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I am a westerner and member of the Hong Kong Chefs association. We were contacted by a local university Neuropsychology department doing a study on human brain and behaviour regulation. They were especially looking for volunteers with high olfactory sensitivity, they assumed chefs would be one...

Let the debating begin: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2111174/Intelligent-people-'less-likely-to-believe-in-God'.html

Wow, now that is exciting. Reading one of Dean Radin´s books, The Conscious Universe, I´ve stumbled upon the following report in the introduction of the book (pages 2 and 3): In a 1995 book saturated with piercing skepticism ,the late Carl Sagan of Cornell University maintained his lifelong...

Dr. David Ludwig has lead a study that seems to show a bias in beverage studies that seems to favor the funder of the study itself. A spokes person for the beverage industry sees it another way. Is this a sad example of how the scientific process can be abused by someone who has a stake in...

"Andrew Wakefield was paid by lawyers to undermine the MMR vaccine" Link The lawyers were pursuing a class action suit (in England) against vaccine producers, and they paid for "research" that supported their claims of harm. The published "study" scared many parents out of having their children...

http://tinyurl.com/ych44z It discusses how the Human Genome evolved Lactose Tolerance, Starting where Cattle were first thought to have been domesticated, In north-central Europe, and spreading outward with time. It also discusses how they found Convergent Evolution (evolving the same trait...

I'm stunned that this suggests that humans aren't even the first species on earth to evolve complex cognition. It seems like further proof that intelligence isn't limited to a unique unrepeatable hominid experience but it's emergence is inexorable wherever there's an active biosphere, so all the...

By living in a well-to-do neighborhood, poor people increase their risk of death, according to a new study by Stanford University School of Medicine researchers to be published in the December issue of the American Journal of Public Health. "We tend to assume that people living in a high...

A bleak picture of the corrosive effects of ethnic diversity has been revealed in research by Harvard University's Robert Putnam, one of the world's most influential political scientists. His research shows that the more diverse a community is, the less likely its inhabitants are to trust...

A survey of 27749 children in Quebec. Autism increased even after thiomersal had been removed from vaccines. Autism increased even when MMR uptake rates decreased. Abstract Yet, I think a negative perception will still persist? How many more studies will it take to convince the public? Why...

A local bookshop has an excellent sale on the classics at present so picked up a few books I had never gotten around to reading. Amongst them was the Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. Story number one is "A Study in Scarlet". I have to confess to having seen some adaptations of the Holmes...

http://www.technologyreview.com/read_article.aspx?id=16751&ch=biotech#DiscussionPanel_messageBody Of more interest to me, were the comments after the article.

Does anyone know anything about a book called The China Study by T. Colin Campbell? It compares the dietary habits of China with the Western World. Campbell claims that 80-90% of disease is caused by diet; specifically animal protein.

This is apparently a new study being released on the evils of Thimersol. Does anyone know anything more about it? I understand past studies on mice/rats have shown harmful effects after exposure to incredibly high quantities, but this study apparently mentions 20 ppb concentrations. I wonder...

I just received a mail through MAS mailing list, in which it is informed to MAS members that the talk between agriculture university officials and Homeopathic Dr. Hafiz Matie and Dr. MAS was of highly successful. In this connection, the negotiation was underway with many renowned homeopaths...

A local TV station in PA ran a piece about The Power of Faith. In the section titled "God's Will": Anyone know what studies they refer to? I sent an email to the station asking for the information.

From The Daily Telegraph today. Oh Roger, where are you ?

Just saw this: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/bristol/somerset/4454856.stm (how can I make HTML links in the new system?). I've not been able to identify where it's published.

I just heard this on abc news overnight, and googled it, and find a few statements here fishy. Anyone know anything about this? From this website: http://www.newstarget.com/z002055.html "Ginseng-based natural remedy for colds and flu really works, study reveals (COLD-fx) Overview: * A...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9616467/ Pretty interesting read. Thoughts?

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20050808/atlantis.html

What, even more expensive than in "socialist" Denmark? Gee, how can that be? Explanations?

http://www.forbes.com/lifestyle/health/feeds/hscout/2005/07/14/hscout526845.html

From today's news This is very good news, because acupuncture is one quack treatment that seems to be accepted by a fairly large number of otherwise rational people. Of course, pin-heads will still continue to claim that it works for other things. Give it time. They'll all be debunked.

I forgot the link, here it is: http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/21/science/21gene.html The study makes the following claim about genetic contribution to your views on the following issues: School prayer - 41% determined by genes Capitalism - 39% Unions - 37% X Rated Movies - 35% Censorship - 30%...

Land Study on Grazing Denounced I guess this must be another one of them "faith based" initiatives. :mad:

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STOCKHOLM (AFP) - Some 90 percent of murderers are mentally ill, a higher percentage than believed previously, according to a Swedish study. For the study in the scientific magazine "Forskning och Framsteg" -- which has also been published by The American Journal of Psychiatry -- researchers...

A major US research institution has just released details of its lengthy investigation into psychic and telekinetic phenomena, and has concluded that psi probably doesn’t exist: Source Interesting study.

Hi! Sorry, I didn't have time serching thru the forum. I just registered, and this might have already come up. Thru slashdot.org I found out about this article: http://www.newscientist.com/channel/space/mg18524911.600 Interesting is Number 4 (and Number 1 - funny they split homepathy and...