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Boost Your Immune System?
This post is a wee bit of a cheat in that it is a rewrite of a Quackcast , but I have three lectures and board certification in the near future, so sometimes you have to cook the wolf.
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Top 10 Myths About The Common Cold
Winter is on its way (to the Northern Hemisphere) and with it comes myths of the common cold.
spiked-health | Column | Myths of immunity
Dr Michael Fitzpatrick is the author of MMR and Autism , Routledge, 2004 (buy this book from Amazon (UK) or Amazon (USA) ); and The Tyranny of Health: Doctors and the Regulation of Lifestyle , Routledge, 2000 (buy this book from Amazon UK or Amazon USA ). He is also a contributor to Alternative Medicine: Should We Swallow It?
<img alt="Photo: Andrew Zuckerman" src="/magazine/wp-content/images/17-11/ff_waronscience_f.jpg" title="War on Science" width="315" height="580" /> Photo: Andrew Zuckerman To hear his enemies talk, you might think Paul Offit is the most hated man in America.
An Epidemic of Fear: How Panicked Parents Skipping Shots Endangers Us All | Magazine
Why You're Probably Less Popular Than Your Friends
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The Epidemic of Mental Illness: Why? by Marcia Angell
An advertisement for Prozac, from The American Journal of Psychiatry , 1995 It seems that Americans are in the midst of a raging epidemic of mental illness, at least as judged by the increase in the numbers treated for it. The tally of those who are so disabled by mental disorders that they qualify for Supplemental Security Income (SSI) or Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) increased nearly two and a half times between 1987 and 2007—from one in 184 Americans to one in seventy-six.This image is a “balloon race”.
Snake Oil? The scientific evidence for health supplements
The concept of ideographic writing is a most seductive notion. There is great appeal in the concept of written symbols conveying their message directly to our minds, thus bypassing the restrictive intermediary of speech. And it seems so plausible.
Ideographic Myth
The Conspiratainment Complex
Posted Nov 19, 2010 17 comments Conspiracy Theory lacks credibility because it has no history.as clean as fire
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