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Category Archives: medicine

Corona Virus Luxury Lockdown…
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March 12, 2020 by kittynh

So, my 60th birthday celebration was supposed to be at one of my favorite places, filled with friends and family, …
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Category: arthritis, history, medicine, Uncategorized, Vermont | Tags: birthday, Corona, corona virus, how to stay safe, Kipling, lock down, Naulakha, quarentine, ra, safety, self, virus
“Lost Boundaries” and Dr.Johnston’s Brave Choices
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February 4, 2019 by kittynh

The Historical Society of Cheshire County is having a pop up exhibit to commemorate the film “Lost Boundaries“. The exhibit …
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Category: Black History, Historical society of Cheshire County, history, medicine, New Hampshire, racism, Uncategorized | Tags: 70th anniversary, Colonial Theater, Dr.Johnston, exhibit, Lost Boundaries, Louis de Rochemont, passing, passing as white
SPIRULINA – Super Food or Super Dangerous?
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April 25, 2018 by kittynh

I’ve written about this “Super Food” before. I’m posting an update, with a photograph of how the person who is …
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Category: Health, medicine, Parenting, Uncategorized | Tags: ALS, Alzheimers, Dr.Weil, Giselle, green food, green smoothie, spirulina, Super food, Tom Brady
Death by GHOST!
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February 15, 2016 by kittynh

When we think of Denmark and ghosts, we think of “Hamlet”. Certainly the idea that ghosts can kill, or at …
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Category: conspiracy theory, ghost, medicine, Uncategorized | Tags: Brugadas syndrome, Claus Larsen, Denmark, ghost, ghosts, Hamlet, Hmong, King death, Shakespeare
What’s Giselle Feeding Tom Brady?
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January 20, 2016 by kittynh

A recent article in UK Vogue features an interview with the ever youthful Giselle Bundchen. The world knows her as …
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Category: Health, medicine, Uncategorized | Tags: Alzheimer, Alzheimers, Boston, danger, diet, Giselle Bundchen, green algae, new age, New England Patriots, Patriots, spirulina, Tom Brady
When a Sight Hits your Eye Like a Big Giant Stye, that’s Amore! (doggy style)
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December 3, 2013 by kittynh

(Oke Millet, our guest blogger, is a Canadian who lives in Chile, and works in weird and wonderful places. He …
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Category: medicine, skeptic | Tags: alternative cure, Chile, dog sex, doggy style, eye problem, folk lore, medicine, papua new guinea, Papua New Guinean, png, Port Moresby, stye, tribal beliefs, woo
Hats ON to Susan Gerbic!
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November 13, 2013 by kittynh

Susan Gerbic is my friend, and also one of the most productive skeptics I know. She was inspired by fellow …
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Category: medicine, skeptic, Uncategorized | Tags: alternative medicine, bald, breast cancer, Cancer, chemo, chemotherapy, crazy hats, friends, funny hats, guerrilla skepticism, hair loss, Hat, hats, James Randi, JREF, Mark Edward, Rupert Sheldrake, skepticism, smile, Susan, Susan Gerbic, Tim Farley, Wikipedia, women going through chemo
Real Science, Real Hope for ALS
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September 28, 2013 by kittynh

I am proud to call myself a skeptic when I read about the work of really great skeptic leaders such …
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Category: medicine, skeptic, Uncategorized | Tags: ALS, Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Australia, blue-green algae, BMAA, Cyanobacteria, danger, disease, Dr.Rachael Dunlop, Dunlop, Franklin Pierce, Franklin Pierce Lake, β-N-methylamino-l-alanine, Lake, Michael, neurodegenerative, New Hampshire, pierce, Rachael Dunlop
Blue Man…Metal
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September 18, 2013 by Geek Goddess

A couple of years ago, the Wall Street Journal ran a story called “Metals: Panacea or Placebo?” by science reporter …
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Category: medicine, skeptic | Tags: Argyria, Magnet therapy, Medical uses of silver, National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Science-Based Medicine, Steven Novella
Smoke Screens, and the reality of lung cancer.
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March 26, 2013 by kittynh

My husband had a very close relationship to his cousin Lilly. They shared a birthday. She was a wonderful person, …
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Category: lung cancer, medicine, Uncategorized | Tags: alternative, Asian cigarettes, Brattleboro Vermont, Cancer, Cigarette, Effects, fish, Health, Lung cancer, medicine, New South Wales, placebo, rates of lung cancer death, Smoking, Specific Substances, Tobacco, Tobacco smoking, treatment