Dispensary Corner 21 Mar 14
March 21, 2014
THAT’S just your opinion, man.
Almost half of American adults
(or 49%) agreed with at least one
medical conspiracy theory.
This comes via an online survey
of 1351 adults over two months
by YouGov, published in JAMA
Internal Medicine, with 18% of
the sample agreeing with three or
more medical conspiracy theories.
These included that the FDA
was intentionally suppressing
natural cures for cancer because
of drug company pressure, at
37%, and 20% agreed that either
corporations were preventing
officials from releasing data
linking cell phones to cancer,
or that physicians wanted to
vaccinate children even though
they knew such vaccines were
dangerous, the letter said.
I’M not even tired.
Yawning’s contagious, we all
know that, but a new study has
suggested that it might not have
anything to do with empathy.
The study, published in PLOS
One, administered a three
minute yawning video stimulus
to 328 participants, 222 of whom
contagiously yawned at least once
with a range of 0 to 15 yawns.
The study said the results
revealed variables like empathy
and tiredness had “little effect” on
contagious yawning susceptibility.
Interestingly, age was the
only variable with a significant
influence on whether or not
someone yawned, the study said,
but was only able to explain 8%
of the variation, which left “the
majority of variation unexplained
by any known factors.”
TOO healthy.
Planet Fitness gym in California
told member Tiffany Austin to put
a shirt over her body as her toned
body was “intimidating people”
KTVU Channel 2 reported.
It turns out the gym has a policy
where members can relax without
being subjected to the “look-atme”
attitude that exists in gyms
elsewhere, the station reported.
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