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Sunday, June 28, 2009
Saturday, June 27, 2009
The blogger "Orac" and the caduceus
There is a blogger named "Orac" who writes a blog called "Respectful Insolence". The blog can be found at the link below.
Before going to the link below, the reader should know that Orac is an aggressively abusive person. The language and emotions expressed by Orac towards his victims verges on hate. If that kind of negativity distresses you, please do not go to Orac's blog.
Orac Blog entry attacking Mike Adams claims about origin of Caduceus
The story that the link goes to talks about the Caduceus, which is a symbol used by western medicine. A Caduceus looks like a staff with two snakes wrapped around it.
In Orac's blog entry, he talks about another man named Mike Adams who is a proponent of alternative medicine. Mr Adams made various statements about the caduceus in order to further his claim that western medicine is bad. The claims of Mr Adams were quite negative, and can be read in full at the link above.
Orac's blog entry is dedicated to describing how the statements of Mike Adams about the caduceus are wrong. I agree with Orac that the statements of Mike Adams do not seem believable.
I also feel that Orac's explanation is equally unbelievable.
Orac's explanation for the adoption of the caduceus by western medicine involves various historical stories sourced from Wikipedia. I feel that any historical reason involving the actions of various people is suspect. There is no way to verify if the people existed or did what was described, or even if the material in Wikipedia has been accurately recorded.
According to Happeh Theory, the caduceus is the symbol of western medicine because the caduceus represents a human body. The staff represents the spine of a human being, and the two snakes represent the two snakes within the human body.
According to Happeh Theory, the human body behaves as if there are two large snakes in it located as shown in this picture. The tail of each snake is at the foot and the head of each snake is at the head.
The author of this blog is not a computer graphics expert. An attempt was made to show how the two snakes within the body wrap around the legs, the spine, and the head in the next picture.
Those are coil springs superimposed on the skeleton, because it was not possible to make a snake like body that conveyed the same information about how the coils wrap around the legs, the spine, and the head.
Another explanation for the caduceus that may be more appealing to scientists is The DNA View of the Human Body. According to The DNA View of the Human Body the human body can be treated as if it is a large DNA molecule as shown in the next picture.
A DNA molecule and a snake are both basically spirals, so really they are both saying the same thing. There are two spiral objects, snakes or DNA molecule spirals, that spiral up from the feet to the top of the head of a human being. The DNA View of the Human Body picture even looks sort of like the caduceus. Something vertically long and solid encased within two opposing spirals.
While Mr Orac may have a good heart, something that can be argued based on his abusiveness towards others, he does not know the things he thinks he does. His claim about the caduceus being adopted by western medicine may make good reading in a history book, but it is not reality.
Until Mr Orac learns more about the reality of the human body, I feel he should be less abusive to other people, and he should be less forceful in his statements about how right he is.
Mr Orac is a young man who still has much to learn about how the human body really works. Mr Orac has to throw out all of the trash western medicine put into his head, ( Mr Orac is a practicing physician ), and Mr Orac needs to listen to and try to comprehend people who can instruct him on how the human body actually works.
Before going to the link below, the reader should know that Orac is an aggressively abusive person. The language and emotions expressed by Orac towards his victims verges on hate. If that kind of negativity distresses you, please do not go to Orac's blog.
Orac Blog entry attacking Mike Adams claims about origin of Caduceus
The story that the link goes to talks about the Caduceus, which is a symbol used by western medicine. A Caduceus looks like a staff with two snakes wrapped around it.
In Orac's blog entry, he talks about another man named Mike Adams who is a proponent of alternative medicine. Mr Adams made various statements about the caduceus in order to further his claim that western medicine is bad. The claims of Mr Adams were quite negative, and can be read in full at the link above.
Orac's blog entry is dedicated to describing how the statements of Mike Adams about the caduceus are wrong. I agree with Orac that the statements of Mike Adams do not seem believable.
I also feel that Orac's explanation is equally unbelievable.
Orac's explanation for the adoption of the caduceus by western medicine involves various historical stories sourced from Wikipedia. I feel that any historical reason involving the actions of various people is suspect. There is no way to verify if the people existed or did what was described, or even if the material in Wikipedia has been accurately recorded.
According to Happeh Theory, the caduceus is the symbol of western medicine because the caduceus represents a human body. The staff represents the spine of a human being, and the two snakes represent the two snakes within the human body.
According to Happeh Theory, the human body behaves as if there are two large snakes in it located as shown in this picture. The tail of each snake is at the foot and the head of each snake is at the head.
The author of this blog is not a computer graphics expert. An attempt was made to show how the two snakes within the body wrap around the legs, the spine, and the head in the next picture.
Those are coil springs superimposed on the skeleton, because it was not possible to make a snake like body that conveyed the same information about how the coils wrap around the legs, the spine, and the head.
Another explanation for the caduceus that may be more appealing to scientists is The DNA View of the Human Body. According to The DNA View of the Human Body the human body can be treated as if it is a large DNA molecule as shown in the next picture.
A DNA molecule and a snake are both basically spirals, so really they are both saying the same thing. There are two spiral objects, snakes or DNA molecule spirals, that spiral up from the feet to the top of the head of a human being. The DNA View of the Human Body picture even looks sort of like the caduceus. Something vertically long and solid encased within two opposing spirals.
While Mr Orac may have a good heart, something that can be argued based on his abusiveness towards others, he does not know the things he thinks he does. His claim about the caduceus being adopted by western medicine may make good reading in a history book, but it is not reality.
Until Mr Orac learns more about the reality of the human body, I feel he should be less abusive to other people, and he should be less forceful in his statements about how right he is.
Mr Orac is a young man who still has much to learn about how the human body really works. Mr Orac has to throw out all of the trash western medicine put into his head, ( Mr Orac is a practicing physician ), and Mr Orac needs to listen to and try to comprehend people who can instruct him on how the human body actually works.
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Homing pigeons have built in 'satnav' using Earth's magnetic field
You know what? Scientists R Stoopid. So stoopid they should be rounded up and placed in a room somewhere where they cannot hurt anyone.
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This story is about how scientists have discovered that homing pigeons use magnetic waves for homing. There is something inside of a pigeon that gives it the ability to sense magnetic fields.
If you suggest to a scientist that human beings have energy, that energy is invisible, and human beings can feel the energy of other human beings, they will say you are crazy.
Scientists R really really really Stoopid.
Magnetic fields are invisible, and scientists just now in 2009 discovered that pigeons can sense magnetic fields.
If scientists only just now in 2009 discovered that pigeons can sense magnetic fields, then what else have scientists not discovered yet? For instance. If pigeons can sense magnetic fields, why can't human beings sense magnetic fields?
If human beings can sense magnetic fields, then maybe when people say "I can feel the energy of that other person over there", maybe in scientific speak they are saying "my magnetic field sensors are sensing the magnetic field generated by the body of that human being over there".
But if you make that completely sensible and logical statement to a scientist, they will call you crazy and tell you to go away. They will tell you there is no such thing as invisible energy, human beings cannot produce it, and human beings cannot sense it.
Except Scientists R Stoopid. Magnetic fields are invisible so there are invisible things that can be measured and do cause effects in the physical world. The human body does produce magnetic fields. And according to Happeh Theory, human beings can sense something about other human beings, so maybe that something they sense is the magnetic fields of the other human being.
It would take a multi million dollar lab for Happeh Theory to prove this possibility, so Happeh will not say with 100% certainty that what people call energy is magnetic fields, but magnetic fields can do almost all of what people claim the energy of human beings can do. So if scientists had a brain in their head, they would start testing to see if human beings can sense magnetic fields like pigeons can.
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Scientists are a danger to society. Maybe 25% of what scientists say should be listened to. Mostly the hard science stuff. Chemicals, Radiation, Metallurgy....that kind of stuff.
When it comes to life sciences, biology, how living creatures work and what living creatures are capable of? Scientists are Stoopid Stoopid Stoopid Stoopid.
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Scientists have suspected for years that birds possess the ability to use the Earth's magnetic field for their navigation, although it has never been proved beyond doubt.
Now researchers from the University of Auckland in New Zealand believe they have solved the mystery by showing that the routes the birds take to come back follow magnetic waves around the Earth.
They have discovered that like global positioning technology, they first determine where they are before heading off for home.
One of the quirks of homing pigeons is that they often head off in totally the wrong direction when initially finding their way home before making a correction.
Now the team, who published their findings in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B, have discovered that the initial flight path involves finding the magnetic waves which can then be used to find their way home.
They reviewed a number of studies in Germany that saw as many 150 birds returning to three lofts near Frankfurt.
Dr Cordula Mora and her colleagues concluded that "respond to the Earth's magnetic field at the release site", calculate their position using the fields and then calculate their way home.
"Our results imply that pigeons use the earth's magnetic field for determining their position at the release site before laying a course for home," she said.
The study extends previous research that suggested that magnetic particles in the beaks of the birds act like compasses.
They react to the Earth's external magnetic field in a very sensitive and specific manner, so they can deduce location, the team believes.
The researchers further believe that this ability is not unique to homing pigeons and could be universal among all birds and may also be present in other animals influenced by the Earth's magnetic field.
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This story is about how scientists have discovered that homing pigeons use magnetic waves for homing. There is something inside of a pigeon that gives it the ability to sense magnetic fields.
If you suggest to a scientist that human beings have energy, that energy is invisible, and human beings can feel the energy of other human beings, they will say you are crazy.
Scientists R really really really Stoopid.
Magnetic fields are invisible, and scientists just now in 2009 discovered that pigeons can sense magnetic fields.
If scientists only just now in 2009 discovered that pigeons can sense magnetic fields, then what else have scientists not discovered yet? For instance. If pigeons can sense magnetic fields, why can't human beings sense magnetic fields?
If human beings can sense magnetic fields, then maybe when people say "I can feel the energy of that other person over there", maybe in scientific speak they are saying "my magnetic field sensors are sensing the magnetic field generated by the body of that human being over there".
But if you make that completely sensible and logical statement to a scientist, they will call you crazy and tell you to go away. They will tell you there is no such thing as invisible energy, human beings cannot produce it, and human beings cannot sense it.
Except Scientists R Stoopid. Magnetic fields are invisible so there are invisible things that can be measured and do cause effects in the physical world. The human body does produce magnetic fields. And according to Happeh Theory, human beings can sense something about other human beings, so maybe that something they sense is the magnetic fields of the other human being.
It would take a multi million dollar lab for Happeh Theory to prove this possibility, so Happeh will not say with 100% certainty that what people call energy is magnetic fields, but magnetic fields can do almost all of what people claim the energy of human beings can do. So if scientists had a brain in their head, they would start testing to see if human beings can sense magnetic fields like pigeons can.
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Scientists are a danger to society. Maybe 25% of what scientists say should be listened to. Mostly the hard science stuff. Chemicals, Radiation, Metallurgy....that kind of stuff.
When it comes to life sciences, biology, how living creatures work and what living creatures are capable of? Scientists are Stoopid Stoopid Stoopid Stoopid.
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Scientists have suspected for years that birds possess the ability to use the Earth's magnetic field for their navigation, although it has never been proved beyond doubt.
Now researchers from the University of Auckland in New Zealand believe they have solved the mystery by showing that the routes the birds take to come back follow magnetic waves around the Earth.
They have discovered that like global positioning technology, they first determine where they are before heading off for home.
One of the quirks of homing pigeons is that they often head off in totally the wrong direction when initially finding their way home before making a correction.
Now the team, who published their findings in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B, have discovered that the initial flight path involves finding the magnetic waves which can then be used to find their way home.
They reviewed a number of studies in Germany that saw as many 150 birds returning to three lofts near Frankfurt.
Dr Cordula Mora and her colleagues concluded that "respond to the Earth's magnetic field at the release site", calculate their position using the fields and then calculate their way home.
"Our results imply that pigeons use the earth's magnetic field for determining their position at the release site before laying a course for home," she said.
The study extends previous research that suggested that magnetic particles in the beaks of the birds act like compasses.
They react to the Earth's external magnetic field in a very sensitive and specific manner, so they can deduce location, the team believes.
The researchers further believe that this ability is not unique to homing pigeons and could be universal among all birds and may also be present in other animals influenced by the Earth's magnetic field.
Study: Women look away more from abnormal babies
This blog entry is about a scientific study that found that women do not like to look at crippled babies. Both men and woman were shown pictures of crippled babies, and the woman looked away faster than the men did.
The scientists are puzzled because they are thinking women love children, so woman must love all children. Discovering women look away from crippled children faster makes no sense to the scientists.
But then Scientists R Stoopid, so what do you expect?
The woman look away from the babies faster because women are Yin. The men look away slower because men are Yang.
A human being with strong Yin can literally feel the body of another human being. When the women look at the crippled babies, the do not look away because they see a crippled baby. The women look away because they can literally feel the babies deformity in their own body, just by looking at the picture.
A human being with strong Yang is like a block of wood. They don't feel anything from other human beings. So you can show them lots of pictures of crippled babies and they will never feel anything. Since they do not feel the crippledness of the baby, they feel no urge to look away. That is why the man in the study seemed not to care whether the babies were crippled or not.
I really wish you stoopid scientists would learn about Yin Yang Theory already. I am getting old and there is no telling how long I will keep correcting your stoopidity for you.
(EDIT: I tell you what. I will give you stoopid scientists a clue why Yin can feel other human bodies, even if it is just a picture of another body.
Women are Yin. What does a woman do during sex? She wraps her vagina around the penis of the male. The woman can do this with any size or shape penis because the vagina is malleable.
You could say the woman's Yin follows the man's Yang no matter what it does. The woman's vagina changes shape and size to follow whatever the male's penis is doing.
The Yin part of the body can deform itself in any way to take on the shape of something else, just like the vagina can deform in just about any way to accomodate a penis. The Yin part of the woman's bodies is deforming itself to match the deformity of the child in the pictures they are looking at. The women are put off by those feelings, so they click away from the picture as fast as they can.)
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Puzzling new research suggests women have a harder time than men looking at babies with facial birth defects. It's a surprise finding. Psychiatrists from the Harvard-affiliated McLean Hospital, who were studying perceptions of beauty, had expected women to spend more time than men cooing over pictures of extra-cute babies. Nope.
Instead, the small study being published Wednesday raises more questions than it can answer.
First the background: The McLean team already had studied men and women looking at photos of adults' faces on a computer screen. They rated facial beauty, and could do various keystrokes to watch the photos longer. A keystroke count showed men put three times more effort into watching beautiful women as women put into watching handsome men.
Lead researcher Dr. Igor Elman wondered what else might motivate women. Enter the new baby study.
This time 13 men and 14 women were shown 80 photos of babies, 30 of whom had abnormal facial features such as a cleft palate, Down syndrome or crossed eyes. Participants rated each baby's attractiveness on a scale of zero to 100, and used keystrokes to make the photo stay on the screen longer or disappear faster.
Women pressed the keys 2.5 times more than men to make photos of babies with the facial abnormalities disappear, researchers reported in PLoS One, a journal of the Public Library of Science. That's even though they rated those babies no less attractive than the men had.
"They had this subliminal motivation to get rid of the faces," said Elman, who questions whether "we're designed by nature to invest all the resources into healthy-looking kids."
Both genders spent equal time and effort looking at photos of the normal babies.
The study couldn't explain the gender disparity. Elman noted that previous work has linked child abandonment and neglect to abnormal appearance, and even asked if the finding might challenge the concept of unconditional maternal love.
That's too far-reaching a conclusion, cautioned Dr. Steven Grant of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, which funded the study.
The work is part of broader research into how we normally form attachments and what can make those attachments go awry, work that tests if what people say matches what they do.
"Common sense would tell you one thing," Grant said. "This doesn't fit with common sense. It raises a question."
The scientists are puzzled because they are thinking women love children, so woman must love all children. Discovering women look away from crippled children faster makes no sense to the scientists.
But then Scientists R Stoopid, so what do you expect?
The woman look away from the babies faster because women are Yin. The men look away slower because men are Yang.
A human being with strong Yin can literally feel the body of another human being. When the women look at the crippled babies, the do not look away because they see a crippled baby. The women look away because they can literally feel the babies deformity in their own body, just by looking at the picture.
A human being with strong Yang is like a block of wood. They don't feel anything from other human beings. So you can show them lots of pictures of crippled babies and they will never feel anything. Since they do not feel the crippledness of the baby, they feel no urge to look away. That is why the man in the study seemed not to care whether the babies were crippled or not.
I really wish you stoopid scientists would learn about Yin Yang Theory already. I am getting old and there is no telling how long I will keep correcting your stoopidity for you.
(EDIT: I tell you what. I will give you stoopid scientists a clue why Yin can feel other human bodies, even if it is just a picture of another body.
Women are Yin. What does a woman do during sex? She wraps her vagina around the penis of the male. The woman can do this with any size or shape penis because the vagina is malleable.
You could say the woman's Yin follows the man's Yang no matter what it does. The woman's vagina changes shape and size to follow whatever the male's penis is doing.
The Yin part of the body can deform itself in any way to take on the shape of something else, just like the vagina can deform in just about any way to accomodate a penis. The Yin part of the woman's bodies is deforming itself to match the deformity of the child in the pictures they are looking at. The women are put off by those feelings, so they click away from the picture as fast as they can.)
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Puzzling new research suggests women have a harder time than men looking at babies with facial birth defects. It's a surprise finding. Psychiatrists from the Harvard-affiliated McLean Hospital, who were studying perceptions of beauty, had expected women to spend more time than men cooing over pictures of extra-cute babies. Nope.
Instead, the small study being published Wednesday raises more questions than it can answer.
First the background: The McLean team already had studied men and women looking at photos of adults' faces on a computer screen. They rated facial beauty, and could do various keystrokes to watch the photos longer. A keystroke count showed men put three times more effort into watching beautiful women as women put into watching handsome men.
Lead researcher Dr. Igor Elman wondered what else might motivate women. Enter the new baby study.
This time 13 men and 14 women were shown 80 photos of babies, 30 of whom had abnormal facial features such as a cleft palate, Down syndrome or crossed eyes. Participants rated each baby's attractiveness on a scale of zero to 100, and used keystrokes to make the photo stay on the screen longer or disappear faster.
Women pressed the keys 2.5 times more than men to make photos of babies with the facial abnormalities disappear, researchers reported in PLoS One, a journal of the Public Library of Science. That's even though they rated those babies no less attractive than the men had.
"They had this subliminal motivation to get rid of the faces," said Elman, who questions whether "we're designed by nature to invest all the resources into healthy-looking kids."
Both genders spent equal time and effort looking at photos of the normal babies.
The study couldn't explain the gender disparity. Elman noted that previous work has linked child abandonment and neglect to abnormal appearance, and even asked if the finding might challenge the concept of unconditional maternal love.
That's too far-reaching a conclusion, cautioned Dr. Steven Grant of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, which funded the study.
The work is part of broader research into how we normally form attachments and what can make those attachments go awry, work that tests if what people say matches what they do.
"Common sense would tell you one thing," Grant said. "This doesn't fit with common sense. It raises a question."
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Asking for something in the right ear is more successful
Some scientists did a test and concluded that when people are asked something in their right ear, they will agree more often than if they are asked in their left ear.
The scientists blather on about how they think it is because the left side of the brain is more logical blah blah.
This is an example of both Yin Yang Theory, and energy.
A human being has energy. That energy will have a focus spot that should be directly on the physical body of the human being. Many human beings though have an energy that is focused outside of their body.
To control a human being whose energy is focused outside of their body, you find where they focus their energy and stand on that spot. It takes skill and the more skillfull you are, the better you can control the person while standing on their energy focus spot.
What these scientists are finding is that large numbers of people have the energy of their body focused off to their right side. Probably because they are right handed. Every physical action they take they perform with their right hand, so over time the right hand pulls their energy to their right.
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Research shows that people prefer to be addressed in their right ear as they will find it easier to process the information and are therefore more likely to perform a task.
Known as the "right ear advantage", scientists believe it is because information received through the right ear is processed by the left hand side of the brain which is more logical and better at deciphering verbal information than the right side of the brain.
The researchers looked at how people listen in natural situations and seeing how they respond.
The team led by Dr Luca Tommasi and Daniele Marzoli from the University of Chieti in central Italy, observed behaviour of hundreds of people in three nightclubs across the city.
They intentionally addressed 176 people in either their right or their left ear when asking for a cigarette. They obtained significantly more cigarettes when they made their request in a person's right ear compared with their left.
The authors' results confirm a "right ear advantage" for verbal communication and the increased willingness to carry out a request when it is asked into the right ear.
Their findings were just published online in Springer's journal Naturwissenschaften
The scientists blather on about how they think it is because the left side of the brain is more logical blah blah.
This is an example of both Yin Yang Theory, and energy.
A human being has energy. That energy will have a focus spot that should be directly on the physical body of the human being. Many human beings though have an energy that is focused outside of their body.
To control a human being whose energy is focused outside of their body, you find where they focus their energy and stand on that spot. It takes skill and the more skillfull you are, the better you can control the person while standing on their energy focus spot.
What these scientists are finding is that large numbers of people have the energy of their body focused off to their right side. Probably because they are right handed. Every physical action they take they perform with their right hand, so over time the right hand pulls their energy to their right.
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Research shows that people prefer to be addressed in their right ear as they will find it easier to process the information and are therefore more likely to perform a task.
Known as the "right ear advantage", scientists believe it is because information received through the right ear is processed by the left hand side of the brain which is more logical and better at deciphering verbal information than the right side of the brain.
The researchers looked at how people listen in natural situations and seeing how they respond.
The team led by Dr Luca Tommasi and Daniele Marzoli from the University of Chieti in central Italy, observed behaviour of hundreds of people in three nightclubs across the city.
They intentionally addressed 176 people in either their right or their left ear when asking for a cigarette. They obtained significantly more cigarettes when they made their request in a person's right ear compared with their left.
The authors' results confirm a "right ear advantage" for verbal communication and the increased willingness to carry out a request when it is asked into the right ear.
Their findings were just published online in Springer's journal Naturwissenschaften
Thursday, June 4, 2009
How Common Is Tourette's Syndrome?
Another science story that is related to the stoopidity of scientist's and their ignorance of Yin Yang Theory.
Tourette's Syndrome is an illness that - "is characterized by recurring multiple motor tics, and at least one vocal tic." Tourette's syndrome is popularly known as the illness that makes people curse involuntarily.
According to Happeh Theory, Tourette's Syndrome is the result of the lack of Yin development in a human being, or some kind of damage to the Yin part of the body of a human being.
What makes this particular story such a glaring example of scientific stoopidity, is that the studies findings support the claim that Tourette's has something to do with the Yin part of the body.
The story says that "Neurological Disorder Affects Three Out of Every 1,000 Children, Boys More Often Than Girls". In Yin Yang Theory boys or men are considered majority Yang, while girls and women are considered majority Yin.
So the findings that males have Tourette's Syndrome more than females supports the claim that Tourette's is related to the Yin part of the body. Males don't have as much Yin as females, so males are more susceptible to Tourette's.
A further finding of the study that also supports the claim by Happeh Theory that Tourette's Syndrome is related to the condition of the Yin part of the body, is that the study found that white people get Tourette's more than hispanic or black people.
"Non-Hispanic white children were more than twice as likely as non-Hispanic black children or Hispanic children to have a parent-reported case of Tourette's syndrome."
White people are a victim of cultural and medical plots to make them lose the Yin part of their body. Since the white people have no or little Yin part of the body, they get Tourette's Syndrome twice as much as Hispanic or Black children.
The majority of Hispanic and Black people have not fallen victim to these plots, and the ideas of Yin Yang Theory are a part of their cultures, so Hispanic and Black children do not get Tourette's as much as white children.
Scientists R Stoopid about so many things. You have to be very careful about the things they tell you.
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Tourette's syndrome afflicts three out of every 1,000 children between ages 6 and 17 in the United States, the CDC says in its first-ever estimate of the prevalence of the neurological disorder.
The findings are revealed in the June 5 edition of the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.
According to the MMWR study, Tourette's syndrome is three times more common in boys than in girls, and about twice as common in children 12 to 17 as in those 6 to 11.
Twenty-seven percent of children with Tourette's syndrome have moderate or severe cases, the study says, and 79% of youngsters who have it also have been diagnosed with at least one additional mental health or neurodevelopmental condition.
Tourette's syndrome typically starts in childhood and is characterized by recurring multiple motor tics, and at least one vocal tic. Symptoms are generally most severe between 10 and 12 years of age and lessen by adulthood.
These are involuntary, repetitive, stereotyped, usually sudden and rapid movements or vocalizations that may be suppressed for short periods of time, the CDC report says.
“TS [Tourette's syndrome] and tic disorders have been linked to higher rates of attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and impairments associated with these conditions, such as learning disabilities and problems with peer relations,” says Rebecca Bitsko, MD, health scientist at the CDC, in a news release.
She says because so many children with Tourette's also have other neurological or mental health problems, the relationship between the conditions warrant further study.
Non-Hispanic white children were more than twice as likely as non-Hispanic black children or Hispanic children to have a parent-reported case of Tourette's syndrome.
“Having an estimate of the number of U.S. children who are diagnosed with TS is a first step toward understanding the overall impact of this condition in the population,” Bitsko says. “Further research must examine differences in access to health care for children with TS in different population groups, the impact of TS on the quality of life, long-term outcomes for children with TS, and strategies for reducing the impact of conditions associated with TS.”
Researchers examined National Survey of Children’s Health data from parents or guardians for 64,034 children 6-17 years old between April 2007 and July 2008.
The NSCH was the first large, national, population-based survey of U.S. children less than 18 years old that included questions about Tourette's syndrome.
Tourette's Syndrome is an illness that - "is characterized by recurring multiple motor tics, and at least one vocal tic." Tourette's syndrome is popularly known as the illness that makes people curse involuntarily.
According to Happeh Theory, Tourette's Syndrome is the result of the lack of Yin development in a human being, or some kind of damage to the Yin part of the body of a human being.
What makes this particular story such a glaring example of scientific stoopidity, is that the studies findings support the claim that Tourette's has something to do with the Yin part of the body.
The story says that "Neurological Disorder Affects Three Out of Every 1,000 Children, Boys More Often Than Girls". In Yin Yang Theory boys or men are considered majority Yang, while girls and women are considered majority Yin.
So the findings that males have Tourette's Syndrome more than females supports the claim that Tourette's is related to the Yin part of the body. Males don't have as much Yin as females, so males are more susceptible to Tourette's.
A further finding of the study that also supports the claim by Happeh Theory that Tourette's Syndrome is related to the condition of the Yin part of the body, is that the study found that white people get Tourette's more than hispanic or black people.
"Non-Hispanic white children were more than twice as likely as non-Hispanic black children or Hispanic children to have a parent-reported case of Tourette's syndrome."
White people are a victim of cultural and medical plots to make them lose the Yin part of their body. Since the white people have no or little Yin part of the body, they get Tourette's Syndrome twice as much as Hispanic or Black children.
The majority of Hispanic and Black people have not fallen victim to these plots, and the ideas of Yin Yang Theory are a part of their cultures, so Hispanic and Black children do not get Tourette's as much as white children.
Scientists R Stoopid about so many things. You have to be very careful about the things they tell you.
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Tourette's syndrome afflicts three out of every 1,000 children between ages 6 and 17 in the United States, the CDC says in its first-ever estimate of the prevalence of the neurological disorder.
The findings are revealed in the June 5 edition of the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.
According to the MMWR study, Tourette's syndrome is three times more common in boys than in girls, and about twice as common in children 12 to 17 as in those 6 to 11.
Twenty-seven percent of children with Tourette's syndrome have moderate or severe cases, the study says, and 79% of youngsters who have it also have been diagnosed with at least one additional mental health or neurodevelopmental condition.
Tourette's syndrome typically starts in childhood and is characterized by recurring multiple motor tics, and at least one vocal tic. Symptoms are generally most severe between 10 and 12 years of age and lessen by adulthood.
These are involuntary, repetitive, stereotyped, usually sudden and rapid movements or vocalizations that may be suppressed for short periods of time, the CDC report says.
“TS [Tourette's syndrome] and tic disorders have been linked to higher rates of attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and impairments associated with these conditions, such as learning disabilities and problems with peer relations,” says Rebecca Bitsko, MD, health scientist at the CDC, in a news release.
She says because so many children with Tourette's also have other neurological or mental health problems, the relationship between the conditions warrant further study.
Non-Hispanic white children were more than twice as likely as non-Hispanic black children or Hispanic children to have a parent-reported case of Tourette's syndrome.
“Having an estimate of the number of U.S. children who are diagnosed with TS is a first step toward understanding the overall impact of this condition in the population,” Bitsko says. “Further research must examine differences in access to health care for children with TS in different population groups, the impact of TS on the quality of life, long-term outcomes for children with TS, and strategies for reducing the impact of conditions associated with TS.”
Researchers examined National Survey of Children’s Health data from parents or guardians for 64,034 children 6-17 years old between April 2007 and July 2008.
The NSCH was the first large, national, population-based survey of U.S. children less than 18 years old that included questions about Tourette's syndrome.
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
Why Chimps, Monkeys Don't Develop Alzheimer's
The story below talks about why higher primates do not get Alzheimer's but human beings do. The confusion is that human beings are so similar to higher primates, scientists cannot figure out why getting Alzheimers would be different for the two species.
As usual the scientists are going on about microscopic this and that. In all stories of this type, Happeh Theory will not argue with the microscopic findings these scientists have made. The scientists probably did find what they say, and there probably is the correlation that the scientists claim to find.
The position of Happeh Theory though is that there is no need for the microscopic approach other than curiosity. There is an easier way to describe why higher primates do not get Alzheimers and human beings do. But then Scientists R Stoopid, so you can count on them to waste time on things of a lesser value.
The reason human beings get Alzheimer's and higher primates do not, is because Alzheimers can be thought of as the cost to human beings of having the brain they do. According to Happeh Theory, the bodily changes that make a human being different from a primate, are responsible for the susceptibility of human being's to Alzheimers.
The explanation can be given in terms of Yin Yang Theory. Higher primates would be considered to be strongly Yin. Human beings are a different combination of Yin and Yang that makes them more Yin and Yang, as opposed to mainly Yin or mainly Yang.
According to Happeh Theory, it is those differences in the Yin and Yang parts of the body that make human being's susceptible to Alzheimer's while primates are not susceptible to Alzheimer's.
Human being's get Alzheimer's as they age because the Yin drains out of them as they get older. Since human's are a combination of Yin and Yang, their Yin is not as strong in the first place.
Because higher primates are strongly Yin, even when they get old they are still strongly Yin, which protects their brain from Alzheimer's.
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Scientists have long noticed a curious phenomenon among primates: Humans get the devastating neurological disorder known as Alzheimer's disease, but their closest evolutionary cousins don't.
Even more inexplicable is the fact that chimpanzee and other non-human primate brains do get clogged with the same protein plaques that are believed by many to cause the disease in humans.
The answer to this puzzle could yield valuable insight into how Alzheimer's develops and progresses, and now researchers report they may have a clue. They report their finding in the latest issue of the journal Neurobiology of Aging.
They found that a "tag" molecule used to track plaque build-up latches easily onto plaques in human brains but not in those of apes and monkeys, suggesting that there is a basic structural difference between the two types of plaque.
Figuring out the difference, they said, could lead to ways to render human amyloid plaques as harmless in human brains as they are in the brains of other primates.
"What this tells us, first of all, is that plaques are structurally distinct in human vs. non-human primates," said study author Rebecca Rosen, a neuroscience doctoral candidate at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center, at Emory University in Atlanta. "Why that is is a huge question [but] now we have a tool we can use to differentiate the structure [of amyloid plaques] between humans and non-human primates."
"We can use this [tagging compound] to characterize the toxic nature of the [amyloid plaques] in the human brain in order to understand them better," she added. "It also confirms the usefulness of the [compound, called Pittsburgh Compound B (PIB)] for diagnosing Alzheimer's."
But the true significance when it comes to treating or preventing the disease remains unclear, said another expert.
"This is another finding of unknown significance, but it is a finding," said Dr. Gary J. Kennedy, director of geriatric psychiatry at Montefiore Medical Center in New York City. "None of us know why these higher primates don't get Alzheimer's disease, but we don't know why humans get Alzheimer's disease either. . . Where it leads us, I don't know."
Since the amino acid sequence of human amyloid protein is different from that in monkey brains, scientists hypothesized that the structure might be different.
To test this theory, Rosen and her colleagues took PIB, widely used in clinical trials to diagnose Alzheimer's. PIB binds to amyloid deposits in live human brains, thus "lighting up" the plaques on positron-emission tomography (PET) scans.
They used PIB in brain tissue from nine deceased rhesus monkeys, six deceased squirrel monkeys, three deceased chimpanzees, nine deceased humans with end-stage Alzheimer's and three deceased older but healthy humans.
"We were able to show that, similar to what has been seen in mouse brains, PIB does not bind with high affinity to plaque in monkey or ape brains," Rosen said.
Another group of researchers at the Yerkes Center recently reported separately that a test involving infrared eye tracking may help pick up mild cognitive impairment in humans. The condition is sometimes a precursor to Alzheimer's.
As usual the scientists are going on about microscopic this and that. In all stories of this type, Happeh Theory will not argue with the microscopic findings these scientists have made. The scientists probably did find what they say, and there probably is the correlation that the scientists claim to find.
The position of Happeh Theory though is that there is no need for the microscopic approach other than curiosity. There is an easier way to describe why higher primates do not get Alzheimers and human beings do. But then Scientists R Stoopid, so you can count on them to waste time on things of a lesser value.
The reason human beings get Alzheimer's and higher primates do not, is because Alzheimers can be thought of as the cost to human beings of having the brain they do. According to Happeh Theory, the bodily changes that make a human being different from a primate, are responsible for the susceptibility of human being's to Alzheimers.
The explanation can be given in terms of Yin Yang Theory. Higher primates would be considered to be strongly Yin. Human beings are a different combination of Yin and Yang that makes them more Yin and Yang, as opposed to mainly Yin or mainly Yang.
According to Happeh Theory, it is those differences in the Yin and Yang parts of the body that make human being's susceptible to Alzheimer's while primates are not susceptible to Alzheimer's.
Human being's get Alzheimer's as they age because the Yin drains out of them as they get older. Since human's are a combination of Yin and Yang, their Yin is not as strong in the first place.
Because higher primates are strongly Yin, even when they get old they are still strongly Yin, which protects their brain from Alzheimer's.
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Scientists have long noticed a curious phenomenon among primates: Humans get the devastating neurological disorder known as Alzheimer's disease, but their closest evolutionary cousins don't.
Even more inexplicable is the fact that chimpanzee and other non-human primate brains do get clogged with the same protein plaques that are believed by many to cause the disease in humans.
The answer to this puzzle could yield valuable insight into how Alzheimer's develops and progresses, and now researchers report they may have a clue. They report their finding in the latest issue of the journal Neurobiology of Aging.
They found that a "tag" molecule used to track plaque build-up latches easily onto plaques in human brains but not in those of apes and monkeys, suggesting that there is a basic structural difference between the two types of plaque.
Figuring out the difference, they said, could lead to ways to render human amyloid plaques as harmless in human brains as they are in the brains of other primates.
"What this tells us, first of all, is that plaques are structurally distinct in human vs. non-human primates," said study author Rebecca Rosen, a neuroscience doctoral candidate at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center, at Emory University in Atlanta. "Why that is is a huge question [but] now we have a tool we can use to differentiate the structure [of amyloid plaques] between humans and non-human primates."
"We can use this [tagging compound] to characterize the toxic nature of the [amyloid plaques] in the human brain in order to understand them better," she added. "It also confirms the usefulness of the [compound, called Pittsburgh Compound B (PIB)] for diagnosing Alzheimer's."
But the true significance when it comes to treating or preventing the disease remains unclear, said another expert.
"This is another finding of unknown significance, but it is a finding," said Dr. Gary J. Kennedy, director of geriatric psychiatry at Montefiore Medical Center in New York City. "None of us know why these higher primates don't get Alzheimer's disease, but we don't know why humans get Alzheimer's disease either. . . Where it leads us, I don't know."
Since the amino acid sequence of human amyloid protein is different from that in monkey brains, scientists hypothesized that the structure might be different.
To test this theory, Rosen and her colleagues took PIB, widely used in clinical trials to diagnose Alzheimer's. PIB binds to amyloid deposits in live human brains, thus "lighting up" the plaques on positron-emission tomography (PET) scans.
They used PIB in brain tissue from nine deceased rhesus monkeys, six deceased squirrel monkeys, three deceased chimpanzees, nine deceased humans with end-stage Alzheimer's and three deceased older but healthy humans.
"We were able to show that, similar to what has been seen in mouse brains, PIB does not bind with high affinity to plaque in monkey or ape brains," Rosen said.
Another group of researchers at the Yerkes Center recently reported separately that a test involving infrared eye tracking may help pick up mild cognitive impairment in humans. The condition is sometimes a precursor to Alzheimer's.
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