Questions tagged [medical-science]
Use this tag for questions about the science of medicine and its practices. Use [medications] for questions about the actual cures that people take, and use [alternative-medicine] for claims about cures and practices which are claimed to be alternative to official medical science
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Did around 50% of sailors die from scurvy on long voyages?
Wikipedia's article on scurvy asserts:
During the Age of Sail, it was assumed that 50 percent of the sailors
would die of scurvy on a major trip.
This is cited to an article by Catherine Price, who ...
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Does nitrogen asphyxiation (when used as a capital punishment method) cause convulsions?
I was reading this Guardian article about the recent execution of Anthony Boyd by nitrogen asphyxiation, and it explains that the first person subjected to the method, Kenny Smith, was seen "...
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Does allopathy kill 225-783 thousand people in the US per year?
According to the website Before It's News:
With its smorgasbord of synthetic
drugs, vaccines, surgery, chemotherapy and radiation, Western medicine
or allopathy has earned the dubious honor of ...
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Will my bladder burst if I hold my pee?
A Man Ruptured His Bladder After Holding in Pee for 18 Hours says a man drank 10 beers, fell asleep, and then woke up with a burst bladder.
I was told it's not possible to hold your pee until your ...
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Did a Chinese football fan die after voluntarily staying awake for 11 days straight?
Daily Mail, 22 June, 2012
A Chinese football fan died after going 11 nights without sleep as he
tried to watch every single kick of the ball of Euro 2012.
Jiang Xiaoshan, said to be supporting ...
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Does consuming excrement, urine, ashes and clay effectively treat snake bite?
Vinay Pitak is Part I of the Pali Tripitaka (Theravada Buddhist scripture).
In it, Gautam Buddha gave the cure for snake bite. Dhamma Talks quotes it as:
For snakebite: A medicine may be made of the “...
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Have the Covid-19 vaccines caused more deaths than Covid-19 itself did?
A popular article by Steve Kirsch on his substack discusses the following:
A worldwide Bayesian causal Impact analysis suggests that COVID-19 gene therapy (mRNA vaccine) causes more COVID-19 cases ...
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Do COVID-19 vaccines cause two deaths for every three deaths they prevent?
There is this new study that came out, alleging, that COVID-19 vaccines cause two deaths for every three deaths they prevent, which sounds pretty bad. I was wondering how valid this analysis is and ...
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Were X-rays of Gazan children with bullets in their heads faked?
The New York Times has published a guest essay entitled "65 Doctors, Nurses and Paramedics: What We Saw in Gaza". The article features three photographs of x-rays showing bullets in the head ...
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Does acetaminophen (paracetamol) use during pregnancy lead to children developing autism?
There are apparently a bunch of law groups recruiting for potential class action lawsuits happening right now targeting medicines that contain acetaminophen (known as paracetamol outside the USA), ...
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Are vaccinated children significantly less healthy than the unvaccinated, as recent study claims?
In their 2020 study termed "Relative Incidence of Office Visits and Cumulative Rates of Billed Diagnoses Along the Axis of Vaccination" [full text], appearing in the International Journal of ...
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Does drinking diluted chlorine dioxide protect against COVID-19?
I read a bit about drinking diluted chlorine dioxide (e.g. 12mg/L) as a supposedly protective means against COVID-19. Apparently it is a widespread belief in Latin America, especially on social media, ...
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Do 80 to 90 percent of lifelong smokers never develop lung cancer?
Joshua Hawkins of BGR.com has stated that 80 to 90 percent of lifelong smokers never develop lung cancer.
To quote the article:
Scientists may have discovered why lifelong smokers never get lung ...
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Is vegetable oil making us dumber?
In this video, titled "The $212 Billion Dollar Food ingredient poisoning your Brain", Joseph Everett makes the case that vegetable oils are lowering human IQ.
He cites professor Michael A. ...
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Did over 1000 people in the US die of cannabis overdose in 2021?
According to the National Safety Council, in 2021 in the US, 1159 people died of cannabis overdose, of which 1130 of the deaths were preventable:
Is this true?
I'm skeptical because the drug ...
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