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...pain. "The idea is that if you can look into people's brains right before they make certain decisions, you can get a handle on these two feelings and do a better job of predicting what they are about to do," Knutson says. "I believe anticipatory emotions not only bias but drive decision making...
...results, Pitman is entering the third year of a much larger trial--one that has stirred some controversy. The President's Council on Bioethics recently condemned his study as unethical, saying that erasing memories risks undermining a person's true identity. Pitman rejects such notions as a bias against psychiatry. After all, he says, no one suggests that doctors should withhold morphine from people in acute pain on the grounds it might take away part of the experience...
...Determined to overcome the gender bias, the network has marshaled its marketing forces and mounted an aggressive campaign to save Friday Night Lights, which revolves around Dillon's new coach (Kyle Chandler) as he deals with the team and football-obsessed townsfolk. The first move was a schedule change to Wednesdays at 8 p.m. It's not Friday, but but it does take the series out of the path of American Idol, ABC's seemingly unbeatable hit that starts airing again Tuesdays starting Jan. 16. "This was definitely a defensive move," says NBC scheduling vice president Mitch Metcalf...
...police argue that it's not a class bias that determines their actions, but an outdated police code established in 1861, which promotes the enforcement of law and order over investigative work. "It is not a crime to go missing," says Prakash Singh, the former chief of police of Uttar Pradesh, the state in which Noida is located. "But kidnapping is against the penal code." Holding a CEO's son for ransom is a criminal act that the police must pursue. There is no motivation to investigate a case of missing children. This is just one of the issues Singh...
...anyone who tries to keep track of which foods provide which health benefits, life seemed a little more complicated this morning. The first major analysis of nutritional research found the science to be every bit as susceptible to sponsor bias as pharmaceuticals. In a paper published online Tuesday in PloS Medicine researchers from Children's Hospital Boston report that when studies linking beverages to health are funded entirely by industry, the conclusions are four to eight times more likely to support the sponsor's commercial interest than studies with no industry funding. And the implications of the findings, says senior...