A 1978 article by the late Max Gerson still makes people sit up in wonder. It was published ? a remarkable 19 years after his death ? in the journal Physiological Chemistry and Physics. Gerson perfected the chemico-physiological theory and practice of the coffee enema. By his theory, cancer is caused by poisons accumulating in […]
Month: March 2005
The hair of Harald Hammarstr?m
Harald Hammarstr?m of Chalmers University of Technology has joined the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists (LFHCfS).
Hopped up about subtle hope
Do you enjoy research that is all about hopes and dreams? Then do you not owe yourself a look at The International Society for the Study of Subtle Energies and Energy Medicine?
The hair of Rebecca Slayton et al.
Rebecca Slayton, Darius Widera, Rebecca Daw, Ralph Bernstein adn kathleen Fix have joined the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists (LFHCfS).
Suicide — a Poisson process?
Elaine Chew and Philip Greenspun’s research report "Is Suicide at MIT a Poisson Process?" is sobering, yet mathematically-based. It is perhaps important to remind people that there is nothing intrinsically sad about the Poisson process. Some — Singfat Chu of the National University of Singapore, for one — […]
Ig Nobel UK Diary
"I have a present for you. Here, you see?" Pek Van Andel, swathed in an overcoat, trailing a wheeled, rumpled suitcase, and buzzing with Lieutenant Columbo impishness, held out two rod-like things. … So begins this week’s Improbable Research column in The Guardian
The adventures of Hideto Tomabechi
Hideto Tomabechi — who first made headlines in Japan almost a decade ago after he cured brainwashed members of the AUM Shinrikyo doomsday cult that unleashed deadly sarin gas on the Tokyo subway system — claims to have developed a tune for ring tones that promises to increase the breast measurements of those who listen […]
Fraudulent fly
Investigator Sally Shelton alerted us to the case of the fraudulent fly, and the significant role played therein by Dr. Andrew Ross, Curator of Fossil Arthropods at The Natural History Museum in London.
Hanson’s hand-made heads
David Hanson builds heads the new-fashioned way.
Bush/Rumsfeld vs. the cetaceans
Certain persons’ opinions count more than others in the matter of George Bush and Donald Rumsfeld versus the neighbors. The October 20, 2004 court opinion is a matter of record. In summary, the judges’ opinion is stark and simple: "We conclude that the Cetaceans do not have statutory standing to sue." To put this in […]