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A change of heart, cholesterol may not be as bad as once thought

By Bianna Golodryga

It’s the jolting headline that will make your taste buds jump for joy. Foods high in cholesterol may not be bad for your heart after all. After years of warning consumers to cut down on cholesterol, found in eggs, shellfish, butter and beef, the nutrition community has come full circle.

A new draft of a report from the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee contains a monumental shift in warnings first issued nearly four decades ago, suggesting that cholesterol no longer needs to be viewed as a “nutrient of concern.”

The announcement is viewed as vindication for Nina Teicholz, author of the 2014 best-selling book “The Big Fat Surprise: Why Butter, Meat, and Cheese Belong in a Healthy Diet.” Teicholz broke with conventional wisdom and angered many in the medical community by writing that through years of research, she concluded that not only was cholesterol wrongly linked to heart disease, but foods high in saturated fats, such as butter, eggs and beef, were also falsely labeled as heart unhealthy. The former vegetarian now practices what she preaches and has changed the way she and her family eat. Breakfast consists of eggs and bacon; cheese is a staple, as is lard.

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Liberdade

Pesquisa inventada

That Goffman book: Is the next big publishing scandal about to break?

• Is that Goffman book the next big publishing scandal? 

Alice Goffman

Jeff Miller / University of Wisconsin-Madison

Alice Goffman, now an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is the author of the acclaimed book "On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City." Goffman has recently come under attack for shading the truth in the book, or even fabricating episodes.
(Jeff Miller / University of Wisconsin-Madison)

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Pesquisa sociológica inventada

Since her book “On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City” was published last year, Alice Goffman has achieved a measure of fame that is rarely visited on a young sociologist.

“On the Run” won attention because of its timely subject matter — the lives of low-income black men and their interactions with the police — and vivid storytelling, based on six years of immersive fieldwork. It was the subject of dozens of articles and often-glowing reviews in publications including The New Yorker and The New York Times. An impassioned TED talk Ms. Goffman delivered in March has been viewed more than 800,000 times.

But all that enthusiasm has curdled somewhat, as critics, in published reviews and anonymous online critiques, have debated not just her facts, interpretations and methods, but the fraught politics of privileged white outsiders’ studying minority communities.

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Now, Steven Lubet, a law professor at Northwestern University, has added a jolt to the already charged conversation with a blunt question: In her book, did Ms. Goffman not only describe street crime but also admit to having committed a felony herself?

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Miami - cidade mais miserável

Miami é apontada por revista como a cidade mais miserável dos EUA

Ranking da Forbes se baseia em fatores como desemprego e criminalidade.
Desigualdade de renda disparou nos últimos anos, disse editor da revista.

Da Reuters

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Apesar do sol, das praias e das mansões, Miami conquistou o nada confortável título de  cidade mais miserável dos Estados Unidos, segundo uma nova pesquisa.
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Pobreza americana

Pobreza americana é mais rica do que a brasileira

Maioria das famílias consideradas pobres nos EUA tem ar-condicionado em casa, micro-ondas e pelo menos um carro

Carolina Cimenti, de Nova York

A pobreza americana, porém, é muito diferente da latino-americana. Uma pesquisa da Fundação Heritage, utilizando os dados levantados pelo próprio Censo, aponta que, entre as famílias consideradas pobres nos EUA:
- 80% têm ar-condicionado em casa;
- 92% têm forno de micro-ondas;
- quase 75% têm pelo menos um carro;
- mais de 60% têm TV a cabo;
- mais da metade tem computador, e 43% têm acesso à internet;
- 83% das famílias afirmam ter alimentos suficientes;
- 42% delas são proprietárias das residências onde moram.
“Não estamos dizendo que nos EUA não existe pobreza, mas claramente trata-se de uma pobreza muito diferente dos países de terceiro mundo”, disse ao iG Rachel Sheffield, uma das autoras da pesquisa da Fundação Heritage. “Essas pessoas passam necessidades, têm dificuldades para chegar até o fim do mês com algum dinheiro, mas não são miseráveis”, afirmou.
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US welfare

http://www.cheatsheet.com/personal-finance/whos-on-welfare-9-shocking-stats-about-public-assistance.html/?tpl=op

Médicos peligrosos

Is Your Doctor Harming You?

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2015/06/donald-w-miller-jr-md/is-your-doctor-harming-you/

Donald W. Miller, Jr., MD, on statins, cholesterol, and your heart.

Fallacies in Modern Medicine: Statins and the Cholesterol-Heart Hypothesis

By Donald W. Miller, Jr., MD

June 4, 2015

This commentary was published in the peer-reviewed Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons Volume 20, Number 2, Pages 54-56, Summer 2015.
http://www.jpands.org/vol20no2/miller.pdf

História da inovação

The Renaissance Start-Up, Data Technology & IT Entrepreneurs

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by Stephen Masty

This is the story of three young men struggling for fame and fortune in the IT sector; finding one another and building a team, adapting the newest technology, injecting their own creativity, raising venture capital and applying painstaking effort, launching their product, outmanoeuvring competitors and rocketing to success—in the 15th Century! Parallels between the Early Renaissance and our modern Information Age are undeniable. Steve Jobs and Bill Gates would have felt right at home. Mais

História esquecida

Sklaven der US-Kriegswirtschaft - Das Leid der Gummi-Soldaten

Schwerstarbeit, Schlangenbisse und Malaria-Attacken: Im Zweiten Weltkrieg mussten Zehntausende im Amazonasgebiet unter Lebensgefahr für die USA Kautschuk zapfen. Im Urwald starben mehr Brasilianer als auf Europas Schlachtfeldern. Von Corina Kolbe mehr...
http://www.spiegel.de/einestages/kautschuk-zwangsarbeiter-in-brasilien-im-zweiten-weltkrieg-a-1035572.html

Exército soviético

In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance.

Joseph Stalin

Den Xiapong sobre Pobreza

Arte e engenheiria

Ingenious: John Ochsendorf

Meet the architectural rebel who champions ancient engineers.

By Courtney Humphries Produced by John Steele May 28, 2015 

John Ochsendorf is a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology whose work is devoted to understanding buildings of the past. An expert in masonry vaulting, he’s made a career of studying a style of construction that began millennia ago and practically disappeared with the Industrial Revolution.

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Índia - exército e nação

Why India has never seen a military dictatorship

... The question why the Indian Army never attempted to seize power has sometimes been attributed to the fact that it is disciplined, highly professional, and steeped in proud 250-year-old traditions inherited from the British. But this theory doesn’t work, because the Pakistani army was born out of the same traditions and that didn’t seem to stop it from assuming power.

Indeed, one could argue that it was precisely because the Pakistan army was such a highly professional force that there came a time when it felt it could no longer stand by and watch the country slide into chaos, and felt it was its duty to step in.

So clearly this is a question one needs to look at more closely. Which is what political scientist Steven Wilkinson has done with his excellent new book, Army and Nation.

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Army and Nation

Comunismo

"...if we look at the ravages which Communist politics... inflicted on those areas where they were allowed full play - the sheer destruction of resources... the obliteration of morality and truth-telling, the contempt for life, the ubiquitous corruption, the long-term poverty - we have to count as an immeasurable blessing that Marxism took over only one-fifth of the world... Supposing it had triumphed and run the entire planet by its catastrophic system of wealth-destruction. The whole of humanity would have then entered a new dark age of savagery and want."
Paul Johnson
The National Review

Educação moderna

A Educação Proibida | Legendado HD Brasil | Completo   

Este documentário produzido no ano de 2012, questiona a escolarização moderna e propõe um novo modelo educativo.
O atual sistema "PRUSSIANO" originado do padrão militar de educação da Prússia, no século 18, tem como objetivo gerar uma massa de pessoas obedientes e competitivas, com disposição para guerrear.
As escolas são colocadas no mesmo patamar das fábricas e dos presídios, com seus portões, grades e muros; com horários estipulados de entrada e de saída, fardamento obrigatório, intervalos e sirenes indicando o início e o fim das aulas.
Ou seja, o sistema educacional vigente acaba refletindo verdadeiras estruturas políticas ditatoriais que produzem cidadãos "adestrados" para servir ao sistema; nesses termos, qualquer metodologia educacional que busque algo diferente será "proibida".
Infelizmente, esse foi o modelo que se espalhou pela Europa e depois pelas Américas. Sua principal falha está em um projeto que não leva em consideração a natureza da aprendizagem, a liberdade de escolha ou a importância do amor e relações humanas no desenvolvimento individual e coletivo.
E aqui estamos agora, com este problema enorme nas mãos...
Assim, fracassados somos todos os que compactuamos direta ou indiretamente com esta verdadeira máquina de subjugar crianças e adolescentes inocentes.
Este documentário é o resultado de mais de 90 entrevistas realizadas em 8 países através de 45 experiências educativas não convencionais e um total de 704 co-produtores.
Um projeto completamente independente de uma magnitude sem precedentes, o que explica a necessidade latente para o crescimento e o surgimento de novas formas de educação.
Colabore você também, divulgando e compartilhando o vídeo em redes sociais, promovendo um debate no seu meio social.

"Todo mundo fala de paz, mas ninguém educa para a paz. As pessoas educam apenas para a competição e a competição leva à guerra."
( Pablo Lipnizky )

"Nunca duvide que um pequeno grupo de cidadãos, prestativos e responsáveis possa mudar o mundo. Na verdade, é assim que tem acontecido sempre."
( Margaret Mead )

"A liberdade real virá quando nós nos libertarmos da dominação da educação ocidental, da cultura ocidental, e do modo de vida ocidental."
( Mahatma Gandhi )

Algumas das propostas e princípios pedagógicos que sustentam "A Educação Proibida":
Método Montessori; pedagogia Waldorf (Rudolf Steiner); pedagogia Crítica; pedagogia Liberadora (Paulo Freire); método Pestalozzi; método Freinet; A Escola Livre; A Escola Ativa; pedagogia Sistêmica; educação Personalizada; pedagogia Logosófica.
Assista:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-t60Gc00Bt8

Educação moderna ruim

Claudio Naranjo: “A educação atual produz zumbis”

O psiquiatra chileno diz que investir numa didática afetiva é a saída para estimular o autoconhecimento dos alunos e formar seres autônomos e saudáveis

                                                                                                                                                                      FLÁVIA YURI OSHIMA 

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Missing link found between brain, immune system

Maps of the lymphatic system: old (left) and updated to reflect UVA's discovery. Credit: University of Virginia Health System

In a stunning discovery that overturns decades of textbook teaching, researchers at the University of Virginia School of Medicine have determined that the brain is directly connected to the immune system by vessels previously thought not to exist. That such vessels could have escaped detection when the lymphatic system has been so thoroughly mapped throughout the body is surprising on its own, but the true significance of the discovery lies in the effects it could have on the study and treatment of neurological diseases ranging from autism to Alzheimer's disease to multiple sclerosis.
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Estado-babá em acão

Restaurantes do ES são proibidos de deixar sal em mesas a partir de julho

Lei estadual foi sancionada e descumprimento vai gerar multa de R$1,3 mil.
Medida quer evitar consumo excessivo, que pode prejudicar a saúde. 

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Quem esta na prisão?

Bill Quigley Become a fan Law Professor, Loyola University New Orleans, CCR Associate Legal Director

40 Reasons Why Our Jails are Full of Black Brown and Poor People
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) reports 2.2 million people are in our nation's jails and prisons and another 4.5 million people are on probation or parole in the U.S., totaling 6.8 million people, one of every 35 adults. We are far and away the world leader in putting our own people in jail. Most of the people inside are poor and Black. Here are 40 reasons why.
One. It is not just about crime. Our jails and prisons have grown from holding about 500,000 people in 1980 to 2.2 million today. The fact is that crime rates have risen and fallen/a> independently of our growing incarceration rates.

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"Hum historiador" sobre pobreza americana

Pobreza nos Estados Unidos atinge 80% da população

Enquanto isso, notícia publicada em um site de notícias especializado em destacar as reportagens que não aparecem na grande mídia estadunidense, o Political Blindspot, dá conta de que na maior nação liberal do planeta, a terra das oportunidades, onde qualquer um pode construir sua riqueza, 80% de sua população viveram próximos a pobreza ou abaixo da linha da miséria (só nessa última condição, são 49,7 milhões de pessoas).
A reportagem fala ainda do aumento cada vez maior do abismo que separe ricos e pobres daquela nação e de como o governo estadunidense, em vez de aumentar a rede de proteção social dos 80% da população que sofre com os efeitos da pobreza, está discutindo os cortes dos poucos programas assistenciais que estão ajudando alguns estadunidenses a se manterem pouco acima da linha da pobreza.
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Ciência entre mitos e religião

e Washington Post

How, and why, a journalist tricked news outlets into thinking chocolate makes you thin

How, and why, a journalist tricked news outlets into thinking chocolate makes you thin

By Sarah Kaplan May 28 Follow @sarahkaplan48

This spring, the journal International Archives of Medicine published a delicious new study: According to researchers at Germany’s Institute of Diet and Health, people who ate dark chocolate while dieting lost more weight.
The media coverage was instantaneous and jubilant:
“Scientists say eating chocolate can help you lose weight,” read a headline in the Irish Examiner.
“Excellent News: Chocolate Can Help You Lose Weight!” Huffington Post India boasted.
“Dieting? Don’t forget the chocolate,” announced Modern Healthcare.
It was unbelievable news. And reporters shouldn’t have believed it.
It turns out that the Institute of Diet and Health is just a Web site with no institute attached. Johannes Bohannon, health researcher and lead author of the study, is really John Bohannon, a science journalist. And the study, while based on real results of an actual clinical trial, wasn’t aimed at testing the health benefits of chocolate. It was aimed at testing health reporters, to see if they could distinguish a bad science story from a good one.
In many cases, they couldn’t.
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Ciência sem valor

Scientists Who Cheat

By THE EDITORIAL BOARDJUNE 1, 2015

Cheating in scientific and academic papers is a longstanding problem, but it is hard to read recent headlines and not conclude that it has gotten worse. Falsified or erroneous results have forced authors and editors to retract papers from journals that let themselves be duped into publishing them. Researchers at some of the nation’s most prestigious universities have been implicated. There are ways to minimize this kind of fraud, but it will require changing the process, from how scientists share their data to how their peers review it and who is allowed to enforce academic standards.
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Oleo de peixe sem valor

Alternative Medicine

Fish Oil Claims Not Supported by Research

By Anahad O'Connor

March 30, 2015 5:06 pm March 30, 2015 5:06 pm

Photo

Credit Tony Cenicola/The New York Times

• Fish oil is now the third most widely used dietary supplement in the United States, after vitamins and minerals, according to a recent report from the National Institutes of Health. At least 10 percent of Americans take fish oil regularly, most believing that the omega-3 fatty acids in the supplements will protect their cardiovascular health.

But there is one big problem: The vast majority of clinical trials involving fish oil have found no evidence that it lowers the risk of heart attack and stroke.

From 2005 to 2012, at least two dozen rigorous studies of fish oil were published in leading medical journals, most of which looked at whether fish oil could prevent cardiovascular events in high-risk populations. These were people who had a history of heart disease or strong risk factors for it, like high cholesterol, hypertension or Type 2 diabetes.

All but two of these studies found that compared with a placebo, fish oil showed no benefit.

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Ciência falsificada

Guy accused of fabricating earth-shattering study writes epic defense of himself

By Maxwell Tani

The author of a newly retracted gay marriage study claims that he destroyed the data that would prove his findings were legitimate.

On Thursday, the journal that initially published UCLA grad student Michael LaCour's high-profile study, which claimed that opponents of gay marriage could be convinced to support it after a single conversation with someone who identifies as gay, officially retracted it. Earlier this month, several researchers who followed up on LaCour's findings, revealed that data used in the study were essentially nonexistent.

On Friday, LaCour responded in a 23-page paper that attempted to refute the criticisms made by researchers David Broockman, Joshua Kalla, and Peter Aronow.

But it also failed to answer some pretty big questions.

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Schumpeter - destruição criativa

Prophet of Innovation: Joseph Schumpeter and Creative Destruction 

by Thomas K. McCraw 

Pan Am, Gimbel’s, Pullman, Douglas Aircraft, Digital Equipment Corporation, British Leyland—all once as strong as dinosaurs, all now just as extinct. Destruction of businesses, fortunes, products, and careers is the price of progress toward a better material life. No one understood this bedrock economic principle better than Joseph A. Schumpeter. “Creative destruction,” he said, is the driving force of capitalism. Described by John Kenneth Galbraith as “the most sophisticated conservative” of the twentieth century, Schumpeter made his mark as the prophet of incessant change. His vision was stark: Nearly all businesses fail, victims of innovation by their competitors. Businesspeople ignore this lesson at their peril—to survive, they must be entrepreneurial and think strategically. Yet in Schumpeter’s view, the general prosperity produced by the “capitalist engine” far outweighs the wreckage it leaves behind. During a tumultuous life spanning two world wars, the Great Depression, and the early Cold War, Schumpeter reinvented himself many times. From boy wonder in turn-of-the-century Vienna to captivating Harvard professor, he was stalked by tragedy and haunted by the specter of his rival, John Maynard Keynes. By 1983—the centennial of the birth of both men—Forbeschristened Schumpeter, not Keynes, the best navigator through the turbulent seas of globalization. Time has proved that assessment accurate. Prophet of Innovation is also the private story of a man rescued repeatedly by women who loved him and put his well-being above their own. Without them, he would likely have perished, so fierce were the conflicts between his reason and his emotions. Drawing on all of Schumpeter’s writings, including many intimate diaries and letters never before used, this biography paints the full portrait of a magnetic figure who aspired to become the world’s greatest economist, lover, and horseman—and admitted to failure only with the horses.
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Economia política marxista - exposição e refutação

Minha contribuição para a greve é esta exposição e refutação da teoria econômica marxista. Uma moderna crítica da economia política marxista.

 

Economia política marxista

Assista:                                                                                    

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzfzzQYWUZQ

Ciência falsificada

Retracted Scientific
Studies: A Growing List

By MICHAEL ROSTON MAY 28, 2015

The retraction by Science of a study of changing attitudes on gay marriage is the latest in a growing number of prominent withdrawals of the results of studies from scientific literature.

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/05/28/science/retractions-scientific-studies.html

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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/01/business/beyond-publish-or-perish-scientific-papers-look-to-make-splash.html?smid=fb-share&_r=0