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Emperor Cholesterol Has No Clothes!

Here is a story of public policy gone awry when it strays…

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Resilience

     Recently my wife and I climbed Mount Kilimanjaro in Africa. We…

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Who is Susceptible to the Placebo Effect?

If I had to guess who is likely to benefit from the…

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The Power and Danger of Wishful Thinking

There once was a goldsmith in Cyprus called Pygmalion who liked to…

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Does Acupuncture work?

  I once madethe mistake of expressing doubts about acupuncture to a…

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Dumb and Dumber: Marijuana and its Harm to IQ.

 Medicinal? depends on who is using.   Medicinal? depends on who is using. John…

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You be the Judge

  The full weight of Justice, as we see it.   The full weight…

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Father’s Age and Child’s Psychiatric Disease –What’s the Connection?

  Good old Dad and baby Source: Flikcr Creative Commons   Good old Dad…

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Running: a Fringe Benefit of a Bad Economy?

  Running: the best psychotherapy   Running: the best psychotherapyTimes are tough. We seem…

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Ancient Indian Food

  Egyptian kitchen, 3800 years ago.   Egyptian kitchen, 3800 years ago.For years anthropologists…

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