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News Briefs 25-01-2016

Welcome back, Scully and Mulder. If you’re looking for fresh mysteries, you’ve got 14 years of Daily Grail news briefs to work through…

Quote of the Day:

Humanity has already achieved, technically, the total success all Utopians ever dreamed of; our problems now are entirely due to wrong thinking. We are in the tragic-comic predicament of two crazed men dying of thirst, fighting over a teaspoon of water in the middle of a rainstorm. We cannot see the rainstorm because we are hypnotized by emergency-reflexes fixated on the teaspoon.

Robert Anton Wilson

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  1. You Say Placebo – I Say Nocebo
    Is perhaps the higher rate of placebo response in some nations correlated with the rate of pharmaceutical ads in their media? In other words, in countries where the drug companies constantly hammer into minds via advertisements that a myriad of diseases are out there nibbling at your self is there a heightened level of hypochondria? And is it hypochondriacal symptoms that best respond to placebos?

  2. Life after Death?
    Can’t help not laughing every time I read something about people actually “researching” this.

    News Flash! We’re all gonna find out anyway.

  3. Drugs In the Water
    That these anomalous responses to drug trials seem to be compounding as time goes on could be due to the fact that many of the drugs and their relatives are already in the water supply. Antidepressants, for instance, which kicked in to widespread use in the early 90’s, are being found in lakes and streams (and the organisms living there) and are being recycled back into municipal drinking water supplies. Antidepressants depend on a build up in the body which can happen slowly over time even if miniscule amounts are involved. I wonder if drug testing procedures sample blood of volunteers to see if they already harbor a drug or its relative? If your baseline is already compromised, or your body has established mechanisms based on an ongoing, preexisting relationship with a drug or a class of drugs then the studies are going to be wonky from the get go.

  4. welcome back
    [quote=Greg]Welcome back, Scully and Mulder. If you’re looking for fresh mysteries, you’ve got 14 years of Daily Grail news briefs to work through…
    [/quote]

    After loosing my internet for 5 days because a blizzard and power surge fried my wifi modem…it feels like 14 years 😛

  5. How to construct the ultimate conspiracy theory
    Step 1: Go to Facebook

    Step 2: Type something (anything) outlandish about a celebrity or subject

    Step 3: Share with stupid friend (we all have one) who will believe it

    Step 4: Sit back and watch the fire burn

    1. That’s just the human
      That’s just the human condition – gossip and rumor spreading like wildfire are as old as human speech. Detectives depend on gossip and rumor for solving crimes and trust their judgement will be up to the task of sorting through the mess. It’s a job for adults.

  6. last words
    Voltaire:

    “He soon became ill again and died on 30 May 1778. The accounts of his deathbed have been numerous and varying, and it has not been possible to establish the details of what precisely occurred. His enemies related that he repented and accepted the last rites given by a Catholic priest, or that he died under great torment, while his adherents told how he was defiant to his last breath. According to one story, his last words were, “Now is not the time for making new enemies.” It was his response to a priest at the side of his deathbed, asking Voltaire to renounce Satan.”

    😉

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