Tag: George Bernard Shaw

• The Custom that dare not speak its name

  The custom that dare not speak its name… Not until recently anyway. Now it seems all the rage to study the practice –expose it, as it were. And while I confess to paraphrasing the famous euphemism used in the trial of Oscar Wilde in 1895, I’m talking about something completely different. I’m talking about… well,…

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  November 30, 2016

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  George Bernard Shaw, grooming, grooming status, JAMA Dermatology, older gynaecologist, perineal care, pubis, shaving the pubic hair, the Guardian, trial of Oscar Wilde, women’s health

• Consequences: the Smacking Laws

  Ahhh, spanking, the dreaded consequence of miscreance meted out in retrospective fairness by loving parents anxious to create an appropriate conscience in their child. Anxious to establish that there are consequences to behaviour that have not gone unnoticed. Will not go unnoticed. It is one end of a spectrum running between reward and dissuasion all…

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  October 28, 2015

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  abuse of children, Association for the Protection of All Children (APPROACH), BBC news, consequences, corporal punishment, George Bernard Shaw, Irish Minister for Children, Irish Smacking Laws, James Reilly, Macbeth, punishment, spanking, the European Committee of Social Rights

• Kegel Exercises in Pregnancy

  Okay, okay, I was wrong! It happens. Sometimes the brain gets in the way of scientific studies –prejudges them. Alters them in little ways so they do not conflict with its own opinions. Or, worse still, is influenced by a confirmation bias that precludes even the perusal of any information that makes it uncomfortable. The…

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  June 16, 2015

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  Confirmation bias, Dr. Kegel, generalizations, George Bernard Shaw, inductive reasoning, Kari Bo, Kegel exercises, knowledge, levator ani muscles, Mark Twain, Norwegian School of Sports Sciences, pelvic floor muscles, probabililistic forecasting, pubococcygeus muscle, urinary incontinence, vaginal canal