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There's kind of a useful rule of thumb in medicine: "Cure-alls cure nothing". Anyone who thinks they've discovered some miracle breakthrough procedure or medicine that they then apply to every single problem they come across is always -- always -- full of poo poo.
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Imagined posted:There's kind of a useful rule of thumb in medicine: "Cure-alls cure nothing". Anyone who thinks they've discovered some miracle breakthrough procedure or medicine that they then apply to every single problem they come across is always -- always -- full of poo poo. Reminds me of this guy: http://www.snotr.com/video/3938/Dragons_Den (sorry, no youtube link that I could find)
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Oct 8, 2015 15:29
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:Reminds me of this guy: I really like that he misspelled tons of the disease names Indegestion, prostrate...
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Oct 8, 2015 15:45
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Frostwerks posted:We really loving should drag these fuckers legacies right through the loving mud because it's what they goddamn deserve. gently caress yeah. I'm going to post in the Post Your loving Favorite Unnerving Article thread, and spread the word about these god drat loving pieces of poo poo.
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Oct 8, 2015 18:17
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Vladimir Poutine posted:a 4 year old child What could have a 4 year old possibly have been doing to make anyone think that the best solution was to ice pick them in the brain??
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Oct 8, 2015 19:08
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:What the gently caress is this poo poo?! From the article: quote:But when Rose went into labor with Rosemary, the doctor was not immediately available. Although the nurse was trained to deliver babies, she nonetheless tried to halt the birth to await the doctor’s arrival. Gotta keep this natural process from happening until the big cheese is here!
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I have a soft spot (I can't think of a better term, sorry) for this sort of thing, as my son had gone through a comparatively minor amount of stress when he was born (contractions lowered his heart rate significantly), and it might have caused a slight delay in his development, but he's doing really well now. Hearing about this is a nightmare; it's like your child has all of the chances in the world (especially being a Kennedy), and this simple act robs them of almost everything. Add the lobotomy to that, and holy poo poo 
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:Reminds me of this guy: I was thinking "god, they're being gentle" and then he asks "why" and gets what he deserves. Very much on-topic, black salve. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cansema I read some long article about it a while back but I'm not sifting through the horrible google results to find it. Long story short: "all-natural cancer cure" not only doesn't cure cancer, it eats gaping wounds in your body.
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Oct 8, 2015 19:58
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RNG posted:Long story short: "all-natural cancer cure" not only doesn't cure cancer, it eats gaping wounds in your body. Yeah, well to its credit, cancer has never actually sprung into existence from the void that is a gaping hole, so that's one more bit of body area volume that'll stay cancer free! Stuff Works! Checkmate established medical community!
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A CRUNK BIRD posted:gently caress yeah. I'm going to post in the Post Your loving Favorite Unnerving Article thread, and spread the word about these god drat loving pieces of poo poo. Fine, honor them.
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Oct 9, 2015 03:36
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Frostwerks posted:Fine, honor them. The icepick lobotomy guy died miserable and guilt-ridden as it slowly dawned on him that he wasn't helping anyone and was actually ruining tons of lives.
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Oct 9, 2015 04:39
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Jack Gladney posted:The icepick lobotomy guy died miserable and guilt-ridden as it slowly dawned on him that he wasn't helping anyone and was actually ruining tons of lives. I'm glad for it.
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http://lateralscience.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/galvanic-experiments-on-dead-body-of.html The second bit on the page, Galvanic Experiments on the Dead Body of a Criminal (who had been hanged for murder one hour previously.) quote:A considerable incision was at the same time made in the left hip, through the great gutteal muscle, so as to bring the sciatic nerve into sight, and a small cut was made in the heel; the pointed rod connected with one end of the battery was now placed in contact with the spinal marrow, while the other rod was applied to the sciatic nerve. Every muscle of the body was immediately agitated with convulsive movements resembling a violent shuddering from the cold; the left side was most powerfully convulsed at each renewal of the electric contact. There's more. This "experiment" was carried out in public. Some spectators had to leave and one observer fainted, because scientific inquiry can be some creepy-rear end poo poo. It also makes me wonder, if they had hit the brain with electricity, would this corpse have experienced flickers of consciousness in the midst of full body seizures? loving hell, the things I end up reading before bedtime.
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Short answer "no", long answer "hahahaha no". Similar experiments were done pretty regularly on non-human dead animals; if you run enough electricity through a dead thing to replace what the brain cannot do anymore, the corpse will twitch. It's a little weird to see. Also, you're gonna flip your poo poo when you see that gif of pouring soy sauce over a dead octopus. (The sodium makes its muscles contract!)
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Jack Gladney posted:The icepick lobotomy guy died miserable and guilt-ridden as it slowly dawned on him that he wasn't helping anyone and was actually ruining tons of lives. But did he have an icepick rammed up his eyesocket while this was happening?
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I remember learning about this in biology, it was a big deal in Alaska because people ate so much shellfish. Clams I think were the ones in particular that stored up the toxin that causes the paralytic shellfish poisoning. My biology teacher described for us in detail what happened when it took effect and how it probably felt to die from it 
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Oct 9, 2015 07:18
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Puppy Time posted:From the article: To touch on this a little more, I believe it's Laurence Leamer's book The Kennedy Women (very good, btw) which has a quote from Eunice Kennedy. She mentions that the doctor in those days also didn't get his "full fee" if the baby came while he wasn't there.
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Oct 9, 2015 07:40
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shelley posted:Short answer "no", long answer "hahahaha no". I kinda figure, but try telling that to the part of my brain that writes my nightmares. It's totally irrational and won't listen to reason at all.
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This may have been speculation or hyperbole, but I also recall something about Rosemary just being a "normal" (perhaps comparatively dim or the same as her siblings) but having been rebellious and sexually precocious, marking her for extra scrutiny and criticism. Seems possible with the whole "wandering the streets, vulnerable to men" comment on the wiki, or potentially caused by bipolar disorder and acting out.
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Not sure if it's been posted in this thread or not, but I dug this article up for a friend today and thought it would be right up the thread's alley. http://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/myths-over-miami-6393117 A look at the semi-religious folklore of homeless kids in Miami back in the nineties.
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Oct 9, 2015 12:01
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cptn_dr posted:Not sure if it's been posted in this thread or not, but I dug this article up for a friend today and thought it would be right up the thread's alley.
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Filox posted:http://lateralscience.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/galvanic-experiments-on-dead-body-of.html Fortunately (or unfortunately), that's not how consciousness works. Hell, we don't even really know how it works, just how to make it stop working. We're really good at that though.
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Filox posted:I kinda figure, but try telling that to the part of my brain that writes my nightmares. It's totally irrational and won't listen to reason at all. I've got a cure for that, here look at this icepick and whatever you do don't sneeze.....
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MAKE NO BABBYS posted:This may have been speculation or hyperbole, but I also recall something about Rosemary just being a "normal" (perhaps comparatively dim or the same as her siblings) but having been rebellious and sexually precocious, marking her for extra scrutiny and criticism. Seems possible with the whole "wandering the streets, vulnerable to men" comment on the wiki, or potentially caused by bipolar disorder and acting out. Because heaven forbid that a Kennedy want to have sex with lots of people, right
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Filox posted:http://lateralscience.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/galvanic-experiments-on-dead-body-of.html The brain basically breaks down right away after death.
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AnonSpore posted:Because heaven forbid that a female Kennedy want to have sex with lots of people, right FTFY
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IShallRiseAgain posted:The brain basically breaks down right away after death. I used to work in a funeral home and brains actually MELT at room temp once they're dead. You'd try to pick up the brain slices the pathologist left you and they just schlurp right through your fingers.
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Sex Hobbit posted:I used to work in a funeral home and brains actually MELT at room temp once they're dead. You'd try to pick up the brain slices the pathologist left you and they just schlurp right through your fingers. Now I have a half-amusing, half-unsettling image of the brain as a self-aware entity that is constantly straining to just barely hold itself together, and as soon as it loses consciousness the whole thing literally falls apart.
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Sex Hobbit posted:I used to work in a funeral home and brains actually MELT at room temp once they're dead. You'd try to pick up the brain slices the pathologist left you and they just schlurp right through your fingers. The texture is something between undercooked scrambled eggs and butter that's been softened in a warm room. All of my experience with brains comes from pigs, but it's amazing that something so fragile (and frankly, just one big ball of fat) is so powerful.
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Sex Hobbit posted:I used to work in a funeral home and brains actually MELT at room temp once they're dead. You'd try to pick up the brain slices the pathologist left you and they just schlurp right through your fingers. Was talking to my brother on the phone when I thought I'd check this thread. I read him this and I swear I could hear him turn green.  (Schlurpy stuff doesn't bother me. He loving hates it.)
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RNG posted:I was thinking "god, they're being gentle" and then he asks "why" and gets what he deserves. Was this the poo poo that someone almost lost their nose to? Fake edit: Yup. http://reasonablehank.com/2013/02/18/meryl-of-the-family-dorey-versus-the-tga-with-a-little-help-from-her-friend/ http://www.oneanswertocancermovie.com/articles/bill_oleary_story.htm
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cptn_dr posted:Not sure if it's been posted in this thread or not, but I dug this article up for a friend today and thought it would be right up the thread's alley. It wasn't just homeless kids who were terrified of Bloody Mary in the mid 90s. I'd forgotten all about that. If you stood in a dark room with a mirror in it and said her name three times, she'd appear and pull you through the mirror with her.
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I remember being absolutely terrified as a young child trying that out for the first time.
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I don't know how widespread it was but I remember a more morbid offshoot of Bloody Mary back in the 90's, Blue Baby. It had a similar setup, going into a dark room, look into a mirror, and say its name three times and then you summoned it and it killed you, though you also had to rock your arms back and forth in a cradling motion. Blue Baby was supposed to be some baby that died or was killed.
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I hate it when people scoff at the bloody Mary thing, because while I don't believe in ghosts, it is based on a real optical illusion, so people do see "something". Just not a ghost. It's something like this 
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Puppy Time posted:From the article: Same thing happened to my grandmother when she was giving birth to my mom. The doctor was on a smoke break so they tried to get her to wait. Luckily no damage resulted. Good thing we don't live in those unenlightened times! Now docs just hustle you into a c-section to keep their tee times.
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WaywardWoodwose posted:I hate it when people scoff at the bloody Mary thing, because while I don't believe in ghosts, it is based on a real optical illusion, so people do see "something". Just not a ghost. WTF 
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Listen, your brain is a lazy rear end in a top hat, and will make up poo poo at the drop of a hat if it is unsure or bored.
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WaywardWoodwose posted:I hate it when people scoff at the bloody Mary thing, because while I don't believe in ghosts, it is based on a real optical illusion, so people do see "something". Just not a ghost. This is loving me up something fierce
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I wish it was possible to take a picture of the peripheral-vision versions of those pictures, they crack me up every time.
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