Prayers for health do not cure
American sociologist Wendy Cage has denied the connection between the power of prayers and the condition of patients. She concluded that such studies could not find a reliable effect.
19.06.2009American sociologist Wendy Cage has denied the connection between the power of prayers and the condition of patients. She concluded that such studies could not find a reliable effect.
19.06.2009The leadership of the Federal State Institution "Russian Cardiology Center" addressed a letter to the editor-in-chief of the newspaper "AIF" N.I. Zyatkov, in which, in particular, it says: "thousands of patients can quit treatment and then, indeed, the epidemic of stroke will begin. Have you thought, Mr. Editor, what this advertisement can bring?"
10.06.2009About 2% of scientists report that at least once they invented or falsified their data in order to demonstrate not the real, but the desired result. Another 34% of scientists reported that they had committed "minor" frauds once or more often. Most often, specialists in the field of medicine and pharmacology confessed both to their misdeeds and to what they knew about the falsifications of colleagues.
01.06.2009Independent experts: to live normally the rest of your life will be an unsolvable task for the vast majority of Russians.
27.05.2009Doctors have found out that acupuncture is as effective as pricking with toothpicks.
18.05.2009Dear friends! There is absolutely no reason to panic here. Another flu epidemic is developing on the planet. That's why the planet won't stop rotating :)
06.05.2009For four weeks, 300 women tested ten names of anti-cellulite products: eight creams and two devices. All funds, no matter cheap or expensive, were rated "unsatisfactory".
27.04.2009There is nothing supernatural in what doctors report about the nature of the virus and the symptoms of swine flu. Also, probably, there was nothing supernatural in the entertainment radio drama based on the novel by G. Wales. But the willingness to support almost any information with mass psychosis and panic is amazing.
27.04.2009The Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine allocates 83 state scholarships to citizens of the Russian Federation to study at higher educational institutions of Ukraine, including 50 for citizens of the Russian Federation of Ukrainian origin.
21.04.2009Leading researchers in the field of the human genome admit that they managed to barely open the door to the boundless space of the human genome. And what they saw there convinced them that their hopes that they would be able to find the genes responsible for this or that disease were naive. The causes of most diseases are much more complex.
20.04.2009An effective vaccine against HIV infection may never be created. New, non-standard ideas are needed to defeat this disease. But government agencies and private foundations – not to mention commercial companies – are ready to allocate funds not for the development of fundamental ideas, but for the creation of specific drugs in a financially plausible timeframe.
20.04.2009Foreign bodies fall far not only into the respiratory tract. In fact, they can get into any organ and any tissue of the body. Here are some illustrative examples.
15.04.2009In the express test for "pure halal", one color strip should appear on the paper. This will mean that there are no pork proteins in the product. If two strips appear, then a Muslim cannot eat the product, and the manufacturer, who indicated that the meat is halal, has every chance of losing his license and being forever branded with shame by fellow believers.
14.04.2009The message published on April 1 in a variety of online publications about the "Grubber-2", of course, is a joke. Unfortunately, part of this joke is the bitter truth: the text, although composed by a living person, is so delusional that many readers believed that it was written by a computer, was published in a journal claiming to be scientific.
06.04.2009For a long time, newspapers and magazines of the world, serious and not so serious, have been delighting readers with practical jokes on the first of April. Let's remember the most talented!
01.04.2009Checking (by sending out computer-generated quasi-scientific texts for publication) of all scientific journals on the list of the Higher Attestation Commission, gave a good result: out of the first fifty verified journals, only one succumbed to this insidious trick.
01.04.2009For a long time, when I was young, I wanted to write an article, or even a whole book of criticism of Darwinism. I also came up with the name for such an article or book, "The Bible from the Devil." In such a title, these two themes are intertwined: Satan and Darwinism.
01.04.2009A lot has been written about the properties of water, misconceptions (and conscious deceptions) and it is not worth repeating. The main difference between "macro" water from "micro" and "nano" is that the authors of mystical hypotheses operate with familiar (trivial) concepts: memory, emotional impact, magnet, music, snowflake shape, etc. Any Chumak can "create" such water – without special knowledge and equipment.
31.03.2009Pseudoscientific "fabrications" are characterized by universality and universality. A charlatan does not stoop to solving narrow problems. If he has made a revolution in science, then it is global. If he treats oncological diseases with an aspen stick (by God, there is such a patent!) – that's all without exception. If he invented a miracle diet, then it suits everyone, heals completely and without the right to appeal. If it describes a miracle drug, then it has no contraindications and you can give it to anyone.
23.03.2009The most famous product from the price list of sellers of immortality is cryopreservation. Anyone can buy an even more shaky surrogate of immortality, and not for tens of thousands of dollars, but for absolutely ridiculous money.
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