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This article is one-sided and insulting
While the author says there is no evidence that co-sleeping is beneficial to parents and child, that is simply not true. There are a deluge of studies that support co-sleeping, not to mention the fact that SIDS is unknown in cultures where co-sleeping is the norm. Further, the author sites only this one recent study to support his sweeping ...
Posted to What's Up, Doc by kat.don on March 26, 2009
PSYCHO PENGUIN
Dude, you are giving penguins a bad name. Chillax and please step away from the cap-locks.
Posted to What's Up, Doc by TobyF on March 10, 2009
This study was done by people who don't understand science.
The study only looked at the sleepy habits of babies who died. They are missing a key control here, which is looking at the sleeping habits of babies who lived. Without this control, any supposed conclusion is completely invalid. Let me give another famous example of how this works: Scientists learned that an extra Y chromosome makes men be a ...
Posted to What's Up, Doc by aestanley on February 6, 2009
MMR Scare – Will We Learn?
Measles is endemic, Wakefield is up before the GMC and the media are walking away nonchalantly, pretending they were never involved. http://jdc325.wordpress.com/2008/07/25/mmr-scare-will-we-learn-from-it/
Posted to Medical Examiner by jdc325 on August 7, 2008
Re: Poverty and Bring Poor
Being raised in poverty also develops the mind in a state of poverty that you can't pay the bills so why try? I kid you not! This is real. Also while on paper I live in Obama's 'A-ok in no need of a tax cut middle class' my husband and I have 4 major chronic costly illness. Two of which Obama himself proclaimed are the costliest to American ...
Posted to The Undercover Economist by Independence on August 6, 2008
science is inherently self contradicting
The author states that obesity is almost entirely genetic in nature, and that dieting, exercise, etc, do little to change that. The author also states that poor people are more likely to be fat than the ''skinny elite''. Are the rich genetically superior to the poor, then? -Dan
Posted to Green Room by ChaoticGhost on July 10, 2008
Hazardous Waste in Subduction Zones
OK...If Volcanoes are not a good choice for disposing of nuclear waste, HOW ABOUT.... Disposing of hazardous waste in a geological subduction zone? In this area waste materials would sink into the earth below the volcano to be taken down in vacuum cleaner style to the crust of the earth and not to be seen but in diluted form several hundred ...
Posted to Explainer by mitteemo on January 31, 2008
Bullshit
Rational choice theory is the most overrated crap ever inflicted on humanity by fools. For any choice there exists a value function maximized by that choice. All that pundits like the undercover economist do is cherry-pick social problems where there exist convenient post-hoc rationalizations that validate social prejudices. Note how fragile ...
Posted to The Undercover Economist by Adam on January 16, 2008
Cattle Disease
Why has the U.S.D.A. not recalled the beef in the US? Bovine disease affects 70% of our cattle, yet, nothing is done to stop it from reaching consumers. Some symptoms are Alzheimer's in adults and ADD in children. I guess a pill will be needed to treat the symptoms instead of the cause. The Egyptian medicine scrolls have been revived by the ...
Posted to Explainer by DJINNI on October 2, 2007
Mad Cow Disease is A Nutritional Deficiency
The mad cow scare is just that. In sheep during the 40ties and 50ties it was called Steely Wool disease and they cured it in New Zeland by giving copper supplements to the sheep. In the north east America the deer population had it and the hunters not the goverment stopped the spread by puting out mineral salt blocks containing selenium and ...
Posted to Explainer by Rodger on October 2, 2007

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