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Safe: In Utero Exposure To Maternal COVID-19 Vaccination

Posted by on Jan 22, 2024 in Pharmacology | Comments Off on Safe: In Utero Exposure To Maternal COVID-19 Vaccination

An analysis of 2,261 and 1,940 infants ages 12 and 18 months, respectively, found that COVID-19 vaccination during pregnancy had no impact on infant neurodevelopment. 

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Suspect Correlation: Epidemiologists Link IVF To BMI Of Kids

Posted by on Jan 17, 2024 in Public Health | Comments Off on Suspect Correlation: Epidemiologists Link IVF To BMI Of Kids

A population-based cohort study sought to examine a controversial epidemiological claim about assisted reproductive technologies like in vitro fertilization and the body mass index (BMI) of children.

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American Academy Of Pediatrics: Lied About Vaccines And Autism, Kids Walking To School, And Now GMOs

Posted by on Jan 16, 2024 in Public Health | Comments Off on American Academy Of Pediatrics: Lied About Vaccines And Autism, Kids Walking To School, And Now GMOs

It is an unfortunate reality in America that medical societies have an outsized influence on government policy.

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Tianeptine And Other Supplements Have Gotten An FDA Free Pass For 30 Years – It’s Time For That To End

Posted by on Jan 11, 2024 in Public Health | Comments Off on Tianeptine And Other Supplements Have Gotten An FDA Free Pass For 30 Years – It’s Time For That To End

Politics is about trade-offs. Perhaps a reason President Biden isn't better-regarded is because if Congress didn't give him what he wanted, he circumvents them with agencies he controls, such as OSHA with vaccine mandates, the CDC with rent control, and EPA to ban safe weedkillers and pesticides.

He can take a page out of Presidents Clinton and Bush 43 on how to do better if he wins again this fall.

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New York Has A Mild Winter Two Weeks In – Global Climate Change Implicated

Posted by on Jan 5, 2024 in Atmospheric | Comments Off on New York Has A Mild Winter Two Weeks In – Global Climate Change Implicated

We're only two weeks into winter and a New York university is already declaring above-average temperatures in 2023 a result of global climate change. 

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In The New Year, Consider Less-Discussed Health Benefits

Posted by on Dec 29, 2023 in Psychology | Comments Off on In The New Year, Consider Less-Discussed Health Benefits

Lose Weight Without Suffering

Everyone wants an easy solution to being more fit but the only thing easy is eating too much pizza. Since 2022 we've been treated to far too many pictures of celebrities with weird "Ozempic Face" because their vanity is stronger than their desire for energy balance.

You don't need a gimmick, you do need a little willpower. Commercial gyms love this time of year because everyone joins to honor their New Year's Resolution, they even pay stupid initiation fees, and then most are done a month later.

An easy way to save money on a gym membership, in order of difficulty:

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Weekend Science: Coffee And Static Electricity – Is Water The Answer Or A Grinding Mess?

Posted by on Dec 26, 2023 in Chemistry | Comments Off on Weekend Science: Coffee And Static Electricity – Is Water The Answer Or A Grinding Mess?

Weekend Science: Coffee And Static Electricity – Is Water The Answer Or A Grinding Mess?
In some homes, it is believed that static electricity can lead to inferior grinding, and that has coffee connoisseurs searching for answers.

Will water help, or is it just making a mess because while a little may help, people will use too much? 

Coffee is prone to fads the way athletics - nasal strips, cryo-therapy, those weird blue-light filter glasses - and certainly nutrition is. A study may create a correlation and people sell a produce. Giving coffee acupuncture before tamping in espresso was all the rage starting in 2020 and for the last year some have sworn by adding water to reduce static electricity.


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Happy Festivus – Here I Air My Anti-Science Grievances

Posted by on Dec 13, 2023 in Random Thoughts | Comments Off on Happy Festivus – Here I Air My Anti-Science Grievances

Happy Festivus – Here I Air My Anti-Science Grievances
December 23rd is 'Festivus', a not-real holiday invented by the father of George Costanza on the hit television show "Seinfeld", involving an aluminum pole, feats of strength, and, most fun, an airing of grievances.(1)

It's the airing of grievances I want to address.


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Are Trace Chemicals In Shiny Hair Products Killing You?

Posted by on Nov 29, 2023 in Chemistry | Comments Off on Are Trace Chemicals In Shiny Hair Products Killing You?

The dose makes the poison, except in academic epidemiology, where H-Index and citations necessitate writing papers claiming any dose is toxic.

This is why EXPLORATORY claims aren't actually science itself. When your only method is to ask people what products they use, if they feel sad, angry, or have a disease, and then correlating the product you wanted to target to the malady, it is easy to understand why during COVID-19 disease epidemiologists had a difficult time getting traction - they had never stood up to the cranks at Harvard School of Public Health and National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences using food surveys to try and scare people about everything.

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What Does ChatGPT Say About Holiday Eating Health?

Posted by on Nov 23, 2023 in Public Health | Comments Off on What Does ChatGPT Say About Holiday Eating Health?

Data tools like ChatGPT, colloquially called Artificial Intelligence (if you think a fancy autocomplete is actual AI), have the promise to do a lot of good. There are some concerns about human content 'creators' being replaced but we don't miss the 150,000 fewer bank tellers we had before the rise of ATMs and a lot of writing done by humans is pretty generic.

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