Article Round-Up (formatting masterpiece)

Read Ran Prieur's take on Wikileaks in his Dec 2 - Dec 5 posts.

Nation of Pill Poppers: 19 Potentially Dangerous Drugs Pushed By Big Pharma
- Here are some of the dicey drugs many Americans are hooked on, thanks to greedy pharmaceutical companies.

Information is the Antidote to Fear: Wikileaks, the Law, and You - from the Electronic Frontier Foundation

Are You Living in a Computer Simulation? - This paper argues that at least one of the following propositions is true: (1) the human species is very likely to go extinct before reaching a “posthuman” stage; (2) any posthuman civilization is extremely unlikely to run a significant number of simulations of their evolutionary history (or variations thereof); (3) we are almost certainly living in a computer simulation. It follows that the belief that there is a significant chance that we will one day become posthumans who run ancestor-simulations is false, unless we are currently living in a simulation. A number of other consequences of this result are also discussed.