Tag: science and money
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Stem cells therapies. Stem cells marketing stunts.
An injured knee can cost a pro football player millions of dollars, or even an entire career. MIT Technology Review reports that, in an effort to regrow cartilage and heal injured tissue quickly, hundreds of players are injecting bone marrow cells into their knees and hips. Evidence is weak that the procedure actually works and,…
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UK, Research, Deadlines - Another plague of science...
England's giant sequencing endeavor, the 100,000 Genomes Project, is getting a cash injection from public and private sources to meet its 2017 deadline, Prime Minister David Cameron announced. (1) Science with deadlines. It seems logical and proper. But how can you reach truth with deadlines? Unless you make shortcuts to fit the... schedule? Thought cannot…
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Psychology, ADHD, genes, dogmatism.
Psychologists have made a brain-related discovery that could revolutionize doctors' perception and treatment of attention-deficit disorders (ADHD). This discovery opens up the possibility that environmental and/or genetic factors may hinder or suppress a specific brain activity that the researchers have identified as helping us prevent distraction. (1) Free will sacrificed for the sake of gene-based…
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Multiple Personalities Disorder, fake psychiatry, real conflicts, Life...
Multiple Personality Disorder is fake. At the height of the most recent fad in the '90s, it seemed that every third or fourth patient was presenting with a long list of newly developed multiple personalities. The modal number of personalities per patient started multiplying exponentially from just two to 16. Αn iatrogenically inspired diagnosis inappropriately…
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Climate models, IPCC, assumptions: Why "climate change" is in our mind.
UPDATES 2022-05-31: Still, climate models fail to account for the role of clouds properly (source). Climate change seems indisputable, but it is not. If someone searches enough, he will see that specific dogmas (“innocent” assumptions? – see the MOTIVES at the end of the article) hide behind all the climate models used by the IPCC…
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