by J. Jerrald Hayes | Jul 30, 2017 | Health, Psychology
Mental Health Disorders are not Adjectives, Here’s Why: – Skeptical Mama Some of you may not know that I suffer with debilitating OCD, aka Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. Often this term gets tossed around as an adjective, for example, “I’m SO...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Jul 3, 2017 | Culture, Health, Psychology
Via health and fitness expert James Fell on FaceBook: Proof that Americans are lying about their sexual desires What Google searches for porn tell us about...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Jun 19, 2017 | Health, Pseudoscience, Science
Meet the chef who’s debunking detox, diets and wellness A few minutes into my encounter with the Angry Chef, I begin to wonder if his moniker might be ironic, like the big guy whose friends call him “Tiny”. On the basis of his excoriating blog...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Jun 9, 2017 | Brain Science, Health, Science
8 Sleep Experts on What to Do When You Can’t Turn Off Your Thoughts at Night Some nights, it’s like you can’t get your brain to shut up long enough for you to fall asleep. You’re mentally reviewing the day you just completed while also...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Jun 4, 2017 | Alternative Medicine, Health, Pseudoscience, Science, Science Based Medicine, What I'm Reading
I got in a FaceBook discusion (an argument) about the effectiveness of Chiropractic the other day when I posted a video of Dr Stephen Novella where he takes it down and I called it “Chiro-quackery” and at best it might be considered physical therapy and/or overpriced...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | May 29, 2017 | Health, Pseudoscience, Science
The rise of the cannabis cult: don’t believe the hype about medical marijuana | Spectator Health There are few substances that excite discussion quite as potently as cannabis. Explosive claims about its curative power circulate wildly online, often cited by...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Mar 28, 2017 | Health, Science, Science Based Medicine
To Quote The Credible Hulk on FaceBook DNA polymerase adds about 1 wrong deoxyribonucleotide per 100k bases during DNA replication. It can also “proofread” and correct many such mistakes, resulting in an error rate around 1 in 10 million bases in...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Feb 10, 2017 | Health, Philosophy
Sam Harris on Mindfulness as Secular Meditation – Video The stress-reductive benefits of meditation are trivial compared to the insights one can discover about the nature of the...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Dec 31, 2016 | Health, Pseudoscience, Science
So I am on FaceBook the other day and I say… Talk about stirring up a hornets nest. All these gluten avoiding friends of mine did not like at all what I was implying. That most people who think they have gluten sensitivity or a gluten intolerance don’t. In...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Nov 16, 2016 | Health, Science
Being Mortal FRONTLINE follows renowned writer and surgeon Atul Gawande as he explores the relationships doctors have with patients who are nearing the end of...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Sep 25, 2016 | Health
Get off the treadmill: living well in the age of plenty Do you ever learn about health from the media? I do. Here are some things I’ve seen recently. “How to engineer maximum deliciousness, pack in nutrients, increase sustainability, and build crazy food...
