The new NIH Director, Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D, former National Human Genome Research Institute Director, is making his rounds. A true scientist. Has to be tough, he is coming in after NIH's miracle years, 2007. 2008. He was a part of those successes.
His new emphasis, Behavioral and Social Sciences Research, it is in his Office. Good place to get some easy wins. The behavioral field is now very popular. Good, cheap, training. Far too many see it as the best and only training. He mentioned smoking, diabetes. I pointed out real, firm successes in, Way To Go Chicago.
The downside: will not cure lung cancer or diabetes. It will, if left alone, bring down mankind. Glad to see his emphasis because I know it to dry up ones creativity pen, destroy families, and a person's future.
Should those conducting the training simply follow the law, learn to read... It may have a benefit that comes close to the hype. From this popular form of Big Brother one could claim it can produce Obamas. An extra 10,000 could benefit the world, however, to gain that true insight would destroy the Obama one is studying. For the few that understood the real Obama, the would understand his decisions (way forward) are a function of his past, what he understands as the constraints of a problem, solution. He would not have the time to explain each unique event that leads to HIS decision. Complex problems have built in solutions that do not fit society's desired outcome, he seems to move this and that around that bring society's goals into line with complex problems.
Our new NIH Director is pro-prayer, writing a best seller. Looked for and could not find the on-going Muslim prayer studies. There seemed to be great hope... There is hope with Director Collins, he is a chemist, beleves in pills.
by J John Swanko
Notes:
NIH Defined Behavioral, Social terms:
Behavioral refers to overt actions; to underlying psychological processes such as cognition, emotion, temperament, and motivation; and to biobehavioral interactions.
Social encompasses sociocultural, socioeconomic, and sociodemographic status; to biosocial interactions; and to the various levels of social context from small groups to complex cultural systems and societal influences
When Congress created the OBSSR, it mandated that a standard definition of behavioral and social sciences research be established. This definition was to be used to assess and monitor funding for behavioral and social sciences research at all of the NIH institutes, centers, and divisions. Heretofore, there had been no single definition of the field that could be used to assess and monitor NIH support of the behavioral and social sciences across all NIH Institutes and Centers. The definition developed in 1996 has been updated periodically to improve clarity and to add specific examples that reflect developments in the behavioral and social sciences. Every effort has been made to retain the meaning and scope of the original definition.
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