tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3971077270766122919.post8817727702714283831..comments2023-09-05T08:45:22.572+01:00Comments on Bête de Jour: [Health] Pop FictionLa Bêtehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05934460455824439786noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3971077270766122919.post-85266968387008407222010-05-11T17:58:00.530+01:002010-05-11T17:58:00.530+01:00This is Hannah Bevills, I am an editor with Hospit...This is Hannah Bevills, I am an editor with Hospital.com. We are a medical publication whose focus is geared towards promoting awareness on hospitals, including information, news, and reviews on them. Given the relevance of what you are offering from your site and what our mission is, I feel we may be able to collaborate in some way or another, I look forward to your response regarding the matter. Thanks!<br /><br />Hannah Bevills<br />hannah.bevills@gmail.com<br />Hospital.comUnknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08235103091406533840noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3971077270766122919.post-88939080021693523502010-05-08T18:59:09.752+01:002010-05-08T18:59:09.752+01:00If vitamin B12 is so amazing, why don't I feel...If vitamin B12 is so amazing, why don't I feel "so much peppier" after marmite?Nuxnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3971077270766122919.post-19571296226792540652010-04-26T16:47:07.710+01:002010-04-26T16:47:07.710+01:00Bonjour La Bête,
You can release your cynicism Sta...Bonjour La Bête,<br />You can release your cynicism Stan, it's nothing compared to the one of these people.<br />And they obviously don't read your blog, unless they are suicidal.<br />Uncle DidAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3971077270766122919.post-91220197884983237732010-04-25T22:24:00.588+01:002010-04-25T22:24:00.588+01:00Anonymous: Yes, I remember that well. I assumed St...Anonymous: Yes, I remember that well. I assumed Stan was alluding to it in his post. The awful thing about that (and I think Stan referred to this too) is that a lot of people still believe it. Mud sticks.<br /><br />By the way: I doubt anyone will notice or care, but I just noticed I made a reference to "the automotive response" in my comment. It's not called that, it's called the ideomotor response. I knew it felt wrong when I was typing it. I ought to bloody well know too, seeing as I've written a whole novel about it!<br /><br />(but the stuff above was fact, not fiction)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3971077270766122919.post-50095215938360192042010-04-24T21:56:23.191+01:002010-04-24T21:56:23.191+01:00Beleaguered Squirrel that was brilliant. Fascinati...Beleaguered Squirrel that was brilliant. Fascinating.<br /><br />Do any of you remember the case of Dr Andrew Wakefield about 10 years ago? He published a controversial report in the Lancet suggesting a link between the MMR jab and autism that crippled takeup of the jab in the UK overnight and resulted in a rise in measles, with a few fatalities.<br /><br />Countless subsequent studies and investigations ensued, and the NHS spent gazillions trying to convince panic-striken parents that Dr Wakefield’s claims were unfounded, even though he was employed by the Royal Free Hospital at the time and was head of the very controversial research, which he conducted on children.<br /><br />It subsequently transpired there was a gross conflict of interest (he was actually employed by a lawyer who was preparing a case against MMR manufacturers), he had falsified his claims, conducted unethical procedures on children to validate his claims and, importantly, no other research could reproduce or confirm his findings. His research was ultimately retracted, he was struck off and is now earning billions in the US peddling his unique brand of autism cure (I believe with the help of a US pharmaceutical company) to despairing parents and their autistic children.<br /><br />I remember the controversy well…<br /><br />Found this if you’re interested <br />http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Wakefield#MMR_controversyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3971077270766122919.post-20835643961572452272010-04-24T07:00:42.957+01:002010-04-24T07:00:42.957+01:00You have some very cerebral commentators on here S...You have some very cerebral commentators on here Stan.<br /><br />I, however, like Spacedust.clumpfnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3971077270766122919.post-41485102525546373892010-04-23T19:27:32.215+01:002010-04-23T19:27:32.215+01:00Hypochondriac's tag cloud. I like that. And ...Hypochondriac's tag cloud. I like that. And yeah, I know where to get my pings and it doesn't cost me a thing.Wanderlusthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12099758957492165428noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3971077270766122919.post-60440344592265314982010-04-23T17:25:20.661+01:002010-04-23T17:25:20.661+01:00...and this reminds me of something really horribl......and this reminds me of something really horribly shocking.<br /><br />In the 80s there was a movement of parents of autistic kids who started championing something called Facilitated Communication. I knew someone who gave tuition to a severely autistic girl who couldn't talk at all, and could barely walk. But with her mother's help, she could write. Often only one word per page, sometimes only one letter, but via the resulting scrawl they discovered she could read, write and in fact had quite sophisticated thoughts. Also they realised that... those books she compulsively flicked through at several pages per second? She was actually <i>reading</i> them. Her mother would sit in on her tutoring sessions, guiding her hand and enabling her to stun the tutor with her amazing (written) maths skills.<br /><br />But... facilitated communication may be (is probably) just a version of the automotive response, something which is exploited by mind-reading magicians such as Derren Brown. The idea is that the magician holds the hand of a volunteer and lead them to a place where they have previously hidden something. The magician leads the volunteer, rather than the other way around, and the volunteer is duly amazed when the hidden item is revealed. The magician has asked the volunteer to think hard about the hidden object but say nothing and give no clues, and then claims to have read the volunteer's mind.<br /><br />Of course the truth is that the volunteer gives away small involuntary physical clues, subconsciously guiding the magician to the thing they are thinking about.<br /><br />The claim with facilitated communication is that the autistic subject is <i>only</i> able to write when someone is guiding their hand. And yet studies have shown that in fact the writing is coming (subconsciously) from the facilitator, <i>not</i> the autistic subject.<br /><br />How horrible is that? Thousands of parents who believe they are finally communicating with a child they thought was locked away forever... when in fact they are talking to themselves.<br /><br />Of course it's hard to convince them, and many will never know / believe the truth. Maybe this is a positive kind of fantasy, which makes everyone happy? I don't know.Beleaguered Squirrelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13699493386984083561noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3971077270766122919.post-2207414638129610262010-04-23T17:16:04.596+01:002010-04-23T17:16:04.596+01:00Haham I love this review.
It's amazing what ...Haham I love this review. <br /><br />It's amazing what these people can get away with, isn't it? My favourite bit was when he said that B12 was water soluble, so any excess will just not get absorbed and will come out in your urine*. So of that 60,000%, 59,900% is utterly pointless and will go in one end, out the other.<br /><br />But people will still buy it, and all those poor desperate parents of autistic kids will convince themselves they see a difference.<br /><br />*As the man himself pointed out, your <i>expensive</i> urine.Beleaguered Squirrelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13699493386984083561noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3971077270766122919.post-72172332722265059492010-04-23T09:59:39.124+01:002010-04-23T09:59:39.124+01:00I love you, Mr Cattermole.
It's wonderful ho...I love you, Mr Cattermole. <br /><br />It's wonderful how marketing people send you their stuff expecting just another blog recommendation. More of this kind of thing, please!Mike Boothhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01614823619400248086noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3971077270766122919.post-91078164353397944642010-04-23T00:11:33.956+01:002010-04-23T00:11:33.956+01:00You haven't been reading the celebrity pages!
...You haven't been reading the celebrity pages!<br /><br />The funnyman is <a href="http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/04/07/2866034.htm" rel="nofollow">no longer the boyfriend</a> of the murderer. <br /><br />(Yeah, you've done a great job of pulling apart the bullshit, woo-woo claims, and *this* is what I choose to comment on. Sorry!)Julianhttp://somethinkodd.com/oddthinkingnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3971077270766122919.post-65051540705373926612010-04-22T23:44:54.753+01:002010-04-22T23:44:54.753+01:00PurestGreen and lovely Stan, kale is also deliciou...PurestGreen and lovely Stan, kale is also delicious in homemade minestrone soup. I shall make a big vat of it and invite you both for dinner.<br /><br />ATF<br /><br />Please bring the suckers. I want to feel perky - like the lady in the video.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3971077270766122919.post-26923885228751152262010-04-22T23:19:59.709+01:002010-04-22T23:19:59.709+01:00Kale is a form of cabbage but the leaves are reall...Kale is a form of cabbage but the leaves are really crinkled and don't form a head. Kale is extra tasty when tossed with a little bit of olive oil and sea salt (just a tiny bit) and roasted in the oven until it is crispy. <br /><br />I also like cabbage. And I like your blog.PurestGreenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10860331983741242940noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3971077270766122919.post-72051953015521095232010-04-22T23:08:43.393+01:002010-04-22T23:08:43.393+01:00I have in my possession some Charles Worthington s...I have in my possession some Charles Worthington shampoo that promises “three-dimensional shine with exceptional results”. Yes, three-dimensional. Not two, but three. It is “enriched with moisturising rice protein and antioxidant white tea”. Rice protein, I said. It also promises to boost my hair’s “manageability and bounce”.<br /><br />I also have a Clinique “age decelerating” face cream which claims that “lines and wrinkles seem to evaporate, replaced by plump vibrant skin”.<br /><br />Sadly, the only things on me that have any bounce are my ever-sagging titties, which flounce about when I least want them to. And the only thing about me that’s plump is my ass, which is growing increasingly plumper by the day.<br /><br />I realise now I’ve got it all wrong. I need to slather that face cream on my titties to make them "plump", and I should shampoo my ass to make it more "manageable".<br /><br />Now, I’d like to try one of your super suckers, and a bit of kale with some Cold Orange Soup, please. <br /><br />A Twitter FriendAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3971077270766122919.post-139601855612715692010-04-22T18:57:49.551+01:002010-04-22T18:57:49.551+01:00I like kale. I think. You don't see so much of...I like kale. I think. You don't see so much of it these days, do you? I remember not long ago, all this was kale. Not anymore. Now it's all spinach and rocket. Not bad leaves of course. Hold on, what is kale? Is it not just cabbage? I like cabbage.La Bêtehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05934460455824439786noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3971077270766122919.post-85078363411660828852010-04-22T18:49:17.620+01:002010-04-22T18:49:17.620+01:00Someone could repackage good old british kale as a...Someone could repackage good old british kale as a super food (which it is) and make loads o' cash. The trick is to make something that people walk past everyday seem like something unique and "must have." And then people would eat more kale, which wouldn't be a bad thing. <br />:)PurestGreenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10860331983741242940noreply@blogger.com