Toxins in the body. But the majority of doctors say theres no such buildup of toxins in the body certainly they cant be measured using scientific methods. Many Detox Programs resemble therapeutic fasting the patients say they feel free a mentally and physically afterwards its the hormones associated with happiness that are responsible the body releases them as you fast. If there were toxins in the body before a detox there should be demonstrably fewer toxins after the detox right the mess and measuring detoxification is a tricky matter we dont pursue any Scientific Research on this but theres Nothing Better than seeing the faces of our guests at the end of the program when they say
im feeling much better i can feel myself again i feel motivated to exercise theres no. I think better so in that sense i dont need Scientific Research when i hear these sentiments all the time maybe i should conduct the studies myself. But theres no shortage of studies looking into health and nutrition says lilian crist from the charite in berlin. Barely a week goes by without new medical recommendations. But often theyre based on research that isnt scientifically rigorous they have too few participants or theres no Control GroupLillian Christe Studies all the major diseases of modern civilization such as cancer dementia and heart attacks. Looking at what might protectors and what might increase the risks the epidemiologist is hoping to counter scientific myths such as detox with Facts Davison Shaft mr. Science wants to bring the truth to light and he wants to dispel myths rushed into it once to explain links and determine whether treatments help or not. The aim is to find out more about the human body for example. Million crist works for the nationwide Narco Health Study narco is the German National cohort and has been running since Two Thousand And Fourteen the scientists want to examine Two Hundred Thousand people at regular intervals over a period of twenty to thirty years. The scientists have set the bar high for their study all the tests are strictly standardized from the questionnaire to the smell identification test. Despite great progress in many areas science often cannot find Simple Solutions to complicated problems that clemens i should mention our of course people cling to results that sound like they can be put into practice easily. If the study says he just have to do x. And y. And youll live ten years longer then thats reported on by the media because people want to hear. These medical myths are akin to a religion. That. We believe quite
a lot of things such as vitamin c. Helps against colds this idea dates back to the seventys new studies have shown it to be a myth once a cold is there vitamin c. Has no effect on. Reading and dimly lighted harms the eyes. Fortunately not its just tiring it could lead to headaches if the eyes can relax overnight theyre fit again the next morning. Cherries and water together cause tummy ache that may have been correct in the past microbes in on clean Drinking Water coupled with the fruit could have triggered unpleasant Fermentation Process is in the stomach and guts but improvements in Water Quality mean that this isnt generally a problem any more. So what about the miraculous power of spinach
the green leafy vegetable became famous thanks to popeye. Several generations of children were made to consume large quantities of the stuff it would make them a strong as the comic strips ala writes. The Rule University in boca is welcoming young guests today youre right students from a nearby high school. They want to examine spinach more closely theyre testing the iron content of the vege in the lab. And. The Spinach Project was dreamed up by katherine sama professor of chemistry didactics. And. Shes interested in how
chemistry can be taught in an engaging manner. Maybe these students will go on to become scientists themselves one day. Katherine zama is convinced that examples from peoples everyday lives are helpful like popeye. I used to love whats in popeye and my parents made me to spend it before i was allowed to watch the show. And thats when he ate the spinach he got huge muscles he was a role model whenever i ate spinach i imagine becoming strong. But the notion that theres a lot of iron in spinach is just a myth. Scientists themselves created this myth because sometimes they to make mistakes and for mood it it probably came about due to
a Transcription Error in the lab a scientist forgot a Decimal Point as a result three point five milligrams became thirty five nutritionist really picked up on that the recommendation was eat a lot of spinach itll make you strong. But there wasnt just one mistake quite by chance a chemist in basel found thirty five milligrams of iron in dried spinach powder. After the Transcription Error an error of logic because the fresh hydrated vegetable only has a tenth of the sign content the myth was born. To commit him. But the misunderstanding was cleared up decades ago and yet were still left with the feeling that spinach is a miracle vege you know. Indian fire in this case
weve taken the myth that spillage makes you strong so we can sensitize the student to the idea you dont have to just accept such assertions you can question them and there are even methods by which you can question it. As part of this Student Lab Project were doing scientific testing to dispel myths. The students have incinerated the spinach and dissolved it in Hydrochloric Acid the coloration reveals how much iron the solution contains. The Result Spinach is merely average when it comes to iron content. Wheat bran and Pumpkin Seeds for example contain far more. But myths werent just created in the past the present is also able to generate new myths. Can Mobile Phones cause planes to crash. By heem enders and his colleagues at the German Aerospace center in braunschweig are investigating this potentially life or death question. The aircrafts electronic heartbeats in the fuselage. Test engineer Thomas Heineken performs a final check before todays experiment can begin. The test plane is an airbus a three twenty one of the best selling aircraft for short and medium haul flights. Can cell phones
really cause their tried and tested technology to seize up. This question has preoccupied us since the first Mobile Phones came out in the eightys. Fears of Electromagnetic Radiation were and still are considerable. And shall know me so but i remember having an electronic alarm clock that my phone interfered with when this possibility was transferred to the context of flying where safety is the top priority and it was a sensible idea to be really restrictive about phones at first for fear it could be dangerous but today we can say that weve gone too far. As a child good for. Thats why our him end as wants to test the aircrafts ability to withstand Electromagnetic Radiation. So how much phone radiation can
the On Board System Cope with. The systems for navigation and communication are particularly sensitive. To not sufficient vision and a special antenna is going to measure the electromagnetic waves. This plane can take more than One Hundred Fifty passengers for this experiment the scientists have only invited a few Test Subjects but the data can be extrapolated from a fully occupied plane. Mobile telephony and Aviation Technology have adapted to each other Cell Phone Radiation is lower than it was thirty years ago and aircraft are better protected. You always have to bear in mind that lightning bolts strike airplanes directly so
that planes fly through radar waves sometimes very close to the source and the airplane has to withstand and this test of the test compared to those Threat Levels the radiation coming from a phone is ridiculously low. What about hospitals why are there still signs banning the use of Mobile Phones. And often the radios in the Nurses Office cause much more interference than the modern phones visitors have. Nowadays almost all medical devices have shielding to protect them from Electromagnetic Interference so phones dont cause a problem at all. This is been the official position since Two Thousand And Fourteen for planes to the European AviationSafety Agency decided that passengers dont have to put their
phones into flight mode anymore but each individual airline has the last word. Ok with your movies. Of unknowns with. One phone cant interfere with the technology on board an aircraft but in reality there are hundreds of passengers on a plane and many of them are carrying several Electronic Devices such as Laptops Smartphones in the room. It is. Him enders can measure this combined radiation but its very very weak. We ask again can a lot of Electronic Devices a lot of active Mobile Phones collectively endanger the safety of an aircraft
definitive the answer is definitely no its not even so much about phones which deliberately send out strong signals Mobile Phones also contain microprocessors Tiny Computers that can emit Electromagnetic Radiation interference including in the frequencies used by planes. But these signals are so weak theyre insignificant. During takeoff and landing phones should nevertheless remain switched off in the event of an emergency passengers shouldnt be distracted and the devices can cause crackling in the line between the pilots in the tower but thats all. Myths often arise from fear parents are particularly at risk. Mozarts music makes children more intelligent even before theyre born. That was
the claim of u. S. Scientists twenty five years ago. Follow up studies werent able to corroborate the Effect Listening to music has many positive effects but becoming more intelligent isnt one of them. Reading to children is also said to improve childrens Intelligence Studies have shown that frequent reading to children particularly in Early Childhood makes them somewhat more successful in school but scientists are convinced that intelligence originates more from d. N. A. Than from the parents behavior. Its different with this myth just let babies cry it out thats not harmful that strengthens their lungs it is said. But in truth infants cant see themselves they need their parents care. Scientific myths are just created through mistakes or uncertainty the media are involved to. Xenia past works at the institute of Mass Communication and Media Research in zurich she researches how scientific insights are presented in the media Climate Change for example to this day certain groups continue to deny manmade Climate Change they describe it as a lie a hoax a myth in this way selfproclaimed Climate Experts managed to bring well founded scientific insights into disrepute reports about the socalled myth of Climate Change are particularly popular in the United States paradoxically one reason for the distorted portrayal of
facts is the professional ethos of those in the media. In the west. Especially journalists in the United States tries so hard to be objective that when they give air time to an opinion or position they also give a voice to the counter position that means that french positions are given a much stronger or disproportionate weight in the debate. And british archivist in a common. View is mightnt realize that an overwhelming ninety seven percent of all Climate Scientists are agreed Global Warming is down to human activity. Xenia past has been analyzing the relationship between Climate Scientists in the media
for years. One of her findings is that the scientists are scared that their Study Results could be hijacked and misrepresented in public. Controversy in the us to keep we were able to say that Climate Scientists had greater objections to publications when the finding suggested that Climate Change was progressing more slowly. They were worried that this finding could be instrumental ised by Interest Groups to say that manmade Climate Change was a myth and it was all a lie i moved us constantly and gotten danus gonna skipped. Senior posts advice communicate science openly and objectively without exception. Theres nothing more scientists can do to prevent new myths Everything Else is in
the hands of the media their readers and viewers. March Two Thousand And Fifteen people who eat chocolate lose weight more quickly this headline in germanys mass circulation builds newspaper created a stir. Publications and broadcasters around the world reported on the new miracle diet from germany. In the Chocolate Museum in cologne we learn whats really behind this incredible study. Or rather who. Deanna lobel. Excellent filmmaker seen here with Museum Confectioner i got moolah deliberately engaged in some pseudo science
she just invented the Chocolate Diet. Deanna lobel is a Television Journalist her idea was to test the gullibility of her colleagues to do that she needed a Headline Nobody could resist slim through chocolate. Together with her coauthor peter on a can she managed to expose a sick system. Our intention was to take a close look at whats happening on the nutrition and diet market we found that the argument very often goes like this a Scientific Study says if this or that makes us healthy or sick this one and that we should consume more or less of it and if you take a closer look at these studies theyre not scientifically repute over most of the time after thats what we wanted to document in our film. All you need
is a White Lab Coat and ordinary people immediately become deceptively real scientists. Studies tend to follow a similar pattern in various groups a set up and have to adhere to different rules afterwards the scientists compare how much weight each group lost. In the case of the Chocolate Diet it went like this. Group a was put on a diet and was given Chocolate Group b. Was only put on a diet group c. Continued to eat as before. The on a level and peter on a can started their experiment with sixteen Test Subjects they were only told afterwards that theres no such thing as a Chocolate Diet. For three weeks every candidate was weighed daily all changes were recorded. Unfortunately
many disreputable studies are conducted this way the desired result is cherry picked from a large mass of different data. I mean we were a data leech we wanted to get as much information from the Test Subjects as possible so they even had to measure their urine every day which is a completely pointless piece of data but we thought would generate as much data as possible so that we could put everything together in such a way that we could spin it and market our findings as best we could and it worked. The two journalists didnt completely make up the Chocolate Diet idea but they twisted the data of the Test Subjects to fit their purpose. The bad thing is that many nutrition studies follow this formula they dont deserve
the Label Scientific The Diet Industry creates its own myths in this way. The journalists final step was to release the fake study to the public they wrote a Press Release and even invented a Research Institute that had a reputable sounding name. They created surprised even the un a little. It was crazy we had a made up institute with the address of the Production Company that produced our film nobody called and it was just a little Press Release these stories about food and about what we should eat and what We Shouldnt Run really well we all want to know what the perfect diet is. Deonna lobel managed to create a myth with the help of pseudo scientific methods and her professional knowledge of what makes for good headlines. Particularly when it comes to food and drink we like to put facts aside we only listen to those things we want to hear. For example strong Liquor Aids Digestion in truth alcohol relaxes the Stomach Muscles we feel less full but its a false message alcohol actually slows down the rate at which we process food it makes it harder for us to digest. But we Shouldnt ReheatMushroom Dishes and outdated rule today
Mushroom Dishes can be kept in the fridge for a maximum of two days and then we should heat them to more than seventy degrees that way mold and bacteria wont spoil our appetite. Is glutamates responsible for Nausea Headaches and rashes the Chinese Restaurant syndrome is probably triggered by allergens such as peanuts shrimps and herbes glutamate isnt to blame it occurs naturally in almost all food stuffs and is completely harmless. Myths about Alcohol Aiding Digestion for example and the fake Chocolate Diet awaken false hope. Patients in the Arthritis Clinic in finger near freiburg
are hoping for one thing in particular to walk without pain one day. The Orthopedic Specialist spend auster maya is an expert in nice surgery and Arthritis Osteoarthritis is a common complaint in germany more than one in four women and almost one in five men suffer from it their joints wear out too early and too quickly. As fan austin my as patient today also has arthritis in the right knee. The specialist is performing an arthroscopy. The cartilage is smoothed out and the joint is flush to clean it out. The problem is that Statutory HealthInsurance Companies in germany dont pay for this surgery anymore. One of the companies commissioned
a study and concluded that arthroscopy is more ineffective. Flushing out the joint was pointless its benefits a myth. How do Orthopedic Specialist feel about this decision the islands are some say its an outrage others say so what ive always done things differently anyway my quick count shoes as freely as we could in the past. For. As a result of patients who have Statutory Health insurance are barred from the possibility of a useful thought. It was here in cologne that the Institute For Quality And Efficiency In Health Care that Knee Arthroscopy is were declared a myth. The
assessor stephans our law and spent eighteen months reading anonymizing everything written by scientists about arthroscopy is. A Trained Medical expert he concluded that Knee Arthroscopy is one of the commonest operations in germany were ineffective they had a Placebo Effect but nothing more. Tests showed that a faked arthroscopy was as effective as the actual procedure. Cboe effect is all the stronger the more authentic invasive than risky and intervention appears on surgery has a much greater placebo impact than just taking a pill. Stephens our lines team of us ss research ne
arthroscopy is with the help of a matter analysis. They compared the data from eleven scientific studies with a total of One Thousand Two Hundred patients. The testers say its no coincidence that the weaknesses of arthroscopy werent found out sooner. Many of those involved in the Health Care System had a strong interest in keeping the myth alive. Everyone had a collective believe that nice were benefiting from this patients were happy doctors were happy the industry was happy with us it was lovely and then it had the magic taken out of it thats whats exciting is that you need it very crystallized scientific methods here to debunk the Myth It Isnt Me just twenty one. And
some Orthopedic Specialists like spannaus the maya are still convinced by Knee Arthroscopy is and so the myth lives on. How can we get rid of myths from our minds once and for all. The Cognition Psychologist Eka explains that the brain doesnt have a Delete Button once weve stored a myth its difficult to overwrite it with new information. Basically what hes discovered is that were mentally lazy. Feeling that with many of the things we hear we dont have the interest or the motivation to investigate them fully our convictions often play
a role to if i want to believe in something and im convinced of it and it fulfills a certain function for me if its important to my identity and belief then i wont want to see the counter of a dense i prefer to hold onto the most. People like to stick with the familiar prefer him to block out things that are new. Well eka is visiting the university of the zeile and he did his doctorate here years ago he conducts neurophysiological experiments to learn about the brains of Test Subjects. He discovered that attempts to debug myths rarely work sometimes it even has the opposite effect. Such refutations often courses the myth to be repeated and that just makes this
false information seem more familiar if i want to tell you that vaccinations dont cause autism im just repeating the association between vaccinations and autism the more i do that the more familiar this idea becomes at some point when you think back your recall this association and thats what it comes to mind. In his experiments the psychologist present stories containing different pieces of information some of that information is later retracted or invalidated. His finding our brain prefers to store false information rather than leave a gap in the story. The only chance is this. You need an alternative explanation and if you dont yet know the truth its important to find out the truth and then its equally important to present these findings to people
that you have to explain them in a way they can understand. Its the Kiss Principle keep it simple stupid keep it simple stupid and for. These insights from Psychological Research provide a recipe for dispelling myths its crucial not to repeat the myth. An alternative simple explanation is needed instead. But even this method cant combat one of our most popular myths. One glass of red wine a day is healthy. No doubt there are very few people in the wine growing town of eating an in south west germany who dont believe this. Sub in about a from the local Tourism Office even found an old guidebook in her book shelf entitled the wine dr it dated back to seven hundred fifty three. You know. Hildegard stigler helps decipher the Old Fashioned german writing she discovers recipes to treat colds and improve memory. With. Of course all the cures contain one thing wine. This. This is. It contains alcohol and Carbon Dioxide there are lots of things in wine that we like and that stimulate us. Thats why we have such good conversations when weve
had some wine. Women im not kidding because if you get a cold or you notice youre coming down with one before youve developed a temperature you can preempt it with red wine you have a glass of red wine in the evening you wrap up nice and warm and then you go straight to bed that way you wont get sick but you have to catch it at the right moment to moment. With the people of iran going take these tips with a sense of humor. But what do doctors recommend. The healthiest thing is to consume no alcohol this single glass of red wine is more of a kind of Risk Limitation thats not the recommendation basically if youre going to drink wine then dont drink more than this amount. The Wine Festival in your indian is attended by Eighty Thousand visitors every year. Its said that the antioxidants in the wine have a positive effect on the hearts and circulation. Yet. The earliest studies that declared a moderate amount of wine to be healthy suffer from serious methodological flaws. Scientists compared moderate Alcohol Consumers and strict teetotallers with yeah they forgot to filter out those who didnt consume alcohol because they were recovering alcoholics or because they were very sick and didnt consume alcohol for that reason so a Healthy Group was compared to a sick a group the error is that you werent comparing the Alcohol Consumption but the preexisting health of the patients and having studied and i quote confirmations and i didnt post and its a big national here and. So why in isnt a medicine after all. Nevertheless belief in this idea is firmly lodged in our collective consciousness. Because we like it that way. And that all too human. Myths will always have their place in our society and scientific myths in particular. We always say scientists have found and we like doing Everything Scientists tell us to and were all gullible when it comes to science. But not every study is really scientific and the current state of research is always changing anyway. And its important to teach children to think critically we have to tell them when theyre young that theres a lot of information in the world and much of it its not correct fuse to french
timpanist. That doesnt mean we shouldnt believe anything anymore but we have to check how plausible information is and the reliability of its source. People who need myths need this feeling of security but scientists want to find out what really helps. Eco africa. One is the largest predatory
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