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Re: Vagisil Screening Kit… Women, stop being idiots. »

By Candice on Aug 9, 2007 in Health, Women | 44 Comments

I keep seeing commercials for Vagisil’s new yeast infection screening kit. It includes two screening wands that you’re meant to stick up your cunt and watch for a colour change, and a colour guide to match the wand to. Depending on what colour the wand turns, the instructions indicate what sort of an infection you [...]

It’s all in your head »

By Candice on Oct 5, 2006 in Health, Science | Comments Off

According to an article in the New York Times, Out-of-Body Experience? Your Brain Is to Blame, out-of-body experiences are not paranormal or supernatural at all. They can be triggered by applying electric current to certain parts of the brain, and may also be caused as a reaction to conflicting information about body position. I for [...]

Autosomal Dominant Compelling Helio-Ophthalmic Outburst Syndrome »

By Candice on Sep 10, 2005 in Health | 3 Comments

Otherwise known as ACHOO syndrome, despite the word dominant in the name (pretty dumb, isn’t it?), Autosomal Dominant Compelling Helio-Ophthalmic Outburst Syndrome is the name for a crazy sneezing reflex that 20-30% of people (myself included) experience when they look into a bright light. Photic sneeze reflex is another, much less stupidous name for [...]

He sells books because it’s all he’s ALLOWED to sell. »

By Candice on Aug 18, 2005 in Books, Health, Rants, Signifies all that is wrong in the world..., This is unacceptable... | 5 Comments

Kevin Trudeau’s book of bullshit Natural Cures ‘They’ Don’t Want You to Know About is a bestseller? According to The Daily Show, anyhoo. People are stupidlyer than I thought. And I didn’t think that they were generally very smart to begin with. Even if it was rational for people watching the [...]