One thing that must annoy psychiatrists is that everyone will try to claim expertise in their field if they want to make a political point - in the case of a recent paper it is literally humanities scholars who want more mask and vaccine mandates.To achieve that, and despite having nothing we might consider qualifications, they used profiling to suggest a clinical diagnosis. They did it by...
read moreAnother day, another all-natural sexual enhancement stimulant product has been shown to be a dangerous fraud. The US FDA has sent a warning to four companies claiming they are "all natural" but containing real drugs illegally; Cialis (tadalafil) and Viagra (sildenafil).read...
read moreNewly-discovered historical information adds weight to the belief that given what was known in the mid-19th century, Gregor Mendel, the Austrian (Moravian, now part of the Czech Republic) Monk was even further ahead of his time. So advanced his work was criticized by some as 'too good to be true' despite surviving every challenge.Resentful scientists may have later tried to claim he...
read moreThe wage gap between genders has always had some cultural traction but there were also always odd pockets where it was worse - including what you wouldn't have expected. Environmental groups had far more women but the wage gap between what they paid men and women was alarming compared to engineering, where there were fewer women as a total percentage but no meaningful pay disparity.read...
read morePrior to the 1980s, most thermometers were both inaccurate and not placed using scientific methodology. But tree rings need time and ice cores even longer, which means for recent periods of time have to rely on observational claims and hope to control for their accuracy.read...
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