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# science    

why trying to sweat out your toxins is a bad idea

If you're exercising in searing heat and soaking humidity, that weird feeling isn't toxins leaving your body, it's the beginning of a heat stroke.
why trying to sweat out your toxins is a bad idea

# health    

why are there no resurrections in the modern world? it's the eggheads' fault!

Pat Robertson perfectly demonstrates the bad arguments faith healers use to trick people into believing they can be cured with a miracle.
why are there no resurrections in the modern world? it's the eggheads' fault!

# oddities    

how to blame big pharma for mass murder

Alt med ghoul Mike Adams has a perfect culprit behind school shootings and as per usual, gets every detail absolutely wrong.
how to blame big pharma for mass murder

# health    

pay no attention to the man behind the curtain?

Medical experts are appalled with Dr. Oz for making a career out of giving simplistic, scientifically unverifiable and unproven questions to complicated questions about people's health.
pay no attention to the man behind the curtain?

# science    

an age extension drug too good to be true?

A new potential life-extension drug is performing extremely well in mice. Will these results translate well to humans?
an age extension drug too good to be true?

# tech    

how to weave machinery into biology

A new experiment is trying to marry the best of health monitoring technology and organs grown from stem cells.
how to weave machinery into biology

# tech    

running for the gold at the olympics? don't bother with legs…

Advanced prosthetics are making an appearance at the Olympics and showing how inhuman form can restore human function.
running for the gold at the olympics? don't bother with legs…

# health    

human biology vs. the modern work environment

Today's white collar jobs could not have an unhealthier culture and worse setup for our joints and midsections. And they're shaving years off our lives...
human biology vs. the modern work environment

# politics    

why our healthcare is perpetually broken

A healthcare system based on arbitrary networks and prices, and who everyone avoids fixing under sociopathic pretenses is bound to be perpetually broken.
why our healthcare is perpetually broken

# health    

the superpower that's eating itself to death

Sprawling suburbs, roadways instead of parks and avenues, and portions far beyond anything sane or healthy is taking its toll on Americans.
the superpower that's eating itself to death

# tech    

why medicine's future needs wired patients

One of the best things you might ever do for your health is let your doctor track it with every possible device.
why medicine's future needs wired patients

# tech    

a peek at the shape of organs to come

The artificial hearts of tomorrow might replace the familiar beat of the heart with a steady hum. And millions might live longer thanks to that innovation.
a peek at the shape of organs to come

# oddities    

conspiracy theorists' dark view of medicine

Anti-vaxers and alt med quacks are trying to convince anyone who'll listen that modern medicine is a sinister conspiracy to cull humanity.
conspiracy theorists' dark view of medicine

# tech    

stealing a dystopian sci-fi plot to bash science

A philosopher turns transhumanism into a parade of horrors on loan from dystopian sci-fi movies.
stealing a dystopian sci-fi plot to bash science

# health    

chemicals, the anti-vaccinationist menace

Brace yourselves. The anti-vax crusade is taking its chemophobia and love for cleansing to a whole new level.
chemicals, the anti-vaccinationist menace

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