Doctors Prescribe Acetaminophen for Fever After Vaccination. Really?
Many doctors will recommend the analgesic drug acetaminophen (most commonly known by the brand name Tylenol) if your child comes down with a fever after being vaccinated. All you have to do is take a quick glance at the websites of medical practices to get a sense of how common…
How Scientific Was the Identification of the Poliovirus?
The year 1908 was a landmark year in the history of poliomyelitis, or “polio.” It was the year Austrian physicians Karl Landsteiner, MD and Erwin Popper, MD claimed they discovered the poliovirus. The two physicians did not actually see the poliovirus, because they did not have the technology to visually look at it under a microscope. The first electron microscope that gave scientists and doctors the ability to view viruses would not be invented for another 23 years.
If You’re Whitewashing Autism, You’re Part of The Problem
From “better diagnosis” to the idea the autistic brain is “wired differently” to the emphasis on those with extraordinary talents, efforts to whitewash the realities of autism are endless. We’ve been spoon fed a bogus narrative that normalizes autism and most people buy it despite the fact…
Blood Transfusion Trial and Errors Through the Ages
In centuries past, blood was considered one of the four “humors” that made up living matter: Blood, phlegm, yellow bile, and black bile. From ancient Greece to the Age of Renaissance, these four elements were said not only to work together to order the nutrition, growth and metabolism of the body but also to dictate…
Sacrificial Virgins: Not for the Greater Good
Ruby is 16. She’s almost totally paralyzed. Well, the only limb that works is this one… my left arm. I still go out and I see friends and stuff. It’s just more of a pain and with the fatigue it’s harder. Nobody knows exactly what why Ruby has developed this serious neurological damage after a […]
The “Silent Epidemic” of Early-Onset Alzheimer’s
A study published in the journal Surgical Neurology International in 2015 highlighted a growing trend in the onset of dementia among people under 65 years of age. The study, authored by Colin Pritchard and Emily Rosenorn-Lanng of Bournemouth University in England, found that dementia and other neurological diseases…
