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It is generally asserted that all smallpox carriers are symptomatic. But what is the actual evidence for this? This is an absolutely crucial assumption, and, if wrong, makes the epidemiology of...
22 December 2020 8,414 13 View
Aural cholesteatomas (CA) usually occur as late complications of chronic otitis media. They are usually unilateral, a point not addressed by conventional theories of CA formation. If indeed they...
03 November 2019 8,887 0 View
Schizophrenia was unknown before the 19th C, then became common in the 19th and 20th C, but now seems on the decrease. The simplest explanation for this is that those with genes predisposing to...
26 March 2017 3,509 2 View
Kelleher et al (Psychol Med 2012 ;42:1857) reviewed population studies of psychotic symptoms in childhood and adolescence. Hearing voices that no one else could hear was reported by 15%, yet...
12 January 2017 8,642 7 View
I cannot find evidence either way for this theory. Autistic children are often hypersensitive to sound, and loud sounds cause seizures in animal models of epilepsy. If seizure were due to brain...
06 January 2017 3,358 10 View
This is not as unlikely as it first seems, since a strong general factor has been found for intelligence (g), personality, adolescent psychopathology, etc, in addition to more specialized...
10 April 2016 8,217 33 View
It has of course been known for a long time that there is a connection and correlation between brain abscess and otitis media (or sinusitis). But is this a simple causal link? Self-evidently so,...
20 November 2014 7,341 100 View
Height increased dramatically last century. See one of the Top Ten Science Stories of 2013 from Natural History Museum website: "9. Evolution pushes on as European men grow taller,...
03 January 2014 7,263 14 View
A sudden acquired intolerance to alcohol has been reported in many different situations: post concussion syndrome; after minor head injury; in CFS/ME, neurasthenia; hyperventilation; after fever,...
16 December 2013 8,341 5 View
Killing of badgers has just started in parts of England on the assumption that they are the natural reservoirs of TB and pass this on to cows. Do cows infect badgers? I don't understand exactly...
27 August 2013 1,068 14 View
By determinism I mean the dogma that some human characteristics and behavior are programmed by our biological/genetic makeup, such there is zero room for chance, free will or any environmental...
26 August 2013 4,789 82 View
We all think we know what murder is, and I think this definition is used consistently in TV crime and murder drama, for example. However, I think the word as used in the UK and USA laws and...
06 August 2013 8,959 23 View
Millions of infants die each year from diarrhea. It is taken as axiomatic that the bugs enter the mouth from dirty milk, food, water, fingers, utensils,etc, as they can do in children and adults....
01 June 2013 4,034 2 View
