-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990710c - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question : Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. : Nothing contained herein is ever endorsed for truth, accuracy or meaning. : No flirtatious phonesexers were called during production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # DOES CHIROPRACTIC MAKE THE GRADE? Did you know to get into medical school you need a grade point average of 3.56 - but you can get into chiropractic school with a GPA of 2.90? This and many other fascinating facts are found in "Inside Chiropractic: A Patient's Guide." No overeducated chiropractics eh? http://www.healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=14113 # HEALTH CLAIMS OK FOR WHOLE GRAINS. While food supplement makers can make all kinds of unsubstantiated claims about their products, cereal makers had to struggle for the right to say their stuff can help prevent disease. Ironic: http://healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=14060 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # FBI: SUSPECTS KEPT LIST OF SACRAMENTO SYNAGOGUE MEMBERS. Two men have been arrested in California in a "major break" in the investigation of 3 arson attacks on synagogues in the Sacramento area. The arrests were made in Shasta County on unrelated charges, but subsequent searches "yielded evidence of potential involvement in or knowledge of" the arson attacks. "These individuals had compiled a list of names in a notebook. Access to ammunition - see http://cnn.com/US/9907/09/synagogue.fires/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # SEX AND THE SINGLE FETUS. Want proof we are all sexual beings? Then read about the ultrasound two Italian researchers got of a 32-week female fetus masturbating in utero. There's something titillating to talk about over dinner. http://healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=14058 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # NASA CHIEF REMEMBERS CONRAD AS 'CUTTING-EDGE PIONEER' Flags at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, and Johnson Space Center in Houston flew at half-staff Friday in memory of the third person to walk on the moon -- former Apollo astronaut Charles "Pete" Conrad Jr. -- who died in a motorcycle accident. Death by internal injuries, the highway patrol said. http://cnn.com/TECH/space/9907/09/conrad.obit.04/index.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # FEAR AND LOATHING PART I: THE INTERNET. It's no surprise that the Internet is becoming an object of delusions & paranoia in those prone to psychosis. The Internet, with its vast reach and dark rumors of security and privacy breaches, is ripe for such things. But even paranoics have enemies, eh? http://www.healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=14112 # FEAR/LOATHING PART II: SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH. Fear of science can interfere with serious research - as it did in Los Alamos, New Mexico, recently. Scientists there had to cancel a test of a bacteria-detecting device, because of community fears of "biological experiments" even though the test involved no risk to the community at all. Or is that disinformation? http://www.healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=14109 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # LENSLESS CAMERA CAPTURES THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGES. Using principles gleaned from radio astronomy and medical X-ray tomography, researchers at the University of Illinois have assembled an optical system that produces three-dimensional reconstructions of objects without using a lens. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1999/07/990709083019.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # THE ORIGINAL HEALTH NAZIS. Here's a touchy subject - positive public health contributions made to the world by Nazi Germany. We are so used to viewing things in black and white, it might be hard to accept the regime did have a couple of good ideas - like screening for cancer and campaigning against tobacco smoking. So anti-Nazis get lung cancer, eh? http://www.healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=14107 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ SkeptiLinks: # NATO Bombing Left Serbian City in Toxic Nightmare http://www.commondreams.org/kosovo/kosovo.htm # Pentagon to study NATO air war - what worked and what didn't: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560233603-60e # UN gets report of Kosovo mass grave - up to 350 bodies: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560238152-8a6 # Guatemalan graves excavated - up to 200 dead in convent: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560234041-672 # Saddam: UN waging germ warfare - locust eggs to harm Iraqi crops. Also: UN staff stealing archaeological treasures for sale abroad: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560236528-909 @ World's Richest People 1999: http://forbes.com/tool/toolbox/billnew/ @ All about the Trojan horse danger: http://www.commodon.com/threat/ @ Anti-hacking warez: http://www.leechsoftware.com/netmon/index.html # TAKE A SEXUAL FLIGHT OF FANCY - 90% have pleasant sexual fantasies: http://www.healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=14110 # DOES BIPOLAR DISORDER CAUSE THESE GREAT SEX FANTASIES? Somewhat: http://www.healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=14105 @ DID GOING FAT-FREE FOR THREE WEEKS DAMAGE MY BRAIN? Vitamin deficiency: http://www.healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=14046 @ IS THERE SOMETHING SCARY IN MY SHAMPOO? Another Internet hoax: http://www.healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=14056 # Air control center loses communications - near-disaster over Miami: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560235622-c48 # Chinese computer programmer convicted of stealing USAF passwords: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560228680-d8e @ The new Pat Rawlings Space Art Gallery: http://www.thespaceport.com/pics/rawlings @ Smith Wigglesworth - God's Man for His Hour: http://catchlife.org/smith_wigglesworth_god's_man.htm @ Ghost stories and strange folktales of the American South: http://www.themoonlitroad.com/ @ Post Apartheid Art from South Africa: http://www.si.edu/nmafa/exhibits/SAsite/top.htm # IT'S RAINING PESTICIDES - Rain in Europe has such high levels of dissolved pesticides that it would be illegal to supply it as drinking water. 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