Episode Name msb-0366 Lazy-Ass Journalists
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Intro
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FeedBack comes first, so...
I ran into this tweet yesterday from MS_Bloggers:
''About MS: Learning Increases Myelination: Researchers at Oxford have proven that, when people learn a new.. http://tinyurl.com/lyshof "
@MS_Bloggers Fabulous news, but why aren't I seeing it? (Recently laid off, back to college yet again...) Or maybe I'd be worse off...
It was actually pointing to an little tiny piece [ http://ms.about.com/b/2009/06/18/learning-increases-myelination.htm ] at about.dom by Julie Stachowiak, Ph.D. which basically said less that I could on the same subject without pretending I'm anything other that somebody who'se seen my own MRIs.
So of course that started me thinking on how much money and just fuss is being made by regurgitating trivia of dubious distinction.
---- "Lazy Tuesday" by: "KCentric" http://www.kcentricity.com/
FeedForward
---- "Lazy" by: "Leiv Reed" http://www.myspace.com/leivreed
FeedMe
I now have TWO sponsors.
I told you, way back when, getting the first one was the toughest.
Now I have two and it didn't take another three years and several thousands more dollars of spending on my part.
The links are synchronized with the messages on the m4a right now.
It you're listening on this through iTunes or through a web browser, just click on the image for the sponsor and I'll take you right to the appropriate web page.
If you're on an iPhone or an iPod touch, you should be good to go too.
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The first sponsor, you should be all familiar with and maybe even have bought some t-shirts.[ http://www.artoshirt.net/servlet/the-MS-Artists/Categories ]
I'm still in love with my T-Shirts,
There is one called "At the Back" by Karolina Wojdak [ http://www.artoshirt.net/servlet/the-370/MS/Detail ] which is beautiful in a deeply intriguing way. I am always fascinated by the way artists perceive the world.
They see the same thing we mere mortals do but they seem to take away a very different mental image from the same landscape my ultra- or magic-realist eyes merely sees.
I would try to out texture a fractal. That's why I'm glad to be involved in audio. (Although back when Wendy was Walter, I played with the shapes of sound waves and how that affected our auditory perception.)
I hope you folks out there are buying these because I'm not going to be outside much to look at them once the heat hits.
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I received the CADDi in the mail, and, after trying it out, I feel that I can honestly recommend the CADDi by BARBCO. [ http://barbco.biz ]
The picture of the CADDi in use sort of says it all.
BarbCo is very generously giving a dollar of off every order they process to a bunch of causes and YOU select the cause.
[ http://barbco.biz/MultipleSclerosis.htm ]
I'm talking with her, well we're Twittering and emailing back and forth, about having promo code for MSers.
The CADDI is for non MSers but it ought to be for us too.
---- "Lazy Loser" by: "Lima Charlie" http://www.limacharliemusic.com/
Thesis:
Like I said in the feedback segment, I am exploring just how much the medical world has learned since I was diagnosed, and why, and how much is just hand-waving, supposition and flat-out BS.
I'm sorry to employ a Hagelian dialectic technique as a point of view, (the 19th century form of exposition of thesis, synthesis conclusion,) and twist it into what surely must sound like a screed, but this is the kind of patent nonsense up with I will not put. (And the last sentence, lifted from Winston Churchill, should tell you that there is not much up with which I don't put.)
---- "Lazy Bones" by: "B.D. Lenz" http://www.bdlenz.com/
Synthesis:
In learning about our disease we need to put on our hip-waders and venture out into a swamp of supposition, unknowns masquerading as facts, logical fallacies that say that naming something is the same as finding a cure, and mystics who leave it up to the vagaries of the random smiting by the elder gods.
I think we can dismiss the elder gods at a single glance since MS doesn't spare anyone based on religious belief. If you're alive, you're brain is fair game regardless of who it bows to, or doesn't as the case may be.
Back in the mid-eighties when I was diagnosed using a lumbar puncture and a at the time brand new PET scan, we really didn't know much about the working of the brain, (not even the mind, but the brain, the fundamental carpentry which served as its scaffolding.)
We had names for the features found in the undifferentiated grey goo that fills the void between our ears, but that's really not the same as knowing what the heck any of it did, why or how.
I can refer you back to an episode five shows ago (msb-0361) which told you about the the five types of glial cells.
What I can't find out very easily is when the discovery and naming of the different glial cell types came about.
I suspect that the use of Latin and Greek obscures that fact that the types were unknown ten years ago.
Wilder Penfield and his crude brain mapping experiments at the Montréal Institute of Neurology in the nineteen-thirties had begun to unravel the mysterious skein that overlays itself atop that carpentry.
The functioning of the brain was being elucidated painfully slowly by chance, accident and mishap, since autopsies don't tell you much about living people.
The treatments for MS have all arisen from the study of AIDS.
They're crude but effective, and that's pretty much all we're getting from big pharma, so suck it up.
Its going to be a race for your pocket book using modifications on the systems of delivery from now on.
The delivery mechanisms are going to go from Injections, to ingestion, to inhalation.
The drugs themselves won't be a cure. That's too hard to do and requires to much time.
The curative discoveries will come from geneticists and epigeneticists.
---- "Lazy" by: "Francis Collete" http://www.myspace.com/fcbandnj
Conclusion:
The overall outlook for MS treatments is mixed.
There will be no cures but the treatments will get more effective, until things really change under the onslaught of medical knowledge.
Lets hope our progeniture may never know first hand about demyelination.
The reporting of issues related to MS will be quieted then.
No more articles of Latinate bafflegab, no more futurama pronouncement of "In the coming decades ...", no more scary-slash-tear-jearky appeals to your pocket books by someone with a perfect smile, a perfect body and total lack discernible empathy.
Unfortunately, that will take time, money and research into fields not yet even dreamt of by people with more energy than I've got.
---- "Lazy girl" by: "The Bank" http://www.thebankrockband.blogspot.com/
Outro
SongList
Theme and 'incidental music' from:
"msb_theme",
by: "Guy David",
http://www.guydavid.com/
no album,
via personal contract
Song list
"Lazy Tuesday"
by: "KCentric"
http://www.kcentricity.com/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com
"Lazy"
by: "Leiv Reed"
http://www.myspace.com/leivreed
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com
"Lazy Loser"
by: "Lima Charlie"
http://www.limacharliemusic.com/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com
"Lazy Bones"
by: "B.D. Lenz"
http://www.bdlenz.com/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com
"Lazy"
by: "Francis Collete"
http://www.myspace.com/fcbandnj
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com
"Lazy girl"
by: "The Bank"
http://www.thebankrockband.blogspot.com/
album: "none"
via: music.podshow.com
PhotoCredits:
All images, synchronized with the songs, are of the artists and come via music.podshow.com except when they aren't. :-)
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