - Ancient philosophy - Anthropocentrism - Anomalous monism - Applied ethics - Aristotelianism - Asceticism - Atavism - Atheism - Authoritarianism - Autodidacticism - Averroism - Avicennism - Axiology
That's just the A's.
None of these are science, none of these aren't subject to individual experiences and filters. Everyone will chime in their own flavor of whatever philosophy suits their current needs & desires. With infinite diversity! Every single philosophy can easily be nuanced into dozens of sub-philosophies, with hundreds of different ways of applying them.
If there is anything truly TIMELESS in this world, then it is science. I don't think that 5 million years from now that there will be shift away from Darwin and Newton? We will always, going forward, use the experimental method, even if it's just inside some kind of computer?
Philosophy? Leave that junk in church.
Mar 26 2013: This response embodies the quintessence of the very psychological constructs and premise-assuming dogma I addressed. I didn't want to reply but this simply nauseated me.
I specifically said something about Rationalism Vs. Empiricism. However, the debate between "non-philosophy" and philosophy is a false dichotomy. There is NO debate. The universe, and the human condition, is not a mechanistic algorithm void of free will and values. Psychology, history and yes, SCIENCE, without philosophy (the strict exercise of human reason) is devoid of meaning. No one said anything about whether or not philosophy has validity. The fact, not opinion, is that it does.
The question, to reiterate, is Rationalism vs. Empricism, a classic debate going back centuries, embodied by the Newton-Leibniz rivalry. The question is not if one is valid or non valid in a mutually exclusive sense, but what the strengths and weaknesses of each are, and if one is a subset of the other.
The empiricist model is always provisional, and mired in sensory input (which themselves are deluded by the many illusions of physicality and our finite senses. Rationalism asserts that certain deeper truths... the "big questions" are knowable through pure reason, or 'hyperrationality".
Empiricist materialist science has strengths and practical applications. Rationalism can conclude factors that empiricism can't touch by definition, as instead of being mired in sensory input, it is mired in pure thought. The exercise of a thought experiment, or even (non-instrumentalist) mathematics is a form of rationalism.
Pythagoras' outlook that all things are numbers in a statement of complete ontological mathematics is an example of something concluded rationally without experiments (although maybe corroborated by them).
Does infinity exist? Does 'zero'? What about "i"?
IF they exist mathematically, they are "code" of the universe. If you put "i" axes on a cartesian grid, you have scope for zero distance. Rationalism.
Harro PenkMar 27 2013: "Scientists that are overly specialized, careerist, non-philosophical, and lacking in paradigm shattering intuition/creativity might be the 'gatekeepers' of today, propagating fallacious assumptions themselves, and dismissing all non-establishment positions as heretical."
You did write this, right?
Let me be more direct: I question whether or not you're eluding to some kind of creationist drivel without having the guts to actually spell it out. There is a definite metallic taste in your posts, and it is a complete 180 of what science is. It directly mirrors a lot of what creationists are teaching in their Sunday sermons of what they think science is or "ought to be", at least from their point of view, just before they mention Ice-asteroids and giant floods that wiped out dinosaurs with tiny nostrils in an O2 rich atmosphere (too big to fit on a boat) and froze wooly mammoths standing up.
From a historic perspective, perhaps you're confusing "bias" with the various changes that have happened over time to the various scientific disciplines. They are not dogmatic changes, as you appear to elude. They were refinements, and furthered our understanding step by tiny step, sometimes in very deep, fundamental ways, but nevertheless usually with less bias, not more.
(1) Are you confusing measurement error with "bias"? Given the wooden, handcrafted nature of many early instruments, is that really even a valid idea to hold onto?
(2) Are you referring to the slow and painful withdrawal of religious and dogmatic belief systems from science as "bias"? Are you suggesting a return of that bias by now injecting philosophy?
(3) Are you referring to non-peer review as "bias"? It could be argued the other way around?
(4) Are you referring to philosophy as unbiased? Can you state some philosophies that have no bias, in the first place?
My apologies if I hit a little below the belt, but honestly, look at your own posts. Are you not a creationist in philosophy clothing?
Mar 27 2013: Look at the difference between "valid" and "sound" syllogisms. "All dogs are unicorns. John is a dog, therefore John is a unicorn." That is a VALID statement, but not SOUND.
So, "incorrect axioms" are essentially syllogisms that begin with objectively false statements assumed as true premises- the difference is that instead of a thought exercise, this process is actually done in the name of discerning the true nature of reality.
Imagine an establishment scientist in the era of Copernicus. He has a high IQ, extremely well read, etc. From his schooling, he has learned the "axiom" that the earth is the center of the universe. In the course of "if-then" statements, the "if" has been defined. He then might have come up with elaborate cosmological explanations whose conclusions flow from that premise, and whose conclusions might have been reached to a valid point because he is intelligent. However, it was the HERETIC Copernicus who had the insight to question the PREMISE- Geocentrism. This hypothetical, smart establishment scientist would then have heard Copernicus' Heliocentric model and scoffed. So, if we know that smart establishment oriented scientists can fall for this psychological process, is it not ABSURD to think that isn't going on right now?
There you go, PHILOSOPHY for you, to give the process of science and history MEANING.
I am the opposite of a creationist, which is purely based on faith and not rationality, and yet you make a hearty attempt at attacking that straw man. The almost comical fallacious irony is that your attitude regarding materialism and anti-philosophy is literally the closest a scientifically-minded individual can get to religious dogma, while all I am trying to do is merely make sense of the process of science itself and infuse it with direction and meaning. By understanding this, we can creatively imagine 'out of the box' possibilities that the establishment automatically dismisses- such as matter emerging from mind.
Mar 31 2013: You used the phrase "creationist drivel". Are you asserting the idea that anyone who proposes the idea that intelligent design is responsible for the creation of the universe is promoting "drivel"? If so, then you should sharpen your pencil. The fact of the matter is that we currently have NO satisfactory explanation for the origin of the universe. Even if one were to accept the Big Bang, its origins remain unknown. There is no less reason to suppose that the universe was created by a supernatural force than by some unknown, natural force. The term, supernatural, in my mind, only describes processes that we don't yet understand. It may turn out that our particular universe arose as a result of some super advanced technology wielded by a society that is billions of years more advanced than ours. This theory which is not supported by any "evidence", is still as valid as any other explanation.
To me it is obvious that many in mainstream science have become shackled by outdated modes of thinking that deny any evidence if it pertains to a certain set of topics that it deems "woo woo". These subjects include but are not limited to; psi phenomena or ESP of any sort, existence of consciousness in any form outside of the skull including an afterlife or "spirit", God or ID, UFOs as craft for inter dimensional or extraterrestrial beings, and anomalous archeology. Many of these perplexing ideas could easily be proven or disproved if our best scientists were to actually research and study them, yet they lack the will, courage, or resources, to do so. One particular phenomena I have personally studied, EVP, has been written off as CB radio interference or audio pareidolia in spite of overwhelming evidence to the contrary. The paradigm IS shifting, thankfully, and no amount of derision, ridicule, and ad hominem attacks will stop the number of Sheldrake-like researchers from growing and flourishing. I know. Let the insults begin. (-:
Apr 3 2013: EVP = electronic voice phenomenon
Baruss, Imants (2001). "Failure to Replicate Electronic Voice Phenomenon," Journal of Scientific Exploration, Vol. 15, No. 3, pp. 355–367, 2001
Mar 27 2013: Phoenix,
You mention Copernicus, as if he's the posterchild for philosophical science. From my perspective, he's the posterchild for non-philosophical science.
He didn't prevail because he was a nice guy, had a great haircut, knew someone's sister -twice removed-, or wielded some kind of magical power of persuasion over the masses.
He prevailed because others measured the same things he measured, saw the same things he saw, and calculated the same conclusions he calculated. DESPITE what certain "philosophies" (read: Religious dogma of his time) were saying.
Just look at the title of what was used to try to undermine Copernicus' assertions: "On the Truth of Sacred Scripture", written by Giovanni Maria Tolosani.
Again, please consider the "industrial methodology" of science versus the -necessarily self-inflicted- dogmatic approach of philosophy. If there is a better approach in science, it will be adopted. That's not a philosophy. It's a practical truth. Just like somewhere along the way there was a move away from throwing books onto pyres (alongside their writers) rather than today's approach where we just make fun of them on Amazon.com.
I would also argue that "philosophy" has always followed from things that already took place. Nowhere in history has a philosophy created anything. If anything, existing processes, methods, and even thought processes gave rise to new NAMES of philosophies, perhaps. In a sense you could capture the essence of what philosophy is by saying that it "defines the underlying principles with important sounding words", but that's pretty much where it ends.
I keep asking for the same thing, over and over - where/how would philosophy enhance science? And, one more step down the slippery slope - if you did manage to inject it, why stop there? Why not religion next? Or politics? Or ... whatever? Wouldn't they also serve to reduce "bias" on the same level? Do you see my problem with this now? I hope I made it clear.
Mar 29 2013: "I keep asking for the same thing, over and over - where/how would philosophy enhance science? "
It's a feedback loop.
It's not true that science is standing apart from philosophy, nothing is. The philosophy of modern science is Positivism, that states that there is valid knowledge (truth) only in scientific knowledge.
Doesn't it enhance science ?
Mar 29 2013: Re : Rationalism vs. Empiricism, a classic debate going back centuries, embodied by the Newton-Leibniz rivalry.
That's true, despite the fact that Émilie du Châtelet proved by experiment hence empirically, that Leibniz was right with his ' living force'/innate mass , but main stream science swallowed her proof without changing its attitude. And ' Leibniz vs Newton pattern was perpetuated.
XVIII c. - ' Wallace vs Darwin' , XIX c.' Freud vs Jung' XX c. Bohm vs Copenhagen terpretation...and a lot in between.
A main schism which separates the two participants in all these patterns pertains to the ' vis viva ' controversy. And now the local event - ' TED vs Shaedrake'. Is it local or global only future can tell and it's very near.
Thank you for asking right question : " Was Leibniz right ? " It helps to connect the dots.
Probably there are examples where Empiricism doesn't compete with Rationalism but complement each other as they should.
"each portion of matter can be conceived as like a garden full of plants, or like a pond full of fish. But each branch of a plant, each organ of an animal, each drop of its bodily fluids is also a similar garden or a similar pond".
This famous passage from Leibniz can serve as a soundtrack to Mandelbrot set visualization.
Or is it my wild imagination ? :)
John TurnerMar 26 2013: "If there is anything truly TIMELESS in this world, then it is science. I don't think that 5 million years from now that there will be shift away from Darwin and Newton? We will always, going forward, use the experimental method, even if it's just inside some kind of computer?
Philosophy? Leave that junk in church."
Science is also a philosphical belief system - i.e Science is a Philosophy - so are you saying that "junk" should be left in the church of science....
Mar 27 2013: It's interesting how you use the word of "church" and science all in the same sentence. But here's a definition of PHILOSOPHY:
1.The study of the fundamental nature of knowledge, reality, and existence, esp. when considered as an academic discipline.
2.A set of views and theories of a particular philosopher concerning such study or an aspect of it.
(copied from the "Almighty" fountain of knowledge, aka: "Google").
Notice how philosophy is deliniated as an "academic discipline"?
Pray tell, exactly how many courses in philosophy does one need to fully comprehend physics, math, and engineering? And, more to my point - WHICH ONES, EXACTLY?
Are you going to argue that all our college curricula are in sore need of revision because philosophy isn't taught to science students?
I *really* can't help but feel that some people are advocating a return to 18th century schooling, where the emphasis was on "reading-writing-arithmetic" and "philosophy-science". Where Geometry and Geography were taught in the same class. And where "classical philosophy" was a core requirement for graduation, right next to "hymn singing 101".
Frankly - completely laughable. Start without "philosophy" and see how far you get. Start with pure math and science, and see "philosophy" in the rear view mirror.
John Turner
Mar 29 2013: Hi, Chis, happy to see you here!
Would it be right to equate knowledge with wisdom ? What is not wise is not knowledge. Sounds a bit weired for some, but it'll make the notion " clever fool' redundant .
Not that bad :)
In the comment above you say :
To insist the box simply 'evolved' by 'chance' flies in the face of reason.
The question is : what is the reason for ' box' to evolve ?
Thank you !
Mar 31 2013: Chris,
'evolve itself from a 'box' to a 'present.'
!!!! :)
I don't have your verbal capacity and can't say it better. I would say :
the reason for the box to evolve is to elaborate the tool for escaping from the box.
Someone said that the difference between fiction and reality is that fiction must have sense :)
But isn't it reasonable to presume that ' fall' suggests 'rise' ?
Btw, sorry for ambiguity, by ' clever fool' ( it's the way we say it in Russian ) i meant ' book smart ' I guess, that the divorce of wisdom and knowledge is right in the eye of the storm.
Thanks for responding !
Harro, sorry for using your reply button :)
Mar 27 2013: Substitute "philosophy" with "religion" and "mind" with "God".
Seriously, you're stepping into metaphysics here. The only thing missing is a divining rod.
Philosophy has the distinct property (perhaps shared with religion) that it is and end and a means unto itself. Philosophy doesn't create anything, doesnt' discover anything. If anything, it's "discovery" of the act of "discovery". Heck, why stop there? Why not "discover" ad infinitum, applying different layers of philosophy until it oozes into collapse?
The original question was about scientific bias and a role that philosophy may play in reducing the bias. My assertion is that this is nonsense. Science, at its core, is a method by which to reduce bias in the first place. I think the inclusion of philosophy in scientific papers will NOT reduce bias in any way - quite the opposite.
Just think, how many "schools" of philosophy are there? Which one should a scientist, engineer, or mathematician mention in his dissertation? Which one should they pick for Newtonian problems vs. subatomic ones? Which one should apply to global warming vs. oil discovery work?
Again I ask, this time of you, Casey: Give examples how how philosophy would solve the problem of bias?
Mar 27 2013: And religion has been trying to use science to prove god. The first images after the big bang, just 15 seconds after is called the face of god.
"Well I would trust that the Dean is educated enough to understand Einstein's point that any ray of light ( a straight line ) send out will eventually return to its origin and therefore he would understand that there are no "straight lines"" ~Ed Schulte
James ClaryMar 31 2013: Harro-said, "The original question was about scientific bias and a role that philosophy may play in reducing the bias. My assertion is that this is nonsense."
Your position assumes that science, by its very nature, is without bias, a declaration I would counter is much more absurd than the idea that philosophy can reduce bias. OF COURSE science is biased! Are you saying that the many historical examples of scientific wrong thinking that led to persecutions, executions, and exile of scientists all over the world whose ideas were thought to be rubbish at the time, but later shown to be correct, are no evidence of bias? Or, are you saying that modern science has overcome it's prejudices; that it is completely open to new ideas, even those whose reality would create a major paradigm shift? Either proposition is preposterous. Sheldrake's work meets all the criteria for "real science", yet, Tedx pulled his video.
Philosophy is exactly the right tool for determining whether or not there is bias in science. The idea of "laws' did not flow from science, but from philosophy. Science itself would not exist had not a thinking brain or consciousness pondered the idea that we needed a certain structure and methodology to properly examine the world around us. To put it another way, what experiment would you propose to determine if there were bias? It cannot be determined through experimentation, but rather by thoughtful consideration of issues that involve politics, money, egos, and careers; not things that are easily measured in the laboratory.
The reluctance of science to investigate claims having to do with the esoteric is, in itself, a blatant example of scientific bias. To say that the study of possible different levels of existence is tied to religious dogma, does not consider the nature of reality and possible explanations provided by quantum physics. If so, then you must dismiss the likes of Strassman and Penrose/Hammerhoff. Lol, but Freud was a true scientist!
Mar 27 2013: Sorry, I don't see a reply button near your last posts, so I will reply "up here" under this post.
Casey - science isn't about metaphysical stuff like "existence". It isn't about subjective things (at this point in time) like "mind".
It IS about things like string theory, God particles, subatomics, uncertainty principles, etc. None of these are aided by "philosophy". The fact that light goes no more than "c" - that isn't a philosophy. It's a fact. Oberservable, measurable, repeatable fact. Regardless of whether I grew up in the 1980's, 2150, the US of A, or North Korea.
Whether or not there are different levels of existence? Really? Do I really have to dissect how this is head-on falling/stumbling on top of religious dogma? How it's filled with so much cultural and individual bias and "made up stuff" that it has no place in science?
It seems to me that you're trying to answer religious questions (existence, outside of the mind) with something akin to science. Psychology, perhaps?
Also, not to start pointing fingers, but just because Newton gave his work a title with the word "principle" doesn't make it so. After all, I couldn't call the bible "The Science of the Afterlife" or refer to Newton's laws as "Newton's philosophies", right? It wouldn't change their state, their status, and meaning one bit.
"outside of the mind" ... I can't help but think you're refering to math? Which now begs the question - exactly what philosophy of math are you refering to, specifically? You can probably attempt to sweep imaginary numbers, calculus, and geometry under the catch-all phrase of "philosophy", but that would be more disingenious than calling "philosophy" a science. After all, at no point are students taught philosophy to understand a math curriculum, are they? Is the absence of a thing going to now become proof of its necessity?
Please, reread the original question posed, and in its context, reevaluate your own statements.
Apr 5 2013: To James Clary:
"OF COURSE science is biased! Are you saying that the many historical examples of scientific wrong thinking that led to persecutions, executions, and exile of scientists all over the world whose ideas were thought to be rubbish at the time, but later shown to be correct, are no evidence of bias?"
You're making the mistake of turning history inside out. It was emergent science - REAL science, not dogmatic belief in religious junk - which was persecuted, not the other way around.
How many astronomers were persecuted as heretics for publishing their observations?
How many scientists were discredited for having the wrong race, religion, or family history?
You, and others like you, seem to prefer to point to the obviously flawed times in human history when there was no science, when there was no scientific method, and erroneously assign it the label of "science". Let me be clear on the following: Dogmatic beliefs are not science. Even when they called themselves "scientists". The same is true today: Creationism isn't science either (clearly not, when it run by mostly imprisoned ex-school teachers and dentists, making demonstrable perverse claims about the nature of everything including gravity).
Why was the earth ever considered flat? Did anyone actually measure this, or did they just stand in one spot and proclaim it so? Even in earliest antiquity, several mathematicians and astronomers (astrologers?) believed that the sun was at the center of the universe. It took us another 2,000 years of political and religious strife to be able to say this publicly without fear of a fiery death.
Again (and again) I ask this: Please show how philosophy isn't biased, or that the scientific community is biased. I believe you're wrong on both counts, and have failed to show any bias in science.
Lack of proof isn't proof. I keep saying this, time and again. Please make your case.
Mar 27 2013: Your remark about philosophy strikes with ignorance. One cannot understand scientific method without understanding philosophical discipline of epistemology. Without philosophy, you won't be able to tell how you know that you know anything.
Check out this article by Sean Carroll, a physicist. I share his frustration about the attitude towards philosophy among some scientists. If people had more respect for philosophy, there would be far fewer useless debates that go in circles and lead to nothing but mutual insults because of mutual ignorance.
Mar 27 2013: Dear Mr. Grudzinsky:
Please reread the original question posted by Mr. Goodman. Essentially he's trying to solve scientific bias with philosophy.
Let me say that one more time: He is proposing, that scientific bias should be solved with philosophy.
Please correct me if I'm wrong on this - although, between his rantings about metaphysical nonsense, I'm pretty sure I got that part right?!
It deeply disturbs me, that anyone would make such an absurd statement in the first place. It directly undermines the whole idea of the scientific method?! The whole idea of having experiments, sharing data, peer review, publishing (for others to see & comment), etc. ALL of that is meant to reduce bias. All of that is what the scientific method is, and it is used in every facet of science - mathematics, the various science disciplines, medicine, etc.
Imagine someone making a pill, running it through the scientific gauntlet of peer review, and then someone else along the way "sprinkled" it with some Roman Catholic "philosophy"? How is that NOT BIAS?
You mentioned in one of your other replies a reference to "circular" thinking. I can't but help that you got that idea from some Creationist video. Honestly, I don't think there's any circular thinking in all of science, except the made up ones that Creationist seem to mention in every discussion (while completely ignoring their own "God's God" circular nonsense themselves). We could easily degenerate this discussion into a Creationist flame-war, but let me ask you this instead, just as I have others before:
Name examples where philosophy is going to reduce bias in scientific endeavours? Injecting philosophical nonsense into the value of "0" and reducing the world into numbers isn't really a philosphy. It's basic kinematics. Even the leap into imaginary numbers isn't some philosophical acceptance of how nonexistent numbers create order? At best, it's an aberration that makes some parts of math work?!
Mar 27 2013: Harro,
What's the fuss about? The question in this conversation is a valid philosophical question. Whether science is biased and whether it needs to be fixed is a philosophical question. If scientists decide to fix it, they will be acting as philosophers, because bias in science cannot be detected or solved by any scientific experiment or theory.
Have you read Sean Carroll's article? I can only agree with him that philosophy is relevant to science in the same way as mycology is relevant to fungi. How dare philosophers to talk about improving science? How dare sociologists to talk about improving society? Isn't society capable of improving itself?
You also comment about links that I post without even opening them. The link about evolution is, actually, anti-creationist and it's not a video.
Re: "Name examples where philosophy is going to reduce bias in scientific endeavours?"
I have answered this question in one of my comments which you choose to ignore. E.g. requirement for a scientific theory to be falsifiable came from philosophy. "Occam's razor" is a philosophical principle. Peer review is not based on any scientific data. You seem to have a very fuzzy understanding of what philosophy is. Like Sean Carroll, I see this as a source of the anxiety around these issues.
Mar 27 2013: Arkady,
"Peer review is not based on any scientific data"? You couldn't be more dead wrong. What do you think review is? Just reading someone's paper before it gets published to make sure the spelling is right? Peer review is an iterative process, and it's not just in the same discipline. Take evolution for example, or the idea that the Earth is billions of years old. How many different scientists, in the past 150 years, in completely different disciplines ranging from molecular biology to geology and astronomy (and the 1,000 other disciplines in between) have validated the same & similar claims over and over? Using different data sets, different observations, different ways of measuring, and completely different methodologies - always with additional review within their own discipline even?
"Bias in science cannot be detected or solved by any scientific experiment or theory." Come again? Uhmmm. I really don't know what to say to that. Other than...aparently your view of reality is at least a little different from mine. How do you propose to reduce bias then? Some magical philosophy tweaks here and there? Or ... peer review (see above)? Do you really want to set up a "philosophy review"?
Personally, I definately have bias against philosophy and religion in general. There is no doubt about it. It oozes from my posts even. That doesn't mean that I'm wrong about philosophy in science.
Science is no more a philosophy as a stamping press in a car factory is a philosophy. It is a method for "quality assurance" - making sure that the end product is free from obvious defects in data, conclusions, etc.
Why do you think not a single Creationist "scientific" paper has ever been accepted? Could it be that they can't pass the first step (usually spelling - being harsh again)? Could it be that they OOZE philosophy first and science second? Could it be that their bias is so deep that even the most basic peer review points out the problems and fallacies?
Mar 29 2013: Re: ""Peer review is not based on any scientific data"? You couldn't be more dead wrong. What do you think review is?"
Review does not add any data to the results. Review provides opinions. Opinions are not scientific data. And opinions can be biased. If a research contradicts to reviewer's opinion, it may receive a negative review despite being a valid scientific research with valid repeatable results. And if a research contradicts opinions that dominate the mainstream science, it can be turned down by scientific community despite being a valid research.
I guess, this thread is about this kind of bias.
Re: "Personally, I definately have bias against philosophy and religion in general."
It's great that you acknowledge that. Bias is an emotional attachment to an opinion. It makes us blind to other points of view.
Mar 27 2013: Re: "None of these are science, none of these aren't subject to individual experiences and filters. "
Exactly. Not everything is science. It does not mean that these things are useless. With that attitude, shall we throw out of the window art, morality, law, human rights, poetry and everything else that is not subject to experimental method?
Mar 27 2013: Harro, reading your post a second time, I think what you say can be said without the last attack on philosophy in general.
I agree with you that we must accept certain things as foundation and build on them. We cannot question the foundation without risking the whole structure of science to crumble down. But the foundation cannot come from science. It comes from philosophy. One cannot build a rational system founded on itself. Circular reasoning is fundamentally flawed.
Philosophical teachings do not agree with each other - so what? Whoever wants to build knowledge on those teachings is free to do so, but it will not be science. That's all.
Mar 27 2013: Recently, I was interested in a philosophical question whether evolution theory is falsifiable. I came across an interesting discussion of what science is.
There is an interesting thought at the end:
"Philosophers do conceptual tidying up, among other things, but scientists are the ones making all the sawdust in the workshop, and they need not be so tidy. And no cleaner should tell any professional (other than cleaners) how it ought to be done. Creationists who say, "evolution is not like what Popper said science should be, so it isn't science" are like the janitor who says that teachers don't keep their classrooms clean enough, so they aren't teachers."
I agree with that. A philosopher may say that science is dogmatic or that scientific postulates are wrong, but that does seem like a janitor saying to a teacher than he is not a teacher because his desk isn't clean.
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Plum Frost Pullover & Cardigan now available
The pattern is up! Thank you so very much for your kind comments and positive feedback! I cannot believe almost 300 people entered the contest! I am pleased to announce that by random selection, Nancy is the winner of the kit. Congratulations Nancy, and many thanks to all who entered!
For those interested in the pattern, please take a look at the pattern specifications and schematic before purchasing. The pullover version requires no steeking and would be a good introduction to stranded knitting. Please be advised that the cardigan version is steeked and will require, in cases of yarn substitution, a feltable wool that is not machine washable.
Finally, there appears to be some disagreement about Harrisville New England Shetland yardage, which I suspect comes from the washed/unwashed (skeined/coned) offerings – some say 217 yds/skein, others 197 yds/skein. I made all of my calculations assuming 197 yds/skein to ensure that you will not run out of yarn.
Plum Frost Pullover & Cardigan
Knit seamlessly in the round from the bottom up, this simple, versatile, women's pullover/cardigan pattern features a classic XOXO stranded pattern in the 6-color yoke, with stars occupying the lozenge positions. The main color (charcoal) fades out to nearly white within the stranded pattern while, at the same time, a light purple darkens toward the center of the band. Hourglass waist shaping and fitted sleeves outline a flattering style to most sizes and shapes. The bottom band, button bands, neckband, and sleeve cuffs are worked in K1, P1 rib and employ tubular cast-ons and bind-offs. The cardigan version is steeked open; however, it is essentially the same pattern as the pullover, measuring 1″ wider in the body only because of the button band. The pattern is designed to fit bust measurements from 33″ to 51″.
The pattern is available as a Ravelry download for $6.50.
Intermediate (pullover), Advanced (cardigan)
Skills used
Tubular cast-on, knitting in the round, decreasing, increasing, reading and working through a color chart, tubular bind-off, grafting together stitches, crocheting a chain (cardigan only), steeking (cardigan only) picking up stitches (cardigan only), sewing on buttons (cardigan only).
To fit bust: 33 (36, 38, 43, 47, 51)"
Model shown in size 36 with a shortened back waist.
Finished measurements
Bust (pullover): 32.75 (35.75, 37.75, 42.75, 46.75, 50.75)"
Bust (cardigan): 33.75 (37, 39, 43.75, 47.75, 51.75)"
Back length: 20.75 (21.5, 22.25, 23, 23.75, 24.25)"
24 stitches and 32 rows = 4″ in stockinette stitch on US 4 (3.5 mm) needles
24 stitches and 32 rows = 4″ in stranded stitch pattern on US 6 (4 mm) needles
Harrisville Designs New England Shetland [100% wool; 197 yd (180 m); 50 g skein]; color: #49 Charcoal, 5 (5, 6, 6, 7, 7) skeins; #19 Blackberry, #20 Purple Haze, #72 Lilac, #47 Suede, #45 Pearl, 1 skein each.
US 2.5 (3 mm) circular needle, 29″ or 32″ long
1 set of US 2.5 (3 mm) DPNs
US 4 (3.5 mm) circular needle, 29″ or 32″ long
1 set of US 4 (3.5 mm) DPNs
US 6 (4 mm) circular needle, 29″ or 32″ long
US 6 (4 mm) circular needle, 16″ long
Size B (2.25 mm) crochet hook (cardigan only)
Stitch markers – two different colors (blue and orange used for illustration purposes)
Stitch holders
Scrap yarn – the scrap yarn used for the cardigan's crochet chains must be feltable wool (i.e. not superwash)
Tapestry needle
7 3/4″ buttons
More photos can be found here.
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This is so beautiful! I can't wait to knit it! Only a small matter of tracking down all the colors since Harrisville is not local to me. Wish me luck!
Thanks again SO much Elinor, I feel so lucky!!
Do you have any alternate colorways to suggest? Perhaps something with a dark brown main body? Or a black?
What a stunning sweater! I love your mittens in the holiday IK as well.
That's just plain gorgeous. I could see that in several different color combinations as well.
That is so pretty! I love the colors and the fact that you offer a pullover and cardi version, and also that it's fitted, not boxy. I will have to check out Harrisville yarns.
I'm so behind on my blog reading…I missed this post! It's absolutely beautiful, congrats on the pattern! I really like your pattern page, too…very helpful with all of the schematics and everything right there.
Lovely pattern & I do like the sweater version.


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