We talk all things drinking and hangovers (the science behind it of course) as well as solve the mystery of the Bermuda triangle, and get an insight into the stages of clinical trials.

Tune in this week as we learn the ins and outs of diabetes as well as blue light glasses, full moon emergency room admissions, and the appeal to antiquity

What are Jellyfish anyway?? How do they eat and move around? How do they reproduce? Are they animals? Plants? Fungi? Or somewhere in the middle? Find out the answers to all these questions and more in our latest release.

 

Sam's (Incredibly Comprehensive) show notes for Arthritis

 

Arthritis and weatherJena, A., Olenski, A., Molitor, D. and Miller, N., 2017. Association between rainfall and diagnoses ofjoint or back pain: retrospective claims analysis. BMJ, [online] p.j5326. Available at:. Robert H. Shmerling, M., 2020. Does Weather Affect Arthritis Pain? - Harvard Health Blog. [online]Harvard Health Blog. Available at: [Accessed 16 August 2020]. Savage, E., McCormick, D., McDonald, S., Moore, O., Stevenson, M. and Cairns, A., 2014. Doesrheumatoid arthritis disease activity correlate with weather conditions?. Rheumatology International,[online] 35(5), pp.887-890. Available at: . Steffens, D., Maher, C., Li, Q., Ferreira, M., Pereira, L., Koes, B. and Latimer, J., 2014. Effect ofWeather on Back Pain: Results From a Case-Crossover Study. Arthritis Care & Research, [online]66(12), pp.1867-1872. Available at: . Timmermans, E., Schaap, L., Herbolsheimer, F., Dennison, E., Maggi, S., Pedersen, N., Castell, M.,Denkinger, M., Edwards, M., Limongi, F., Sánchez-Martínez, M., Siviero, P., Queipo, R., Peter, R., vander Pas, S. and Deeg, D., 2015. The Influence of Weather Conditions on Joint Pain in Older Peoplewith Osteoarthritis: Results from the European Project on OSteoArthritis. The Journal ofRheumatology, [online] 42(10), pp.1885-1892. Available at:. Verges, J., Montell, E., Tomas, E., Cumelles, G., Castaneda, G., Marti, N. and Moller, I., 2004. Weatherconditions can influence rheumatic diseases. Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, [online]2005(Issue 4). Available at: [Accessed16 August 2020]. Living With Arthritis. 2020. Weather And Arthritis Pain - Living With Arthritis. [online] Available at: [Accessed 16 August 2020].

 

 

 

BONUS - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGog0Jo26iQ

This week we shine a light on solar power as well as discuss smart device "listening", scientific article retractions, and we get introduced to Willem Johan Kolff

 

Explanatory Youtube video on solar panels - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJ8XW9AgUrw

Diagram showing solar array make-up - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_panel#/media/File:From_a_solar_cell_to_a_PV_system.svg

Scientific article retraction - https://retractionwatch.com/2020/07/23/author-retracts-nature-commentary-over-concerns-about-sections-sponsorship/

Dirty Loops - Rock You https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYc5zrXC52k

The Thing Explainer - https://xkcd.com/thing-explainer/

The Glass Animals - Dreamland - ............just look it up on spotify?

Here it is, our season 2 wrap up with our biggest news yet!

 

As promised, here are the links in the show notes

 

https://bit.ly/3kgXu75

https://bit.ly/3i6jFe0

https://bit.ly/33nmFyv

https://bit.ly/3fm4pIg

This week Matt walks us through the frequently discussed Placebo effect and Levi debunks detox diets.

 

PLACEBO EFFECT“Placebo effect studies are susceptible to response bias and to other types of biases”-JCEhttps://www.jclinepi.com/article/S0895-4356(11)00049-7/fulltext

 

“Is the Placebo powerless?”-New England JoMedhttps://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM200105243442106

 

“A Comprehensive Review of the Placebo Effect”-Annual Review of Psychology

https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/10.1146/annurev.psych.59.113006.095941

 

“Placebo interventions for all clinical conditions”-Cochrane Library

https://www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD003974.pub3/full?highlightAbstract=placeb%7Cplacebo%7Ceffect

 

“Howard Fields, MD, PhD, The Placebo Effect Part 1: Defining the Placebo Response” video

https://youtu.be/oWPtIR-0Q_A

 

“Bad Science”-Dr Ben Goldacrehttps://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3272165-bad-science

 

“Bad Pharma”-Dr Ben Goldacre

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15795155-bad-pharma

DETOX DIETS

 

Detox diets for toxin elimination and weight management: a critical review of the evidence

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jhn.12286

 

How Does the liver work?

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK279393/

 

The Truth about toxins

https://www.rush.edu/health-wellness/discover-health/truth-about-toxins

 

7-day detox; a Naturopath approved plan

https://www.bodyandsoul.com.au/diet/diets/the-7day-detox-plan/news-story/cfb1850be6010553eba661bb9cbcb938

 

Do Detox Diets Work?

https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/detox-diets-101

This episode is all about sound! Levi runs us through pitch, frequencies, and tones and Matt talks about the benefits (or lack thereof) of Audio Therapy

 

We promised we would out some links to our favourite songs in the show notes so here they are:

 

Tool - Pneuma https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ClCaPmAA7s

 

Evanesence - Good Enough https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kw2Ic_2XdVQ

 

Karnivool - Deadman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbLEYQo98t0

 

 

 

MUSIC

 

Various helpful cheat sheets and wiki pages

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_signature#Major_scale_structure

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_pitch_notation#Table_of_note_frequencies

 

 

AUDIO THERAPY

 

Science-Based Medicine articlehttps://sciencebasedmedicine.org/audio-therapy-for-postoperative-pediatric-pain-randomized-controlled-nonsense/

 

Pediatric Surgery International article

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00383-014-3649-9

 

Linguistic Wave Genetics article

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.1004.5664&rep=rep1&type=pdf

 

Regenerating a Dog’s Tooth with Wave Geneticshttps://medcraveonline.com/JSRT/attempt-to-regenerate-the-dog39s-tooth-using-the-method-of-a-new-direction-in-biology-linguistic-wave-genetics.html

 

“Correction of the Immune System” Matrixhttps://wavegenetics.org/en/korrektsiya-immunnoy-sistemyi/

 

Institute of Linguistic Wave Geneticshttps://wavegenetics.org/

 

The great 440Hz conspiracy articlehttps://globalnews.ca/news/4194106/440-hz-conspiracy-music/

 

Wave Genome RA Shield for Covid-19http://wavegenome.com/ra_shield.html?fbclid=IwAR2qZ5mvALho1BYahTjW7jP-obrmz6dpW2spPczLrkL6PkYzHF97GNXwD4U

 

Open Letter from Peter Gariaevhttp://www.fractal.org/Life-Science-Technology/Peter-Gariaev.htm

What on earth are we talking about this week? That's right, its an earth related episode. Levi discusses plate tectonics while Matt (un)educates us on the archaic beliefs of flat earthers.

 

PLATE TECTONICS

 

Mid-Atlantic ridge

https://whc.unesco.org/en/activities/504/

 

Brainpop video on plate tectonics

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RA2-Vc4PIOY

 

Kurzgesagt video including info on plate tectonics

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGXi_9A__Vc&t=112s

 

GDA 2020 

https://spotlight.unavco.org/how-gps-works/gps-and-tectonics/gps-and-tectonics.html

FLAT EARTHLive Science articlehttps://www.livescience.com/24310-flat-earth-belief.html

 

Uni of Melbourne articlehttps://pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/why-do-some-people-believe-the-earth-is-flat

 

Scientific American articlehttps://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/yes-flat-earthers-really-do-exist/

 

Professor Dave Explains video 1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDy95_eNPzM

 

Professor Dave Explains video 2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bHqBy92iGM

 

Today I Found Out videohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4l9Y5OHqpk

Do you have TIME to brush your teeth regularly? Are you worried about the fluoride in your toothpaste? How about the fluoride in your drinking water? Wait.....what is time? Is time even real, does anyone know? Maybe time's just a construct of human perception; an illusion created by.....anyway, listen to the episode to find out all the answers these these questions and more.

 

 

TIME

Physics.org articlehttp://www.physics.org/article-questions.asp?id=77

 

‘Time Dilation’ newspaper article 

https://www.space.com/33411-astronaut-scott-kelly-relativity-twin-brother-ages.html

 

Ohio State GPS Explanationhttp://www.astronomy.ohio-state.edu/~pogge/Ast162/Unit5/gps.html

 

Space.com article on Special Relativityhttps://www.space.com/36273-theory-special-relativity.html

 

Time Dilation Videohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuD34tEpRFw

‘Does Time Exist?’https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3tbVHlsKhs

 

WATER FLUORIDATION

Story of water fluoridation

https://www.nidcr.nih.gov/health-info/fluoride/the-story-of-fluoridation

Healthcare Triage fluoride video 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Hml1CL0Idk&t=53s

Australian systematic review

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18584000

Cochrane Fluoride Toothpaste 

https://www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD002278/full?highlightAbstract=water%7Cfluorid%7Cfluoridation

Cochrane Water fluoridation for the prevention of dental caries

https:// https://www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD010856.pub2/full?highlightAbstract=fluoride%7Cfluorid

Book Health Effects of Ingested Fluoride

https://books.google.com.au/books?hl=en&lr=&id=CMQd6nkX86EC&oi=fnd&pg=PT21&dq=fluoride+health+effects&ots=kwW4zXZ3hB&sig=2edh7tDHg-FbUno0oh9eHrhjCcg&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=fluoride%20health%20effects&f=false