Parental Puffery May Backfire

Parental Puffery May Backfire

All parents want their children to be happy and self-confident people.  To that end, many moms and dads will try to be enthusiastic and positive about even the smallest accomplishments made by their child.  In the case of kids who are suffering from low self-esteem, a...
Cutting Back on Antibiotics

Cutting Back on Antibiotics

Antibiotics were an incredible scientific discovery back in 1928, and they subsequently enabled doctors to fight such dangerous bacterial infections as pneumonia.  But, as we human beings tend to do with so many things, we overdid it. In fact, antibiotics have become...

Cursing Kills Pain Redux

Apparently, analyzing the benefits of swear words appeals quite a bit to some researchers from Keele University in Great Britain,1 since they just came out with their second consecutive study on the subject. I wrote a few years ago about a study that shows that...
The Painful Truth about Pain-Killers

The Painful Truth about Pain-Killers

When Bill Clinton said, “I feel your pain,” a large segment of his audience undoubtedly missed the point, given the numbers who are constantly zoned out on pain killers like oxycontin, percocet, methadone, and the like. Dulling pain is big business. Opioid...
High Heels Cause Pain Years Later

High Heels Cause Pain Years Later

Back in September of 1968, 100 women became famous for protesting outside a Miss America pageant — throwing their girdles, bras, hair curlers, high heels, and other “instruments of torture” into a huge trashcan. The media picked up the action, and...