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Comment threads: Where everyone rants and no one listens
Whenever I should be doing better things with my time, I inevitably procrastinate and read whatever it is that’s not what I am supposed to be doing. I usually wind up absorbed into a Facebook rant or semi-intellectual blog post … Continue reading
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Tagged climate, intellectual snobbery, politics, science, society
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Water is bad, coffee is good … wait, what?
Sometimes I don’t know whether to laugh or cry when I read stuff on the internet. Take, for example, the article on news.com.au today about the long-held notion that drinking eight glasses of water a day is good for you. … Continue reading
Posted in Medical
Tagged acid, alternative, alternative health, caffeine, coffee, diuretic, eight, glasses, health, hysterical, la trobe university, mental-health, naturopath, news.com.au, nutrition, nutritionist, poison, public health, science, tsindos, water
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Placebo therapy is fraud
I’ve often had discussions with friends and patients that go something like: Friend/relative/patient: “I went to [blah blah] alternative therapy the other day. I feel great. You should recommend [blah blah] alternative therapy to all your patients.” Me: “But [blah … Continue reading
