Julian Lieb

..Such philosophers of science as Paul Feyerabend have argued that special interests invariably oppose revolutionary paradigms...

..I will present evidence of the immunostimulating and antimicrobial properties of lithium and antidepressants and propose that these properties are linked to the antiprostaglandin actions of these compounds...

..Over the past twenty years 22 drug companies have declined interest in developing antidepressants as antiinfectives. It would be unethical to deny the infected these well documented benefits...

..Antidepressants, too, have prostaglandin-inhibiting properties, and in vivo and in vitro evidence of their antineoplastic actions is emerging...

..Examples of natural selection in humans are much sought after when, ironically, one need look no further than Darwin himself...

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..They have at least forty side effects that are not only variations, but often paradoxes that would have fascinated Charles Darwin, who had the keenest interest in the variation of the beaks of finches and in sea barnacles...