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10/29/2018 / By Rhonda Johansson

Vitamin C study finds that previous studies have been deliberately using ridiculously low doses to test flu prevention effects

A new study confirms that taking large doses of vitamin C can significantly reduce the duration of the common cold. Researchers from the University of Helsinki suggest that taking up to eight grams of vitamin C at the first signs of a cold can reduce the sick period by nearly 20 percent. These findings, which […]

08/19/2018 / By Rhonda Johansson

Forensic skeletal analysis technique used by crime labs to convict people now found to be BOGUS

Uh-oh. We may need to rewatch our crime shows. A team from the Australian National University claimed in their newly published paper in the Journal of Forensic Science that the presence of parturition scars (markers found on the female pelvic bone) may not actually be an indicator of childbirth. These lines are used by police officers […]

08/09/2018 / By Rhonda Johansson

99% of modern scientific papers are nothing more than politically-motivated pseudoscience, warns science pioneer

“People just don’t do it,” Wharton School professor and forecasting expert J. Scott Armstrong told Brietbart.com after making the shocking claim that less that one percent of papers published in scientific journals follow the scientific method. “I used to think that maybe 10 percent of papers in my field…were maybe useful. Now it looks like […]

04/24/2017 / By Rhonda Johansson

Corrupt medical industry now recommending the very same PSA prostate cancer test they already declared to be useless

Sorry, we were wrong, but we still don’t know what is right. That’s the gist of the new U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) advice regarding prostate cancer. Perhaps you remember that in 2012, the USPSTF discouraged prostate-specific antigen (PSA)-based screening for men of any age. The group said the test was practically useless, being […]

04/03/2017 / By Rhonda Johansson

Quack science study gives subjects tiny doses of vitamin D, then proclaims “Vitamin D doesn’t prevent cancer”

A recent study by JAMA claims that vitamin D3 and calcium supplementation do not significantly lower the risk of cancer after extended use. But read the fine print carefully! The study floods you with a lot of numbers and technical mumbo-jumbo that’s little more than fake science, hoping you gloss over the parts you don’t […]

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