While at the gym, I read on the news that employers and schools are censoring people’s use of MySpace and Facebook. Some are also using these websites to refuse or terminate employment or admission. In addition some employers and schools are forcing employees or students to modify or remove their pages on these [...]
Everyone needs a break from their day-to-day reality. Varying environments and experiences seems to be a necessary condition for living a satisfying life. Some people go on vacation. Other people go to spas. Some cycle, run, or read. Still others play videogames. My commentary today will focus on those who play videogames. Videogames typically have [...]
Hanlon’s Razor:
1a) Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
1b) Never assume malice when stupidity will suffice.
Occam’s Razor:
1a) Entities should not be multiplied beyond necessity”.
1b) All other things being equal, the simplest solution is the best.
Grey’s Law:
1a) Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.
Clark’s Law:
1a) Sufficiently advanced cluelessness is indistinguishable [...]
The Handbook of Religion and Health positioned an examination of the association, or lack thereof, between religion and health. Some contemporary medical, psychological, and public health researchers and practitioners have positioned religiosity and theism (e.g., prayer or church attendance) as a protective factor with regard to health and well-being. The resulting conclusion that [...]
In listening to contemporary fundamentalist Christian religious programming, suffering and submitting are two prominent themes. The third major theme is grace. If a person 1) suffers but does not abandon, betray, deny, forsake, or renounce God and 2) submits to God’s will, regardless of how harmful that will may be, then [...]
I do not believe that many people would categorize me as a conservative person. On one point, however, I agree with some conservatives. Hollywood movies are terrible, but my reasoning behind this statement is different than most conservative people who dislike the Hollywood movie industry. A stereotypical conservative person would say something [...]
In positioning the idea of social change, several health educators have asked me if social change is ethical, with the implicit message being that individual change is either ethical or at least more ethical than social change. Given the mounting evidence supporting the dominance of social determinants of health, I believe that it would [...]
Daniel Leviton has positioned the expansion of health education and promotion to include horrendous death. Horrendous death includes acts of commission and omission. People either intentionally, either directly or indirectly, commit acts that kill other people, or they unintentionally kill other people. Daniel Leviton perceives horrendous death as preventable. Though I agree with Dr. Levition, [...]
“In God We Trust” was approved as the official motto of the United States on July 30, 1956, during McCarthyism, and, as a result, officially superseded “E Pluribus Unum.” One can ask, so what, why does this matter? From a social justice perspective, this shift in motto is very important. Moving from “E Pluribus Unum,” [...]
In physical activity research, the Talk Test is used to measure physical activity intensity. A person who is engaged in light physical activity intensity can sing; a person in moderate physical activity intensity can converse but not sing; and a person in vigorous physical activity intensity can neither sing nor converse. I believe that the [...]