Google Nanotech Pill Will Search Your Body For Disease Detection
There’s an emerging theme in contemporary science fiction of medical nanotechnology running amok with disastrous consequences for humanity. The inevitable science fact is catching up fast with fiction...
View ArticleThis Is Your Brain on Drugs
Want to know what your brain looks like when you smoke weed? If so you’re in luck because some scientists at Harvard and Northwestern University have taken photographs of marujuana-affected brain...
View ArticleTreating Depression With Magic Mushrooms
When the New York Times runs an op-ed seriously suggesting the use of psilocybin (a/k/a magic mushrooms) for treatment of depression, one suspects a tipping point may have been reached in the... The...
View ArticleKetamine (Special K) May Be Best Medicine For Depression
Amazingly enough the powerful hallucinogen ketamine (the horse tranquilizer sometimes known as Special K) is being touted as a serious and better alternative to the SSRIs like Prozac. Report from the...
View ArticleNew Antibiotic Kills Pathogens Without Detectable Resistance
Although it’s been repeatedly said that we’re on the verge of entering a post-antibiotic era, scientists have now discovered a new antibiotic that kills pathogens without detectable resistance. Their...
View ArticleTranscendence: RU Sirius & Jay Cornell on Transhumanism
R.U. Sirius and Jay Cornell are the authors of Transcendence: The Disinformation Encyclopedia of Transhumanism and the Singularity. Transhumanism has been a hot but divisive topic on disinformation, so...
View ArticleBPA and ‘BPA-Free’ Alternative Linked to Fetal Brain Changes
If you saw our documentary about bottled water Tapped, you’ll know that BPA is not the only toxic chemical in plastics. The Los Angeles Times reports on a new study linking Bisphenol... The post BPA...
View ArticleGoogle Making Human Skin
Google is making human skin as part of research into “wristband that can detect cancer,” reports the Independent: Google has been making synthetic human skin as part of work to create a... The post...
View ArticleFirst Full Body Transplant Two Years Away
An Italian doctor plans to graft a living person’s head on to a donor body using procedures he believes will soon be ready, per the Guardian: A surgeon says full-body transplants could... The post...
View ArticleAnglo-Saxon antibiotics are just the start – it’s time to start...
That old Anglo-Saxon remedy reported yesterday has got people “bioprospecting” the past according to the Guardian: Bioprospecting – the search for new drugs and commercial products from the natural...
View ArticleScience Seeks to Unlock Marijuana’s Secrets
Hampton Sides (surely a pseudonym?) investigates the science behind marijuana’s magnificent properties, for National Geographic: There’s nothing new about cannabis, of course. It’s been around...
View ArticleLancet Editor: ‘The case against science is straightforward: much of the...
The Lancet is one of – if the not the – most prestigious medical science journals, so when its editor-in-chief writes that “The case against science is straightforward: much of the scientific... The...
View ArticleMarijuana Can Heal Broken Bones
Here’s another reason to request a medical marijuana prescription: broken bones. The Times of Israel reports on a new study by Tel Aviv University scientists finding that cannabis speeds healing of...
View ArticleBig Pharma Wants Mutants – Their DNA Could Be Worth Billions
If you’re a mutant I fear for you: the drug companies want your DNA and will do anything to get it, per BloombergBusiness: Steven Pete can put his hand on a hot... The post Big Pharma Wants Mutants –...
View ArticleAre Alzheimer’s and Diabetes the Same Disease?
There’s a compelling link between obesity and Alzheimer’s disease, reports New Scientist: Having type 2 diabetes may mean you are already on the path to Alzheimer’s. This startling claim comes from...
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