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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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Can swimming after having eaten make you drown?
If you eat a lot, you'll feel rather uncomfortable doing any physical exercise immediately after. As for getting stomach cramps and dying, though, that has never happened. So says snopes:
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6-meals-a-day strategy
I usually find that the body building realm is full of weird nutritional myths, but after some poking around, it seems that a lot of articles writing about it actually did say they were citing a "scie …
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Is the placebo effect a purely psychological effect?
There are several aspects of this phenomenon, and I don't think it could be summed up easily even if it were better understood.
Tellingly, placebo has most effect on non-specific symptoms. The easies …
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Koch's postulates for judging if HIV causes AIDS
Tellingly, Koch himself eventually abandoned the strict postulates!
Other than that, there are heaps of known virus infections that are exceptions to the postulates. I wouldn't pay that much regard, …
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Dichloroacetate (DCA) as a cure for cancer
There's an article on cancer.org that sums up the current state of the DCA research pretty well.
Clinical trials take a long time, and this is perhaps more true for medicine than it is for any other …
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Are mitochondria "natural cancer fighting cells"?
No, mitochondria are not cells, they are organelles and reside inside the cells.
The statement is probably a simplification (or misunderstanding) derived from the observation that a lot of cancer cel …
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Are deaths "skyrocketing" due to vaccination?
Well, the facts are that the process of vaccination involves injecting you with an antigen very similar to the thing you are to gain immunization to, so that your immune system may familiarize with it …
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Is AllergyEZ a validated treatment for allergies?
The warning flags:
They have testimonials all over the place, but extremely little reference to any actual science.
The "works for everything" claim is an eerily common trait in bogus medicine, and …
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Can a fungus or other parasites turn a high order animal into a zombie that carries out spec...
Richard Dawkins dedicated his entire book The Extended Phenotype (which is an excellent read if you get the chance) to elaborate on the idea that your genes may express themselves not only as adaptati …
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Snus or smoking tobacco: Which one is more harmful
First of all, smoking statistics in Sweden has followed a trend very similar to that of the rest of the world. I do not think that there is reason to assume that climate is a factor here, and I wouldn …
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