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Best of 2007
on Dec 30, 2007 in statistics sex heart passive smoking weight loss quackery religion about this blog weight mind food I conclude this year with an overview of what I have found to be the most interesting or intriguing facts and opinions about really good news, body weight and obesity, the drawback of weight concerns, passive smoking, lies, damned lies, and statistic...
Best of 2007
on Dec 30, 2007 in statistics sex heart passive smoking weight loss quackery religion about this blog weight mind food I conclude this year with an overview of what I have found to be the most interesting or intriguing facts and opinions about really good news, body weight and obesity, the drawback of weight concerns, passive smoking, lies, damned lies, and statistic...
The subtle balance of human cooperation
on Jan 27, 2008 in skepticism quackery cooperation mind Cooperation between strangers can only evolve if the cost of altruistic punishment is low and its impact on free riders is high. This is the result of a web based Dutch experiment with more than eight hundred participants where the cost of altruistic...
The subtle balance of human cooperation
on Jan 27, 2008 in skepticism quackery cooperation mind Cooperation between strangers can only evolve if the cost of altruistic punishment is low and its impact on free riders is high. This is the result of a web based Dutch experiment with more than eight hundred participants where the cost of altruistic...
The “art” of chiropractic “medicine”
on Oct 27, 2008 in Medical Skepticism Skepticism Ama Based Medicine C Hiropractic Childhood Asthma Chiropractic Medicine Control Groups Core Journals Daniel David David Palmer Diagram Of The Human Spine Episodic Tension Type Headache Evidence Based Medicine God Infantile Colic Innate Intelligence Intent To Treat Analysis Magnetic Healer Medicine Medicine History Moderate Asthma Outcome Measures Presence Public Acceptance Quackery S Committee Spinal Manipulation Spine Subluxations Tension Type Headache Chiropractic "medicine" is useless and in some cases harmful to recipients. In clinical trials it proved no chiropractic proformed on an infant. Chiropractic performed on an infant. more effective then physical therapy in treatment of lowe...