tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4004592252895499792.post731528583937070879..comments2024-03-29T00:39:57.703-07:00Comments on eScienceCommons: Penicillin, not the pill, may have launched the sexual revolutioneScienceCommonshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07669694248203452186noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4004592252895499792.post-68175551418778886862013-09-03T19:49:25.617-07:002013-09-03T19:49:25.617-07:00Since economists would classify what they do as a ...Since economists would classify what they do as a science, unless you intention is to give offence, it might be best not to set Economics and science up as contrasts. Since it is primarily engaged in decision processes, and how people make choices between alternatives, it is often recognized as a branch of psychology, particularly the burgeoning field of neuro-economicsAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4004592252895499792.post-23022567100887400772013-04-04T21:07:59.004-07:002013-04-04T21:07:59.004-07:00You won't hear about it often but the 1950s we...You won't hear about it often but the 1950s were actually when the mini-skirt was invented, porn magazines became popular, strip clubs became popular, PDA's became extremely common (often in the form of making out), and when married and unmarried couples had so much sex in the 50s and 60s that we had the largest amount of babies born in US history. If you don't believe me about the mini-skirt being invented in the 1950s look no further than the poster for attack of the 50 foot woman. Now there was more sex and more permissive attitudes towards sex in the 1960s than the 50s. However, the 1950s were still very permissive. In fact they were probably slightly more permissive than people today are, at least in the US.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4004592252895499792.post-66399089414178964102013-02-01T08:39:56.793-08:002013-02-01T08:39:56.793-08:00Fascinating article, and I love that it was writte...Fascinating article, and I love that it was written by an Economist, not a scientist; and that she was able to access and retrieve records from the CDC. Also interesting is that the government was able to prioritize the development of penicillin after it had been sitting on a shelf/clinical waitlist for 13 years.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4004592252895499792.post-27873233848514324782013-01-29T18:53:04.031-08:002013-01-29T18:53:04.031-08:00This also can be seen with the emergence of HAART ...This also can be seen with the emergence of HAART and how AIDS is perceived now as a chronic disease and not a fatal disease. Patients I see in the public health clinic I work in cont to have unsafe risky sexual behaviors.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4004592252895499792.post-30938500527478373122013-01-25T14:03:31.088-08:002013-01-25T14:03:31.088-08:00I wonder if the same could be said of any generati...I wonder if the same could be said of any generation. For instance, the Victorian era in England was not very prudish either. <br /><br />The 1930s might have been much less prudish if not for the Great Depression and its consequences.Anthony Hopperhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15708347177061466201noreply@blogger.com