Questions tagged [medical-science]
Use this tag for questions about the science of medicine and its practices. Use [medications] for questions about the actual cures that people take, and use [alternative-medicine] for claims about cures and practices which are claimed to be alternative to official medical science
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Is the article 5 Huge Historical Vaccine Frauds by BRENDAN D. MURPHY accurate? [closed]
Here is the link to the article. Please verify if it accurate? https://officialbrendanmurphy.substack.com/p/5-huge-historical-vaccine-frauds?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&triedRedirect=true
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Can using tampons lead to harmful exposures to lead or heavy metals? [closed]
According to this news story by NPR that scientists at Columbia University and Michigan State University examined "30 tampons from across 14 brands and 18 product lines, which they did not name ...
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Communicating with thoughts [closed]
Let's run a quick "hypothetical"... Let's say a man woke up one day with direct communication to his neighbors and coworkers inside his head. Their voices are "heard" much like his ...
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Have human infant foreskins been put into commercial cosmetic products?
It's been a thing I've heard for a long time now, but I simply thought it was some sort of slander campaign. I recently read an article in Boston magazine which said
"the active ingredient in an ...
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Did a New Zealand boy start eating normally after being treated by Iranian-Islamic traditional medicine?
In a video broadcast from Iranian TV [Persian, English subtitles for first 1.5m], 7 years ago, it is claimed that a New Zealand boy, Solomon "Solly" Moss, started eating normally (without ...
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Does chromosome 6 deletion cause the patient to not feel pain, hunger, and fatigue?
In this 7-years-old Belfast Telegraph article there's a video posted to Russia Today about a girl called Olivia Farnsworth who has the genetic abnormality "chromosome 6 deletion" which ...
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Has the usage of body mass index caused historical harm and been utilized for racial exclusion?
ama-assn.org (American Medical Association) writes regarding BMI (body mass index)
The House of Delegates adopted new policy recognizing the issues with using BMI as a measurement because:
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Did Bill Gates, via the Gates Foundation, use his influence to prevent Oxford from making the patent for their COVID-19 vaccine open source?
In a Jan. 2023 AMA "Ask Me Anything" post on Reddit by Bill Gates, a user, Sherm199, stated that:
The Gates foundation fought for the Oxford vaccine to NOT be open-source and to instead be ...
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Does weight loss from Ozempic come mainly from muscle and connectivity tissue loss?
A recent "The Joe Rogan Experience" episode with Bill Maher as the guest discussed weight loss drugs, especially type-2 diabetes GLP-1 agonists. The following interchange took place (J is ...
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Has the absorption of menstrual hygiene products only now been compared using blood for the first time?
A number of articles such as this one or this one were published recently in reaction to this study.
The study is quoted as saying that "no study exists comparing the capacity of currently ...
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Can you fix drooping eyelids with exercises?
I stumbled upon this YouTube video which gives exercises to fix drooping eyelids:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYBd6t1k-38
The medical term used to qualify drooping eyelids is ptosis (or ...
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Do NIAID employees get a share of royalities from drugs that are based on scientific work within NIAID that provides the basis for them?
Robert F. Kennedy Jr claims in his book The Real Anthony Fauci on pages 245-246:
Dr. Fauci’s management style thrives on creating many such
opportunities for his agency and its employees to ...
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Did HHS admit that mandated childhood vaccines had not been tested for safety in pre-licensing inert placebo tests?
Robert F. Kennedy Jr claims in his book The Real Anthony Fauci on pages 594-595:
Most medicinal products cannot get licensed without first undergoing randomized placebo-controlled trials that compare ...
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Does reported alcohol intake, according to population surveys, only account for half of the alcohol sold?
A recent book by the House of Commons Library statistician Georgina Sturge, criticises an over reliance on data collected by self-reporting surveys in areas where there may be an incentive to minimise ...
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Was a study of uterine cancer conducted solely on male subjects?
According to a 1986 article in the Chicago Tribune:
Researchers [at Rockefeller University] are studying the effects of obesity on estrogen activity and the tendency for women to develop breast and ...
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