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...Paulin, a Northern Irish poet and lecturer at Hertford College, Oxford, was to deliver the annual Morris Gray Lecture tomorrow evening...
Though Paulin’s remarks and frequent British TV appearances have created controversy at Oxford over the past few months, little was known in the United States about his work and views...
...marijuana's health effects is at once more complex and less advanced than you might imagine. "Interpretations [of marijuana research] may tell more about [one's] own biases than the data," writes Mitch Earleywine in Understanding Marijuana: A New Look at the Scientific Evidence, published in August by Oxford. For example: "Prohibitionists might mention that THC [delta-9 tetra-hydrocannabinol, the smile-producing chemical in pot] often appears in the blood of people in auto accidents. Yet they might omit the fact that most of these people also drank alcohol. Antiprohibitionists might cite a large study that showed no sign...
...comes a report in last week's Journal of the American Medical Association that may go a long way toward reconciling this paradox. By doing a meta-analysis (a combined statistical analysis of many previous studies), a team led by Dr. Robert Clarke of Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford, England, has deduced that homocysteine is a risk factor--but not a huge one, at least for most healthy people. The latest results say that reducing homocysteine levels in the blood 25% lessens the risk of heart disease 10% and the risk of stroke 19%--not bad, but not fabulous either...
Jason H. Wasfy is a Marshall Scholar and graduate student in politics at Oxford. He will begin at Harvard Medical School in the fall...