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Dear Believers In Vampires And Integrative Medicine - Plasma From Young Donors Is Not A Remedy For Anything Except Wealth

One new craze in the alternatives to medicine community is infusions of plasma from young donors, sold with the claim that it can prevent aging, dementia, Parkinson’s disease, multiple sclerosis, and…

Domesticated Wolves Suffer Separation Anxiety From Humans Similar To Dogs

It's no secret how dogs came to evolve. A wolf trusted a human, a human fed a wolf, and this happened enough times that hostile animals were killed off and friendlier ones were not and those…

People Who Who Say They Trust Science More Are Also More Likely To Promote False Science-y Sounding Claims

A short while ago a prominent physicist made the offhand claim that bees were dying because of a class of pesticides called neonicotinoids - seed treatments that protect plants from pests at their…

Children Use Both Brain Hemispheres To Understand Language, But Adults Don't

Children learn languages much easier than adults, and also seem to recover from neural injuries better. The reason may be that adults process most discrete neural tasks in specific areas in one or…

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Dear Believers In Vampires And Integrative Medicine - Plasma From Young Donors Is Not A Remedy For Anything Except Wealth

Domesticated Wolves Suffer Separation Anxiety From Humans Similar To Dogs

People Who Who Say They Trust Science More Are Also More Likely To Promote False Science-y Sounding Claims

Children Use Both Brain Hemispheres To Understand Language, But Adults Don't