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		<title>Michael Moore on health care &#8220;reform&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;We&#8217;re sorry, America. We didn&#8217;t get the job done you sent us here to do. We&#8217;re weak and scared and unable to communicate the simplest of messages to the American people. Therefore, our bill will guarantee that 12 million of you will still have NO health insurance. And that&#8217;s because we have decided to leave [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://suttonsolves.com/wpblog/2010/03/17/michael-moore-on-health-care-reform/</link>
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		<title>Congress is the problem</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Article from The Nation: Our Democracy No Longer Works and the Problem Is Congress
Solutions:
(1) Citizen-funded elections such as described in the current bill sponsored in the House by Democrat John Larson and Republican Walter Jones, in the Senate by Democrats Dick Durbin and Arlen Specter. That bill is a hybrid between traditional public funding and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://suttonsolves.com/wpblog/2010/02/10/congress-is-the-problem/</link>
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		<title>Skepdoc: Top 10 Things You Should Know About Alternative Medicine: #10</title>
		<description><![CDATA[#10: Detoxify This!
People who want to &#8220;detoxify&#8221; often don&#8217;t have any idea what &#8216;toxins&#8217; they&#8217;re talking about.  They may vaguely believe that modern life contaminates us with lots of bad things that we ought to get rid of.  It&#8217;s reminiscent of religious fasting and purification rites. Orthodox Jewish women go to a ritual [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://suttonsolves.com/wpblog/2010/02/04/skepdoc-top-10-things-you-should-know-about-alternative-medicine-10/</link>
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		<title>Skepdoc: Top 10 Things You Should Know About Alternative Medicine: #9</title>
		<description><![CDATA[#9: But It&#8217;s Natural, and Natural is Good!
When you really stop to think, is there any reason a remedy SHOULD be better just because it&#8217;s natural?  There are plenty of natural poisons, from hemlock to strychnine.  Plants have to protect themselves from predators, and they have invented quite an array of chemical defenses. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://suttonsolves.com/wpblog/2010/02/04/skepdoc-top-10-things-you-should-know-about-alternative-medicine-9/</link>
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		<title>Skepdoc: Top 10 Things You Should Know About Alternative Medicine: #8</title>
		<description><![CDATA[#8: Acupuncture.
There were originally 360 acupuncture points (based on the number of days of the year rather than on anatomy). Currently more than 2,000 acupuncture points have been &#8216;discovered,&#8217; leading one wag to comment that there was no skin left that was not an acupuncture point.  There were either 9, 10 or 11 meridians&#8211;take [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://suttonsolves.com/wpblog/2010/02/04/skepdoc-top-10-things-you-should-know-about-alternative-medicine-8/</link>
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		<title>Skepdoc: Top 10 Things You Should Know About Alternative Medicine: #7</title>
		<description><![CDATA[#7: What to Eat: Food. Not Too Much. Mostly Plants.
&#8220;Organic&#8221; has become a meaningless buzzword; I flinch when I see it on a label: it inclines me not to buy that product.  What we really want is sustainable agriculture that does minimal damage to the environment and produces food that is nutritious, tastes good, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://suttonsolves.com/wpblog/2010/02/04/skepdoc-top-10-things-you-should-know-about-alternative-medicine-7/</link>
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		<title>Skepdoc: Top 10 Things You Should Know About Alternative Medicine: #6</title>
		<description><![CDATA[#6: Homeopathy: Still Crazy After All These Years:
Homeopathy was invented by Samuel Hahnemann in the late 1700s.  It is based on the now-outdated principle that &#8220;like cures like&#8221;, and the more dilute the dose the better in homeopathy.  How dilute? Serious dilution, as in comparable to one drop diluted in all the water [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://suttonsolves.com/wpblog/2010/02/02/skepdoc-top-10-things-you-should-know-about-alternative-medicine-6/</link>
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		<title>Skepdoc: Top 10 Things You Should Know About Alternative Medicine: #5</title>
		<description><![CDATA[#5: The Placebo Effect:
There&#8217;s evidence that several things might be going on with placebos: expectancy, motivation, conditioning, and endogenous opiates.
(1) Expectancy: If we expect to feel pain we are more likely to feel pain.  If we are told to expect a strong painkiller, we&#8217;re more likely to get pain relief.
(2) Motivation: Patients who are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://suttonsolves.com/wpblog/2010/01/30/skepdoc-top-10-things-you-should-know-about-alternative-medicine-5/</link>
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		<title>Skepdoc: Top 10 Things You Should Know About Alternative Medicine: #4</title>
		<description><![CDATA[#4 Vaccines and Autism: A Deadly Manufactroversy:
There is no vaccines-autism controversy. The evidence is in. The scientific community has reached a clear consensus that vaccines don&#8217;t cause autism. There is, however, a manufactroversy&#8211;a manufactured controversy&#8211;created by junk science, dishonest researchers, professional misconduct, outright fraud, lies, misrepresentations, irresponsible reporting, unfortunate media publicity, poor judgement, celebrities who [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://suttonsolves.com/wpblog/2010/01/29/skepdoc-top-10-things-you-should-know-about-alternative-medicine-4/</link>
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		<title>Skepdoc: Top 10 Things You Should Know About Alternative Medicine: #3</title>
		<description><![CDATA[#3: Chiropractic: A Little Physical Therapy, A Lot of Nonsense:
D.D. Palmer, a grocer and magnetic healer, invented chiropractic on September 18, 1895.  He did something to a deaf man&#8217;s back.  The man said he could hear again.  This is particularly ironic, because the nerves to the ear don&#8217;t go anywhere near the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://suttonsolves.com/wpblog/2010/01/26/skepdoc-top-10-things-you-should-know-about-alternative-medicine-3/</link>
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