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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Does looking at a monitor screen in a room with very low light source damage your eyes?
Suppose a person wants to play computer games at night without turning on the room lights. The only light source in the room is that monitor screen that the person is looking at -- with normal ...
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Did over 1000 people in the US die of cannabis overdose in 2021?
According to the National Safety Council, in 2021 in the US, 1159 people died of cannabis overdose, of which 1130 of the deaths were preventable:
Is this true?
I'm skeptical because the drug ...
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Have the Covid-19 vaccines caused more deaths than Covid-19 itself did?
A popular article by Steve Kirsch on his substack discusses the following:
A worldwide Bayesian causal Impact analysis suggests that COVID-19 gene therapy (mRNA vaccine) causes more COVID-19 cases ...
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Can an experiment done on casual cannabis users provide evidence for the risk of psychosis in long term users?
There is an episode of BBC Horizon with the title Cannabis: Miracle Medicine or Dangerous Drug?, presented by Dr Javid Abdelmoneim.
During the documentary Abdelmoneim meets Dr Amir Englund, a ...
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Is there any support for the claim that cannabis can cure cancer repeated in a BBC documentary? [duplicate]
There is an episode of BBC Horizon with the title Cannabis: Miracle Medicine or Dangerous Drug?. The presenter is a doctor. Due to copyright issues I cannot link the documentary directly.
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Does acetaminophen use during pregnancy lead to children developing autism?
There are apparently a bunch of law groups recruiting for potential class action lawsuits happening right now targeting medicines that contain acetaminophen, most notable Tylenol. The lawsuits allege ...
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Is there a scientific explanation for these two cases of healing after intercessory prayer?
I recently found two remarkable case reports of healings after intercessory prayer:
Case report of instantaneous resolution of juvenile macular degeneration blindness after proximal intercessory ...
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Are fat people who intentionally lose weight at a greater risk of dying from cardiovascular disease?
The Health at Any Size movement, which promotes "body positivity" and de-emphasizes body weight and obesity (among other things), claims that intentionally losing weight increases risk of ...
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Does cooking eggs at high temperatures oxidise more fats than low temperatures?
Over the years, eggs have been vilified, then given a reprieve with regard to cholesterol, but when reading Srinivasan & Rose (2014), there is mention of lipid oxidation which can supposedly cause ...
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Is gonorrhea "on the brink of becoming untreatable"?
In this article of the Financial Times about a "sexual health crisis" in the US, the following claim is made:
The study showed doxycycline was less effective for preventing gonorrhoea, ...
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Are puberty blockers fully reversible?
Multiple sources claim that puberty blockers function like a pause button. To name a few:
Using puberty blockers is like hitting a pause button
St. Louis Children's Hospital
“The really wonderful ...
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Did herbalist Maria Treben really systematically confuse inulin with insulin?
The widely read Austrian herbalist Maria Treben is frequently said to have fundamentally confused a number of biochemical concepts, theories, or at least names of substances.
As seen with the always ...
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Was Columbia University fined for animal cruelty due to experiments run by Mehmet Oz?
This SourceWatch article is being publicized in connection to Mehmet Oz:
In 2004, complaints about Dr. Mehmet Oz’s dog experiments were cited in a report from an internal investigation into ...
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Is the serotonin theory of depression false?
A couple of weeks ago, this article was published on Nature
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41380-022-01661-0
I am just a layman when it comes to this subject and it is therefore difficult for me to ...
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Can avoiding certain foods reduce inflammation? (Gluten, sugar...)
Lots of articles and books claim from moderate (help reduce inflammation) to miraculous (cure or completely eliminate symptoms of autoimmune disorders) claims about doing strict diets that avoid ...
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Do 80 to 90 percent of lifelong smokers never develop lung cancer?
Joshua Hawkins of BGR.com has stated that 80 to 90 percent of lifelong smokers never develop lung cancer.
To quote the article:
Scientists may have discovered why lifelong smokers never get lung ...
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Can Ayurvedic treatment reduce symptoms and needed anti-inflammatory medication in ulcerative colitis patients by more than 75%
I found a study on Research Gate titled
Effects of Ayurvedic treatment on forty-three patients of ulcerative
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This paper was originally published in An international quarterly journal of ...
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Did Rudolf Steiner prove the contagiousness of varicella in 1875?
Pages like those from the National Vaccine Information Center NVIC or the Centers for Disease Control CDC make the following claim:
In 1875, Rudolf Steiner discovered that chickenpox was infectious ...
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Can the Lifewave Patch reset stem cells to a younger, healthier state?
According to LifeWave, their X39 patch is able to
activate our stem cells and reset them to a younger, healthier state. This would be healing in a completely non-invasive, safe and cost-effective way....
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Do surgeons refuse to operate "to keep their own statistics clean"?
I was curious about this thrice-upvoted comment, which says: Surgeons are also known for refusing to operate in order to maintain their ratios. So I Googled it and it seems surgeons can refuse to ...
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Are women 32% more likely to die if operated on by a male surgeon? [closed]
An article in the Guardian reports this headline:
Women 32% more likely to die after operation by male surgeon, study reveals
The author of the original report also claims:
In our 1.3 million ...
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Are less than 1% of all adverse vaccine events reported?
According to Electronic Support for Public Health–Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (ESP:VAERS) "Likewise, fewer than 1% of vaccine adverse events are reported." (page 6).
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Does massaging a vaccinated arm reduce effectiveness of vaccine?
The Times of India claims that:
With intramuscular vaccines (most of the COVID-19
vaccine shots are delivered through this mean right now), rubbing,
pinching or massaging the injection site may ...
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Does drinking alkaline water help you recover from a hangover?
Related to another question of mine on "electrolyzed reduced water". There are a number of companies that sell commercial products claiming to produce such water. I'm guessing it's not by ...
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Does electrolyzed reduced water (ERW) extend the lifespan of animals (compared to regular water)?
Among the research interests of Dr. Pablo Campra (of recent graphite-in-Covid-vaccines claim) is something called electrolyzed reduced water (ERW). One of the (Asian) groups studying this presents is ...
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Multiwave Locked System (MLS) laser therapy - is it any better than just infrared light?
Multiwave Locked System (MLS) laser therapy is marketed [1] as a healing and pain-relieving treatment based on simultaneous application of 808nm continuous light, and 905nm pulsed light from laser ...
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Do spying devices implanted through human ear canals exist?
An article from a professor of psychology describes a type of so-called “ radio-wave, auditory, assaultive. transmitting (RAAT) implants,” which is essentially a covert listening device, and it can be ...
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Can regularly ingesting a poison build an immunity to it? [duplicate]
There is an ancient story of Mithridates of Pontus cultivating an immunity to poisons by regularly ingesting sub-lethal doses. (e.g. here, or here).
This strikes me as being extremely unlikely for ...
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Was there a dramatic rise in treatment-related deaths in US clinical trials during 2016-2017 compared to previous years?
For some reason when I googled "deaths in clinical trials" a page from a rather obscure (to me) US NGO "Center for Responsible Science" popped on the first page of results. It ...
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What evidence is there to say a SARS-COV2 virus exists? [duplicate]
https://www.drrobertyoung.com/post/university-of-western-australia-no-record-of-isolation-or-purification-of-cov-by-anyone-ever
A court order was indeed delivered to the university of WA and the ...
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Does Havana Syndrome exist?
The US House of Representatives recently passed a bill to help diplomats and officials that have been impacted by 'Havana Syndrome'. This legislation has already passed the Senate, and since signed ...
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Is seemingly bare-hands surgery (with no instruments) fake?
I have seen a video about surgery without surgical instruments, which can be seen here:
I found nothing about that Brazilian surgery (link), so I asked here to have some answer or comment about the ...
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Do African countries using Ivermectin have a better Covid-19 situation?
In the great Ivermectin debate, one frequently mentioned argument on the pro-side is a comparison among African countries. They argue that a set of countries in Africa having significantly lower cases ...
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Is the COVID-19 vaccine 50 times more likely to kill young people than COVID-19 itself?
Michael Yeadon, a former vice president at Pfizer and lately known as, e.g., making unsubstantiated claims about COVID vaccinations, has made the claim in question in a video interview (archived ...
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Human regeneration of limbs with pig's bladder [duplicate]
This article claims that a pig bladder was used to regenerate a finger: https://humanlimbregeneration.com/man-regrows-finger-tip-with-pigs-bladder/
There are actually quite a few articles on the web ...
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Is the COVID-19 vaccine highly unlikely to prevent infection a year after inoculation?
Vincent Racaniello (Professor in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons) wrote a blog in which he states “It’s highly unlikely that ...
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Does this article make a valid claim that SARS-CoV-2 isolation hasn't been demonstrated yet? [duplicate]
This is the article:
Lordchewy: "Exposing the Core Tenets of the Covid 1984 Regime, Part 2: Koch’s Postulates, Lack of Sars Cov 2 Isolation and of its Presence in Autopsy Reports", Medium, ...
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Did Hippocrates make a statement similar to "like cures like"?
A number of homeopathic websites include the quote, "By similar things a disease is produced and through the application of the like is cured," but not one of them gives a source for the ...
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Are these videos showing bats in a Wuhan lab for SARS‑CoV‑2 research?
A friend of mine brought this video to my attention. At 0:51, journalist Sharri Markson claims
As you can see, this video shows bats in a cage at the Wuhan Institute [of Virology]
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Do COVID-19 vaccines cause two deaths for every three deaths they prevent?
There is this new study that came out, alleging, that COVID-19 vaccines cause two deaths for every three deaths they prevent, which sounds pretty bad. I was wondering how valid this analysis is and ...
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Did Louis Pasteur keep a gun in the laboratory while developing the rabies vaccine?
Is it true that while developing the vaccine for rabies Louis Pasteur kept a gun in his laboratory and had instructed all his lab assistants to shoot anyone in the head who accidentally got infected ...
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Does this medical study prove that wearing gold is harmful? [closed]
So I have this article that was sent to me by a friend of mine and it pertains to a ruling in the Quran (that declares that silk and gold are forbidden for men to wear). So the article claims that ...
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Are there medical reasons for not being able to wear a surgical mask?
In countries with a mask mandate due to high COVID-19 incidences there is often some side rule in effect where you can get a medical certificate if you have some medical condition that would ...
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Does a vaccine provide additional protection to a previously infected and recovered patient? [closed]
The change in literature I've observed during the covid-19 pandemic is certainly prompting this question, but I think the question can be answered broadly in terms of immunology, which does have ...
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Does SARS-CoV-2 infect via asymptomatic transmission? [closed]
In this video, Dr Sam Bailey, along with Dr Robin Wakeling, state that there is no evidence for asymptomatic or pre-symptomatic transmission of SARS-CoV-2. (She also claims there is no evidence for ...
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Are vaccinated children significantly less healthy than the unvaccinated, as recent study claims?
In their 2020 study termed "Relative Incidence of Office Visits and Cumulative Rates of Billed Diagnoses Along the Axis of Vaccination" [full text], appearing in the International Journal of ...
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Is the incidence of CVST in vaccinated persons any higher than would be expected normally?
US health authorities are calling for a pause in the use of the Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccine, after reports of extremely rare blood clotting cases. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) ...
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Are chemicals in plastic causing a significant reduction in fertility?
This story in the Guardian quotes Shanna Swan, professor of environmental medicine and public health at Mount Sinai school of medicine in New York City. She makes a number of claims about the impact ...
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Does drinking diluted chlorine dioxide protect against COVID-19?
I read a bit about drinking diluted chlorine dioxide (e.g. 12mg/L) as a supposedly protective means against COVID-19. Apparently it is a widespread belief in Latin America, especially on social media, ...
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Is bruxism (teeth grinding) linked to parasitic infection?
There seems to be the common conception that bruxism (teeth grinding and jaw clenching) is a symptom of parasitic infections.
For example, this article by a dentist:
Sometimes teeth grinding is ...
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