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I lost my power the other day. Because they were changing out the old meter for the smart variety. The outage was a bit under five minutes, with advance notice. I can’t remember the last power outage before that, must’ve been 15 years ago. On the other hand, I’m being charged twice as much...

"What worries me much more is the destruction of the countryside by phone masts every 100 yards." Agreed, I can't see any essential purpose served by immense mobile data speeds. Right now, a standard cell signal is enough to watch a movie via real-time streaming, and in HD at that. Personally...

Data throughput isn't 1:1 tied to energy use. The 1st gen cellphones had much higher power levels, their data rate was enough to send a fax, sloowly. 5G does differ somewhat in that it will eventually introduce new bands at higher frequencies, 3-6 GHz, and eventually higher. Each step up...

That's more or less the beach on D-Day. Somehow, they prevailed.

Hope 'n Change? Ah believe that term is taken. (very short pause, then) Ah can loan you that phrase, now do you have any young ladies whose, ahh, pain ah can feel?

That's an immunomodulator? I know nothing about it, Google sez (via WebMB, Mayo, etc) that it's, ahh, serious stuff, but says nothing about it being used to regulate one's immune system. ???

This is a dumb question, but what exactly is a null hypothesis? I understand it's an essential part of the scientific method, but being familiar with a term does not equal understanding it.

^^ A much needed observation!! Are/were you in the sciences?

How do we know radiation wouldn’t cure ME? I mean, look what it did for the formerly meek mild mannered Dr. Bruce Banner!

If an X-ray machine was generating significant excess X-ray output, the film would be overexposed and the photos unreadable.

What kind of radiation? Infrared, gamma, beta, UV, alpha particle..... ?

It is their job to know that, and they are responsible whether or not they bothered to find out.

Wait, what? I thought I was sufficiently jaded about the Fine and Fancy People, but Cochrane hiring someone who attempted to sell a pure scam (LP) as actual medicine? Credibility or shilling for scams, you can't have both.

I’m not a biologist, but I believe in a general rule: “any medical procedure that is effective is also potentially dangerous”. The danger is often discovered long after the effectiveness. There ain’t no safe space in life.

There is someone on the other board who promote this for use with autism. He says he administers “a few drops”. It takes all the restraint I can muster not to call him out on it every time I see his grinning icon in a post.

General rule: If it’s published in Psychobullst Today, it’s psychobullsht. Go over their back issues, every fad and many frauds are featured in glowing terms.

Regarding treating high cholesterol with statins: I've read that statins help statistically, but the number needed to treat - that is, (number people with x risk profile taking statin) / (adverse events avoided) is well over 25. So you may have x risk factors but were not going to have an...

7 days dead in the middle of summer vacation. May as well make it February 29th.

And we always will. Nature creates powerful pesticides, carcinogens and a number of poisons, and humans manufacture more from Nature’t Lego set. There was no days prior to modernity were not clean, harmless and safe; e.g. a wood fire throws off hundreds of carcinogens, while a gas furnace...

Re: "ME went from unknown entity garnering curiosity and indifference to one subjected to contempt and systemic discrimination. ....." What if that is the goal?