Castlevania — Nocturne

Halloween special 2014! A lullaby for the mystical creatures (e.g., human) as night turns into day. May the darkness and evil be with you! 😈

Professor Redberg and The Patient

Here is an excerpt from the transcript of Heart of the Matter — Cholesterol Drug War:

Tasso Azevedo — Deforestation in Brazil and Global Warming

Paul Jaminet — An Integrated Theory of Obesity

Michael Pollan on Cooking

Sylvia Earle — Ocean as Our Life Support

Peter Attia — A Surgeon’s Awakening on the Etiology of Obesity

Myopia: A Modern Yet Reversible Disease

Arthur Benjamin — The Mathemagician

Bal Sagoth — The Awakening of the Stars

Symphony X — Communion and the Oracle

Castlevania — Portrait of Destiny

Symphony X — Prelude

Castlevania — Rainbow Cemetery

Castlevania — Wood Carving Partita

Castlevania — Joachim of the Clear Blue Riverside

Castlevania — Leon’s Beief

Castlevania — Reinlich

Johann Sebastian Bach – The Harpsichord Concerto No.1 in D Minor, I. Allegro (The English Concert)

Castlevania X Chonicles — Cross Fear

Castlevania – Tractus

http://www.vgmuseum.com/mrp/cv-hodesp/music/40-Tractus.mp3″

The State of Affair of the So-Called Evidence-Based Medicine

“The effect of criminal practices by pharmaceutical companies is only possible because of the complicity of others: healthcare systems, professional associations, governmental and academic institutions. Pharmaceutical companies also corrupt at the personal level, politicians and political parties are on their payroll, medical professionals seduced by different types of gifts in exchange of prescriptions (i.e., bribery) which very likely results in patients not receiving the proper treatment for their disease, many times there is no such thing: healthy persons not needing pharmacological treatments of any kind are constantly misdiagnosed and treated with unnecessary drugs. Some medical professionals are converted in K.O.L. which is only a puppet appearing on stage to spread lies to their peers, a person supposedly trained to improve the well-being of others, now deceits on behalf of pharmaceutical companies. Probably the saddest thing is that many honest doctors are being misled by these lies created by the rules of pharmaceutical marketing instead of scientific, medical, and ethical principles. Interpretation of EBM in this context was not anticipated by their creators. “

—Jorge H. Ramirez, Professor of Pharmacology at Universidad del Valle (Colombia), July 4, 2014

A Fellow Sustainabilitist on Sustainable Design

“Our current systems, such as mass consumption yielding mass waste, are out of date and faulty. It is pointless to waste energy attempting to resolve designs within these systems. The creation and exploitation of new, better systems will be the main directive for sustainable design.“

— Kristian Bjørnard, Designer/Sustainabilitist at The Office of Kristian Bjørnard, April 8, 2009

Profit-Driven “Health Care”?

“And as always, I must say that there isn’t any malice involved. Just as psychiatrist prescribe psychosomatic drugs like candy, and surgeons sell invasive procedures, so does the optometry field dispense diopter correction with total abandon. It’s the whole paradigm of health that is broken. The industry should never be run as a for-profit enterprise. Once you combine health and profit, this is exactly what happens.

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Lastly, don’t follow my lead in terms of tone. There is no benefit to confronting or personally attacking anyone for their profession –– the problem goes far beyond the optometrist, the school, and the lens maker. Everybody does the best they can, inside the broken system that is health for profit.”

—Alex Frauenfeld, Behavioural Ophthalmologist at the Frauenfeld Clinic Archive,  November 21, 2014

On the Motivation Behind Wikileaks

“We all only live once. So we are obligated to make good use of the time that we have, and to do something that is meaningful and satisfying. This is something that I find meaningful and satisfying. That is my temperament. I enjoy creating systems on a grand scale, and I enjoy helping people who are vulnerable. And I enjoy crushing bastards. So it is enjoyable work.”

— Julian Assange, Editor-in-chief of Wikileaks, July 26, 2010

On Dietary Fat

“Eat real, unprocessed food, and perhaps forget about the amount and types of fat in that food.“

— John Briffa, Practitioner of Integrated Medicine at London’s Highgate Hospital, March 21, 2014

Dr. Freedhoff on Nutrient

“Health Canada cares a lot about nutrients…not so much about foods. Last time I checked, I eat foods, not nutrients.“

— Yoni Freedhoff, Medical director of Ottawa’s Bariatric Medical Institute, November 12, 2006

On Corporate Science

“If you want to know the real truth about the science, you need to have access to the corporate hard drives of the companies that sponsored that science.”

— John Abramson, Clinical faculty member of Harvard Medical School, June 22, 2014

On Regaining the Meaningful Life

“You must satisfy your invariant instincts or you will be at odds with your own character. It is only when we are not at odds with our basic makeup that we can find life meaningful.”

— Julian Assange, Editor-in-chief of Wikileaks, June 16, 2007

If You Can Only Live Once

“If we can only live once, then let it be a daring adventure that draws on all our powers. Let it be with similar types whose hearts and heads we may be proud of. Let our grandchildren delight to find the start of our stories in their ears but the endings all around in their wandering eyes.”

— Julian Assange, Editor-in-chief of Wikileaks, January 3, 2007

Castlevania — Nocturne

Halloween special 2014! A lullaby for the mystical creatures (e.g., human) as night turns into day. May the darkness and evil be with you! 😈

Professor Redberg and The Patient

Here is an excerpt from the transcript of Heart of the Matter — Cholesterol Drug War: