Today’s quackery: osteopathic manipulative medicine

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Andrew Taylor Still lived near Baldwin City, Kansas, during the time of the Civil War. There, he founded the practice of osteopathy in the 1870s after his father and three children died from spinal meningitis. He founded the American School of Osteopathy in Missouri in the 1890s. Still believed that the bone was the starting […]

Castling

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Every now and then you enjoy something that you know that very few people in this world would enjoy as much as you do. Sometimes it’s bad, such as making customers or superiors suffer. Sometimes, though, it’s because you’re just a weirdo. I’ve just started listening to the physics lectures given by Richard Feynman at […]

TLC

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What happened to the Discovery Channel and the Learning Channel? I remember when I was a kid how the networks would air specials about things like genetics, astronomy, biology and physics. Now all they can seem to find are shows about turning a car into a transformer or your house into a volcano or how […]