Questions tagged [medical-science]
Use this tag for questions about the science of medicine and its practices. Use [medications] for questions about the actual cures that people take, and use [alternative-medicine] for claims about cures and practices which are claimed to be alternative to official medical science
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Does nitrogen asphyxiation (when used as a capital punishment method) cause convulsions?
I was reading this Guardian article about the recent execution of Anthony Boyd by nitrogen asphyxiation, and it explains that the first person subjected to the method, Kenny Smith, was seen "...
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Does consuming excrement, urine, ashes and clay effectively treat snake bite?
Vinay Pitak is Part I of the Pali Tripitaka (Theravada Buddhist scripture).
In it, Gautam Buddha gave the cure for snake bite. Dhamma Talks quotes it as:
For snakebite: A medicine may be made of the “...
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Did a Chinese football fan die after voluntarily staying awake for 11 days straight?
Daily Mail, 22 June, 2012
A Chinese football fan died after going 11 nights without sleep as he
tried to watch every single kick of the ball of Euro 2012.
Jiang Xiaoshan, said to be supporting ...
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Is vegetable oil making us dumber?
In this video, titled "The $212 Billion Dollar Food ingredient poisoning your Brain", Joseph Everett makes the case that vegetable oils are lowering human IQ.
He cites professor Michael A. ...
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Did a New Zealand boy start eating normally after being treated by Iranian-Islamic traditional medicine?
In a video broadcast from Iranian TV [Persian, English subtitles for first 1.5m], 7 years ago, it is claimed that a New Zealand boy, Solomon "Solly" Moss, started eating normally (without ...
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Did Bill Gates, via the Gates Foundation, use his influence to prevent Oxford from making the patent for their COVID-19 vaccine open source?
In a Jan. 2023 AMA "Ask Me Anything" post on Reddit by Bill Gates, a user, Sherm199, stated that:
The Gates foundation fought for the Oxford vaccine to NOT be open-source and to instead be ...
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Has the absorption of menstrual hygiene products only now been compared using blood for the first time?
A number of articles such as this one or this one were published recently in reaction to this study.
The study is quoted as saying that "no study exists comparing the capacity of currently ...
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Do NIAID employees get a share of royalities from drugs that are based on scientific work within NIAID that provides the basis for them?
Robert F. Kennedy Jr claims in his book The Real Anthony Fauci on pages 245-246:
Dr. Fauci’s management style thrives on creating many such
opportunities for his agency and its employees to ...
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Does reported alcohol intake, according to population surveys, only account for half of the alcohol sold?
A recent book by the House of Commons Library statistician Georgina Sturge, criticises an over reliance on data collected by self-reporting surveys in areas where there may be an incentive to minimise ...
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Does reggaeton generate greater brain activity than classical music?
A 2021 Exploring Your Mind article claims:
A group of neurosurgeons conducted a study that demonstrated intense brain activation when participants listened to reggaeton. In fact, it even surpassed ...
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Did over 1000 people in the US die of cannabis overdose in 2021?
According to the National Safety Council, in 2021 in the US, 1159 people died of cannabis overdose, of which 1130 of the deaths were preventable:
Is this true?
I'm skeptical because the drug ...
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Does acetaminophen (paracetamol) use during pregnancy lead to children developing autism?
There are apparently a bunch of law groups recruiting for potential class action lawsuits happening right now targeting medicines that contain acetaminophen (known as paracetamol outside the USA), ...
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Are fat people who intentionally lose weight at a greater risk of dying from cardiovascular disease?
The Health at Any Size movement, which promotes "body positivity" and de-emphasizes body weight and obesity (among other things), claims that intentionally losing weight increases risk of ...
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Is gonorrhea "on the brink of becoming untreatable"?
In this article of the Financial Times about a "sexual health crisis" in the US, the following claim is made:
The study showed doxycycline was less effective for preventing gonorrhoea, ...
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Did herbalist Maria Treben really systematically confuse inulin with insulin?
The widely read Austrian herbalist Maria Treben is frequently said to have fundamentally confused a number of biochemical concepts, theories, or at least names of substances.
As seen with the always ...
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Is the serotonin theory of depression false?
A couple of weeks ago, this article was published on Nature
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41380-022-01661-0
I am just a layman when it comes to this subject and it is therefore difficult for me to ...
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Do 80 to 90 percent of lifelong smokers never develop lung cancer?
Joshua Hawkins of BGR.com has stated that 80 to 90 percent of lifelong smokers never develop lung cancer.
To quote the article:
Scientists may have discovered why lifelong smokers never get lung ...
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Did Rudolf Steiner prove the contagiousness of varicella in 1875?
Pages like those from the National Vaccine Information Center NVIC or the Centers for Disease Control CDC make the following claim:
In 1875, Rudolf Steiner discovered that chickenpox was infectious ...
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Do surgeons refuse to operate "to keep their own statistics clean"?
I was curious about this thrice-upvoted comment, which says: Surgeons are also known for refusing to operate in order to maintain their ratios. So I Googled it and it seems surgeons can refuse to ...
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Are less than 1% of all adverse vaccine events reported?
According to Electronic Support for Public Health–Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (ESP:VAERS) "Likewise, fewer than 1% of vaccine adverse events are reported." (page 6).
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Does drinking alkaline water help you recover from a hangover?
Related to another question of mine on "electrolyzed reduced water". There are a number of companies that sell commercial products claiming to produce such water. I'm guessing it's not by ...
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Multiwave Locked System (MLS) laser therapy - is it any better than just infrared light?
Multiwave Locked System (MLS) laser therapy is marketed [1] as a healing and pain-relieving treatment based on simultaneous application of 808nm continuous light, and 905nm pulsed light from laser ...
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Can regularly ingesting a poison build an immunity to it? [duplicate]
There is an ancient story of Mithridates of Pontus cultivating an immunity to poisons by regularly ingesting sub-lethal doses. (e.g. here, or here).
This strikes me as being extremely unlikely for ...
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What evidence is there to say a SARS-COV2 virus exists? [duplicate]
https://www.drrobertyoung.com/post/university-of-western-australia-no-record-of-isolation-or-purification-of-cov-by-anyone-ever
A court order was indeed delivered to the university of WA and the ...
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Is seemingly bare-hands surgery (with no instruments) fake?
I have seen a video about surgery without surgical instruments, which can be seen here:
I found nothing about that Brazilian surgery (link), so I asked here to have some answer or comment about the ...
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