Health

Reactive Oxygen Species are more than just the ‘bad guys’ of the body

People think of Reactive oxygen species as the cause of illness and ageing, but research suggests their role in the body is much more complex

Supplements and garlic won’t cure the common cold, despite what the BBC say

The BBC reported on home remedies to fight the common cold – but what they gave us were weak, biased, and p-hacked studies

Humans long to cheat death, but is there any validity to life extension technology?

Billionaire Bryan Johnson is the latest figure to hit the headlines in his attempts to defy ageing, but is there anything to life extension technologies?

Leaked footage reveals the ‘psychic’ behind antivaxxer Joseph Mercola

Leaked footage shows leading anti-vaxxer Joseph Mercola calling for people to "march with weapons" against vets, during consultation with ‘psychic’

Paging Dr Superstitious: Why Singaporean medics believe steamed buns are bad luck

Doctors in Asia believing it's bad luck to eat steamed buns during a shift shows that even the medically minded are susceptible to superstition

The Beecher story, the origin of the placebo effect myth, likely didn’t happen

The most-cited example of the powerful placebo is Henry Beecher using saline instead of morphine... except, it likely never happened

An overdose on placebo pills can cause adverse reactions… but not because of the nocebo effect

A man who overdosed on experimental pills felt sure he was dying, until he found out he was in the placebo arm... but it was not a nocebo effect.

People with Alzheimer’s deserve care and dignity – not false hope of miracle cures

Millions of dollars wasted on retracted studies promising Alzheimer's cures could instead have been spent improving the lives of people with dementia
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