BPS 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Pharmaceutical Industry, Health Canada, Stone Age

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Biopharmaceutical sciences
• Course: BPS 1101
• Professor: William Ogilvie

Document Summary

Science issues a big part of your life- make informed decisions. Draw conclusions based on those facts (cid:498)facts answer(cid:499) Find some facts to fit those conclusions (cid:498)answer to facts(cid:499) Avoid testing or challenging your conclusions (cid:498)no test(cid:499) Slide 16: we are convinced we are right. Avoid testing or challenging your conclusions: this is a survival mechanism. Quick decision making in dangerous situations: this type of thinking slows progress. Humans use magic because of quick thinking slows progress (not. Canada life expectancy in 2009 was 81. 2; world average 66. 6. World life span much lower than in canada, but still almost double that throughout most of human history in some countries in the world, life span is actually lower than life expectancy in the stone age. Slide 19: approx 30 to 35 years for most of recorded history. Last 6,000 years: approx 30 to 35 years through the stone age. Most improvements over the last 150 years: 82 years in 2009 (canada)