Posted in Entertainment, Libertarian Party, Libertarian Posers, Lies and the lying liars who tell them, STFU, celebrities, crazy claims, humor, insanetertainment, media, megabitchery, unusual behaviors, tagged Duct Tape Bandit, Frickintardistan, gambling, Gene Chapman, infomercial, Millionaire Republican, scamdicapper, scamdicapping, war, Wayne Allen Root, Wayne Allyn Root, Wayne Root on February 29, 2008 | No Comments »
After reading the arguments against and for self-described “Millionaire Republican“, infomercial scamdicapping pseudo-libertarian presidential candidate Wayne Allyn Root, I have done the only thing I can do when faced with evidence of that level and type.
I acted quickly and decisively in appointing Root as the new King of Frickintardistan, a highly revered position previously held [...]
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Posted in Courts & Justice System, Law, US Government, crime, law enforcement, police state, prisons, tagged correctional facility, corrections, jail, Pew Center, prison on February 29, 2008 | No Comments »
NEW YORK (AP) — For the first time in history, more than one in every 100 American adults is in jail or prison, according to a new report.The report, released Thursday by the Pew Center on the States, said the 50 states spent more than $49 billion on corrections last year, up from less [...]
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Posted in Courts & Justice System, International, Law, Master of the Painfully Obvious, Technology, corruption, crime, local politics, personal responsibility, political corruption, politics, regulation, taxes, tagged attorney, attorney fees, attorney/client privilege, benefits, best interests, best interests of the client, blackmail, client, client protection, confidentiality, danger, employee protection, ethical considerations, ethics, financial need, Florida Bar, foolhardy, foreign legal outsourcing, foreign outsourcing, foreign scam, foreign workers, greed, highest bidder, homework, identity theft, ill-trained, inferior wage, inherent danger, Law, legal, legal outsourcing, limitless potential, money, overseas, paralegal, pennies on the dollar, procedure, profit, protection, regulation, salary, scam, self-protection, sensitive information, taxes, traditional paralegal, unqualified, work, workers' compensation on February 28, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Attorneys, always looking to make the most money possible for the least work possible, have found a new way to make even more money: hiring foreign outsourcing firms rather than paying real paralegals. The Florida Bar has, astoundingly, even approved this action.
Yet, whatever happened to “the best interests of the client”?
Foreign outsourcing is [...]
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Posted in Courts & Justice System, Entertainment, Family, Law, Parenting, People in the news, celebrities, children, crime, humor, insanetertainment, media, racism, religion, unusual behaviors, tagged African-American, arrest, Beth Chapman, Bounty Hunter, David Spates, dog, Dog the Bounty Hunter, Duane Chapman, Duane Dog Chapman, jail, parole, parole violation, prison, production, profanity, Talkin' With Dave, television, Tucker Chapman on February 27, 2008 | 14 Comments »
“Dog The Bounty Hunter” is back in production, and will be returning soon to a television near you.
I suspect a lot of people won’t be watching anymore though. Some people won’t watch due to his profanity-laced tirade against his son’s African-American girlfriend, which was the cause for his show being suspended in the first [...]
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Posted in Family, Law, Lies and the lying liars who tell them, Parenting, children, crazy claims, politics, tagged attorney fees, bill, Carrie Webster, Chairman, Chairwoman, child abuse, child neglect, child support, community service, custody, Democrat, false report, fathers, fine, House Judiciary Committee, House of Delegates, Kanawaha County, Law, misdemeanor, mothers, provisions, reporting child abuse, West Virginia on February 27, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I suspect there is a LOT of false reporting of child abuse during child custody cases. Unless there is a law which makes it a crime to make a false abuse report, people will continue to do so in order to gain an advantage for child custody.
I also believe that fathers nationwide are treated [...]
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Posted in Entertainment, Family, Parenting, Shine on you crazy diamond, celebrities, children, tagged acquittal, auction, bath tub, California, carnival, child molestation, curtains, estate, exotic animals, foreclosure, hyperbaric chamber, Jacko, locomotive, merry-go-round, Michael Jackson, mortgage, Neverland, Neverland Ranch, notoriety, rides, sculpture, top dollar, urban legend on February 27, 2008 | 3 Comments »
For those of you with an extra $24.5 million in change hidden in your sofa cushions, Michael Jackson’s “Neverland Ranch” goes on the auction block next month.
Along with the ranch comes his merry-go-round, carnival rides, locomotives, sculptures, and even the curtains and the bath tubs are up for grabs. They don’t say anything in [...]
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Posted in Shine on you crazy diamond, insanetertainment, tagged humanist, humanitarian, Jihad, libertarian, shotgun, shotgun of warm humanitarianism, Unitarian, warm on February 27, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I went to the Unitarian Jihad website, and the name I was assigned was
The Shotgun of Warm Humanitarianism
Considering that I am a humanist libertarian (which is a very strange combination, I’ll admit) that is actually a pretty good description of me.
This is pretty freaky though, considering that they don’t ask for any information at all. [...]
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Posted in Entertainment, celebrities, media, tagged Bill Pullman, Fraility, God's Hand Killer, Haley Joel Osment, hospital, Isan McKellon, John Holmes, Matthew McConaughy, Michael Caine, murder, Neverwas, Nick Nolte, Paris Hilton, psychiatrist, psychiatry, Robert Duvall, salesmen, Secondhand Lions, secret, suicide, Val Kilmer, wealth, William Hurt, Wonderland, Yale on February 26, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I watch a lot of movies, since I have for years subscribed to all the premium movie channels. I thought I’d make a list of a few really good movies which most people have probably never seen or even heard of before.
Secondhand Lions (starring Robert Duvall, Haley Joel Osment, and Michael Caine) [...]
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Posted in Courts & Justice System, Family, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Law, Lawyers Gone Wild, Parenting, People in the news, children, crime, frivolous lawsuits, health, internets, law enforcement, obituaries, personal responsibility, prisons, unusual behaviors, tagged attack, California, CDA, child, child molestation, child sexual predator, children, Communications Decency Act, computer, content, Dallas, emotional, federal prison, Geocities, IM, Instant Messenger, intercourse, Kiley Bowers, Kristine Helms, lawsuit, Lori Drew, Megan Meier, mistake, molestation, motel, MySpace, Orange County, photos, police, predator, rape, registration, school, sex, sex offender, sex predator, sexual fantasy, sexual intercourse, sexual predator, sue, suicide, suicide note, suing, supervised release, Texas, threat, tragic, travel, webcam, Yahoo on February 26, 2008 | 12 Comments »
A 15-year-old girl committed suicide after having sexual relationship with a 27-year-old man she met online. Her family is suing MySpace, for allegedly failing to protect their daughter from a child sexual predator.
Shades of Megan Meier?
Before you start screaming for the blood of MySpace, you might want to keep reading.
At the age of 14, [...]
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Posted in Courts & Justice System, Family, Humanity, Law, Parenting, People in the news, children, crime, health, human rights abuses, law enforcement, megabitchery, obituaries, personal responsibility, prisons, torture, unusual behaviors, tagged baby, bail, Benjamin Sargent, bond, bottle, brutal, car seat, child abuse, child neglect, contempt, crib, cry, death, death penalty, egg donor, heinous, hell, Illinois, infant, infant death, James E.Sargent, James Sargent, Kevin Lyons, murder, Peoria, Peoria County, Police Chief, Settingsgaard, sleep, snowsuit, sperm donor, starvation, State Attorney, Steven Settingsgaard, Tracey D. Hermann, Tracey Hermann, Tracy D. Hermann, Tracy Hermann, wanton cruelty on February 25, 2008 | 24 Comments »
PEORIA — Benjamin Sargent died with his eyes open, fists clenched and strapped into a car seat after eight days without food or water, authorities say.The 5-month-old was dropped off at his parents’ house on Feb. 4, wearing a bright-blue snowsuit and strapped into his car seat. Eight days later, he was found in the [...]
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Posted in Daniel Imperato, Federal Election Commission (FEC), George Phillies, Libertarian Party, Master of the Painfully Obvious, Mike Jingozian, POTUS '08, Steve Kubby, Wayne Allen Root, libertarian, libertarianism, media, politics, tagged candidacy, candidate, credibility, embarrass, evening news, Imperato, Independent, insomniac, Liberty Decides, media, mockery, moneymaking scheme, obscure, president, red carpet, Stephen Gordon, Third Party Watch, TPW on February 23, 2008 | 2 Comments »
There has been a discussion over at Third Party Watch, regarding whether Daniel Imperato should be listed as a Libertarian on the official Libertarian Party website. Among other statements by Stephen Gordon, owner of TPW, he didn’t call the media to cover a Libertarian presidential candidate debate, due to the participation of Mr. Imperato.
Just [...]
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Posted in Family, Gene Chapman, Parenting, Shine on you crazy diamond, Technology, children, humor, insanetertainment, tagged Child's Play, Chucky, death threat, death threat Elmo, doll, Elmo, exorcism, exorcist, Gene Chapman, homicidal, kill, kill James, possession, talking Elmo on February 22, 2008 | 6 Comments »
When a woman in Florida recently changed the battery in her little boy’s Elmo toy (which learns the child’s name and institutes it into the comments the doll makes) she quickly realized the doll should have been named “Chucky” as it repeatedly said “Kill James!”
No, I’m not making this up. See and hear it for [...]
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As regular readers of this blog are aware, I’m a fan and regular reader of the Stupid Evil Bastard blog (though I rarely comment there, he is in my blogroll and he almost always has something interesting to say).
Today, he posted a blog asking everyone to wish his mom a happy 73rd birthday on her [...]
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Posted in Entertainment, Lies and the lying liars who tell them, People in the news, insanetertainment, music, tagged American Idol, Arista, auditions, Carly Smithson, CD, contract, gimmick, industry, judge, judges, Kristy Lee Cook, MCA, Randy Jackson, record, ringer, Robbie Carrico Boyz N Girlz United, Sanjaya Malakar, sing, talent, Taylor Hicks, undiscovered, Vote for the Worst on February 22, 2008 | 4 Comments »
As those who read my blog are aware, I usually watch the American Idol auditions, simply because they’re amusing. I sometimes watch the show itself, but I have decided I will never watch the show itself again, because it turns out that after last season’s controversy, with Sanjaya Malakar staying far longer than the [...]
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Posted in Humanity, International, Science, Technology, US Government, media, military, tagged debris, hydrazine, missile, Navy, poison, sea, space, spy satellite on February 21, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I’m a little worried if debris is being tracked over both the Atlantic and the Pacific. It seems like when they blew it up, they may have caused quite another problem. Hopefully it will not hit land, because even a football-size piece of debris (right now they’re saying that’s the largest piece) falling [...]
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Posted in Courts & Justice System, Family, Law, Lies and the lying liars who tell them, Parenting, People in the news, STFU, children, insanetertainment, megabitchery, unusual behaviors, women, tagged advertiser, cell phone, death, fraud, greeting, hack, hacked, hacker, hacking, harassment, impersonation, impersonator, Lori Drew, Megan Meier, MySpace, Myspace suicide, police, responsibility, suicide, telephone, threats, whinefest on February 20, 2008 | 3 Comments »
By now, the entire world knows the story of Lori Drew and Megan Meier; Megan committed suicide after being hoaxed by an adult on MySpace. In case you haven’t heard about this for some reason, perhaps because you have been living with aboriginal folks in some far-flung area, my previous entires are here, here, [...]
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Posted in Courts & Justice System, Family, Law, Parenting, children, crime, unusual behaviors, women, tagged family watchdog, instinct, interactive, map, molest, personal responsibility, protection, rape, security, sex offender, vigilante on February 18, 2008 | 4 Comments »
The Family Watchdog website has an interactive map, wherein you can enter your street, town, and state, and a map will appear showing not only the location of registered sex offfenders in your area, but also aliases, photos, the nature of their conviction, and their sentence. It includes convicted sex offenders who have relocated [...]
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Posted in 9/11, Iraq, Libertarian Party, US Government, libertarian, military, politics, terrorism, torture, war, war crimes, tagged anti-war, armed forces, entangling alliances, foreign quarrels, imprudence, injustice, invasion, Iraq, Libertarian National Committee, Libertarian Party, LNC, military adventures, resolution, security, stability, war on February 18, 2008 | 6 Comments »
WHEREAS the government of the United States should return to its historical libertarian tradition of avoiding entangling alliances, foreign quarrels, and military adventures and;
WHEREAS the armed forces of the United States have invaded Iraq, a foreign nation that neither directly attacked nor imminently threatened to attack the United States and;
WHEREAS the injustice and imprudence of [...]
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Posted in Congress, Constitution, Courts & Justice System, Law, US Government, corruption, political corruption, politics, protest, tagged affidavit, amendment, bill, bureaucracy, clause, Clerk of the Senate, Constitution, contact, DownsizeDC, Enforcement Clause, English House of Commons, House of Representatives, Jefferson's Manual, Law, legislate, legislative, legislature, Parliamentary Procedure, proposal, proposed, publish, quorum, Read the Bills Act, Representative, resolution, Senate, Senator, severability, unanimous consent, United States, United States Code, US Code, USC on February 18, 2008 | No Comments »
I ran across this proposed law at DownsizeDC. I absolutely agree that no member of Congress should ever vote to pass any bill they haven’t actually read in its entirety, yet it happens all the time. Worse, far too often special interest items are inserted at the last minute. The truth is [...]
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Posted in Cops Gone Wild, Humanity, Law, constitutional rights, corruption, crazy claims, crime, health, human rights abuses, law enforcement, megabitchery, police brutality, police state, unusual behaviors, tagged arrest, assault, battery, Brian Sterner, broken rib, camera, cop, fired, Florida, Hillsborough, Hillsborough County, idiot, police, police brutality, quadriplegic, rib, Sterner, surveillance, Tampa, traffic, violation, wheelchair on February 17, 2008 | 6 Comments »
I had heard about this, but seeing really is believing.
In Tampa (Hillsborough County, Florida) a quadriplegic man named Brian Sterner was arrested for a traffic violation (I’m not sure what the violation was, since they didn’t say, but obviously the guy wasn’t a violent felon or anything like that). An incredibly stupid cop [...]
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Posted in Science, Technology, US Government, military, tagged ammonia, atmosphere, breathing, chlorine, debris, Delta II, dynamite, failed, frozen, gas, General, hydrazine, James Cartwright, Joint Chiefs of Staff, lungs, military, missile, mission, Navy, Pentagon, propellant, re-entry, reconnaisance, rocket, satellite, space trash, spy, toxic, toxic cloud, United States, whale on February 15, 2008 | No Comments »
WASHINGTON (CNN) — The U.S. military may try within days to shoot down a failed satellite using a missile launched from a Navy ship, officials announced Thursday.
A Delta II rocket lifts off in December, carrying a reconnaissance satellite that failed hours later.
Gen. James Cartwright, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, [...]
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Posted in crime, humor, insanetertainment, unusual behaviors, tagged Ashland, baseball bat, disguise, duct tape, Duct Tape Bandit, employee, EMT, gun, Hillbilly Market, identified, insanity defense, Jerry Keene, Kasey Kazee, Kentucky, liquor, masking tape, money, neckhold, Nickelback, robbery, skid marks, theft, underwear, underwear disguise, Welch, West Virginia, WV, YouTube on February 14, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Apparently a guy named Jerry Keene from Welch, WV decided to rob a store. He sent his gal pal, Elizabeth Blankenship, in first to case the joint. When she came back out and apparently gave him the okay, he hatched his diabolical plan.
He entered the Hillbilly Market (no, I didn’t make that up [...]
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Posted in Entertainment, animals, health, pets, tagged abuse, arthritis, beagle, best in show, breed, broken bone, canine, disability, disabled, dog, dog breed, elderly, milkbone, no-kill, old, rescue, shelter, Uno, vet, veterinarian, Westminster on February 13, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I love beagles. I never had one until recently, but I will definitely have another eventually.
My beagle, Li’l Bit, is an ancient short-legged beagle. I got her a couple of years ago when some horrible person abandoned her near a busy intersection, and someone who saw her and knew that I take in [...]
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Posted in humor, libertarian, tagged bingo, troll on February 13, 2008 | 3 Comments »
I realize many libertarians won’t see the humor in this. However, I do find it humorous, since I have actually seen libertarians make such asinine statements completely out of nowhere. If you have trouble reading it, click here; if you still have trouble reading it, move your mouse over the board (it should show [...]
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Posted in Shine on you crazy diamond, humor, insanetertainment, pets, religion, unusual behaviors, tagged Jesus, kidnap, mailbox, poopie, ransom, weiner on February 13, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Kidnappers told, “We won’t press charges if Jesus is returned unharmed”.
Hat tip Stupid Evil Bastard
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Posted in Democrats, Elections '08, Libertarian Party, POTUS '08, Republican, Tax Consumers vs. Taxpayers, candidate interviews, elections, politics, taxes, tagged alcohol, Barack Obama, candidate, cigarette, Clinton, courage test, Dr. George Phillies, Dr. Phillies, gasoline, George Phillies, gift, Hillary, Hillary Clinton, honesty, inheritance, Kubby, libertarian, mainstream, Obama, Phillies, political courage test, presidency, president, Project Vote Smart, questionnaire, Steve Kubby, suspicion, tax, third parties, third party on February 12, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I just ran across a website called “Project Vote Smart“. This site gathers information from various candidates for office, so you can view it all in one place, and even very easily compare the candidates if you open them up in side-by-side tabs on your browser.
It is very interesting to see the “political courage [...]
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Posted in Entertainment, George Bush, Republican, Shine on you crazy diamond, health, humor, insanetertainment, personal responsibility, politics, unusual behaviors, tagged Cheney, Dick Cheney, gun, hunt, hunting, quail, Quayle, Richard Cheney, shotgun, Vice President, VP on February 11, 2008 | 2 Comments »
According to ElfNinosUncle, today is the third anniversary of the day Vice President Richard Cheney shot someone in the face during a hunting trip, after mistaking a 78-year-old Republican male for a Quayle quail.
Here is the original Daily Show episode on the event, for your amusement.
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Posted in Uncategorized, tagged billboard, challenged, dumb, humor, idiot, illiteracy, illiterate, literacy, literate, stupid, write on February 11, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Posted in Master of the Painfully Obvious, Shine on you crazy diamond, humor, insanetertainment, tagged brain, funny, misspell, moran, moron, silly, spell, spelling on February 11, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Posted in Elections '08, Lies and the lying liars who tell them, POTUS '08, corruption, crazy claims, elections, politics, tagged Amy Carlton, Chicago, Chicago Sun, fraud, ink, invisible, invisible ink, judge, scanner, shenanigans, vote on February 10, 2008 | 5 Comments »
I find it impossible to believe that anyone would simply accept this explanation. Yet apparently, many did. I also find it difficult to believe that this was not an intentional shenanigan intended to influence the outcome of an election, especially given Chicago’s long reputation for corruption.
My question is, why didn’t these people just [...]
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Posted in Entertainment, Shine on you crazy diamond, animals, humor, insanetertainment, unusual behaviors, tagged Beijing, disgusting, Gross, man, mouth, nose, sick, snake, Year of the Rat on February 10, 2008 | No Comments »
Posted in Democrats, Science, health, politics, tagged adenovirus, AIDS, AIDS Vaccine Advocacy Coalition, antibodies, antiretrovirals, Bill Clinton, broad-spectrum, canarypox, cell-simulating, clinical trial, Clinton, Columbia University, commitment, David Watkins, disease specialist, financial, funding, gene, global, gp120, gp160, HIV, human immunodeficiency virus, HVTN, IAVI, immune response, immunology, infection, infectious disease, International AIDS Vaccine Initiative, Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS, Merck, Mitchell Warren, molecules, Morgan State University, mutate, National Institutes of Health, New York, NIH, political, President Clinton, protein, replication, research consortia, rhesus monkeys, safety, Sanofi-Aventis, Scott Hammer, Seth Berkley, simian immunodeficiency virus, Step, T cell vaccine, T cells, Thailand, University of Wisconsin, vaccine, Vaccine Research Center, VaxGen, VaxSyn, VRC, Wayne Koff on February 10, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Scientific American takes a look at the research into AIDS, a decade after President Clinton set a goal to find a vaccine within ten years:
Global spending for HIV vaccine research increased from $186 million in 1997 to $759 million in 2005, according to the Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS. The IAVI helped to move [...]
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Posted in Science, health, tagged alter genes, disease, DNA, egg, embryo, embryology, epilepsy, ethics, European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology, Family, fertility, fertilization, Francoise Shenield, genes, genetic modification, genetically modified, House of Commons, in-vitro, inherited, Japan, mental retardation, mitochondria, muscular dystophy, neurogenetics, Newcastle University, nucleus, Patrick Chinnery, Science, stroke, third parent on February 10, 2008 | No Comments »
In the quest to produce infants without inherited diseases, scientists experiment with incorporating a third parent.
(LONDON)—British scientists say they have created human embryos containing DNA from two women and a man in a procedure that researchers hope might be used one day to produce embryos free of inherited diseases.
Though the preliminary research has raised [...]
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Posted in Family, Parenting, Science, children, health, tagged abnormal development, adverse consequence, Archives of General Psychiatry, blood, brain, brain malformation, cancer, Centre for Women's Health Research, congenital, cortisol, criminal conviction, cytokines, death, Denmark, depression, disease, early pregnancy, environment, evolution, fetal development, fetus, genes, growth, heart attack, heart disease, hormones, illness, immune, impair, Kathryn Abel, Lancet, low birth weight, marriage, maternal, mental illness, neurodevelopment, predictor, pregnancy, premature birth, proteins, restrict, risk, schizophrenia, serious illness, social class, social consequences, socioeconomic, starvation, stress, stress hormone, stroke, susceptibility, Sweden, University of Aarhus, University of Manchester on February 10, 2008 | 2 Comments »
According to a new study, maternal stress during early pregnancy results in significantly higher risk of the child later developing schizophrenia.
The study group consisted of 1.38 million births recorded in Denmark, from 1973 to 1995. Children were followed from age 10 until their death, their departure from Denmark, the onset of schizophrenia or the end [...]
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