With this latest news of Stephen Hawking flying in zero-gravity, it makes me think more about this unusual man.  First, Hawking is a genius hands down, his ability to understand physics, space and time is amazing.  I’m probably not even 1% as smart.  Second, he’s divorced, not once but twice!  Imagine living your life in a wheelchair, unable to speak without using a computer, then you have to tell your wife, “Its over.”  Seriously, WTF!?! how bad is that wife to be dumped by a millionaire, paralyzed physicist.  I guess he’s a love’em and leave’ em type of guy.  What lessons can we learn from Hawking?  well, we learn that blackholes exists and that everyone should get a prenup.

Something that always gets under my skin is the prevalence of university studies that retroactively report benefits of an unhealthy lifestyle.  Whenever these studies are released they get widespread attention just because they continue to reinforce the stubbornness of people.  What many people don’t understand about statistics is since these studies aren’t done prospective rather than retrospective, the validity of these finding are suspect.  Although the studies may show correlation between risk factors they do not prove causation. 

As someone that has to know about medical diseases for professional reasons, I came across a new medicine called Havidol. Apparently DSACDAD is manifested as someone that “…reported such symptoms as worrying about life, feeling tense, restless, or fatigued, being concerned about their weight, noticing signs of aging, feeling stress at work, home, or finding activities they used to enjoy, like shopping, challenging.”

The creator of Havidol is a genius, and her name is Justine Cooper. She created this medication to treat the millions of people suffering personally from this disease.

If you need more information about the drug or disease please follow the links above and get some help. You deserve to do it for yourself!

Dethroner had an interesting discussion about a clinical trial regarding the chemical composition of what is believed to be “commitment.” The idea being that one day scientists may be able to develop commitment in a bottle. The question I pose is whether its ethical to create this medicine. I would assume that this drug would be prescribed to spouses that have cheated and are struggling with commitment. Is it right to create a connection that is not there naturally?

My gut instinct would say that its wrong to chemically create anything that could be used to manipulate people. Would we be ok if there was a love pill people could take to create an attraction? We would probably say a pill like that would be unethical because the chance for someone to be taken advantage of is high. The same could be said about a pill that would make someone want to have sex; there’s no way we’d allow a drug like that on the market. A natural sign of someone that doesn’t want to be in a relationship is cheating behavior. Is it a disease if someone doesn’t want to be married?

One tenet we have in America is that people are allowed to make free choices about who they marry and who they stay married to. A “commitment in a bottle” type drug would attempt to override someone’s “true feelings” and try to keep a relationship that isn’t really there. Furthermore, I do think the potential of abuse remains high since there are many people that would like to find a way to tame a cheating spouse. If my spouse cheated on me I certainly would look for anything to keep the marriage together including putting her on medication.