Nicotine Prevents Senility?
From Wikipedia: With regard to neurological diseases, a large body of evidence suggests that the risks of Parkinson’s disease or Alzheimer’s disease might be twice as high for non-smokers than for...
View ArticleFull Spectrum Daylight Light Bulbs
In the past couple of years “daylight” light bulbs have started to be generally sold. These are bulbs which have less yellow light and thus are closer to daylight. The Solux company website...
View ArticleGenetic Immunity or Susceptibility to AIDS
From a comment at Steve Sailer’s blog: Researchers with the VA found last summer a gene in most blacks linked to a protective mutation against malaria (the same one that can lead to sickle-cell anemia)...
View ArticleThe Crack Babies Scare
Around 1990, people were afraid of “crack babies”: that babies born to mothers smoking crack would be seriously damaged. This might be worth looking at now because it might (I’m not sure) be another...
View ArticleThe Morning After Pill versus RU-486 Abortion
Baylyblog has a 2008 post on the issue of whether the morning-after pill is okay even if RU-486 is not. The difference is that the morning-after pill (like birth control pills, but with higher...
View ArticleA Drug-Prescribing Doctor
Here’s an interesting comment thread about Dr Ratts of Bloomington, whom many people say gave out painkillers freely and supplied many of the local addicts. Eventually his license to prescribe such...
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