From: Party of Citizens (citizens@vcn.bc.ca)
Date: Sun Sep 22 2002 - 17:41:54 MDT
Let me tell you how to get a try at James Randi's million $ "Psychic
Challenge" at very low cost. First you randomly assign flies to two
contrast groups, G1 and G2. Then you separate them by a great
distance, ie put one in one building and the other in another. Now before
I tell you the experimental procedure, remember that almost half of North
American medical schools say faith healing works and that many say it
works without the recipient even being aware of the intervention. Amazing,
eh? And maybe bogus. But let's find out.
The experimental procedure? You "pray" for the longevity of G1 and you
give G2 the "whammy" by contrast. Then you see which lives longer. What do
you say James?
POC
On Sun, 22 Sep 2002, Doug Skrecky wrote:
> This is the 68'th update of my fly longevity experiments. Average
> temperature was 23.6 C during this run. Choline and vitamin B12 share a
> synergistic action in stimulating brain acetylcholine, so here I team
> CDP-choline and methycobalamin to see what happens. Synephrine has been
> recommended as a relatively non-toxic alternative to ephedrine for weight
> loss. I've tested both before in separate runs, but here I pit both head
> to head in the same run.
> Methylcobalamin turned out to be a dud, but CDP-choline by itself
> provided the best longevity results overall. Initially both doses of
> ephedrine, and the high dose of synephrine performed worse than control,
> but late in the run ephedrine, and low dose synephrine beat the control
> survival.
> Eventually I'll have something more to report on CDP-choline, but for
> the next run I take another look at cinnamon and paprika.
>
> Run #68 Percent Survival on Day
> supplement 9 16 22 29 37 46 55 64 75
> _______________________________________________________
> control 81 63 56 44 21 19 0 - -
> apple pie spice 1/8 tsp 65 52 35 9 0 - - - -
> CDP-choline 250 mg 79 63 63 58 42 26 11 0 -
> +methylcobalamin 5 mg 86 76 67 43 10 0 - - -
> charcoal steak spice 1/8 tsp 79 63 53 37 16 5 0 - -
> ephedrine 12 mg 79 67 61 52 36 6 3 0 -
> ephedrine 48 mg 63 59 50 47 34 17 13 3 0
> methylcobalamin 1 mg 79 67 67 33 8 0 - - -
> methylcobalamin 5 mg 72 63 50 22 6 3 0 - -
> synephrine 14 mg 83 69 53 50 33 6 0 - -
> synephrine 54 mg 60 48 44 28 12 4 0 - -
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