Vitamin C: Food Sources, Scurvy, and the Ceiling the Body Sets
Vitamin C per measured tablespoon, what a deliberate depletion showed about scurvy, and why the dose-response curve flattens long before the tablet does.
-
-
Vitamin D: Food Sources, Sunlight, and What the Trials Found
Vitamin D per measured tablespoon, why the food table misses most of the supply, and why three large trials found nothing where a smaller one cut hip fractures by 43 per cent.
-
Ninety Per Cent of Emergency Calls From One Indoor Spot Missed the Dispatcher. Ordinary Calls From the Same Spot Connected in Six Seconds.
File photo: a dispatch room at the Redding Interagency Command Center, California. Photo: Region 5 Photography, via Wikimedia Commons, public domain. In the news · July 2026 The FCC published a Next Generation 911 reliability and interoperability rule in the Federal Register, effective 10 August 2026. It requires covered providers to make location facilities reliable,…
-
Vitamin A: Food Sources, Deficiency, and Safe Limits
How much vitamin A a tablespoon of liver, cod liver oil or sweet potato actually carries — what deficiency does, and why the 3,000 microgram upper limit matters.
-
How Nutrients Are Classified — and What the Reference Numbers Mean
Macronutrients, micronutrients and the thirteen vitamins — plus what EAR, RDA, AI and UL actually mean, and why an intake below the RDA is not a deficiency.
-
Half a Million Dead Children Carried the Argument About Sanctions. Three Later Surveys Found the Rise Never Happened.
Key takeaways · 13 min read The half-million figure rests on one survey: the 1999 Iraq Child and Maternal Mortality Survey, about 38,000 households. It reported under-five deaths rising from 59 to 116 per 1,000 between 1990 and 1991, reaching 142 by 1998. Three later national surveys — 2004, 2006 and 2011, covering 75,000 households…
-
Four Weeks of Deliberate Stagnation Grew No Legionella. The Precautionary Flush Afterwards Raised It for a Fortnight.
Stagnation and Legionella are genuinely linked — in dead legs and capped pipe spurs. An empty building is a different claim, and in the one building anyone measured, the standard remedy backfired.
-
Family Carers Are Widely Said to Face a 63 Per Cent Higher Risk of Death. In 1.1 Million Linked Records, They Died Less Often Than Everybody Else.
The famous figure came from 392 people, applied only to strained spouses, with a confidence interval starting at 1.00. Larger studies found the reverse — and inside them, strain still predicts death.
-
Eighty-Four Per Cent of Eye Injuries From Rubber Bullets Ended in Permanent Blindness. No One Can Tell You the Odds of Being Hit.
A systematic review of 26 studies found 1,984 people struck by kinetic impact projectiles: 53 died and 300 were permanently disabled. Neither that review nor its companion on tear gas can give you a rate, and both say so.
-
Medical Error Is Probably Not the Third Leading Cause of Death. In a Thousand Reviewed Hospital Deaths, 5.2 Per Cent Were Preventable.
File photo: a modern hospital room. Photo: JesusisGreat7, via Wikimedia Commons, CC0. In the news · September 2026 For World Patient Safety Day on 17 September 2026, the WHO focused on safe care for people with noncommunicable diseases. It states that about 1 in 10 patients are harmed during healthcare worldwide, roughly half of that…
