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The ‘Church of Nature’ and the sudden collapse of the cult of Extinction Rebellion
When a cult loses its grip on a person, a form of reawakening takes place. It involves having to return ...
‘It’s not our job’: How Trump and Jared Kusnher created the COVID supply chaos that persists today
The Trump administration has been criticized for minimizing the threat of the virus and offering mixed messaging on mask-wearing and ...
Could COVID evolve into a milder version?
Researchers in Singapore have discovered a new variant of the COVID-19 coronavirus that causes milder infections, according to a study ...
Saliva COVID tests appear as accurate as nasal swabs
Two new studies have found that tests that look for the virus in samples of saliva are about as reliable ...
Viewpoint: Vegetarian diet won’t help you slim down—only cutting calories can do that
A vegetarian diet can be healthy for you. Just like any diet. Even if you only eat salads or any ...
Electroacupuncture: Promising pain therapy or quackery?
One idea [for alternative pain relief] is to specifically stimulate nerves that act as highway carriers of pain signals and ...
Human blood suckers: How nature’s tiniest killer developed its deadly diet
Although most of the roughly 3,500 mosquito species don’t feed on human blood, the Aedes aegypti is one of the worst. Its ...
Struggle to decide when kids should go back to school mirrors 1918 pandemic debate
During the influenza pandemic in 1918, even though the world was a very different place, the discussion [about whether to ...
Even mild cases of COVID can provide immunity
To date, there is limited evidence of reinfection in humans with previously documented COVID-19… Most studies of immune protection against ...
Edible plant-based vaccines could help quash infectious diseases in poor countries
Edible plant-based vaccines were developed to become part of the solution to address the possible hazards associated with the parenteral ...
Our gut bacteria helps us naturally battle cancer
Dr. Kathy McCoy, PhD, is a leading expert on the body's relationship with the microbiome. She and her team are ...
Why it will be so difficult to develop a vaccine to prevent opioid addiction
[P]atients taking opioids for chronic pain can produce antibodies to the drugs, which could help explain some of the side-effects ...
Viewpoint: ‘Superfood’—a lucrative marketing term with no scientific basis
Walking through the grocery aisle, there is an overwhelming number of new superfoods to choose from. Hemp hearts are full ...
Systemic racial disparity among lung cancer diagnoses has nearly vanished, study finds
Because of deeply-rooted systemic problems, Black Americans tend to experience disproportionate rates of many common illnesses. However, a recent study ...
Bacteria-infected mosquitoes cut dengue cases by 77 percent, study shows
Researchers have infected Aedes aegypti mosquitoes—the species responsible for passing on many diseases—with bacteria called Wolbachia with the intent of ...
Amazon Halo Band: Health and wellness tracker or useless (but clever) gadget?
[Amazon’s new health and wellness wristband and app, Amazon Halo, can] track body-fat percentage, heart rate and its users’ activity ...
‘Only 6%’: QAnon, Trump, conservative social media disinformation on COVID impact
[O]ne of the most idiotic right wing pundits out there, The Gateway Pundit [said]: The CDC silently updated their numbers ...
Getting a flu shot this fall as the pandemic rages could literally save your life
Uncertainty looms over flu season every year, but this time there are even more unknowns than usual — from precisely what ...
9 COVID conspiracy theories and myths debunked
Even with widely available evidence to the contrary, beliefs are hard to change. Here are some of the most insidious ...
COVID pandemic exposes Africa’s need for long-term solutions to Lassa fever and other neglected tropical diseases
Spread by food contaminated by the feces or urine of disease-carrying rodents and endemic to Sierra Leone, Liberia, Guinea and ...
Here’s why women are overmedicated
Researchers analyzed data from several thousand medical journal articles and found clear evidence of a drug dose gender gap for ...
Even if widely embraced, vaccines are not a ‘silver bullet’ to containing COVID
Americans looking to a vaccine as the way out of the coronavirus pandemic should consider a more comprehensive approach, a ...
5 things you should know if you have COVID and are asymptomatic
Blood tests that check for exposure to the coronavirus are starting to come online, and preliminary findings suggest that many ...
Pandemic’s economic shock could exacerbate stagnation in emerging markets
[COVID-19 is] potentially entrenching the divide between the world’s rich and poorer parts. In the first decade of the 21st century, ...
‘Nowhere in sight’: Sweden shows no signs of herd immunity developing
[Sweden] didn't enforce a lockdown to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, but instead advised citizens on how to behave. Shops, restaurants, and gyms stayed ...
Viewpoint: Ideology, politics pollute the debate over health risks of red meat
For decades there has been a statistical controversy about meat. By statistical I mean it was never a real health ...
‘Robust evidence for bisexual orientation among men’: LGBTQ study revision
In , J. Michael Bailey, a sexuality researcher at Northwestern University, and two colleagues showed men who identify as bisexual brief ...
