Addiction & Forensic Psychiatrist. My forensic work—not the glamorous kind. Interests: drugs, crime, violence, and risk in general. Don’t take me too seriously.
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Ted Chiang, valiantly pushing against the fourth humiliation of Man.
theatlantic.com/philosophy/2…
Senior Scholar Fulfills Life-long Dream to Graduate Medical School–a Doctor at 73-Years Young goodnewsnetwork.org/senior-s…
One of the most important pieces of writing on the Canadian story of assisted suicide by @alexanderraikin
thenewatlantis.com/publicati…
"... Some things we know, and know that we know. Other things we do not know, and know that we do not know. But perhaps the largest class involves those things we do not know, and do not realise that we do not know." @nassirghaemi
I found this article I saved a while back while cleaning up my google drive. Quite possibly the most exciting opening paragraph for an article in psychiatry.
open.substack.com/pub/protag…
Just because an idea is fashionable, it does not mean it is true.
Five years ago today, my wife and I were on the late afternoon Bateaux Mouches cruise in Paris when we saw this fire. Some of the folks on the tour were at the #NotreDamedeParis just a few hours prior. Quite surreal and not what you would want to take from Paris. @Notredameparis
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I wrote this after reading about a mother who killed her young children, and then herself, less than 24 hours after talking with a mental health professional who'd asked her if she had thoughts of harming herself. She'd said no.
speakingofsuicide.com/2014/0…
Decades-long bet on consciousness ends — and it’s philosopher 1, neuroscientist 0 nature.com/articles/d41586-0…
Overlapping areas of expertise:
1. Expertise in epidemiology esp. COVID.
2. Expertise in international relations esp. Russo-Ukrainian matters.
3. Expertise in economics/ inflation
4. Expertise in Middle Eastern conflicts.
The perils of generative AI. I asked both Bard and Bing AI, which French philosopher said, "The man on the street is Cartesian." The responses took me down a rabbit hole. Bard initially answered the quote is from Miche Foucault's "The order of things" (1966)
This was quite astounding to me. I then went back and asked Bard if Emil Boutroux, Merleau-Ponty or any other French philosopher ever said, "The man on the street is Cartesian." Bard responded it could not find any evidence any French philosopher said that.
