Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

The belief that diseases are caused by evil spirits or demons.  

A varying characteristic that is a vital or social statistic of an individual, sample group, or population, e.g., age, sex.  

The drop of birth and death rates that accompanies the industrial and technical development of a society.  

A person who specializes in demography.  

A form of government in which the supreme power is given to the people.  

In law, something so insignificant as to be unworthy of judicial attention.  

A commercial preparation that produces analgesic effects is addicting.  

An intermittent positive pressure breathing unit used to assist or control ventilation with a valve connected to an oxygen source that opens in response to a person’s inspiratory effort and inflates the lungs until a preset pressure limit is reached. This unit is not acceptable on ambulances unless a manual control is provided.  

A strategy for preventing drug abuse by reducing or eliminating the actual demand, desire, or need for various drug substances.  

In experimentation, the cues that tell a subject what the experimenter expects of him or her.