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  • Raises Interesting Follow-Up Questions

    The result that the number of fat cells is set in adolescence and remains constant through adulthood, by the bodies fixed fat cell replacement rate boggles my mind. I have questions about pushing the limits of this. The summary talks about people who were overweight in adolescence. What about a person who was lean in adolescence? How much ...
    Posted to Medical Examiner by EnergyLawyer on May 14, 2008

  • Re: Why the sacks?

    I wondered that myself. Maybe it is for removability. Makes them easier to reclaim or sweep out of the blood stream. seems like that much plastic would be harder on natural elimination. Just a SWAG on my part.
    Posted to Human Nature by BigMooseDaddy on May 2, 2008

  • Simplest Method -- ReGrow New Body

    What an interesting and informative news item, military medical research and development. Of course, it would be best for militaries around the world to ''stand down'' and avoid warfare and destruction of humanity in the first instance, but of course that would be too much to ask of our brilliant minds, spectacular research endeavors, and world ...
    Posted to Human Nature by MichaelBernard1 on April 21, 2008

  • Exactly Backwards on Measles Vaccine

    Mr. Engber makes some excellent references to the abuse of scientific doubt by large corporations to protect their financial interests, such as the tobacco corporations and beryllium industry, but then sides with big pharma to doubt the dangers of the MMR vaccine. The studies most widely cited showing no link between vaccination and autism were ...
    Posted to Science by TobyF on April 18, 2008

  • Fanaticism trumps all

    From the left to the right, across all religious and non religious lines, to the poor and the rich, fanaticism has the power to render all reason inert. That in turn allows for the true believers to be manipulated to vote, donate, obey and generally stand aside and allow virtually anything to happen. But I'm not bitter.
    Posted to Science by Puller58 on April 18, 2008

  • because we like science

    Daniel - I think part of the answer paradoxically is that the scientific process is so appealling to so many. I love the ideal of rationality and rational problem solving to adress our challenges. However - despite my incliniations - I find myself very sympathetic to the skeptics for a couple of reasons. One is that asking questions - even ...
    Posted to Science by proscience on April 18, 2008

  • Money & Fear

    I keep asking myself why it has become so fashionable in our country to attack and question scientifically-accepted truths, and I keep coming back to greed and capitalism. Money has become so important to us (and why not when we can no longer afford a doctor visit or tank of gas?) that getting or keeping it justifies harming others through ...
    Posted to Science by Ryan T on April 18, 2008

  • Re: Actually

    Yes, please question ''conventional wisdom'' with regard to this crazy ''science'' which passes off for AIDS research. Why did five Nobel Prize winning scientists bitterly condemn the AIDS establishment within 10 years of Gallo and Heckler's announcement? Why did three congressional hearings declare the US discovery of HIV and patenting of the ...
    Posted to Fighting Words by keidi on March 27, 2008

  • It's not easy being mean (a mean germ)

    There is real meaning in the concept of the selfish gene ...
    Posted to Science by drugdoc on March 19, 2008

  • Get over yourselves, it's not magnetism.

    There are no such thing as animals (including humans) who become living magnets. 1.)There simply isn't enough iron, nickel and or cobalt in body to create a strong enough magnetic field to disturb a watch, a television set or a computer 2.)Conducting static electricity is not the same as being magnetized. Look it up. Ask any competent physics ...
    Posted to Science by lastangelman on March 8, 2008
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