English-American author and journalist Christopher Hitchens died today from cancer of the esophagus. He was diagnosed with this tumor about 17 months ago. What did Christopher Hitchens and Steve Jobs have in common? Both men used DNA to try to discover and treat the gene mutations that were driving their cancers. Jobs had his DNA [...]
When they first discovered the tumor in his pancreas in October 2003, his doctors told him an immediate operation was necessary, and could lead to a cure. As first reported by Peter Elkind in 2008, Jobs decided to think different, declined surgery, and explored alternative medicine treatments for his disease. Nine months later, in July 2004, the tumor had grown. Only then would [...]
If our headline describes you, you could be a psychopath. Really. Our title is actually part of a classified newspaper ad that researchers used to recruit potential psychopaths from non-jailed populations. The goal of the research was to study the differences between “successful” and “unsuccessful psychopaths.” Successful psychopaths are people that who would flunk The Psychopath [...]
Do you remember Tom Cruise‘s rant against psychiatry on the Today Show with Matt Lauer in 2007? Mr. Cruise, a member of the Church of Scientology, has been so consistently outspoken against psychiatry that the International Association of Scientology awarded him the Freedom Medal of Valor in 2004, in part for “eradicating the very thought [...]
Bong hits aren’t the only way to get high with the Mexican sage plant Salvia divinorum, you can also chew its fresh leaves as a wad or drink an infusion from freshly crushed leaves. Salvia means “to heal” and divinorum means “divination” reflecting its traditional uses by Mazatec folk healers or Shamans in Oxaxaca, Mexico. [...]
The November 17 Oprah Winfrey Show featured a segment on Brazilian faith healer João Teixeira who is popularly known in his country as João de Deus or John of God. The Teixeira story has been covered before, prominently in a controversial ABC Primetime Live segment in 2005. Teixeira, 68, is a medium with no medical [...]
In a story for our syndication partner, MedPageToday, we wrote about a cancer patient who used laughter (and also singing and eating like a pig) as part of his treatment plan. This brings to mind that old saying that “Laughter is the Best Medicine.” Did you know that this concept originated in the Bible, Proverbs 17:22, which says “A cheerful heart is good medicine.”
According to this week’s People Magazine, country music singer Wynonna Judd, 46, dropped 55 lbs. and five dress sizes using “brain state conditioning.” The magic behind this dramatic weight loss was reported to be 10 to 14, 90-minute sessions at the Brain State Technologies center in Scottsdale, Arizona at $195 per session. We have written [...]
During his flight from Rome for a state visit to Great Briatin on September 16, Pope Benedict XVI told reporters on board the plane that paedophilia was an “illness” whose sufferers had lost their free will. Psychologists and psychiatrists would agree.
Hitch-22, the recently-published memoir of English-American author and journalist Christopher Hitchens, begins with a sad and dark “Prologue with Premonitions” which begins with his description of a magazine article that, due to a proofreading error, refers to him as “the late Christopher Hitchens.” Mr. Hitchens goes on to describe examples of other people in situations that Mark Twain famously referred to as “reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.”
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Demi’s Heartbreak Breakdown
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