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That's why the EU process, Turkey's effort to join the EU, has been supported inside Turkey by the Islamic pious, while some secular nationalists were against it.

Arab masses just revolted against their dictators.

It's not a conspiracy I have got against Bulgaria.

Somewhere between rising up against gravity and the feeling that the air beneath me is falling in love with my body's weight.

What I mean by that is, if the world superpower today was a communist, it would be much easier for democracy activists to use democracy activism as a form of resistance against colonialism, than it is today with the world superpower being America, occupying certain lands and also espousing democratic ideals.

I'm telling you this story because Archie Cochrane, all his life, fought against a terrible affliction, and he realized it was debilitating to individuals and it was corrosive to societies.

And so along with changing who worked there, you must have come up against another positioning that we always run into, in particular with women, and it has to do with outside image, dress, the veiled woman.

They think that if there's anything against them, then we are being an opposition newspaper.

Now we have to counter that, though, against the evidence we've heard that we might have had some rather distasteful genetic dalliances with the Neanderthals and the Denisovans.

Prosecutors decide whether or not to take legal action against the people police arrest and they decide what charges to file, directly impacting how much time a defendant potentially faces behind bars.

But with the process weighed so heavily against defendants, justice is hard to come by.

Can we protect against the lapses in attention that might arise over high stress?

But if we offer mindfulness training, we can protect against this.

He said in many ways, he felt that the mindfulness training program we offered gave them a really important tool to protect against developing post-traumatic stress disorder and even allowing it to turn into post-traumatic growth.

You may say this is not fair, because I'm selecting two countries to make a case against democracy.

I'm going to use these two countries to make an economic argument for democracy, rather than against democracy.

It shows the systematic discrimination and biases in the Indian society against women.

That's mapped against the red dot, unemployment, which is a simple Bureau of Labor Department statistic.

Modern medicine in the late 19th century began to make major breakthroughs against the infectious diseases that killed a lot of people.

But that does not mean that we should give up hope in the fight against cancer.

There is a powerful cultural norm against doodling in settings in which we are supposed to learn something.

"An Australian study in 2001 found that olive oil, in combination with fruits, vegetables and pulses, offers measurable protection against skin wrinklings," and give the advice: "If you eat olive oil and vegetables, you'll have fewer wrinkles."

So this is what they were going to do in their trial: They were taking 3,000 children, they were going to give them these huge fish oil pills, six of them a day, and then, a year later, measure their school exam performance and compare their performance against what they predicted their exam performance would have been if they hadn't had the pills.

And this has been demonstrated in a whole raft of fascinating studies comparing one kind of placebo against another.

So we know that our beliefs and expectations can be manipulated, which is why we do trials where we control against a placebo, where one half of the people get the real treatment, and the other half get placebo.

So firstly, trials against placebo: everybody thinks a trial should be a comparison of your new drug against placebo.

And yet, repeatedly, you consistently see people doing trials still against placebo.

You can also rig your data by making the thing you compare your new drug against really rubbish.

So people set about doing trials of the new drugs against the old drugs.

Everybody wanted to show their drug was better than risperidone, so you see trials comparing new antipsychotic drugs against risperidone at eight milligrams a day.

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