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Tag Archives: drugs
The Cult of Nutritionism Suffers a Setback
(photo: gualtiero) In a fine blow to the pseudoscientific cult of nutritionism, an intensive study conducted by the National Institutes of Health applied the same laboratory standards to vitamin supplements as are routinely applied to pharmaceuticals. Unsurprisingly, the researchers found … Continue reading
Posted in Health Care, science
Tagged alternative medicine, cancer, conspiracy theories, counterknowledge, cult, Damian Thompson, disease, drugs, Edgar R. Miller, epidemiology, green tea, health, healthcare, heart disease, Johns Hopkins University, Karen Kaplan, Los Angeles Times, medicine, modernity, National Institutes of Health, nineteenth century, Nutritionism, pharmaceuticals, placebo, pseudoscience, quackery, School of Medicine, science, snake oil sales, Technology, vitamin supplements
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Amsterdam’s Fading Red Light
In a blow to social libertarians, the prodigal country of Holland is finally taking steps to scrap legal prostitution and drug sales, citing widespred social decay and crime.
Posted in Around the Web
Tagged Amsterdam, crime, drugs, Holland, prostitution, social decay, social libertarians
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The Penalty of Touch
Your ominious police state technology news item of the day.
Lagalize Drugs
InstapunditStop the cash flow to criminal gangs and the Taliban. Help stabilize Mexico. “Prohibition is a failed luxury that I am not sure we can afford for that much longer.” An illusion of control.
The Vicious Side of Jamaica
A convicted cocaine dealer in Florida isn’t going to be deported to her native Jamaica, on grounds of the violence she would likely suffer for her lesbianism. It’s not very commonly known by the general public in this country, but … Continue reading
Posted in Around the Web
Tagged cocaine, dealer, deported, drugs, Earth, Florida, gay rights, homophobia, Jamaica, lesbian, lesbianism, violence
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Take Two
Earlier in the day, you might have been wondering how much of your assets might melt away, as markets around the world gyrated with perceived increasingly negative news. Later, on political blogs everywhere, reports that Fred Thompson was ending a … Continue reading
Posted in Election 2008, Health Care, Media, Society
Tagged addiction, Blogs, bridge, drugs, election, Fred Thompson, Heath Ledger, overdose, political, Republicans, Rudy Giuliani, tragedy
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