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Ayse Tezcan

I am originally from Turkey and have a BA in business administration and MPH from University of Washington. Currently, I am pursuing a PhD in environmental epidemiology at UC Davis. I am interested in health economics and policy, molecular epidemiology and epigenetics.

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  • Is Pornography Driving Men Crazy?

    one of the down sides of emergence of internet and gaming technology was to provide people with addictive tendencies a more convenient access to any addicting medium such as gaming and pornography (and in my case information :)). addiction seems to affect men disproportionately more than women. without public scrutiny, this behavior gets reenforced in young men until much more difficult to interfere and more severe damage is done. the consequences is pretty grim because we do not want to deem a part of 50% of the population as invalids. i believe these dangers are getting recognized by the research communities but public has not bought into it yet; hence, the funding for research and community efforts such as education and campaigns to help these children men is not there yet.

  • When Women Lead

    When women come to power through cultural change, not by playing the game to fit into the men's world, the true transformation will happen. As the article also emphasizes, we are better of when we use best aspects of the both qualities. The economic improvement of societies will make implementation of these qualities into power play expediently and swiftly.

  • Cancer’s Dangerous Mythology

    Good points and timely warning.
    Currently, because the age of life expectance at birth is quite young in much of the developing world, the death rates from cancer have not been a big issue. However, as the life expectancy improves due to all these mentioned reasons, the cancer will replace all these deaths from infectious and other preventable diseases as happened in developed countries. At that point, these developing countries will become disadvantaged again because of lack of resources. Today, using the lessons learned in developed countries, we can be ahead of the game and save human-lives and resources in the future.

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