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ToddCast Podcast with Todd Starnes
Steve Gill: Tennessee to Ban Gender Transition Procedures for Minors
"Gil joining us as well, and Steve on another big issue in Tennessee. The state poised to become the first in the nation the first in the nation to implement a ban on these gender transition surgeries for minors. Yeah, I think there are a lot of disturbing things about this. The permanency of these surgeries on minors that you have somebody from Vanderbilt university actually commenting about how it's a money maker for them. So the profit motive, the permanency of these dramatic decisions at very, very young ages for these kids, whether it's their parents making the decision from some sort of a perverted approach by them or whether it's these ten, 12 year old kids saying, well, I think I really feel like a girl or a boy, the permanence is disturbing, but to me, Todd, what's more disturbing is that the Democratic Party as a party is so embracing these sorts of just disgusting approaches to how we handle mental health issues. And the same thing is with the drag shows for children. I mean, if adults want to dress like a woman and cavort and gyrate and do these perverted dances for other adults, you know, I'm not happy with that, but that's their own business. But when they seem absolutely dedicated to doing it in front of young children to bring in their perverted performances to young children, that's disgusting, but what's more disgusting is that the Democratic Party is such morally depraved as a party that they are defending the drag shows. They are defending these permanent surgeries for young children who clearly have mental health issues. And I think this is a bigger story than just the perversion that is taking place in our society. It's that the Democratic Party is so adamant about defending it.
ToddCast Podcast with Todd Starnes
Professor Argues Math Education Limits Queer and Students of Color
"Now there is a confusing story from Fox News about a Vanderbilt professor. Luis leyva is an assistant Professor of mathematics at Vanderbilt university in Nashville. Delivered a lecture titled undergraduate mathematics education as a white cis row patriarchal, space and opportunities for structural disruption to advance queer of color justice. You know, if I was in that class, I would just go ahead and put a big zero on the paper and walk out the door because there's no way I'm passing that class. The lecture consisted of two parts, the first half of the lecture showed findings from research about the educational experiences of 39 undergraduate queer and trans students of color, pursuing stem majors across historically white and minority serving universities in the United States. Why are they wasting their time here? You see ladies and gentlemen, this is what I'm talking about. We've got this massive omnibus spending bill where funding all of this crap? No, I understand that Vanderbilt is a private school, but they're still getting government money. So why are we spending money on this garbage? Who cares? All we need to know is the best person for the job. That's it. The lecture states that the findings depict how black Latin and Asian QT's, is that on what's acute. Oh, QT is queer transgender. That's what they're calling it now. Anyway, the findings depict how black Latin and Asian QT students narratives of experience reflect forms of intersectionality or instances of oppression and resistance at intersecting systems of holy what the crap is this garbage.
AJ Benza: Fame is a Bitch
Sarah Fuller's Overhyped Kickoff Made 'History'?
"I wanted to talk about what happened the other day in the college football game between Missouri and agave eNOS Alma mater Vanderbilt university. In case you didn't hear, the amazing thing I'm about to say, well, here's what happened. A female soccer star on Vanderbilt's championship team was asked to kick off in the second half of the football game. And boy, the whole sports world was watching. And at the beginning of the second half, Sarah fuller ran on the field for the opening kick-off and she knocked the ball to the Missouri 37 yard line and then she immediately jogged to the sideline to get out of harm's way. And that moment was immediately hailed as history. Even ESPN SportsCenter, Twitter account, they claimed that her pick changed the game. Other people said she made history. She's the first woman to play in a power 5 football game, not only that, there are a lot of people who believe she broke football's gender barrier. Of course, the people who believe that are assholes who just want a virtue signal above all else, but what a cheap exactly do. She got a standing ovation for kicking a ball 30 yards, and then she ran her frail ass to the sidelines to be greeted by her winless coach who used her to try and save his job, it was a publicity stunt by a coach who knew he was a goner, and on the way out he decided, you know what? Let me do something that would mean nothing, but mean everything with the nonsense people, the people who don't know shit. And I'm not trying to knock Sarah fuller. It's a good athlete. An accomplished high level division one athlete. She's a soccer goalie for the Vanderbilt women's soccer team. But she was pushed into believing that competing against men was going to make her very important, and it won't.
ToddCast Podcast with Todd Starnes
If You Have Any Role in Mutilating a Child, You Are a Savage Monster
"Paint with a broad brush here. I don't care. If you're a nurse or a doctor or the person that has to wrap up the discarded private parts and like paper and throw it in the garbage dumpster in the back of the hospital, I don't care who you are, their own Stanford Vanderbilt university medical center. But if you have any role, no matter how large or how small, in mutilating a child, then you deserve to spend the rest of your life burning in the Lake of fire. You are a savage monster. And you deserve to spend the rest of your human life locked up in a cell. This is shameful and this is beyond horrifying. And I will say this, it would behoove you. Yes, I said, behoove. It would behoove you. To reach out to your local hospital. To find out if they too are engaged in this sickening, sickening abuse.
Fresh Air
"vanderbilt university" Discussed on Fresh Air
"Save. Reveal the economic patterns all around us. While you swipe right and left, understand money better with the indicator, one of NPR's daily podcasts. More voices, all ears, NPR podcasts. Let's get back to Dave Davies interview with doctor J wellens. He's a pediatric neurosurgeon at Vanderbilt university medical center, and medical director of the surgical outcome center for kids which he cofounded. He has a new memoir, reflecting on his experiences operating on children facing critical illnesses and injuries, and helping their parents cope with the wrenching emotional challenges
AP News Radio
Title IX creating opportunities for international athletes
"Maria bonanova from Russia was recruited for the bowling team at Vanderbilt university on the golf course Alain Crowder from Stuttgart Germany had no opportunity to play in Europe College sports is not a thing in Europe at all So I think the U.S. really has a unique opportunity there and then obviously title and I'm just tough set off and make sure we're better Crowder is at Stanford University Heather Lynn was a top player in Taiwan Luckily I play a lot of junior tournaments growing up from like 14 to 18 years old and play a bunch of AJ Jerry tournaments USGA and that's how coach D found me She's talking about coach Derek Bradley at the university of Oregon There are several agencies set up to help foreign female athletes by putting them in contact with various coaches and universities I'm Ed
How to Live A Fantastic Life
"vanderbilt university" Discussed on How to Live A Fantastic Life
"Of that external. And to really align to see each other. It's a global community of women. It's magic, where we see each other. We hear each other. We celebrate each other. We support each other. We lift each other up in the good times and the bad. And again, it's really just all about shedding that external and coming home to who you are. Free of all of the things that have happened to you, the events, the circumstances or the labels in your life. And I think you are the embodiment of something that I say all the time. It's not what happens to you. It's what you do with what happens. And I think that's really what needs to be said over and over again. When little things come in the way, are baked things come in the way. Those are opportunities for you to be defined yourself better and move forward. They are opportunities for people really to become a bigger part of life, not a smaller part of life. And you know, we don't know where success is unless we see our failures along the way. Unless we see those things that have helped us, they are hurt us. Should we see it? Thank you for some of these things. I hope. Everything. I say thank you for everything. And for me, some of the foundational absolutely critical parts to being able to free yourself of the external to be able to step into your full alignment and define for yourself who you are and what you stand for and what you want your life to be and then show up fully in the world. The fundamental aspects of creating a life that's free by design. Or of healing by design or knowing that you're not your scars are language perspective meaning and gratitude. For absolutely fundamental keys. So we are in each and every person. We are in control of the language that we use to describe an event or a circumstance or a feeling, we're in control of the meaning that we give to that event that circumstance that, you know, whatever the case may be, we are in control of the language we use to describe it, the story we tell ourselves about it, the meaning we ascribe to it, the perspective that we hold from it. And no matter what's going on, we can live in gratitude. And when I'm working with clients and I say, oh yeah, it's easy for you to say you do this at the other. I what do I have to be grateful for? I go back to the foundation ones. I go back to the basics. Be grateful for the heart that is beating you that you don't have to even think about. Be grateful for the lungs that are breathing you that you don't have to think about. Be grateful for the brain that is firing to tell your heart to beat and your lungs to expand and contract. Be grateful for the blood that flows through you that nourishes every cell in your body be grateful for the oxygen that flows through you, be grateful that you have eyes to see or hand to feel and touch and grab and eat whatever the case may be. I don't care who you are. There is so much grateful for, and there's always somebody somewhere in the world that has it worse. And so for me, a foundational pivotal moment in my life was the day that I actually gave up. I was in the hospitals. I've been fighting for my life for a decade already. And as I laid in that hospital bed at Vanderbilt university, looking up at the sky, waiting for the Porter to come get me for yet another excruciating test. I was done. I gave up. I looked up at the ceiling and I said, okay God, you win. I'm done. You win. I don't have any fight left. Just take me now. You win. And that day, the Porter came to get me. And he came to get me, and he put me in the wheelchair. And he took me down hallway that he had never taken me. Through before at bandy. And the route he chose to take me that day was the route where everyone was on a ventilator because they were paralyzed from the neck down. And in that moment, as I looked into room, after room, after room, of people paralyzed and on a ventilator. I got it. I said, oh my God, what anyone of those people would give to feel the pain that I'm feeling right now. Because they will never again feel pain in their hands and their feet and their legs and their body. With any one of those people would give to feel the pain that I was feeling, coursing through my body. That's huge. That's huge. Gratitude. Two questions, Ellie. One is how do you live a fantastic life? I love a fantastic life in every moment of every day. Because I'm in control of the story I tell myself in the language I use in the perspective I hold. So no matter what's going on, it's not like chaos doesn't do. But no matter what's going on, I live so fully aligned in my purpose in my integrity in my passion, that no matter what's going on, I come home to that purpose. I come home to the fact that I am living that full true embodiment of myself. And I make it a fantastic life. I make it a fantastic day. I make it a fantastic hour. I make it a fantastic minute. Because what a gift that I'm in control of making every moment count. That's huge now. What advice do you give to others out there on how they should live a fantastic life? Watch the language you use. Choose empowering meanings no matter what's going on. Key things in perspective. Because a lot of times we can make them out and out of a whole hill. He thinks in perspective, it's all good. And live in gratitude because no matter what you have, you have so much to be grateful for. And then keeping all of that in mind, remember, live a full authentic, rich aligned life of purpose. 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The Mason Minute
Shopping Malls (MM #4048)
"The NASA minute. With Kevin mason. The way we shop is changed so much over the years. In my younger years, it was going to the shopping center with all the parking spaces and you'd basically have to go from store to store outside in the cold, exposed to the elements in the late 60s into the 70s and 80s, the shopping mall became the big thing, but as time wore on, people began to turn away from the shopping mall. When I started coming to national in the 1980s, the shopping malls that were here are pretty much all closed now. But recently, the one that used to be the big daddy of them all here in Nashville, which closed down in the early 2000s, has been bought by the city. And what once was Hickory hollow mall then became global mall at the crossings, is now going to become, well, a little bit of everything. There will be a school in the former Macy's. Part of them all will become part of Vanderbilt university's medical center. And who knows what else is going to be? I wonder what happened to the shopping mall and why it was so important for such a short time and then gone almost as quickly. The mall culture of the 1980s and 90s is now long gone. And sometimes when you try to tell young people about it, they kind of look at you and stare. They don't quite understand.
The Mason Minute
Shopping Malls (MM #4048)
"The NASA minute. With Kevin mason. The way we shop is changed so much over the years. In my younger years, it was going to the shopping center with all the parking spaces and you'd basically have to go from store to store outside in the cold, exposed to the elements in the late 60s into the 70s and 80s, the shopping mall became the big thing, but as time wore on, people began to turn away from the shopping mall. When I started coming to national in the 1980s, the shopping malls that were here are pretty much all closed now. But recently, the one that used to be the big daddy of them all here in Nashville, which closed down in the early 2000s, has been bought by the city. And what once was Hickory hollow mall then became global mall at the crossings, is now going to become, well, a little bit of everything. There will be a school in the former Macy's. Part of them all will become part of Vanderbilt university's medical center. And who knows what else is going to be? I wonder what happened to the shopping mall and why it was so important for such a short time and then gone almost as quickly. The mall culture of the 1980s and 90s is now long gone. And sometimes when you try to tell young people about it, they kind of look at you and stare. They don't quite understand.
The Mason Minute
Shopping Malls (MM #4048)
"The NASA minute. With Kevin mason. The way we shop is changed so much over the years. In my younger years, it was going to the shopping center with all the parking spaces and you'd basically have to go from store to store outside in the cold, exposed to the elements in the late 60s into the 70s and 80s, the shopping mall became the big thing, but as time wore on, people began to turn away from the shopping mall. When I started coming to national in the 1980s, the shopping malls that were here are pretty much all closed now. But recently, the one that used to be the big daddy of them all here in Nashville, which closed down in the early 2000s, has been bought by the city. And what once was Hickory hollow mall then became global mall at the crossings, is now going to become, well, a little bit of everything. There will be a school in the former Macy's. Part of them all will become part of Vanderbilt university's medical center. And who knows what else is going to be? I wonder what happened to the shopping mall and why it was so important for such a short time and then gone almost as quickly. The mall culture of the 1980s and 90s is now long gone. And sometimes when you try to tell young people about it, they kind of look at you and stare. They don't quite understand.
The Mason Minute
Speaking Of Logos (MM #4021)
"The NASA minute. With Kevin mason yes, I was talking about the new logo for Vanderbilt university, but they got me thinking about other logo questions I've had recently. Watching a lot of the NCAA tournament this year don't know why particularly. And I've noticed every uniform has multiple logos on them now. The NASCAR you got logos all over the uniform. Everybody's used to that. In the NBA, we now have one corporate sponsor, the Cleveland Cavaliers have been good year because they're nearby. A lot of teams have different sponsors. I think FedEx is on the Memphis Grizzlies uniforms. But this year in the NCAA, you've got the NCAA logo. You've got the logo of the manufacturing company, whether it's Nike or Adidas or whoever is making the uniform. And then you've got the American flag or some kind of logo on there. And one of the schools, I think, has their 75th anniversary logo. And then you've got the team conference logo. So you've got four logos right about the stirrup area and all these uniforms. And I got to wonder why. And what's next? Advertising logos on these uniforms? I understand wanting to brand a school, but I don't understand why the NCAA needs their logo on the uniform. I'm not making a lot of sense to me. The American flag logo, wonderful idea, but do we really need that?
The Mason Minute
Speaking Of Logos (MM #4021)
"The NASA minute. With Kevin mason yes, I was talking about the new logo for Vanderbilt university, but they got me thinking about other logo questions I've had recently. Watching a lot of the NCAA tournament this year don't know why particularly. And I've noticed every uniform has multiple logos on them now. The NASCAR you got logos all over the uniform. Everybody's used to that. In the NBA, we now have one corporate sponsor, the Cleveland Cavaliers have been good year because they're nearby. A lot of teams have different sponsors. I think FedEx is on the Memphis Grizzlies uniforms. But this year in the NCAA, you've got the NCAA logo. You've got the logo of the manufacturing company, whether it's Nike or Adidas or whoever is making the uniform. And then you've got the American flag or some kind of logo on there. And one of the schools, I think, has their 75th anniversary logo. And then you've got the team conference logo. So you've got four logos right about the stirrup area and all these uniforms. And I got to wonder why. And what's next? Advertising logos on these uniforms? I understand wanting to brand a school, but I don't understand why the NCAA needs their logo on the uniform. I'm not making a lot of sense to me. The American flag logo, wonderful idea, but do we really need that?
The Mason Minute
Speaking Of Logos (MM #4021)
"The NASA minute. With Kevin mason yes, I was talking about the new logo for Vanderbilt university, but they got me thinking about other logo questions I've had recently. Watching a lot of the NCAA tournament this year don't know why particularly. And I've noticed every uniform has multiple logos on them now. The NASCAR you got logos all over the uniform. Everybody's used to that. In the NBA, we now have one corporate sponsor, the Cleveland Cavaliers have been good year because they're nearby. A lot of teams have different sponsors. I think FedEx is on the Memphis Grizzlies uniforms. But this year in the NCAA, you've got the NCAA logo. You've got the logo of the manufacturing company, whether it's Nike or Adidas or whoever is making the uniform. And then you've got the American flag or some kind of logo on there. And one of the schools, I think, has their 75th anniversary logo. And then you've got the team conference logo. So you've got four logos right about the stirrup area and all these uniforms. And I got to wonder why. And what's next? Advertising logos on these uniforms? I understand wanting to brand a school, but I don't understand why the NCAA needs their logo on the uniform. I'm not making a lot of sense to me. The American flag logo, wonderful idea, but do we really need that?
The Mason Minute
New Logo (MM #4020)
"The NASA minute. With Kevin mason we've had a little bit of a controversy here at Nashville over the last couple of days and it's not that big a deal. Vanderbilt university has rebranded themselves with a new logo. They're still the Vanderbilt commodores and they're still a great school, but what used to be what they call the star V, which is just basically a block V with a star around it is now gone for a different style V a lot of people are saying it looks like the University of Virginia logo, which is a V with crossed swords, or it looks like Villanova's V logo. I don't know how you brand a particular letter, although with that said, my company intensity media has used the I with an exclamation point as branding for 20 years. But for a major university to rebrand everything they do after so many years of using the same logo, was kind of shocking to a lot of people. That has got a lot of people upset. Now, of course, if you're a Vanderbilt alum, you probably have more of an allegiance to the old logo. But for Vanderbilt, the only thing that's changed, not the colors, not the people, just the logo. I don't care one way or the other doesn't bother me, but you don't notice it quite as much now because when you always saw that V with a star, you knew what people were talking about.
The Mason Minute
New Logo (MM #4020)
"The NASA minute. With Kevin mason we've had a little bit of a controversy here at Nashville over the last couple of days and it's not that big a deal. Vanderbilt university has rebranded themselves with a new logo. They're still the Vanderbilt commodores and they're still a great school, but what used to be what they call the star V, which is just basically a block V with a star around it is now gone for a different style V a lot of people are saying it looks like the University of Virginia logo, which is a V with crossed swords, or it looks like Villanova's V logo. I don't know how you brand a particular letter, although with that said, my company intensity media has used the I with an exclamation point as branding for 20 years. But for a major university to rebrand everything they do after so many years of using the same logo, was kind of shocking to a lot of people. That has got a lot of people upset. Now, of course, if you're a Vanderbilt alum, you probably have more of an allegiance to the old logo. But for Vanderbilt, the only thing that's changed, not the colors, not the people, just the logo. I don't care one way or the other doesn't bother me, but you don't notice it quite as much now because when you always saw that V with a star, you knew what people were talking about.
The Mason Minute
New Logo (MM #4020)
"The NASA minute. With Kevin mason we've had a little bit of a controversy here at Nashville over the last couple of days and it's not that big a deal. Vanderbilt university has rebranded themselves with a new logo. They're still the Vanderbilt commodores and they're still a great school, but what used to be what they call the star V, which is just basically a block V with a star around it is now gone for a different style V a lot of people are saying it looks like the University of Virginia logo, which is a V with crossed swords, or it looks like Villanova's V logo. I don't know how you brand a particular letter, although with that said, my company intensity media has used the I with an exclamation point as branding for 20 years. But for a major university to rebrand everything they do after so many years of using the same logo, was kind of shocking to a lot of people. That has got a lot of people upset. Now, of course, if you're a Vanderbilt alum, you probably have more of an allegiance to the old logo. But for Vanderbilt, the only thing that's changed, not the colors, not the people, just the logo. I don't care one way or the other doesn't bother me, but you don't notice it quite as much now because when you always saw that V with a star, you knew what people were talking about.
AP News Radio
US virus cases, hospitalizations continue steady decline
"There are new signs that the Omicron surge is weakening across the country U. S. health officials say the total number of daily cases confirm this weekend just over one hundred thousand is a major improvement from mid January when Johns Hopkins University recorded more than eight hundred thousand cases each day and hospitalizations are down sharply eighty thousand on average in mid February nearly half of January's numbers one virus expert Dr Thomas Russo at the university of buffalo says he thinks Omicron is starting to run out of people to infect but there are still concerns with tens of millions of Americans still unvaccinated lifting virus restrictions is going to spark new cases Vanderbilt university's Dr William Schaffner says he's not comfortable taking masks off yet warning it's much too early to raise the banner of mission accomplished I'm Jackie Quinn
WTOP
"vanderbilt university" Discussed on WTOP
"A new variant It has a lot of mutations the concern is it may be very very contagious and transmissible the leading worry is how well it's protected against by our current vaccines Those things are all understudy at the present time And how long might it take to reach answers on those critical questions Well I think answers will be coming in gradually over the next week two weeks and three weeks So we'll learn much more as we go along But my hope is that we will get at least partial protection against all Macron by our current vaccines So we're sitting here and we've been slogging through this COVID pandemic What is the best thing each of us can do right now to protect ourselves Well that's very easy because the dominant virus out there today 99% of it in the United States in every community is delta And our vaccines protect very well against delta So those who are unvaccinated those who need a booster everybody age 18 and older and children age 5 and older any of those folks have not been vaccinated or boosted please get your vaccine Doctor is there any way to predict how many more variants might be coming our way down the road Well you know every time the virus multiplies it can mutate and mutations can cause variance All of the major variants that we've been concerned with have originated outside the United States So here we have to take a global view While we're doing our best to suppress COVID here in the U.S. we need to cooperate internationally to do that around the world in order to prevent variance from showing up here or there and then getting on a plane as it were and coming here Doctor William schaffner infectious disease specialist at the Vanderbilt university medical center that.
AP News Radio
Merck says COVID-19 pill cuts risk of death, hospitalization
"Two leading infectious disease experts say it's encouraging news that Merck has gotten good results from its experimental drug to treat to cope with nineteen patients White House Kobe advisor Dr Anthony Fauci says the report from work gives hope of a life saving treatment that people could take as a pill of importance is that in the placebo group there were eight deaths and in the treatment group there were no deaths Merck says it will soon be asking the U. S. food and drug administration to approve the drug's use Vanderbilt university's Dr William Schaffner says it works like Tama flew stopping the virus from replicating ended something patients could get from a drug store at the moment people who are newly infected have to come to special treatment centers to receive their intravenous infusions an independent group of advisors monitoring Merck's trial recommended stopping it early because the results were so strong I'm Jackie Quinn
Scientific Sense
"vanderbilt university" Discussed on Scientific Sense
"Diabetes. All costs they pathans fundamentally i mean. Is this get category that designates there's a there is an investigator at the university of south florida. Florida in tampa who has been studying reactive. Arthritis and has found messenger are a in joints from people with reactive. Arthritis and these are from both clwydian pneumonia. I and cla media through commodores. There are many other committee out there. And i'm willing to bet that rheumatoid arthritis is caused by a yet unnamed species of cla media and the reason one of the reasons i say this is i have used the anti-colonial therapy to cure rheumatoid arthritis in some patients and guilt to go back to your question about this concept of auto unity There are you a great number of researchers and clinicians practicing in wide variety of disciplines. And hence sort of the purpose of creating this consortium that i felt which really is trying to build rigidly newell together interdisciplinary to really look at this role of infection exist speaking. I stepped back from the whole thing. After spending six years studying in talking to thousands of people. I say that is it really sensible to think that the human body would launch an attack on itself spontaneously on such a large scale right number people that are suffering. Autoimmune conditions. d- It certainly. I have my own bias. Because i was a patient myself That happened to stumble upon chuck straightens research here today than than brian's research in the research of others noticing that could set the stage for some diseases. I've been diagnosed with. And i had the great fortune of actually a responding really robustly to antimicrobial therapy Placing release your refractory. Asthma into remission. Which is kind of unheard of and also very disturbing neurodegenerative symptoms into remission. And i sit here well today and say that It's unlikely that eminent of one Because my cases unique yes it's true But there are like. I said you'll studying this from all around the globe in not just seen ammoniac people looking at art mela infection people looking at the be. Co cicis talks. Plasma gone die. I mean there are pathogens that have the ability to remain chronic elicit inflammation. And we aren't thinking about that. When we know certain chronic diseases can be caused by pathogens like take gastric ulcers for example In that that example is one that i think the room here you know nods and smiles and says yeah. That's that's a really really applicable example of helicobacter pylori being a bacterial infection. Right that can cause Causes really all cases of ulcers but for over a decade the people that were suggesting that this might be the case Pretty much frowned upon by the global medical community. Because i think this concept of a pathogen causing a disease creates a a level of discomfort for some reason even though we know pathogens can make people sick of sense to me. You know without being scientist -opoly immune diseases as you were saying. He seemed very easy. Ec debate all just basically means said the haven't found a cause the body spend even decide. You know we have whom you state is happening. A lot of different situation so spitting unlikely a runaway reaction off your t-cells killed you It seems sort of counting you right. Although although we know that you could have t cell leukemia and lymphomas which may not have any infectious component to them. But but times they might we and we also know that that You can have genetic problems in the body that are principally genetic with faces to 'cause now a disease entity but typically when we look at those genetic diseases as purely a genetic issue or even epi genetic..
Scientific Sense
"vanderbilt university" Discussed on Scientific Sense
"I've approached it and i think other shouldn't as well to now Try to we have something that works. Let's use that. It's like eradicating smallpox eradicating polio. You know we need to have everyone on board that we need to eradicate this or this pandemic will continue and potentially other variants will arise. That could even be more deadly more communicable etcetera leading to indefinite period here of costly chasing getting another vaccine out to deal with the various and yet at the same time. We're losing people to this virus. They're dying There the long term effects as well as which you mentioned There been what over one hundred seventy three million that have recovered from the virus. They say recovered because they did die but they may have effects that we're going to see years from now that they they now has systemic effects cognitive effects. There's recent reports out from the international alzheimer meeting about how the biomarkers that are being looked at in blood for a number of older individuals that have had covert. They are very similar to what you find when you have alzheimer's disease or neuro degenerative process so we're hoping that this doesn't lead to that but it's suggesting to us that this virus can trigger events in our bodies that are could be long-term could recover it be suddenly you know where where you can now have equa late from this. So it's a really important issue. You know the thing. That's truly being highlighted right now with Democ is that you know pathogen which may not even be found in abundant quantities in the brain proper can elicit immune response an inflammatory response. That looks similar to what is observed in alzheimer's disease and feel that this is incredibly compelling especially in light of the fact that it's not just seen him on that has been studied over the last few decades in association with alzheimer's disease neurodegeneration degeneration they're herpes viruses or Vallis early Lime disease in this whole idea on long-term health effects isn't one that's new. It's just one that is more recently being appreciated like a billion dollars in poured into.
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"Don't always continued to downhill and again to anecdotal cases. Don't mean data but still. We have seen people respond to treatment of pneumonia. So i want to come back to that. But your papers. Brian go to you. So if i understand this correctly there. There's sofa in overarching client. Offices here creatures is infections that is sort of setting off the process So so siamese disease state. I don't know if that's the right to maybe disease. State status. Not dementia might be the like z. State but are similar sort of an overarching construct and as the are each. We all get there but the only option idea. Here's that infections. Serve clearing it. Is that a yes. In fact we do believe that that infection and maybe multiple infections it could be an individual infection could run the gamut of a wrecked infection in the brain also associated with indirect infections in the body that can stimulated inflammatory responsive. But what we've been studying with committee. Pneumonia is really a directed section of the brain and typically this is a respiratory organism as inhaled and we believe that it has to mechanisms that it can use to get into the brain one to sue the nasal factory neuropathy stuff are mel high passing the blood brain barrier directly into the toronto. The candidate of our brains where the alzheimer's disease has been characterized star. That's why we think this is such an important issue. Here is a bac triggering agent. We're starting to see. The organism can work. We're inhaling also into our loans and surveillance. The white blood cells in the vascular turn our lungs white flips can actually pick this up canal. Looks elsewhere infected flip. Sales are not efficient dillard's of his organs and they will circulate around the body. And now you can have. Systemic issued at their throats Generally cutaneous other lung. Is they have other problems. Tricky this way and is carried this pay out at the potential for the fight foot cells to also traffic forgiveness of brain through blood brain barrier. And now this coincides with the data that others have actually found to that you do have installed have consultant rate barrier soap type of mechanism out focused on this organism. Now scenario in break at least lamasion pro clamato responses drexel you learned factions of neurons of astra microbes leah of the endothelial cells. Leading to your pathology which are are animal models have actually shown that you can generate beta amyloid production with this affection for the in today's delivery process and the emily starts to accumulate in the brain tissues. Well that amyloid hypothesis that so many people have focused on hand waved in late onset. Alzheimer's disease is sporadic alzheimer's. Why is that amyloid there. Why is accumulating and typically most Hanway that say well. It's due to aging of the cells. It's doing the breakdown of the blood brain barrier it's inflammation but why is it that now we have something that could actually trigger it so i just thought hunt for alzheimer's cure so to speak can't be not symptomatic is statement. Yes it has been. it's most of. It's been based on trying to eradicate the pathology reach Has it has a level of insight that yes. This cathal actually developing. If you get the bad material out of the brain we would think that would be good. But that actually doesn't work now l. This goes to the latest issue with ad who helm and the drugs that are being approved through the fda of these anti amyloid approaches and it has been shown for a long period of time other companies..
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"So my guess today. Our professor. Brian was you know. Scientists balaji at philadelphia college of osteopathic medicine. All stratton was associated person of tarzi microbiology. Immunology medicine that diversity and miki who is the Who's the longer found of industries. Such notable you yes charles. We started so you think review article in twenty gene. If you of the multiple sclerosis as an infectious syndrome you say ms is a chronic neuronal inflammation disease of the central system generally considered to be an arbor reveal. My light is of unknown ideology. And it'd be lawrence study suggests that infections may act as a leader on predisposing. Jared back down i didn't want to tell I wasn't a scientist but in a number being a slice of the ninety s slice of listening to the cnn channel and They were sort of confidence. Hypotheses also a noodle deteriorating diseases but auto immune was sort of the media convenient biggest dogs. Thank god this is perhaps in the ninety s and then be flown inflammation and for a while. I thought about this. So i'm just making some statements you can cut me. And the inflammation. People wanted of inflammation of the brain for a while. Now obviously finding that all these are sort of symptomatic that there's something more fundamental that's happening so it's true that people have hypothesized infections might trigger a autoimmune process by exposing some antigens and then the immune system takes over and tries to attack those antigens and if that were the case one would predict that kotak or steroids would smooth that out released. Make people better and go. In contrast we have filed that treating the media pneumonia in patients and we started to do a formal clinical trial. But we couldn't get people to enroll we did get people republish that but we couldn't get people to enroll because they want to stop other therapies. That they were using. They wanted to be sure that they were doing something right. And they didn't want to just put all the exit one basket so to speak but we have had patients that were. I won't say they've come out of wheelchairs but we had one woman in hawaii who had ms in. She had her home on the water and she could get around by holding onto furniture and she would swim every day to give her muscles Workout and we started treating her and then we lost touch with her. And mrs years later one of my colleagues ran into her at a wedding north carolina and she was dancing. This is a woman who had to get through her own home by holding the denied to counter tops and furniture to make your way down to the beach so she could swim for. Exercise is that there's another situation This this hypothesis was first entertained by a physician in vietnam french physicians in vietnam and he was treating people at the time the combination of a derivative of safely so it was a early sightly and he also used hot baths and one of the women who had an s. and was treated by him was in the united states that gauge later and she was perfectly fine. People will say well yes. People cover and recover you know they..
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"On a book that is trying to draw out the language of racial innocence from james baldwin. Talk about the ways in which we insist on not knowing things that matter when it comes to our fellows on our social landscapes it you know in some sense. You're just getting started. I think. I think that's what i would take from this conversation paul There are many different things that could be done. perhaps tactical and and more practical but those need to be there For us to make progress and You know it sounds to me that just getting started. I hope we're getting started as we have said. There's ample ample grounds for pessimism. We may be going backwards instead of starting to go forwards but we shall see we shall see. There are a lot of people on the ground. Doing important work excellent. Yeah thanks so much. Thanks for spending time with me. Thank you my great pleasure. This is a scientific sense. Podcast providing unscripted conversations bit leading academics and researchers on a variety of topics. If you like to sponsor this podcast please reach out to in full. At scientific sense dot com..
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"And so so. So there's one overarching idea in the s. Hey paul what would that be. Which one we're talking about aches aching post regionalism seriously say oh. I think it's the one we serve right. The it's tempting to tell ourselves pleasing stories about all of the progress we've made but telling ourselves those stories not only obscures important realities it exacerbates the new forms of the problem right and so we have to be very careful about how we use language and we have to be very very careful about how we engage our histories racial politics so that might be the moral of the story. Ah fifty a quick break called when we come back we'll talk Talk about some of the recent at a news pieces on. Abc washington post okay before this is a scientific sense. Podcast providing unscripted conversations with leading academics and researchers on a variety of topics. If you like to sponsor this podcast please reach out to info. At scientific sense dot com. You're back call You have a few opinion pieces On abc recently and one of them I want to be a good martin. Luther king junior and the challenge of more perfectionism. What does more perfectionism in this context. well it means. This is tricky language different people. Use it in different way. I'm using it. In a way that i learned from the philosopher stanley cavell he thinks of moral perfectionism as what he calls a dimension of the moral life that stretches across different modes of ethical theory or moral theory so you can be more perfectionist than utilitarian you can be a more perfectionists Virtue it's a way of orienting oneself to the work of ethical living. That is not reducible to these sort of theoretical differences. So what is what is this thing. That knits together. This approach he seems to think it's a willingness to subject oneself to continual an ongoing critique for the sake of attempting to actualize Or realize potential. That's not quite the right way to put it But it's it's kind of never ending aspiration to improve upon oneself. It rises kind of asymptotically of vision of the ethical life. I never gonna get there. But i can always strive to be better here. If affectionate in the sense is not a person who leaks sense of accomplishment to impossibly high standards someone for whom nothing is good enough But it somebody who at least Attempting to get better all the time. That's a perfectionist morality. Though for roy sometimes dig of morality as sort of a binary construct You know either you have. You are more or you're not That is not the case Let's not the way i think of it. But i'm not an episode. You know you might want to put take this with a grain of salt. I don't do ethical theory for a living. I dabble for the sake of telling the stories. I wanna tell But one of the things i do is i distinguish with many people. This is not an innovation. In any sense. I distinguish ethics morality right so for some of us to talk about. Morality is to talk about the ethics of duty. Obligation right I'm less interested in that than i am in ethics which is broader than the moral ethics has to do with living well ethics has to do with the way i think of it something like virtue which is not reducible necessarily obligation duty and that sort of thing So it is certainly the.
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"When they talk about non-racialism right so for people in that space of a set of debates a bit like the one. We've been discussing unfolded. It was an differently. Politicized context land differently but there are people on what we would think of as the far left were perfect when people were committed to certain motive marks the end materials analysis or communists analysis who were perfectly happy to say. Look this race. Talk is a problem that needs to go away. We need to be non-racial right. Because they were trying to tell a story about they were trying to get to the point of doing the thing. I mentioned a little while ago using a an anti-racist critique to get to the heart of the matter to get to the places and our political economies for example where the disease has taken root right and instead of dealing with simple. They use the language of non-racialism to do that. If we could use the language of post racialism to do that that would be the best case scenario but my claim is that the language itself prevents that from happening in our context. But that's an empirical claim right. So i need what i need to do is write a grant get find a partner in sociologists or psychologists and go to the study. Yeah yeah. I think i think it is. It's gas me at one point. The language of post racialism Perhaps as you save your too optimistic to relate to accept things are getting better. Do ready to look away From what we act lavar can actually measure I think it's all sort of symptomatic of this this issue right And so two two two questions one is if you believe things are getting better is transition that that that you would you would want if things had not getting better than it is different question altogether. No i think things are getting better. I have trouble with with analysis at that. High level of abstraction. This is one of the reasons. I i refer to pragmatism in the article. You've been mentioning For me what. It is a pragmatist. Philosophically speaking is to insist on engaging with the details of certain kinds of particular problems situation. So i get uncomfortable. I get nose bleeds when we talk about things like capital t getting better capital. Be in some ways sure. There are positive signs in some ways are not in some settings positive signs in some settings. They are not right. So here's what that means concretely for me in places like the. Us we get our sense of how things are going from doing. Things like looking at fox news and cnn and msnbc and they're only certain kinds of things that are going to look at right which is why it took so long for what was happening in flint michigan to come to light because there are all sorts of concrete settings in which people are as my mentor. One of my mentors cornell. Westwood have said catching hell right for real and no-one no-one in scare quotes right because it's not on msnbc until what's been going on for two years. No one's paying attention right..
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"I don't know how important know if this is true. This meaning you know. It's sort of inherent and internal to human being. Then any policy that we can do is everything is going to be somewhat symptomatic right Beacon alleviate pain it will get the person to sleep a whatever right but the underlying disease means because he can't cure it well I don't wanna go that far. I hope. I hope we don't have to go far. One of the wonderful things about humans is that immanuel kant captured this utah. I don't usually quote. I'm not going to quote him now. Don't usually referred to But one of the things he captures. Beautifully is the gap between the world that has governed by causal forces in the world. that is In which notions like freedom actually do some work right So humans have the capacity to reflect on the things that cause us to be what we are in orient ourselves to them differently. We can adjust our habits. we can reframe our engagements with the world. We can reorient ourselves to the pictures and the stories. We tell our Pitches we provide ourselves the stories we tell ourselves. And so there's room to maneuver ride. This is a this is a way of of just appealed emmanuel cop this way of thinking that in vermont purposes Reaches its apex. Figures that come after Who insist on using organic metaphors like growth. Right the talk about the possibilities for human moral life right so i think there are possibilities one of the challenges. We haven't gotten to to use your metaphor. We haven't really gotten to the disease right and the disease is not just about the things you and i have been talking about. It's not just about. The weight of history is not just about the structures of our cognitive apparatus. It's also about the way we've organized our economies and our political lives right. So there's a race. Thinking can be mobilized to do the work of certain kinds of economic elites right there are lots and lots of marxist socialists were advocates ella version of that story. That's part of the story to especially when it comes to policy right. Yeah the structural sort of inertia that the system has is going to be an additional issue But on the optimistic side called I don't think this then. I look back to the previous generation. I look to the next. I see a difference. I see a positive trend in this dimension do you. And there are certainly positive signs Some of the markers of the old fashioned forms of racial dominance racial injustice those have been repudiated soundly Across large swath of the public right so there are certainly encouraging signs. Which is why it's important to insist on the argument. We had with the most complicated form post racialism right the argument that insists on the fact that not all change is good change right sometimes things change in one place and they for the better and they change for the worse in another place. We have a tendency especially in the united states to take.
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"Language light post racialist language there other forms of it right. Yeah not only misleads us. Obscures the social realities from us but it becomes a kind of trojan horse or stalking horse for the very problem. We're trying to solve right so the The text for this for me is The decision that justice chief justice the united states supreme court..
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"Mike yesterday professor paul taylor who philosophy at vanderbilt university professor taylor focus on philosophy of freeze. Paul thank you very much. I'm glad to bigger. Yeah thanks for doing this. Eyesight wanted to start with one of your as a taking post racialism cd's from movement mythology to racial formation. You said this essay considers the prospects for station lists discourse You say could extend to take a tent. Knocked to take seriously enough. The strongest case that can be made for view in contemporary. Us politics to the post. Racial leads Before we start for What exactly is post racialism..
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"But if you think the if you think the question if you think the the lines have to be drawn as battle lines between science and religion think about science and our big about science. They're not usually at each other's throats various religious art and there's also anti religious art but a lot of art can be appreciated as art it doesn't preclude analysis and it doesn't preclude feeling it's part of it. Let me say a word about evolution. Since yes you raise that in in my book creation evolution. I i'm on an argument to the effect that That evolution on is another way of to use a crude metaphor another way of seeing the hand of god at work because evolution has a a has provided a way by which purposes can be served and one of the fascinating things about evolution. Is that one of the things that evolves in the course of evolution is not just the complexity we could see that geologically as the fossils get more and more representative of more and more interesting and complex organisms not just complexity purpose itself evolves. So there's a visit dynamic in evolution. which are you have to be able to look at that With religious is to see that dynamic as something which is As i said before Indicative of the hand and the handiwork of god. That's kind of very interesting to me. I mentioned one one figure that i know so realistic Will be interested in that. Tyrod the shutdown who was a paleontologist in the early part of the last century catholic priest a very it was considerable little heretical by the by the church because he was an independent thinker but he thought there was as he put it a in the in the labyrinth of evolution. If you try and classify all the different species he thought there was a thread. Ariadne's thread was the thread that she left behind to guide theseus through the labyrinth and find his way to rescue her..
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"They have learned from traditions which are alien to their own and yet and yet have truths in the man and virtues in their practices that are worth Acquiring though i could think about religion sort of framework going back to the buddhist philosophy But if you think about that as a framework Just like salafi dan You know it becomes a bit. Abstract trade so can be can be have religion. Without god's in in the popular sense is god's severe are there are religions there are religious without god but one of the funny things about that Human people seem to go looking for god's so so you know in the former soviet union it was That was an area where people were being persecuted for being religious and if you were serious religious seriously religious in In the soviet union whether whether it was as a christian or a jew or a muslim you could be. You could be sure that you were being spied. Upon many of the russian orthodox which was the recognized official religion Or official religion in the soviet union was atheism. But but the many many of those who still intended participated in a russian orthodox church had to realize and deal with the fact that many of the officials there were there to spy on them and to garage ix of the of the government but one of the things that you found in in that situation was that people who were good party members and Huge to the line of being Just as they were supposed to be very mystic They became subject to all kinds of very rapidly spreading and l. widely accepted superstitions. You can see it. Most visibly if you visit a cemetery with raves. From that period they made quite a cult of the dead and there were all kinds of interests in Necker massey and and all kinds of superstitions. He has be some of them. Some of the newly invented superstitions. they were trying to fill up a kind of spiritual gap by their own. imaginative practices or just borrowing from traditions. That they might have heard or gotten a little confused about so. I think in spirituality as in nature the you know how they used to say. Nature abhors vacuum..
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"Mike yesterday's len goodman who preference for philosophy at vanderbilt university. He gets published over two dozen books in jewish islamic and to lhasa in gooding books on truth and justice political philosophy bio philosophy and competitive philosophy. Beckham-led it's pleasure to be here with you girl. Yeah thanks for doing this. So i want to start bone of older people entitled signs and god you say religion like scientists Seeks to tim attorneys reality but the different day abstract from allegiance focus on that often unconnected usa and sign. Soc- causes ethically proximate causes So totally disputes then misguided and as scientism in seeking displays. Religion is misguided. You say so what do you mean by that Scientists have do displace. Religion covers had misguided. Well i think it would be valuable to distinguish Scientists who are trying to understand the world from scientific people who are trying to claim territory in that In that realm men and feel uncomfortable for whatever personal or historical or biographical reasons if you'll uncomfortable with religion Maybe they had a conflict With their family or something and they and they want to preclude religious discussions and they They think of religion as as a competitor as reform of Ignorance and and a response to to fear That's generated by that ignorance. If we think about values. I think there are there different kinds of values. Certainly there's a value in understanding but there are different kinds of understanding The scientists typically wants to understand causes in a Often in a mechanical sort of way but if you if you look at biology for example You're going to have to look at Ad values and causes of different silhouette. You're going to have to look at Causes which are purposes Think about think about physiology or medicine nor or a evolutionary balaji. You have to understand what function and oregon or an organ system more behavioral or physiological process might might play in order to keep an animal alive in order to keep a lineage of animals going We start looking at the..