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@ How The Internet Ruined San Francisco:
http://www.salonmagazine.com/news/feature/1999/10/28/internet/
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# QUETIAPINE HELPS RESIDUAL SCHIZOPHRENIA - Schizophrenic patients who have
responded incompletely to conventional antipsychotic therapy may improve
significantly on quetiapine. http://psychiatry.medscape.com/13278.rhtml
# BEWARE OF LONG-TERM EFFECTS OF ANTIDEPRESSANTS - Don't overlook the
possibility of long-term and late-emerging side effects when prescribing
antidepressant medications. http://psychiatry.medscape.com/13323.rhtml
: What's your fave mood-altering drug? Do you use it often? Does it help?
# Once Is Enough (one dose of amphetamine could be enough to induce long-
lasting changes) http://helix.nature.com/nsu/991028/991028-5.html
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# 'End alternative therapy free-for-all' (BBC) UK Doctors' leaders call
for the regulation of alternative medicine to protect patients from
potentially dangerous practices. Do you trust your iridiologist?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_501000/501136.stm
@ Links - Quackwatch: http://www.quackwatch.com/
@ Scientific Review of Alternative Medicine: http://www.hcrc.org/sram/
@ Research Council for Complementary Medicine: http://www.gn.apc.org/rccm/
: What's your favorite alternative medical practice? Does it work? Do the
survivors like it? What's the survival rate? Are you sure? Did you count?
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# HIGH STRESS LEVELS IN INFANT RATS IMPAIR COGNITIVE ABILITIES IN ADULTHOOD.
A study undertaken with rats points to a physiologic relationship between
levels of the stress hormone corticotropin-releasing hormone (CRH) in
infancy and brain changes in later life that can negatively affect memory
and learning skills. http://psychiatry.medscape.com/13301.rhtml
: Were you stressed in infancy? Was your life ruined? Did this result from
deliberate experimentation or sloppy parenting? Does your alien implant calm
you down? Do you remember being implanted? Is it a happy memory? Why not??
# Neurobiology of Morals: http://helix.nature.com/nsu/991021/991021-6.html
# PANIC ATTACKS AND HYPERTENSION FREQUENTLY LINKED. So calm down, have
some Thorazine: http://psychiatry.medscape.com/13289.rhtml
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# Of Particle Physics Theory & StarTrek Captains. Invisible extra dimensions
do for particle physicists exactly what they do for Star Trek captains:
they provide a way to cover a lot of ground quickly -- and to explain
anomalous behavior. Some theories contend that we're not aware of extra
dimensions because they extend only a very short distance, far shorter
than the size of an atom. http://unisci.com/stories/19994/1022996.htm
: How many dimensions have you noticed? Have you shifted dimensions lately?
What's your fave dimension? What dimensions would you like to do away with?
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Crash-A-Rama:
# No EgyptAir survivors expected - squashed, see
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561876796-d83
# More: EgyptAir crash victims remembered, see
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561875833-d33
# Also: EgyptAir plummet is focus of probe, see
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561875543-7a5
# Also: EgyptAir co-pilot was soon to marry, see
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561876699-4e4
# And: EgyptAir's management criticized, see
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561875368-b3c
# And: L.A.'s Muslims remember Egypt pilots, see
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561872616-3c6
# Sidebar: Major air disasters, see
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561872415-e8d
# Sidebar: Boeing 767 involved in crash, see
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561872412-18e
# Clinton: No evidence of jet sabotage, see
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561872753-d9e
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WHAT'S NEW Robert L. Park Friday, 29 Oct 99 Washington, DC
3. PERPETUUM MOBILE: ABC TO EXPOSE FREE ELECTRICITY HUCKSTER.
Dennis Lee is three-fourths of the way through his 45 city tour of
the US to demonstrate his technology for making unlimited free
electricity (WN 1 Oct 99). He's been tracked by ABC Good Morning
America consumer reporter Janice Lieberman. Her report is set for
next Friday. Lee depends on "permanent magnet motors that are
more than 200% efficient" and the "Fourth Law of Motion" to make
free electricity. All it takes to get one of his machines
installed in your home, so you can be disconnected from the grid
before the Y2K crisis blacks out everyone else, is a $275 gift to
Better World Technologies, Inc., and I'm from the planet Mongo.
4. ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE: INTERCESSORY PRAYER STUDY RELEASED. A
study in Archives of Internal Medicine found fewer complications
among coronary patients at St. Luke's Hospital in Kansas City if
Christian volunteers prayed for them without their knowledge--but
only if the right scoring method is used. Even so, physicist Vic
Stenger notes that the "3 sigma," result, P=.04, would not be
publishable in Physical Review Letters. The study made no mention
of contrary results, such as Sir John Galton's classic 1872 study
of the longevity of English monarchs. Since they head the Church
of England, the daily Order for Morning Prayer includes prayers
for their health and long life. Despite this huge intercessory
cohort, Galton found no effect on their longevity compared to the
general population. Maybe he was using the wrong scoring method.
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SkeptiLinks:
@ Who Is The Millennium's Greatest Woman?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/events/millennium/default.stm
@ Are You Psychic? http://www.salemtarot.com/cgi-bin/rhine.pl
# Close watch kept for Falun Gong protests, see
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561872439-d6c
# China tries dissident - candle subversion, see
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561873180-a17
# Also: Falun Gong leaders charged in China, see
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561871977-77b
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a rattlesnake she gnashed her own, forgetting momentarily the English
walnut she was holding within her choppers, and swooned, not exactly
frothing at the mouth but bleeding profusely, enough indeed to require
the services of an advanced technician." --Natalie Henderson
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