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Bad science of the day: Chocolate makes you thinner

Every good journalist knows that people tend to focus on headlines and the first few paragraphs of a news story. So, any good writer always puts the most eye-grabbing and most attention-getting line at the very top. The caveats and … Continue reading

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Bad science news of the day: Fit Females Make More Daughters

Can you spot any similarity between the two species shown above? Think how you would react of you saw this headline: “Fit Females Make More Daughters, Mighty Males Get Grandsons” I would immediately click on it and start reading it, … Continue reading

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Bullshit science story: Timehole Created; Can Make Events Disappear!

“Now you see it, now you don’t: Time cloak created,” screams the Associated Press headline! “Time cloaking: how scientists opened a hidden gap in time,” says the Christian Science Monitor. ““Time Cloak” Created; Can Make Events Disappear,” claims National Geographic. … Continue reading

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Low-cost ideas in the world of high-cost medicine-Part 1

      Diagnostics for All creates simple, low-cost diagnostic tests that are no more than small pieces of paper.   Sometimes I think we have made modern medicine too high-tech for our own good. Expensive machinery and high-priced diagnostics … Continue reading

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Oh my, what a lovely exoplanet you have there!

Exoplanets are the “in” thing right now. “Exoplanets”, for the uninitiated, is a term coined to describe planets that are outside of our solar system and may (I repeat, may) be habitable. The habitability equation is a tricky one and … Continue reading

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