Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
A term that you might have come across is “Integrative Medicine”, and if so then you might perhaps be wondering what this actually is. Google it and you find that the Wikipedia article sums it up quite distinctly like this … Integrative medicine, which is also called integrated medicine and integrative health in the United Kingdom,[1] combines alternative medicine with evidence-based medicine. Practitioners claim that … Read more
The UK’s Lancet no less has published a paper in which they conclude that very low salt intake is bad for you … Associations of urinary sodium excretion with cardiovascular events in individuals with and without hypertension: a pooled analysis of data from four studies (Side note: sorry, they have a paywall there) We searched … Read more
There is clearly a trend … January 2016 was the warmest January ever recorded. Then February happened and that blew away the January records. This was all then quickly followed by new records for March, and now April. The latest update comes from the numbers released by NASA over the weekend and so now the … Read more
So the UK’s Guardian does a nice bit of myth-busting with an article all about Probiotics … Fans of probiotic drinks and foods may be wasting their money, according to a review of current research into the supplements that suggests they may be of no benefit to healthy adults. A Danish team looked at the results of … Read more
Hey heads up folks, Sean Carroll’s new book, “The Big Picture” is finally available as of 10th May, and it looks really interesting. Side note: I have no financial interest here, this is purely a personal book recommendation for something that I think looks very good. No I have not read it yet, it has … Read more
You might, or perhaps might not be aware that the trial of David Stephan and his wife Collet Stephan is now over and that they were found guilty of “failing to provide their ill son with the necessaries of life“. Ezekiel Stephan, pictured above, tragically contracted meningitis, and his parents then proceeded to try and treat him with remedies … Read more