Corruption in the Chinese Pharmacutical industry.
This latest incident was so scary that even North Korea refused to buy low cost medicines from China because of the growing popular belief (in China and North Korea) that too many Chinese made drugs were probably ineffective.
actually just a snip from a longer report from Strategy Page on China, but the article has a lot about Chinese aggression against it's neighbors and how people in China are "disappearing".
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the latest fad: The New Jersey Diet.
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Typhus in the homeless.
bring back DDT?
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magic, deity or an alive "nature" did it?
Another "Scientific" article that tells us "nature" did X.
Well, if you follow Darwin, this is nonsense: random chance is behind these things.
If you assume that there is a pattern or plan behind evolution etc. you are assuming there is a deity behind the rules directing the way the pattern unfolds. But if you hint of this in the literature, you are branded as an unscientific Jesus freak.
But when you say "nature" did "X", you assume "nature" has intelligence and plans. essentially you are a pantheist.
all three of these ideas: chance, God or pantheism, are not "Science" but philosophy, and none of them can be proven.
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CSI 1850: Smallpox.
PBS special on a body found in a cemetary.
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what if you saved a life and nobody cared?
GWBush saved 16 million lives, but got little thanks for it.
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Ancient plagues.
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HIV in China.
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the Showman who saved 6500 lives.
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what are kids actually doing?
A discussion of the CDC's youth risk survey.
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cook stoves with wood or coal causes asthma.
well, duh.
scidaily article here.
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Calorie lables mean people lose weight?
what is not explained: if the 45 calories was in everyone, or if they added up everyone and divided it by the number of people....
even if this was true for everyone, and everyone cut their calories by 45 calories, how much weight would they lose?
Cawley calculated that over a three-year period, the calorie cut would lead to weight loss in the range of one pound.
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other headlines in medicine.
Lifestyle changes can help lower high blood pressure.
true, but I could never get Lolo to stop using his soy sauce.
Probiotics are useless.
But the study was done on healthy people.
Cholera epidemic in Harare.
Deteriorating infrastructure to blame.
Monkey pox in the UK
luckily not fatal
Leptospirosis is a risk after flooding and typhoons
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Flu or MERS
catching influenza on the haj.
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