Month: May 2017

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School Is The Advertising Agency…

School Is The Advertising Agency...
Please read this and digest it.
(Pun intended.)
Then, before you more to the next post, decide what you are going to do different this week as a result of this knowledge.
Ivan Illich says some interesting things about medicine too, like:
“Modern medicine is a negation of health. It isn’t organized to serve human health, but only itself, as an institution. It makes more people sick than it heals.”
“People would rebel against such an environment if medicine did not explain their biological disorientation as a defect in their health, rather than as a defect in the way of life which is imposed on them or which they impose on themselves.”
“Better health care will depend not on some new therapeutic standard, but on the level of willingness and competence to engage in self-care.”
“As the older causes of disease recede, a new kind of malnutrition is becoming the most rapidly expanding modern epidemic. One third of humanity survives on a level of undernourishment which would have formerly been lethal, while more and more rich people absorb ever greater amounts of poisons and mutagens in their food.”
This last quote, I believe is because the rich are too busy to study the basics of physiology and instead opt to choose “quick-fixes” and whatever they think delivers more bang for the buck, which ironically, prolongs their health issues. “Quick fixes” usually lead to more issues, which means MORE TIME is required to heal. Think about it: What is going to take longer to do: study the basics of physiology OR spend forever sifting through trial and error with woo-woo/bro science?

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Whistleblowers

Whistleblowers
Whistleblowers should be lauded and celebrated, not vilified and persecuted!
But then they are only vilified and persecuted by those who should be prosecuted.
Shouldn’t that tell us something?

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Digital technology? Yes, but at the right time!

Dear Friends of ELIANT,
A draft proposal for a new skills agenda for Europe is currently being discussed in the European Parliament. The proposals being put forward by the European Commission in the chapter on digital skills, call for the development of “comprehensive national strategies for advancing IT skills.”
This proposal however lacks any understanding for what the child needs in terms of media education. ELIANT is therefore actively supporting our fellow alliance partner – the European Council for Steiner Waldorf Education ECSWE, with their concerns! The sobering findings of the OECD study (2015) into the use of digital technology in the classroom, needs careful consideration. We believe that the ever earlier and ever more comprehensive use of digital media goes in the wrong direction. The many risks involved and the potential for addiction are not taken into account.
From the perspective of Steiner Waldorf education, the basis for media education lies in developing age-appropriate ways to encourage creativity, train the will and gain proficiency in reading, writing, arithmetic and independent thinking. These are the pre-requisites for ensuring that children and young people can gradually gain access to the digital world without being harmed. ECSWE is now actively campaigning for changes to the draft proposal and is in on-going contact with key parliamentary representatives.
We are therefore urgently requesting your help in gathering further signatures for our petition “no, to digitalised pre-schools – yes to constructive educational investment” by 20th May. Young children need special protection. Our alliance partner the International Association of Steiner Waldorf Early Childhood Education (IASWECE) has taken on this task.
We will keep you informed about the next steps and would like to express our warm gratitude for all the financial support!
With best wishes
Michaela Glöckler
(for the ELIANT team)
https://www.openpetition.de/petition/online/no-to-the-digital-kindergarten-yes-to-constructive-educational-investments

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A Norfolk doctor found a treatment for sepsis. Now he’s trying to get the ICU world to listen

Dr Paul Marik
What really ticks me off is the “double-blind clinical trial-osis” that some medicos have. An observation is not valid unless it complies with their rules. How many more people must die before we flatly reject the biased view of those who cannot look and see?
http://pilotonline.com/news/local/health/a-norfolk-doctor-found-a-treatment-for-sepsis-now-he/article_7a3063e5-24cf-56c1-b25c-142731604196.html