Cell phones are more dangerous than cigarettes?!?! Before I go on, I must urge the reader to remember that 30% of scientists are asked to change their findings by corporations. This was the result of a survey performed a year ago or so, and no, I lost the link, and have not been able to re-find it because of the huge volume of articles on slashdot. If someone wants to find it for me, I’ll insert it. But anyway, the fact that scientists are asked to change findings by corporations means that whenever a scientific study comes out in favor of a corporation, you must be a bit more skeptic than you would otherwise be. Thus, I find it very important when a study shows that cellphones cause cancer, in the face of previous studies. It’s one of the biggest industries, so it’s one of the most likely to censor stories that would work against it. Unfortunately for the phone companies, all top neurosurgeon Dr. Vini Khurana had to do was take a look at 100 past studies, and examine the data. This guy has won 14 awards, and his conclusion? Cell-phones are more dangerous than smoking. 10 years of use doubles future brain cancer risks. France & Germany already advise people to use cells as little as possible, especially children. His reason for other studies not agreeing is that there is not a huge pool of people who had used cellphones for 10 years until very recently.
MENTAL HEALTH: Russian Whipping therapy cures depression and suicide crises — out-of-the-box thinking, or outdated barbarism? Remember, the medical community once thought leeches were barbaric, but now they use them to clean wounds because they only eat dead flesh. So barbaric doesn’t necessarily mean non-effective, which makes this very interesting. They say some depression is in part based on decreasing production of endorphins, and the physical pain of being whipped helps increase endorphins again. And I’m sure having the wounds around afterwards gives you a constant endorphin production for quite some time. It actually sounds better than antidepressants to me. Perhaps this is a contributing factor in the high popularity of BDSM?SEX: Good sexual intercourse lasts minutes, not hours, therapists say. New surveys dispel past stereotypes?
SURVEYS: 38% of Swedish artists want legal filesharing – mostly younger artists; older artists don’t get it. Dinosaurs will die…. The record companies are not needed anymore.
MUSIC: Bad Religion interviewed @ SuicideGirls.
FUN: Spot The Fake Smile - please try this out and tell me how many out of 20 you got! (Me=11/20,Carolyn=10/20,Dad=20/20).
