Oct 22, 2008

Rhodiola rosea

Posted in Science, spectroscopy at 1:00 pm by David Bradley -- 22 Comments; add yours

Live long and prosper with Rhodiola rosea? I very much doubt it. R rosea (aka golden root, roseroot, hóng jǐng tiān in TCM) is a member of the Crassulaceae family and grows across the Arctic, the mountains of Central Asia, the Rockies, the Alps, the Pyrenees, the Carpathian Mountains, Scandinavia, Iceland, Great Britain and Ireland. According to some herbalists it could be an …

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Aug 20, 2008

How to Discover Our Universe

Posted in Science, spectroscopy at 1:00 pm by David Bradley -- 20 Comments; add yours

Apparently, scientific thought needs rekindling, seemingly it has run out of kindle and needs a new flame if it is to burn brighter. In steps Terence Witt with the concept of null physics. Witt has now self-published a hefty tome by the name of Our Undiscovered Universe.

According to the press blurb that came with my review copy of the book, he’s a visiting scientist at Florida Institute …

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Jun 18, 2008

Alcohol Causes Cancer

Posted in Science, spectroscopy at 1:00 pm by David Bradley -- 17 Comments; add yours

It’s quite illuminating that the following study has not yet reached the wider media. Without wishing to be too cynical, I do wonder whether that’s because the journal in which the work is published does not use a highly aggressive press office and marketing machine like so many other medical journals, which never seem to be out of the news. The results in this …

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