Spain is a Dangerous Place?

Report on the economic decline with resulting loss of health care safety net resources in Spain.
You think it’s not possible in places that are equally committed to a national health system and equally economically shaky?
I would beg to differ–health care is a big burden for advanced care and profligacy is not without risk.
As Uncle Miltie said–no free lunch.
http://www.economist.com/blogs/charlemagne/2013/12/spains-health-care

Cosmic Rays are Cooler

Ever since I learned from Fred Singer that cosmic rays increase cloud cover and that’s why sunspots make things hotter, I thought, I am an astrophysicist? Right? That’s why this is important for aspiring astrophysicists.
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UK Health System Insanity

UK National health Service (NHS) pays for aromatherapy and other alternative medical care services, but skimps on Cancer care?
Wonder why a financially strapped national single payer system would bother with junk science “alternative” therapies like aroma therapy? Follow the politics.
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CS Lewis on Scientism

CS Lewis and Aldous Huxley died on the same day as Kennedy. Bad day for us all.
Lewis was an Oxford Don in philosophy and literature, and he wrote insightfully on the pejorative term Scientism.
He could be a patron of Junk Science.com cause we disapprove of Scientism too.
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Cocktail Hour Aspirin Better?

This report, commented on by our friends at American Council on Science and Health, reminds that a little bit of aspirin daily is heart attack prevention.
However aspirin effects on platelets aren’t 12 hour effects. Besides, Aspirin is a peak within 1 hour, 4 hour gone completely, drug.
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