03/31/2006 - Some Just Won’t See the Light
No matter how much evidence has surfaced exonerating the sun from its wrongful status in the mainstream as a carcinogen rivaling asbestos, dioxin, or red dye #2, some just won’t see the light.
03/28/2006 - Women Would Prefer That Men Were More Like Dogs
It begins with this: According to a recent MSNBC article, women would prefer that men were more like dogs-and vice versa!
03/27/2006 - When Adequate Supplies of Matching Blood were Unavailable
Almost exactly 2 years ago (Daily Dose, 4/23/04), I wrote to you about the initial, promising tests of a universal blood substitute called Polyheme.
03/24/2006 - Cosmetic Surgery to that Most Intimate of Areas
Apparently, the next big thing – more like the final frontier – in cosmetic surgery is, brace yourselves: Vaginoplasty
03/21/2006 - Drugs Used to Treat Parkinson’s Disease May Spur a Compulsion Toward Gambling
In that study’s findings, evidence strongly suggested that several of a certain class of drugs used to treat Parkinson’s disease may spur a compulsion toward gambling
03/20/2006 - Weight Problems Plaguing the Nation’s Military
Back in the fall, I wrote to you about how weight problems were plaguing the nation’s military – so much so that thousands every year are routinely dismissed because of excess heft. This hasn’t been the case until relatively recently.
03/17/2006 - Legally Owned Guns Do Far More Goof than Harm
n the last Dose, I posited that earlier in American history, a Winchester rifle was the most potent health insurance (it was the only kind, really) most people could get.
03/14/2006 - Happy Trails to the Winchester Level-Action Rifle
At the end of this month, the U.S. Repeating Arms Company will shut down and shutter up the New Haven, Connecticut manufacturing plant that has been the sole site of production for the Winchester lever-action repeater since its unveiling in 1866.
03/10/2006 - Link Between Attractiveness and Criminality
In part 1 of this essay, I briefed you on the recent findings of a federally funded study that revealed a more or less 1-to-1 link between attractiveness and criminality.
03/07/2006 - A Link Between Beauty and Virtue
Some recent research shows that an association between attractiveness and criminality may indeed be REAL.
03/06/2006 - Big News in the Diet Wars
It turns out that the low-fat diet the so-called “experts” have been touting for decades has NO statistically significant affect on rates of heart disease, strokes or various common cancers, a new large-scale study has revealed.
03/03/2006 - The Most Over-Diagnosed “Disorder” on Earth
Are drugs for an invented disorder causing REAL deaths?
