Do It Yourself Brain Stimulation has Scientists Worried

Post by beagle3 » Sun, Jun 16, 2013, 2:26 PM UTC

zxcdw wrote: post #120

beagle3 wrote: post #117

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So has so called "evidence". Can't google right now, but recently someone tried and failed to reproduce ~60% of celebrated cancer results published in Science & Nature from the last 20 years. Also, ionaddis has shown most published research in medicine and nutrition to be wrong. "Publish or perish" has replaced the gold of gold standard with tungsten, with everyone related aware of it, but no one doing anything about…

I remember the amount of non-reproducible research was as high as 90 %? Google returns some hits from May 7th(and I remember the HN post from around a month ago, we talk about the same thing I think) or so with that title, but perhaps the actual number is somewhere between 60 and 90 %?

Post by will_work4tears » Wed, Jun 19, 2013, 7:03 PM UTC

RobotCaleb wrote: post #54

will_work4tears wrote: post #27

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There's a link to the darwinawards site on the subreddit. Apparently it was a Navy service member that stuck the electrodes into his fingers and the current traveled through the bloodstream across his heart. Sounds like an urban legend, but if you read the back and forth on it, it's rather interesting.

I believe you have to provide a path that would go through the heart. Simply piercing the same finger with both electrodes shouldn't do much to the heart.