We've all seen athletes on the sidelines of a football game with a mask over their mouths inhaling oxygen. It may seem odd that anyone stands around for 60 seconds, moves for 10 and then has to go sit on a bunch with an oxygen tank but oxygen is life, and the belief is greater oxygen in the blood will mean greater>
When asked about an effort to ban fluoride in drinking water, Utah Governor Spencer Cox said, "It’s not a bill I care that much about” but he still signed it, despite the health benefits being well-established and claims of harm being the kind of slimy epidemiology that claims "risk" of BPA, weedkillers, PFAS>
And I thought *my* job was fun. I regularly get to ridicule an incredible variety and quantity of nonsense that poses as science and medicine. Some of it borders on hilarious. On the other hand, making this stuff up is probably just as much fun, and maybe even more lucrative. There might even be an office>
A novel catheter technique for patching holes in the heart may make it possible for many patients to avoid surgery altogether and others to regain enough strength to safely undergo surgical repair at a later date.
The patch successfully closed ventricular septal defects (VSDs)—or ruptures in the wall between>
“You have to bump the cage harder. Like this.” Marta Santos took the plastic cage from my hands and smacked it with the palm of her hand, causing a few lifeless bodies to fall off the walls of the cube and collect on the floor. It was like kicking a vending machine so that the Snickers bar would drop into the>
Eyes are the interface between the outside world and our brain's perceptions. Being the instrument of sight, and therefore a lot of our information, we rely on the functions of our eyes quite obsessively, and why wouldn't we? They make it possible to observe our beautiful world and really appreciate different>
And sentiments reiterated by two more robots - Claude: "Final Assessment: This is an effective piece of science communication that demystifies a complex statistical concept by grounding it in...
"What I want to get to, in this post that nobody will ever read, is to explain how you could build an approximate model of the PDF for a given problem." Well, Tommaso. There are at least...
The complete tables ranking the top 100 countries by diesel sulfur standards can be found on the IFQC's Web site at http://www.ifqc.org . Not true. It's...
You know my feelings on this. We need to embrace open post publication peer review. This way people can see the reviews and the reviews themselves should count as publications which can themselves...