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Shrooms to treat OCD (Dec 13 2006 00:59 GMT) - David Pescovitz: Last year, I posted about the medical uses of psychedelic drugs, including a University of Arizona study on psilocybin (magic mushrooms) as a possible treatment for obsessive-compulsive disorder. This week, the BBC News reports on that same study, apparently the first published results in thirty years examining psilocybin's possible therapeutic benefits. Critics are questioning the methodology of the small clinical study, which lacked a control group. On the other hand, Dr. |
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Spot the Undead Musicians In the Record Industry's Petition (Dec 13 2006 00:56 GMT) - Mark Frauenfelder: Danny O'Brien says: As previously reported on BB, the UK music industry signed up a bunch of now dead musicians on a public petition to extend copyright there. Now the Open Rights Group is attempting to compile the complete list of the dead artists whose names the Phonographic Performance Limited (the copyright body representing the record industry) took in vain. Look through their scans and see if your favorite deceased artists were clumsily reanimated by the undead industry. |
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Chewy Birth Controls (Dec 13 2006 00:56 GMT) - Strange New Products: A pharmaceutical company, Warner Chilcott, announced today the availability of a new chewable birth control pill with a refreshing spearmint flavor. The product, called "Femcon Fe", is billed as the first and only FDA-approved chewable birth control pill. The company says that one of the leading causes of oral contraceptive failure is not consistently taking these pills everyday. By making it chewable, and tasty, it'll allow women to have more fun. |
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