The Polio Vaccine Disaster: Precursor of the Obamacare Website Fiasco
When friends complain about evil government (e.g., NSA surveillance), I tell them “never underestimate the stupidity of government employees” — by which I mean their stupidity outweighs their...
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Better sleep, less likely to catch a cold. Subjects were exposed to a cold virus. Those who’d slept longer during the preceding weeks were less likely to come down with cold symptoms. Likewise, those...
View ArticleMore Fermented Foods, Less Runny Nose?
As recently as four or five years ago,and for many years before that, I often had a runny nose. I went through boxes and boxes of Kleenex. I carried a handkerchief everywhere and often used it. Not...
View ArticleThe Fallibility of Epidemiologists: Neglect of the Immune System
Anne Weiss recently repointed me to an interview with the epidemiologist Tom Jefferson about swine flu. Jefferson, let me stress, is a good epidemiologist. In the interview he makes a point I make on...
View ArticleEarly Immune Warning System: A Bit of Evidence
I have proposed that three things — a tendency to touch each other (e.g., shake hands), a tendency to touch near our mouths, and our tonsils — together form an early warning system for our immune...
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the power of Marmite problems in the Chinese economy Edward Jay Epstein reviews A Wilderness of Error by Errol Morris. Janet Malcolm, among many others, assumed McDonald was guilty but new evidence...
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Therapists must appear perfect. If their marriage isn’t happy, it undermines their claim that they can make your marriage happy. More about butter and cholesterol (n = 1). The neuroscience of...
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ALS patients test promising chemical, collate the results themselves. Did you know about “side letters”? New ways that Hollywood makes money by Edward Epstein. Parents have stronger immune systems...
View ArticleMore Examples of Mainstream Health Care Ignoring the Immune System
In a recent post I made an obvious point. If our immune systems were stronger, we would need antibiotics less often and antibiotic resistance would become less of a problem. I hadn’t heard this point...
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