Placebos Are Getting More Effective. Drugmakers Are Desperate to Know Why.

What a fascinating development.  Sugar pills beat the compounded drugs in an increasing number of trials.

The upshot is fewer new medicines available to ailing patients and more financial woes for the beleaguered pharmaceutical industry. Last November, a new type of gene therapy for Parkinson’s disease, championed by the Michael J. Fox Foundation, was abruptly withdrawn

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Organ donor cravings transmitted to recipient

Our habitual patterns of cravings and addictions leave traces in the subtle body, as well as alaya, and because of the subtle body, samskara imprints are left in the body itself.

IT seemed too real to be mere coincidence – and it brought joy to Kaden Delaney’s family.

Kaden’s parents Greg and Shelley spent two years finding

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Placebo Effect Proven in the Spine – Pain disappeared in study volunteers – Softpedia

If you think about it, the fact that there is any placebo effect at all is a miracle.  Or, I should say, seems like a miracle, although it is just a function of the natural world, left un-messed-with by tinkering nihilists.  Notice the phrase “could be used to create various new treatments” for some diseases. 

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BBC – Ethical Man blog: Time to eat the pets?

These days are amazing.  We’ve got true idiots getting published.  The claim that an SUV has a smaller impact on the planet than a dog is truly preposterous.  The environmental movement has been severely, probably permanently damaged by their lies and distortions.

When the end justifies the means, then the end of civilization is near.

The issue

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Conflicts of interest? Dr. Mehmet Oz owns 150,000 option shares in vaccine technology company

It is fair to say that anyone pushing anything on mainstream television is manipulating you for profit.  There are many people who really don’t think morally.  They don’t wake up, or go to bed, worrying about whether their actions are harmful to others, they simply don’t give a damn.  All they care about is getting

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Lawsuit against gene patents can proceed: judge – Yahoo! News

A lawsuit brought by the American Civil Liberties Union challenged patents held by Myriad Genetics and the University of Utah Research Foundation on grounds that genes are “products of nature” and cannot be patented.

This is a very welcome development.  The very idea of these multinational drug and seed manufacturers can obtain patents on living organisms,

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Eating animals is making us sick – CNN.com

 

Even the most political people, the most thoughtful and engaged, tend not to "go there." And for good reason. Going there can be extremely uncomfortable. Food is not just what we put in our mouths to fill up; it is culture and identity. Reason plays some role in our decisions about food, but it’s

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Curry spice ‘kills cancer cells’

  Dr Lesley Walker, director of cancer information at Cancer Research UK, said: "This is interesting research which opens up the possibility that natural chemicals found in turmeric could be developed into new treatments for oesophageal cancer.

Why is it seemingly impossible for these researchers to get it through their heads that there are synergies that

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U.S. attorneys told to go after pot traffickers, not patients – CNN.com

It almost looks to me that the spokesperson for NORML provides evidence that smoking marijuana seriously harms a persons mental abilities.  The statement from the federal government concerning marijuana prosecutions is anything but a ‘major departure in the so called war on drugs”.  In reality, this is yet another soon to be clear retrenchment

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Children can ‘imagine away’ pain

What is interesting to anyone familiar with what have until the last half century or so quite guarded secrets of mystery schools and other esoteric groups are being used by modern individuals, may of whom have no particularly strong interest in occult or esoteric spiritual knowledge.  Used this way at least makes some of

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Bizarro.20091012 Truth Justice Wisdom & 99 cent Burgers

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Jail terms for faith healing pair

Prosecutors said the couple had recklessly killed the youngest of their four children by ignoring clear symptoms of severe illness as she became too weak to speak, eat, drink or walk.They said the couple had a legal duty to take their daughter to a doctor but had instead relied totally on prayer for

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Symposium sheds light on benefits of Tai Chi

via Symposium sheds light on benefits of Tai Chi (08/28/09).

The symposium, sponsored by the International Yang family Tai Chi Chuan Association, offered a chance to study with five of China’s top masters and the opportunity to learn more about the latest research on the health benefits of Tai Chi Chuan.

More than 400 Tai

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Cows ’should be genetically engineered not to feel pain’ – Telegraph

Here’s an idea:

Animals could be genetically engineered not to feel pain, allowing people to enjoy hamburgers and steaks without feeling guilty, a philosopher has suggested.

Cows ’should be genetically engineered not to feel pain’ – Telegraph

I have to believe that Adam Shriver of Washington University in St Louis, Missouri who makes this proposal is following

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Smart chickens not duped by GM feed

The article states:

This is of serious concern. Do you know that 96 percent of soya-based foods are genetically modified and that maize in South Africa is contaminated,” asked Oppenheimer, pointing out that research by well-known scientist Dr Arpad Pusztai had shown that rats fed on GM potatoes suffered from a weakened immune system and stunted

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