Democracy and Inquiry in the Post-Truth Era: A pragmatist Solution

Post-truth has become a commonplace strategy. No longer are objective facts viewed as having evidentiary value; scientific knowledge is on a par with emotions or personal beliefs. We intend to show that in the context of post-truth, those proffering and receiving an assertion do not care about the truth-value of the assertion or about the best way to gather evidence concerning it. Such attitudes raise several questions about how relativism can be a corrupting influence in contemporary democracies. We will analyse Steve Fuller’s use of the term «post-truth» – especially, the political connotations about epistemic democracy that he highlights. Instead, we offer a pragmatist defence of the truth and an alternative meaning of epistemic democracy

Hands 2 Paws – a canine artist story

Artwork made by London, a canine artist

Expanding Clinical Knowledge and Awareness to Non-Benzodiazepine Treatments by Providing an Educational Intervention: A Quantitative Study

This study examined the effectiveness of an educational intervention for healthcare clinicians to increase knowledge and awareness of non-benzodiazepine treatments for the treatment of anxiety and panic disorders. The target population were healthcare clinicians in a metropolitan area that commonly treat anxiety and panic disorders. Clinicians from different specialties were recruited to participate and evaluated on their knowledge of benzodiazepines on a 3-question pretest survey using a Likert scale. The clinician was then given a 30-minute educational intervention that covered the risks and dangers of benzodiazepines and a review of alternative, non-benzodiazepine treatment options. The clinician then self-evaluated themselves using a similar 3-question posttest survey. The results were examined to determine the effectiveness of the educational intervention in changing clinical practice

Bridging the Digital Divide: Towards a New Paradigm

My direct experience in the digital divide was when I was marketing director for a band-new state-of-the-art program origination and satellite transmission facility in Singapore seven years ago in 1996. Our first and anchor client was the highly successful Discovery Network--which housed in our facility the first all-digital channel to the Asia-Pacific market

Intervención social e inmigración

La población inmigrante en nuestro país ha ido aumentando desde mediados de los ochenta de forma muy significativa. Este incremento supone un reto colosal para nuestra sociedad. El encuentro con esta población y con este fenómeno no debe abandonarse a la espontánea inercia de los acontecimientos, la historia de otros países con más tradición nos previene contra esa no intervención. Es esencial el diseño de una política social que se haga cargo de esta realidad compleja y dinámica en la que todos estamos inmersos. Esta política debe enmarcar intervenciones pertinentes siempre definidas desde la igualdad y el conocimiento mutuo.Our Country’s immigrant population has kept growing, since the eighties, at a very significant pace. The ever increasing number of immigrants means a tremendous challenge to our Society. The encounter with such a population, with such a new phenomenon, shouldn’t be left to the spontaneous inertia of the oncoming facts: what has already happened in countries with an older tradition, prevents us of any kind of passivity. A well planed social policy, that takes into account these complex reality that surrounds us, is badly needed. Such a Policy should be able to give support to pertinent interventions, based on equality and mutual knowledg