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Why "proof" is on the claimant?
This question crops up all the time. Medicine is a very practical affair. There is little benefit to mankind from a good treatment if you cannot convince others of its benefits. That and the fact that there are a zillion possible claims but so little time is mainly why in medicine the onus for "proof" alwa... 28 Aug 2006 13:21

Fluoridation for Montreal?
OK, friends, let's make it very simple. There are people here claiming that fluoride is good for our teeth. So I would like to see some scientific evidence that fluoride is good for our teeth. This should be simple, no? Just give me some evidence from scientific literature to this effect! I know t... 20 Sep 2006 14:44

Why is this young woman using a wheelchair?: She has tardivedyskinesia - caused by psychiatric drugs.
This sounds really fishy to me. For one, metoclopramide is given to thousands of people daily who are undergoing surgery without the least bit of problem. This is the first I have heard that such a debilitating side-effect came from metoclopramide. Actually, I administer this medication routinely and have rarely ha... 11 Jul 2006 19:57

New kind of chemotherapy kills cancer cells
http://www.ceps.unh.edu/news/releases03/planalpprint.htm UNH Awarded Patent for Cancer Treatment New kind of chemotherapy kills cancer cells DURHAM, N.H. --DURHAM, N.H. - The University of New Hampshire (UNH) has been granted a U.S. patent for a new way to kill cancer cells. Roy Planalp, associate professo... 8 Jul 2006 15:20

HONEY AND CINNAMON
Wronger than Wright queried: Weekly World News? Maybe Pharmazie is more acceptable? Pharmazie. 2001 Aug;56(8):643-7. Related Articles, Links Honey, a prospective antibiotic: extraction, formulation, and stability. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=115343... 9 Jul 2006 16:20

Homeopathy - was The Lancet lying to us ?
Thanks for your post ... The most prolific and vitriolic posters against homeopathy are connected with the very dubious quackwatch team headed by Stephen Barrett ... he and others from his long discredited (dis)organization were judged to be "biased and unworthy of credibility" regarding homeopathy in a recent c... 6 Aug 2006 05:14

Himalayan Goji Juice!
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A TO Z OF 'ALTERNATIVE' MEDICINE
A TO Z OF 'ALTERNATIVE' MEDICINE Forwarded message from J Chatterjee [ Subject: A to Z of Alternative Medicine [ From: J Chatterjee [ Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2006 A TO Z OF ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE By Dr. Leo Rebello (A chapter from Dr. Leo Rebello's popular book AIDS and Alternative Medicine, 4th Edition) ... 10 Jul 2006 23:16

When Everyday Chemicals Cause Illness
By FRED A. BERNSTEIN - THE NEW YORK TIMES LAST year, Mary Lamielle, of Voorhees, N.J., traveled to Washington for a business meeting. Her room, at the Grand Hyatt, "was perfect," she recalled. But when she ventured into the conference area, she experienced vertigo and breathing problems, which she beli... 29 Jun 2006 10:03

Revici was right...and Darwin was wrong
The linked website provides solid evidence of the validity of Revici's Theory of Evolution otherwise known as Hierarchic Organization. Oftentimes, in any controversy there is evidence on either side. But every once in a while, along comes irrefutable proof that resolves the argument. Such is the case with the Gra... 11 Jul 2006 03:25