Pat Robertson recently had heart surgery. It was successful, and in a statement Pat said:
Only the prayers of thousands of believing people kept me on this earth.
Way to give credit where credit is due, Pat! Most people give their doctors some of the credit, and others give it all to God. But Pat gives the [...]
Few people seem to know what homeopathy is. They assume it means natural medicine, when really it’s far more quack.
In a nutshell, homeopathy is the belief that the more diluted a substance is, the stronger it becomes. To treat a symptom, they dilute a substance that would normally cause it, which magically makes it have [...]
Scientists have found a way to turn adult pig cells into any tissue in the body, just like embryonic stem cells:
Dr Xiao’s team reprogrammed cells taken from a pig’s ear and bone marrow, using a cocktail of chemicals introduced into the cells via a virus.
Tests showed that the reprogrammed cells were capable of becoming any [...]
I know this will be a shocker to many of you, but a recent government study has concluded that most alternative medicine doesn’t work:
Ten years ago the government set out to test herbal and other alternative health remedies to find the ones that work. After spending $2.5 billion, the disappointing answer seems to be that almost none [...]
1) It was founded by a quack.
Daniel David Palmer discovered the power of spinal manipulation by allegedly healing a deaf man by repositioning a vertebrae in his spine. Shortly after, he healed someone with heart trouble through the same technique. Convinced he discovered a new medical technique, he opened the Palmer School of Chiropractic in 1897.
Palmer claimed that 95% of all [...]
This is hilarious and yet sad. If you must skip, skip to 4:30 where people willingly put snails on their faces in order to remove wrinkles. It’s unbelievable.
Is there anything people won’t do just because someone in a white coat tells them to do it?
Religious cancer patients are more prone to seek aggressive, life-prolonging care compared to non-religious patients, a new study says:
The patients who were devout were three times as likely as less religious ones to be put on a mechanical ventilator to maintain breathing during the last week of life, and they were less likely to do [...]
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