Archive for the 'Health' Category
Norwegian Institute for Air Research: Radiation Forecasts on the ‘Zardoz’ Subdomain
May 13th, 2011Via: Dutchsinse YouTube Channel: Research Credit: dale
Father Secretly Used Full THC Cannabis Oil to Cure Son’s Terminal Brain Cancer
May 12th, 2011For the complete story about full THC hemp oil, how to make it, dosages, testimonials, etc., see: phoenixtears.ca. Via: ABC News: Doctors said 2-year-old Cash Hyde would likely die after they found a stage 4 brain tumor surrounding his optic nerve just a year ago this week. And he nearly did. After being subjected to […]
Britain: Babies to Be Given Anti-Obesity Drugs in the Womb
May 12th, 2011Via: Telegraph: One hundred obese mums-to-be will be given Metformin as part of a three-year study to tackle obesity rates and reduce the number of difficult births. Patients at Liverpool Women’s Hospital will be given the drug to reduce the food supply to their unborn babies, although it will not help the mums themselves to […]
Japan Scraps Plans to Expand Nuclear Power Capacity
May 11th, 2011Consultations with Captain Obvious were obviously worth it. Via: Washington Post: Japan will scrap a plan to obtain half of its electricity from nuclear power and will instead promote renewable energy and conservation as a result of its ongoing nuclear crisis, the prime minister said Tuesday. Naoto Kan said Japan needs to “start from scratch” […]
Grand Gulf Nuclear Plant: “Unknown Amount” of Tritium Released Into Mississippi River
May 8th, 2011I guess the intertubes are so clogged with fake Bin Laden nonsense that this one wasn’t important enough to mention. There are only two references to this story on Google News at the moment and 60,900 for Bin Laden. Via: Natchez Democrat: An unknown amount of radioactive water was released accidentally into the Mississippi River […]
And Now… Scientists Afflict Neural Network with Schizophrenia
May 8th, 2011I was reading along, thinking that this sounded like run-of-the-mill grant swindling, but then this paragraph damn near slapped me out of my chair: After being re-trained with the elevated learning rate, DISCERN began putting itself at the center of fantastical, delusional stories that incorporated elements from other stories it had been told to recall. […]
Japanese Government Raises ‘Safe’ Radiation Limits So Children Can Legally Attend Schools That Have Been Covered in Fallout from Fukushima Nuclear Disaster
May 4th, 2011Via: Guardian: Furious parents in Fukushima have delivered a bag of radioactive playground earth to education officials in protest at moves to weaken nuclear safety standards in schools. Children can now be exposed to 20 times more radiation than was previously permissible. The new regulations have prompted outcry. A senior adviser resigned and the prime […]
Poul Thorsen, CDC Autism Researcher, Indicted for Wire Fraud and Money Laundering
April 25th, 2011Just another day at the office… *woops* Via: Age of Autism: We have a pdf of the indictment of Dr. Poul Thorsen the Danish researcher held in highest esteem for having “debunked” the autism vaccine connection many years ago. As Dr. Max Wiznitzer said about another doctor recently, “If you can’t trust the researcher, you […]
USDA Moves to Let Monsanto Perform Its Own Environmental Impact Studies on GMOs
April 24th, 2011Via: Grist: In early April, the USDA made what I’m reading as a second response to Judge White, this one even more craven. To satisfy the legal system’s pesky demand for environmental impact studies of novel GMO crops, the USDA has settled upon a brilliant solution: let the GMO industry conduct its own environmental impact […]
Three-Parent IVF Babies
April 22nd, 2011Via: New Scientist: A review of technologies that create three-parent embryos to avoid mitochondrial disease has found no evidence that the methods are unsafe, calling for further research. Medical charities have followed up the report with a call to the UK’s health secretary to prepare to regulate the technology in clinics.
