There is something very wrong when the editor of Elsevier Journal of Food and Chemical Toxicology, Dr A. Wallace Hayes, caved to political pressure and retracted a long-term PEER-REVIEWED study on the toxic effects of Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) in 2013. You can read a pfd of the paper here: http://people.csail.mit.edu/seneff/glyphosate/NancySwanson.pdf The lead author on… Read more This Is Science?
It seems there is always a demographic that wants to make a horrible act of murder worse. When the sad little geldings of the manosphere lionize people like Marc Lepine or like Eliot Rogers for going on a murder sprees to punish those those they blamed for their lack of a sex life and only… Read more How to Make a Mass Shooting Even More Horrific
This post from Sociological Images cannot be reposted enough, especially this part: “Healthy lifestyle habits are associated with a significant decrease in mortality regardless of baseline body mass index.” Evidence: Fat People Can Be as Healthy as Thin People Lisa Wade, PhD on December 31, 2012 If you live in the U.S. you are… Read more Reblogging — Fat People Can Be as Healthy as Thin People
Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis (1 July 1818 – 13 August 1865) was a Hungarian-born German physician who noticed that the doctors in the Vienna General Hospital‘s First Obstetrical Clinic had three times the morality rate for recently delivered mothers compared to the women who gave birth with a midwife in attendance. The women under the doctors’… Read more Semmelweis and Sinning Against the Paradigm
Sometimes people ask me why I am so weirdly persnickety about my eldest daughter’s food intake. Why can’t I just let the poor kid have a piece of birthday cake? It’s one thing to cut back on sugar, but why don’t I lighten up on my Sherman-through-Georgia attitude toward wheat and artificial food colors? Why… Read more Asperger’s, Microbiota, and Food
I have a good friend in great distress. Her sister’s ex-husband and his new wife, whom I shall call Nimrod and Bandersnatch, have decided to fat-shame and torment my friend’s niece because they think she is ‘out of shape’. The little girl is only ten years old. Although she is not overweight or obese in… Read more Fat Shaming Preteen Girls Harms Them For Life
My eldest daughter, Bubbles, will be entering the 5th grade this August and we have been reading up on social interaction and Asperger’s syndrome in preparation for preteen ‘drama’, conflict, or bullying. It has led me to some fascinating information. People with Asperger’s syndrome are typically very direct. We don’t do (or even know how… Read more Conflict Aversion, Assertion, Aggression and Asperger’s
One of the things I discuss in my book on Edward VI is whether or not there was likelihood that Arthur, Fitzroy, and Edward all received a mutated CRFT gene (inherited an atypical cystic fibrosis) from both parents. After a quick romp in the genealogy I am slightly surprised that royal babies weren’t born three… Read more Was everyone an offshoot of the Plantagenets??
I haven’t really “thought” about mono (AKA “glandular fever” in the United Kingdom) since I was a teen and some classmates got the “kissing disease” from playing spin the bottle when we were all in ninth grade. Mostly, I just sulked I wasn’t invited to the part where I could have caught proof of my… Read more Things I never knew about mononucleosis