MOS: Hot Sugared Butthole (…for science?)

January 25, 2024 SciBabe 1

One way to reduce inflammation and swelling in the exposed rectal tissue is to take advantage of good old osmosis. Pouring a literal buttload of sugar on this pink tube sock of danger? Yes, it’s exactly like pouring salt on a slug.

MOS: Minoxidil

January 25, 2024 SciBabe 0

A pharmaceutical company founded in 1886, Upjohn (now a part of Pfizer) had a solid reputation that it wasn’t about to sully by making bald-today-hair-tomorrow pills.

MOS: Dr. Evelyn Hooker

January 25, 2024 SciBabe 0

Hooker then gave those results- blinded- to a panel of clinicians and asked them to sort out the gays and the straights. Which was a thing psychological science was supposed to be able to do because these people had a real mental illness, right? Riiiight?

MOS: Starvation Mode

January 25, 2024 SciBabe 0

RMR after weight loss can be a bit lower than in people of a comparable but long-term stable weight. This is referred to as metabolic adaptation, and that’s… probably starvation mode.

MOS: Cocaine Doctor

January 25, 2024 SciBabe 0

Dr. Edwin Katskee decided the best way to sort the correct dosage was to take simply massive amounts of cocaine. When used as local anesthesia, it’s often applied topically. Katskee injected the stuff.

MOS: Parasitic Twin on the Brain

January 25, 2024 SciBabe 0

The incidence of fetus-in-fetu is suspected to be less than one in a half a million live births, with less than 200 cases reported in medical literature.

MOS: Stubbins Ffirth

January 24, 2024 SciBabe 0

Ffirt thought if he could prove it wasn’t contagious, people wouldn’t have to suffer their final moments with this awful disease alone. He was willing to put his ass– and every other orifice– on the line to prove it wasn’t contagious.

MOS: Auto-Brewery Syndrome

January 24, 2024 SciBabe 0

ABS is suspected to be under-diagnosed, but it’s rare like a sincere person on twitter, so it’s just not particularly easy to recognize.

MOS: The History of CPR

January 24, 2024 SciBabe 0

With this largely sorted out by the time of the Tang Dynasty, you’d be forgiven for thinking that CPR had been spread worldwide before someone had a chance to suggest “maybe throw them over a barrel.” Well.