Isolde’s love potion may not be a myth.
In the new issue of Nature, the neuroscientist Larry Young…predicts that it won’t be long before an unscrupulous suitor could sneak a pharmaceutical love potion into your drink. But the really good news, as I see it, is that we might reverse-engineer an anti-love potion, a vaccine preventing you from making an infatuated ass of yourself.
A new book defending vaccines, written by a doctor infuriated at the claim that they cause autism, is galvanizing a backlash against the antivaccine movement in the United States. But there will be no book tour for the doctor. He has had too many death threats.
CRP. It may be worse for the heart than cholesterol.
Among foods that help to reduce the inflammatory marker CRP are cold-water fish like salmon, tuna and mackerel; flax seed; walnuts; and canola oil…Other aspects of the Mediterranean diet – vegetables, fruits and red wine (or purple grape juice) – are helpful as well.
I’m feeling unscrupulous. Where can I get the potion?
Is it possible to get a potion that works for just one night? Devotion forever is a bit daunting.
Too bad you can’t talk about autism without risking your life.
Larry, you can talk about autism without any fear whatsoever, so long as you repeat the myths — the way, for example that John McCain and Barack Obama did.
What you cannot do (apparently) is expose the myths.