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...gets Turek roiled is that many of these sensational claims are being made by doctors and scientists who ought to know better. So last week he took aim at those colleagues in the research journal Nature. "There has always been, and probably always will be, public enthusiasm for quick snake-oil cures to complex problems," Turek wrote. But some melatonin researchers, he added, have stepped over "the truth-in-advertisement line by exaggerating the significance of a few selected studies to the point where the public receives an unbalanced and potentially dangerous view of the present state of knowledge." Singled...
...MIDDLE AGES PEOPLE TOOK POTIONS FOR THEIR ailments. In the 19th century they took snake oil. Citizens of today's shiny, technological age are too modern for that. They take antioxidants and extract of cactus instead...
...Hill said the temporary snake escape "was not unusual...
...years back," Anderson said, a snake escaped in a student's dorm room in Adams House. "It went under some furniture and we were able to get to come out and we caught...
Hill recalled a similar incident 10 years ago in which a snake that was at large was also lured out with chicken...