Monthly Archives: August 2001

Hypnotism Doesn’t Create More Accurate Memories

The Daily Telegraph (London) had an interesting summary of an Ohio State University study of using hypnosis to recover memories . The results confirm a lot of skeptical suspicions about the practice — the memories of people who underwent hypnosis … Continue reading

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Does HIV Cause AIDS?

Plastic had a little discussion about people who still doubt that HIV causes AIDS. In fact, HIV meets all three of the main criteria set out by Robert Koch more than a century again: a) HIV is almost universally present … Continue reading

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Do Tens of Thousands of Americans Die from Medical Errors?

An Institute of Medicine report issued a couple years ago has been widely touted in the media as establishing that s many as 98,000 people may die every year from medical errors. But a follow-up study in the Journal of … Continue reading

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Sex Hungry Ghost Haunts Zanzibar

The BBC reports that residents of the island nation of Zanzibar are being terrorized by a sex-craved ghost who sodomizes men while they sleep in their bed. The ghost, known as Popo Bawa, was blamed for previous acts of sexual … Continue reading

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