Posted by ShawnThomas on June 17, 2011, at 16:08:05
In reply to Re: List of Drugs in US Phase II/III clinical trials » ShawnThomas, posted by Phillipa on June 16, 2011, at 22:01:46
> Shawn I'm sure you have JR's email. I might also have one. Why not introduce yourself to all these new babblers by telling them a bit about yourself. Still on Google? Phillipa
Yes, I have his e-mail. I am not sure what you mean by "Still on Google," but the company is a friend of mine in many ways. I'm guessing that you are interested in my academic history...
I have a Master of Science degree in Library and Information Science from the school that US News & World Report has consistently ranked as the best LIS graduate school, GSLiS at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. I learned a lot from Associate Dean Dr. Linda Smith about the medical aspect of library & information science. My accomplishments included selection to the Chancellor's List and a 3.96 GPA.
I also have a Bachelor of Science degree in Biopsychology from Quincy University, where I was on the Dean's List every semester and was selected to the National Dean's List. I spent the first half of my college career studying computer science at the University of Illinois at Chicago, where I was selected to the Golden Key International Honour Society. I have two years of professional library experience, some of it related to medical reference, and over ten years of web development experience. I've collaborated in the past with researchers at universities around the world, with biomedical companies, and with researchers associated with the pharmaceutical industry. I've discussed the future of neuroscience research with drug company executives in the past but have no preference for any particular companies.
I've written summaries of drugs' mechanisms of action based on my own extensive research; my areas of expertise are psychiatric drugs, general anesthetics, Parkinson's disease drugs, drugs of abuse, migraine, drugs for muscle spasms, and Alzheimer's disease drugs. I've read multiple textbooks about pharmacology, with perspectives ranging from nursing to anesthesiology to the most advanced texts available such as Goodman and Gilman's.
I have a wide range of scientific interests that include neuropharmacology, physics, cosmology, psychology, herbal medicine, philosophy of science, etc. My scientific heros are William T. Powers, Ted Steele, Milo Wolff, Eric J Lerner, and Albert Einstein. I don't believe in the big bang, Creationism, the Standard Model of Particle Physics, dark energy, dark matter, behaviorism, or the idea that all life has evolved solely by random mutation and natural selection.
My view is that publishing in journals, writing books, or using social networking websites is no longer necessary to reach millions of people with one's scientific ideas. I am against censorship in any form, whether it be dictated by an authoritarian ruler or a tradition bound scientific community. I believe that scientific ideas should be evaluated based on evidence and sound logic rather than popularity and blind media acceptance. Information itself cannot want to be free, so the well-informed are responsible for helping it along in my opinion.
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