Bacterial cells actually outnumber human cells in the body: From an outside perspective, people are not so much individual organisms as symbiotic human-bacteria collectives. Disturbances to internal bacteria have been linked to asthma, cancer and many autoimmune diseases. Gut flora have also been linked to obesity. In 2006, researchers led by Washington University microbiologist Jeffrey [...]
Friday, February 26, 2010
The American Academy of Environmental Medicine (AAEM) today released its position paper on Genetically Modified foods stating that “GM foods pose a serious health risk” and calling for a moratorium on GM foods. Citing several animal studies, the AAEM concludes “there is more than a casual association between GM foods and adverse health effects” and [...]
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Also tagged AAEM, Allergy, Canola, Corn, Cottonseed, Environment, Genetics, GM Food, GMO, Health, Immune System, Medicine, Moratorium, Physicians, Soy, Toxicology
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It’s the “catch-22″ that has plagued medical marijuana advocates and patients for decades. Lawmakers and health regulators demand clinical studies on the safety and efficacy of medical cannabis, but the federal agency in charge of such research bars these investigations from ever taking place. But it took until now for the federal government to finally [...]
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Shark pups born to virgin mothers can survive over the long-term, according to new research published Jan. 25, 2010 in the Journal of Heredity. The study shows for the first time that some virgin births can result in viable offspring. Genetic analysis led by a Field Museum scientist working with numerous colleagues has confirmed the first [...]
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Agent Smith: I’d like to share a revelation that I’ve had during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species and I realized that you’re not actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment but you humans do not. You move [...]
Monday, December 28, 2009
“There’s just one thing we haven’t quite dared to mention. It’s this, and you won’t believe it. It’s all happened already. Back there in the past, ten thousand years ago. The man of the future, with the big brain, the small teeth. He lived in Africa. His brain was bigger than your brain. His face [...]
Thursday, December 24, 2009
There are two components to our definition of open: open technology and open information. Open technology includes open source, meaning we release and actively support code that helps grow the Internet, and open standards, meaning we adhere to accepted standards and, if none exist, work to create standards that improve the entire Internet (and not [...]
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Also tagged Business, Collaboration, Freedom, Google, Innovation, Internet, Open, Open Source, Technology, Transparency, Vint Cerf
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Thursday, December 17, 2009
Despite Reporting Results, CNN Ignores Its Own Memo The results of an important survey of 3,145 scientists, are crystal clear: the vast majority of the scientific community believes humans are responsible for a warming climate. A full 90% of all scientists surveyed believe global warming is occurring, and 82% believe it is because of the [...]
Saturday, December 12, 2009
Don’t be fooled about climate science. In April 1994 – long after scientists had clearly demonstrated the addictive quality and devastating health impacts of cigarette smoking – seven chief executives of major tobacco companies denied the evidence, swearing in a US congressional hearing that nicotine was not addictive. Now, the American public is again being [...]
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Political expediency “rules the roost” over scientific advice, one of the three latest government drug advisers to resign has told BBC News. Dr Simon Campbell quit the Advisory Council for the Misuse of Drugs on Monday, over the sacking of chief drugs adviser Professor David Nutt. [...] He told BBC Radio 4′s Today programme: “When [...]
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Professor David Nutt didn’t play the game. As the chief drug policy advisor in the British Government, an unspoken part of his job description was to help maintain a public fiction about marijuana – or cannabis, as it is known in the U.K. and other parts of the world. Specifically, he was expected to further the misperception [...]
The current system of placing illegal drugs into one of three classes – A, B or C – depending on their legal status, has long been criticised by medical authorities concerned that it is based on arbitrary considerations rather than evidence-based science. [...] They studied 20 drugs in total, including legal as well as illegal [...]
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