Best Hoax Study Ever: Men Who Stare At Boobs Live Longer

Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. YOU ARE NOT READING THIS. YOU ARE STARING AT THE PHOTO ABOVE, AREN'T YOU?

[moving on] Thank GOD there was a study that did not actually appear in the New England Joural of Medecine as far back as 2009 or 1997, that had not actually been conducted over the course of 5 years and 500 participants.

The hoax study asserts that 10 minutes of boob-staring is equivalent to 30 minutes of aerobic

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Posted by Will on 08/ 9/10 | Comments (0) | Email to a friend |

Cheeky Monkey UPDATE!: Reader Zach Crunches Some Research For Us On Stomach Flu

Fellow mV-ers, Check this out:

Now that cold+flu season is in full swing, I thought it would be a plus to the site for one of our commenters to have his say come up in a post.

Our pal Zach had a very detailed read of one of the full studies cited in the Cheeky Monkey Stomach Flu post awhile back.

He was nice enough to cook down some of the conclusions into his comment which

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Posted by Will on 02/12/10 | Comments (0) | Email to a friend |

Echinacea Is Cat's Butt At Restoring Prairies, Not So At Fixing Colds. -Unless ...

According to this study by Turner & Pals, Echinacea is not effective against the common cold.

-Bummer.

If you believe that study.

There may be light at the end of the tunnel, though...

This post by UVA Med + Turner himself reveals

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Posted by Will on 01/22/09 | Comments (0) | Email to a friend |

The G-Shot. Not Gardasil, But Definitely A Shpot Heard 'Round The World

Once Upon A Time, sweet kind ladies like my adopted Aunt, who was recently made an official Saint by The Vatican, would get together and have quaint little sales parties discussing things like makeup and reusable plastic storage containers.

In another notch down the ratchet of our increasingly Britney-fied culture, Ladies who had long-ago abandoned their prim but sassy Doris Day dresses for -well maybe not Christina Aguilera Underpants

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Posted by Will on 06/21/08 | Comments (0) | Email to a friend |

Aw, >>FRAK<< ! -Canucks Bork Nalgene. Thanks, Bisphenol A!!!

BLAME CANADA!!

Our neighbors to the north in their perpetual re-bid to be a haven for pot smokers, asian prostitutes, odd guys named Doug, expatriated French-holes and to remain the red-headed stepchild of socialst Sweden have struck YET AGAIN!!!!

Damn you, Canada! -Singlehandedly pounding the Nalgene Nunc company by outlawing polycarbonate drinking vessels made using Bisphenol A.

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Posted by Will on 05/ 7/08 | Comments (0) | Email to a friend |

Nero; -I Mean Teh EPA Sez No 'Known' Ill Effects from PPCPs In Water

"To date, scientists have found no evidence of adverse human health effects from PPCPs in the environment."

"There are no known human health effects from such low-level exposures in drinking water"

O RLY?

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Posted by Will on 04/23/08 | Comments (0) | Email to a friend |

Residual Antibiotics, Hormones found in Public Water

Apparently, fish getting their freak on for Jesus in it is becoming the least of our problems.

And though CityNews has clarified for us some of the snow types not to eat (yellow is still bad, btw), AP’s national investigation team has discovered some stuff may be making its way into the water, -particularly unmetabolized birth control hormones and other

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Posted by Will on 04/21/08 | Comments (0) | Email to a friend |

Compound Reverses Alzheimer's In Minutes

(just Like Gardasil, another) Shot Heard 'Round The World, mortals!1!

Neuroscientists from UCLA and USC inject an Alzheimer's patient with an anti-Tumor Necrosis Factor (TNF) agent called etanercept (brand name Enbrel) and the patient shows Marked cognitive improvement within minutes.

The published papers focus on only 1 of the patients, though many

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Posted by Will on 01/15/08 | Comments (0) | Email to a friend |

Hourglass Women Smarter (-???); Make Smarter Babies

Damn You SALMA HAYEK! -Damn Youuuuuu!!!! !-Yet Another reason to love hot women!! (++ Note to self: Must become scientist who gets paid to study female hotness.)

According to a study by the University of Pittsburgh and UC Santa Barbara on about 16,000 women

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Posted by Will on 12/30/07 | Comments (0) | Email to a friend |

F-Cup Tea Makes Boobs Happy!

Eleven score and eleven years ago, our great Founding Fathers saw fit to burden themselves with throwing off the uncharitable chains of British colonialist hegemony.

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Posted by Will on 09/20/07 | Comments (0) | Email to a friend |

Generic Drugs Apparently More Profitable Than Meth, Crack, etc. -Almost ~1000% Markup

Yet another in the series of "Too Good to Wait", it's: Forget zee Whyyte Laydee! Drop Dat Blunt! -Look out, Pablo!

=^CVS!;... -In- -Da- -HOUSE-!!!!^=

-Apparently Generic Prescription Drugs are a more lucrative market than the rockings of the crack. -And Walgreen's is one of the chief dealers (of marked-up generics; not crack, silly rabbit ;) ).

In one study by the Freakonomics Blog,

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Posted by Will on 03/16/07 | Comments (0) | Email to a friend |

Tykerb Helps Delay Spread of Breast Cancer

The experimental drug Tykerb has been shown to reduce the spread of breast cancer when combined with Xeloda, in a study led by Dr. Charles Geyer, Jr.

The combination of the 2 drugs almost doubled the delay when compared to trials done on Xeloda alone.

Tykerb belongs to a class of drugs that are more specifically-targeted and kill less

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Posted by Will on 06/ 5/06 | Comments (3) | Email to a friend |

Crestor Cleans Arteries Like a Vascular Roto-Rooter

(ok, closer to drano, but still...)

In a recently-published study conducted by The Cleveland Clinic, the statin drug Crestor has been shown a “reversal of coronary artery disease”.

There are some caveats, but these results are still a semi-watershed event in the history of cholesterol and atherosclerosis treatment.

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Posted by Will on 03/31/06 | Comments (4) | Email to a friend |

Gardasil Stupendously Effective at Preventing Some Cervical Cancers

A recently concluded study by Merck & Co. on its drug Gardasil showed extraordinary promise at preventing some types of cervical cancer.

The drug which involves technology licensed from CSL Ltd. in Australia, was the center of a study on 12,000+ women aged 16 to 26 in 13 countries all around the world.

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Posted by Will on 10/ 6/05 | Comments (0) | Email to a friend |