Seth's Blog

Tuesday, February 14th, 2012

Big Pharma versus Parkinson’s disease — perfectly good non-Big-Pharma treatments (ECT, nicotine, caffeine) are neglected in favor of a much worse Big-Pharma treatment (L-dopa).
Substances high in Essential Fatty Acids, such as evening primrose oil, used to treat allergy-associated problems (case reports). From the 1980s. Other articles from the Foundation for Integrated Medicine.
Artisanal sake survives the tsunami and makes an accidental discovery.
Food tour of Tokyo by Jeffrey Steingarten.
Should England’s Royal Society be taken seriously? Judging by their leaders’ certainty about global warming . . .
60 Minutes covers the Anil Potti scandal at Duke University.

Thanks to Allen Carl Jackson, Phil Alexander and Navanit Arakeri.

Friday, February 10th, 2012

Thanks to Jim McGuire, Dave Lull and Peter Spero.

Saturday, February 4th, 2012

Independent discovery of nose-clipping? Nasal soft strips reduce appetite, according to an infomercial.
Does it matter how you take Vitamin D? A little bit of research.
Hypercalcemia (too much calcium in the blood) after patient takes 5500 IU/day Vitamin D3 plus 2000 mg/day calcium.
Fat Chef. A new TV show on the Food Network. Chefs try to lose weight.
Kickstarter project: Restaurant guide to San Francisco on a map folded in a new way.
The acne-diet connection. Dermatologists — the supposed experts — continue to say they aren’t connected.

Thanks to Anne Weiss, Phil Alexander and Dave Lull.

Tuesday, January 31st, 2012

Thanks to Aaron Blaisdell, Alex Chernavsky and Navanit Arakeri.

Monday, January 23rd, 2012

Drug industry now the biggest defrauder of the US government, as measured by False Claims Act payments.
CT scans linked with cancer. Even worse, “doses of radiation from the scans varied wildly, according to the study, even within the same procedure at the same hospital. Some patients got only one-tenth the radiation that others got.” As if the concepts of calibration and maintenance are foreign to the operators of this exceedingly dangerous equipment.
Fermentation in Montreal.
Edward Jay Epstein on Hollywood’s Pirates of the Internet.

Thanks to Hal Pashler and Anne Weiss.

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