Month: August 2021
homeopathy
homeopathy is an alternative medicine system that is based on prescientific ideas about biology, biochemistry and medicine. Homeopathy is based on the idea that “like cures like” (which is a form of magical thinking) and then performing successive dilutions of substances in water. Each dilution is believed to increase, not decrease, the “potency” of the
Miracle Mineral Supplement
Miracle Mineral Supplement (MMS) has been sold by the Genesis II Church of Health and Healing as a cure-all to treat conditions and diseases as diverse as autism, cancer, diabetes, multiple sclerosis, and malaria. Indeed, it’s touted as a cure for nearly all disease. It is, however, basically industrial bleach. As ridiculous and harmful as
The Hallelujah Diet
Sometimes organized religion offers official guidance in the form of dietary prohibitions or prescriptions . Sometimes individuals attempt their own interpretations, with inconsistent and sometimes amusing results. The Hallelujah Diet focuses on a biblical, vegan plant-based diet where 85% of the food you eat should be eaten in its raw natural state. This program recommends
purity of essence and the vaccine
antivaxers believe in Vaccine body contamination and to them there is no difference between an intramuscular and an intravenous injection because to them both are equally “contaminating”. Both equally sap and impurify your precious bodily fluids. It’s also not a coincidence that many of the treatments for “vaccine-induced autism” or any other condition falsely attributed
RSV and COVID-19
Doctors who claimed that COVID-19 was essentially harmless to children are now being confronted with the sad fact that it is sometimes quite dangerous to them. How they respond reveals much about them and little about the virus. In some parts of the United States, COVID-19 is affecting children more now than at any time
Meetings using VR
Facebook is hoping to reunite people in the same meeting room once again albeit, a virtual one with avatars of colleagues, gesture tracking and infinite whiteboards. Horizon Workrooms allows workers to put on an Oculus Quest 2 VR headset and be transported to a CGI environment with a mixed-reality desk where they can see and
Taliban websites go offline
Taliban websites that delivered the victorious insurgents’ official messages to Afghans and the world at large in five languages went offline abruptly on Friday in what some experts have interpreted as indicating an effort to try to silence them.They had been shielded by Cloudflare, a San Francisco-based content delivery network and denial-of-service protection provider. Cloudflare
humanoid robot based on self-driving technology
Tesla boss Elon Musk says his electric vehicle company is building a humanoid robot. The idea behind the robot is to take over the mundane tasks humans don’t want to do, for example it could be sent grocery shopping. And Musk wanted to allay fears of his robots taking over the world, explaining that it’s
ID verification on Tinder
Asking for ID to verify a person’s identity in order to use social media and other online platforms has been suggested by some as a way of combating online abuse by removing anonymity and the perceived ability of abusers to avoid accountability. Tinder is to introduce ID verification for users of the dating app around
Japan US and China in race to bring soil to Earth from Mars region
Japanese space agency scientists said they plan to bring soil samples back from the Mars region ahead of the United States and China, which started Mars missions last year, in hopes of finding clues to the planet’s origin and traces of possible life. The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, or Jaxa, plans to launch an explorer