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- 507projex, on 01/29/2008, -5/+219Eight glasses a day was invented to faciliate the need for more toilets by toilet-making companies.
- Shogi, on 01/29/2008, -3/+164Dugg for busting that damn 8 glasses of water myth. Pain in the ass.
- unicronband, on 01/29/2008, -2/+137"Can you believe grandpa used to think mental illnesses were caused by a chemical imbalance in the brain and not the overabundance of body thetens? Everyone knows a strict regimen of vitamins, saunas and audit counseling keeps you perfectly sane. For the love of LRH!"
- Angostura, on 01/29/2008, -3/+100Why are we linking to some pill-pusher's site, rather than linking to the full text of the original:
http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/335/7633/1288
He can't even get the copy and paste job right - for example he says that "decaffeinated beverages will do the trick". The original says that "existing studies suggest that adequate fluid intake is usually met through typical daily consumption of juice, milk, and even caffeinated drink".
He's mangled some of the other findings too. Look at the original.
Buried as inaccurate. - theshizzler, on 01/29/2008, -0/+87I appreciate any effort to dispel these myths. Just talking with some of the older folks at work...man, you would not believe some of the stuff they believe about health. Then again, I'm sure my grandchildren will be just as incredulous about some of the things I believe to be true, too. :(
- doctechnical, on 01/29/2008, -10/+68Too bad they didn't add "Homeopathic anything is *****" to that list.
- dunderballer, on 01/29/2008, -8/+59They should add the myth that vaccines cause autism. Apparently ABC hasn't gotten the memo on that one.
http://digg.com/general_sciences/ABC_Perpetuates_H ... - brufleth, on 01/29/2008, -2/+52As someone with an electrical engineering degree I can't come up with a good reason why an MRI or PET machine would be affected by a cell phone unless someone left it in their pocket when they were getting scanned.
Could you link to any sort of information to back up your claim? - andycr512, on 01/29/2008, -0/+47"I mean really who drinks the breast milk of another animal? that is sooo gross."
I find it no more gross than eating a chicken ovulation or a pig's ribs. When you think about it a lot of the things we eat sound gross on paper. - SammyJr, on 01/29/2008, -16/+61They need to add the myth about circumcision being beneficial for newborns. Cutting off part of someone's healthy body is just dumb.
- cardiolite, on 01/29/2008, -1/+46Well i wouldn't bother asking a lab tech about MRI or PET since lab techs take blood and tissue samples and do the analysis and wouldn't know dick about the physics of MRI or positron emmision. However since i am a nuclear medicine tech and i do PET scans for a living and i'm also registered in MRI i can tell you that in 13 years i have never seen it necessary to any kind of service call or recalibration on an x-ray machine, gamma camera, CT scanner, PET scanner or MRI due to radio waves from a cell phone.
- Dchandaman, on 01/29/2008, -0/+41good to hear that my mom was wrong about reading in the dark
- KyleGoetz, on 01/29/2008, -0/+36It's all a conspiracy by Big Crapper!
- spidamonkey, on 01/29/2008, -4/+36Wait a minute you doctors have been telling us to drink 8 glasses of gravy a day for years!!
- FickyFicky, on 01/29/2008, -1/+33You seem to like saying this when Kevin submits. (http://www.digg.com/users/cxzsaq/history/comments)
The thing is, most of what he submits is actually worth a digg, so far as I'm concerned (although some articles are a little too geeky for even my taste). I digg not because it's Kevin, but because the articles are worth reading. Check his "Submitted" history. There's good stuff there. - aidave, on 01/29/2008, -0/+28"We use only 10 percent of our brains"
Thank you! I am so sick of hearing this myth. - stevealford, on 01/29/2008, -0/+28My dad has beehives back home and I'll tell you this: it's the best damned honey you've ever eaten. Even though it still has a few legs scattered around in a jar (because it's not processed like store-bought honey), it's still worth it. Honey also kills bacteria and germs (they can't live in it for some reason, the ancient egyptians used it as antiseptic and wound-cleaning), so even if you DO crunch on a bee part once in a while, who ***** cares, it won't hurt you and... IT'S DELICIOUS.
-No Bees Were Harmed During the Typing of this Comment- - Otto, on 01/29/2008, -0/+28While it's at least plausible that an MRI would need re-calibrate due to radio wave interference (it's not actually true, but it is at least plausible), a PET system doesn't use radio waves in any shape or form and would be completely unaffected by them. PET uses gamma rays and beta decay to see through things.
MRI's need frequent calibration because that's the nature of the machine. It's highly sensitive to magnetic field variations, which happen all the time naturally (the planet's magnetic field is not fixed). The machines don't get out of alignment because somebody is sending out a couple watts in the microwave band. You get stronger power levels than any cellphone leaking around the doors of a microwave oven. - mygans, on 01/29/2008, -0/+28if you dont drink enough fluids you will end up with pain in the ass....literally.....
- blast_flame, on 01/29/2008, -0/+27I did not even notice it was by kevin rose when I dugg it up. I dugg it because I liked it.
- doctechnical, on 01/29/2008, -0/+25One of these days I'll tell my little nephew about how they *used* to take a kid's temperature at the hospital. He probably won't believe me. "They put the thermometer WHERE?!!?"
- turbojugend23, on 01/29/2008, -0/+24Or honey... It sounds pretty gross when you realize that it is bee vomit.
- turbojugend23, on 01/29/2008, -2/+26"I mean really who drinks the breast milk of another animal?"
Duh! Most animals would do this given the chance. They just lack the skills to domesticate and milk another animal. Take cats for example. They happen to love cow's milk. - oldhick, on 01/29/2008, -0/+23No no no, pain in the urethra! Wait, that might be something I picked up on the nudist flight in Germany.
- stevealford, on 01/29/2008, -4/+26No, it was a religious practice to remove the most sensitive part of the genitals so that young boys woudn't touch themselves. Aside from North America and Israel, it's NOT a common procedure performed on newborns. Do some research about "Dr." Kellogg (the cereal guy) and his work to get all American doctors to begin circumcising all baby boys. He thought sex was impure and wanted to prevent masturbation. He even said that was the reason for circumcision, it's not something I had to infer. Male circumcision served the same purpose as "female circumcision:" it reduced sexual stimulation.
The stats about STD rates are *****. They compare rates of circumcised men in AFRICA vs uncirc. Generally speaking, African men who are circ are the one who have access to medicine and condoms, whereas the majority of the population don't. It's a skewed and biased set of data.
Circumcision is a fifteen minute procedure that the doctor gets paid $500 for, so you have to ask yourself why they WOULDN'T advise it. There is no medical necessity or value to it, it's just another vial of snake oil. As long as people believe the hype that you need to get it done, doctors will continue to recommend that you get it done. - Shogi, on 01/29/2008, -1/+22Eating a large amount of any meat will make you sleepy.
- pbaehr, on 01/29/2008, -0/+21I can't figure out where to apply it.
- unicronband, on 01/29/2008, -2/+22That's what she said!
- ricksite, on 01/29/2008, -0/+20The myth was that blood is blue inside your body and only turns red when it hits oxygen. Blood is always red. It may look blue through certain parts of the skin but that is because the skin is filtering the light. Blood in the veins is also often represented as blue in diagrams of the body to differentiate it from arteries. This may lead to confusion after hearing the myth. (For the record, venous blood is dark red)
- SammyJr, on 01/29/2008, -5/+22Hmm.. even if that were true, newborns aren't having sex. Besides, Americans are mostly cut and we have plenty of STDs and HIV to show off for our trouble. Also, being a circumcised man, are you saying that I can go screw an STD-laden whore and be ok? No, of course not. I need a condom for any sense of safety. So why not just wear a condom and leave the baby alone?
- TheSabre, on 01/29/2008, -3/+198. Catching a cold has nothing to do with temperature or wet hair.
I wish I had a nickel for every time some old hag told me to wear a jacket or I'll catch a cold. Or not to go outside with wet hair. Or not to keep the window open when it's cold outside. - doctechnical, on 01/29/2008, -1/+15"It's not like doctors just get off on cutting your foreskin off."
But they do get *paid* to do it. - tMANwi, on 01/29/2008, -0/+14But it's got electrolytes!
- LLLSecretChimp, on 01/29/2008, -0/+13Under the arm? That is gross.
- BadseedJR, on 01/29/2008, -1/+13I've never seen no plants grow outta the toilet
- LLLSecretChimp, on 01/29/2008, -0/+12Actually, a lot of BBQ places server pig's ribs on paper.
- ricksite, on 01/29/2008, -6/+18How about adding that blood inside of the body is not blue. My friend's daughter's teacher told her this.
- iamnos, on 01/29/2008, -3/+15Both the American and Candian pediatrics associations do not suggest performing circumcisions as a routine procedure. There may be some benefits, but they do not outweigh the risks. See the links I provided above.
- SammyJr, on 01/29/2008, -1/+12That's Dr. Schoen's website. He's one of America's last hardcore circumcision advocates and is known to write poetry about circumcision. (Google it.) Everything on his list of benefits can be acquired without amputating the foreskin as this is 2008, not 500BC.
There are definitely people who get off on circumcision. Google CircList - and its decidedly not worksafe. - usafdave, on 01/29/2008, -13/+23Water? ...like from the toilet?
BRAWNDO ftw! - stevealford, on 01/29/2008, -0/+10The fact that the ringing phone might have surprised or scared the patient when it rang probably never occurred to you, did it?
Even if there was something that DID mess with the monitor, it wouldn't matter because it's a MONITOR. It monitors the vital signs. It doesn't change them. It doesn't stimulate anything. It wouldn't "cause death"... unless someone called to yell at a heart patient. - inactive, on 01/29/2008, -5/+14I recommend everyone watch Penn and Teller's *****!: Alternative Medicine. A scathing attack on the ***** that is all manner of "alternative" medicine. You can find the full episodes on YouTube.
- adrianmonk, on 01/29/2008, -1/+10I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but mostly likely, you won't be like anything in a century or so. I'm just saying...
- funsac22, on 01/29/2008, -2/+11Any big meal will make you tired as your body is using energy to digest all that food and you used quite a bit of energy to scarf it all down.
- inactive, on 01/29/2008, -0/+9It's what I crave.
- inactive, on 01/29/2008, -0/+9People are so full of *****, I've heard this crap from so many people, I knew it was probably *****.
- macaddct1984, on 01/29/2008, -3/+12"That's like a ***** homework assignment! I can't even remember what day it is and now I have to remember to drink 8 glasses of water a day? You need a barrel to carry that much ***** around! If you don't drink 56 bottles of water a week, scientists say you should take a garden hose at the end of the week and shove it up your ass."
Lewis Black - stevealford, on 01/29/2008, -0/+9Your skin absorbs the high-energy colors of the spectrum so that all that you see of the bright red arterial blood a blue hue through the skin. As soon as you get cut, the blood flows out and you see that it's red. If you were to run saline with red foodcoloring mixed in it through your arteries, it would still look blue through your skin.
- xaeon, on 01/29/2008, -0/+8War Application Form 1:
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Were you actually being serious? - roomforpanic, on 01/29/2008, -1/+9So, more first THEN 7? Weird.
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