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[novapsyche]

California police report supports Prius driver -- This is what I suspected when I first heard about the doubts being cast about the driver's account. Toyota is simply engaged in damage control.

Game of Death: France's Shocking TV Experiment -- "Game of Death is an adaptation of an infamous experiment conducted by a team led by Yale University psychologist Stanley Milgram in the 1960s. In order to test people's obedience to authority figures, the scientists demanded that subjects administer increasingly strong electric shocks to other participants if they answered questions incorrectly."

Violence Prompts Debate Over Medical Marijuana -- "A shooting and a beating death linked to medical marijuana have prompted new calls by law enforcement officials and marijuana advocates for Washington State to change how it regulates the drug and protects those who grow and use it." (NYT)

New attack on cancer forces cells to grow old and die -- "Takeda Pharmaceutical Co's experimental cancer drug MLN4924" seems to be able to "[block] a cancer-causing gene called Skp2 [which] force[s] cancer cells to go through an aging process known as senescence--the same process involved in ridding the body of cells damaged by sunlight."

Insurer targeted HIV patients to drop coverage -- Assurant Health (formerly Fortis)

Comments

[atdt1991.livejournal.com]

I myself was curious about his massive debt and reported lack of payment on the vehicle, but those are simply circumstantial - enough to suggest an inquiry, but not enough to accuse him of criminal intent, in my book.

[pstscrpt.livejournal.com]

I wasn't aware insurance companies actually had to come up with an excuse to cancel coverage.

[pstscrpt.livejournal.com]

Yes, I've always wondered that. It doesn't sound like it's actually much better, though.

[novapsyche.livejournal.com]

Then exactly against what are they insuring? If companies only cover healthy people and intentionally drop those who were healthy when they signed up but then became sick later, why in the world would anyone buy insurance?

[novapsyche.livejournal.com]

Sorry for the repost--I wanted to correct an unforgivable misspelling.

[sophiaserpentia.livejournal.com]

California police report supports Prius driver -- This is what I suspected when I first heard about the doubts being cast about the driver's account. Toyota is simply engaged in damage control.

It's going to make things doubly worse for them though if most people decide they believe the driver's account. Toyota has many million$ of rea$ons to lie.