Paracelsus' poison
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In many ways the history of the Olympics is the history of athletes trying to kill themselves with increasingly sophisticated drugs. In the original Olympics the athletes used various herbal stimulants…
The Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) has considered a proposal to list 1,3-dimethylamylamine (DMAA) as a schedule 9 compound. Schedule 9 compounds are prohibited substances which have no therapeutic…
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a person in want of coolness is in want of a tan. And increasingly, that tan is coming out of a bottle. To get the kind of deep-all over tan that Aussie legend…
Memo to CAM enthusiasts, try not to shoot yourself in the foot publicly next time. I am, of course, referring to the recent article in the Medical Journal of Australia “The Legitimacy of Academic Complementary…
There is a persistent belief that drinking coffee is bad for you. Some alternative medicine systems eschew all coffee drinking (but are enthusiastic about coffee enemas). Certainly if you overindulge the…
I’ve written before about the toxins secreted by the Cane Toad. The toad’s venom is a complex mix of chemicals. The most important is related to digoxin, the toxin found in the Foxglove plant, and works…
The iTelescope SSO webcam is going well with some dropouts, http://www.ustream.tv/channel/itelescope The Universe Today webcam is going strong. http://www.universetoday.com/95630/watch-the-transit-of-venus-live…
The historic transit of Venus is tomorrow (6 June), starting early in the morning. While some of you will have taken time off work (or made simple observing devices to take to work), not everybody can…
Who amongst us hasn’t wished, in the wee small hours when we are staring at the bedroom ceiling wide awake, heart pumping, bitterly regretting that last, late night espresso, that there was an anti-caffeine…
In the aftermath of the announcement that the government will remove the 30% private insurance rebate for alternative medicines found to be ineffective, last Saturdays Adelaide Advertiser carried a double…