Tag: iatrogenics

IATROGENICS: Why Rappler is Becoming a Victim of Its Own Medicine

October 20, 2016October 25, 2016 Marcus 26 Comments

IATROGENICS: Why Rappler is Becoming a Victim of Its Own Medicine

Hashtags: #TakeBackMariaRessa #OmidyarNetwork I can only feel for Maria Ressa. Her motherly interest to defend her team from criticism resulted in more harm rather than good. Nassim Nicholas Taleb comes to mind. He coined the the term “naive interventionism”, from iatrogenics in the medical field. Iatrogenics is a case wherein a…

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Media, Politics, Science

Are the noisiest advocates of social ‘change’ doing more harm than good?

February 12, 2013 benign0 13 Comments

Are the noisiest advocates of social ‘change’ doing more harm than good?

There is an adage modern doctors live by that encapsulates what their real role is in the holistic process of healing — Do no harm first. The human body is a wondrous but complex system. We never quite known what is going on in the way its billions of component parts interact. Yet many modern…

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Civics, Development, Society

megget
on The Philippines’ outsourced justice system: why not outsource its executive and legislative branches too?
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megget
on The Philippines’ outsourced justice system: why not outsource its executive and legislative branches too?
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DONN LISTON
on SO WHAT if Vice President Sara Duterte is impeached or not?
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benign0
on Filipinos need a proper “far right” party
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Gabsboy
on Filipinos need a proper “far right” party
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megget
on Filipinos need a proper “far right” party
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megget
on Filipinos need a proper “far right” party
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megget
on Filipinos need a proper “far right” party
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