Interesting Links for 12-10-2011
Oct. 12th, 2011 01:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
andrewducker- Woman promised a Toyota as a prize, sues when she won a toy Yoda, and wins!
(tags: law StarWars competition) - Biggest four UK ISPs switching to opt-in system for pornography. Can't wait to see what gets caught up in this...
(tags: web internet censorship) - Woman Sues Because The Trailer Was Not Like The Movie
(tags: trailers movies usa) - Letter from a psychopath
(tags: psychology psychopath) - EU bans pre-ticked website boxes to aid consumers
(tags: web eu europe law) - New information about how the solar system began (and why Pluto is not a planet)
(tags: pluto astronomy solarsystem) - Man jailed after reporting theft of his cannabis plants
(tags: EpicFail cannabis drugs scotland) - Relationship satisfaction linked to oral contraception
(tags: contraception relationships hormones) - Ginger root supplement reduced colon inflammation markers
(tags: food health) - Peanut allergy turned off by tricking immune system
(tags: peanuts allergies health) - Tighter expenses rules harming MPs' mental health. Now, if only they understood the same about benefit claimants...
(tags: parliament politics money mentalhealth uk)
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Date: 2011-10-13 11:00 am (UTC)It works less well on some issues than others - I've bumped into a fair number of women who complain that they were put on the pill, their concerns weren't listened to, and they were consistently told that the problems they were having didn't really exist. Because the process doesn't seem to deal well with individual variation, and hormonal variation seems to be much more common than most people (including doctors) believe it is.
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Date: 2011-10-13 02:39 pm (UTC)I say seems - I wonder if it that unusual a problem.
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Date: 2011-10-13 02:48 pm (UTC)*Because people I know on psychiatric medication have similar issues sometimes.
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Date: 2011-10-13 02:51 pm (UTC)Me also (sigh).