Category: pleasure of knowledge

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Vaccines Are Dangerous-Fact or Fiction?

The world greets newborn babies by bombarding them with everything from dust to disease-causing microbes. Babies can deftly parry exposures to certain harmful substances, thanks to antibodies passed onto them in the womb. But this kind of inherited immunity is short-lived, so a child must develop her own...

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Deceptive Spice Extract Offers Cautionary Tale for Chemists(Quest Sunday reading)

Inside the golden-yellow spice turmeric lurks a chemical deceiver: curcumin, a molecule that is widely touted as having medicinal activity, but which also gives false signals in drug screening tests. For years, chemists have urged caution about curcumin and other compounds that can mislead naive drug hunters.  Now,...

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Doubts about Deepak Chopra –

Has the holistic-health mogul overstated the health benefits of meditation and other spiritual practices? A key to Deepak Chopra’s success has been his monetization of spiritual practices and promotion of their health benefits. But has he crossed an ethical line by suggesting that meditation and other mind-practices can “heal”...