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Cake day: July 7th, 2023

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  • I call mine disbelieving the hiccups.

    Immediately after a hiccup say the following in it’s entirety before your next hiccup:

    “Hiccups are defined as a spasm of the diaphragm. A spasm is a random tensing of a muscle. If spasms are random, they cannot occur in a pattern. Therefore these hiccups do not exist.”

    I’m pretty sure it works because you are focusing your attention on saying the phrases quickly, and causing irregular breathing. But it’s a lot more fun to tell people that they go away when you stop believing in them.

    Disclaimer: For whatever reasons, this trick does not work for drunken hiccups. If anybody knows what the difference is, I’d love to know, because I’ve always thought it was strange that it never works when someone has been drinking.



  • Might want to flip back, because you’ve been bamboozled.

    "In fact, a spokesperson at Henry Ford Health told journalists seeking comment on the study that it “was not published because it did not meet the rigorous scientific standards we demand as a premier medical research institution.”

    The organization that actually did the study believed that it was flawed for multiple reasons:

    “the study’s main comparisons are tilted. The follow-up time was short and uneven, kids had unequal chances for diagnosis, and the two groups were very different in ways that matter. The methods used did not adequately fix these problems. Because of this, the differences reported in the study do not show that vaccines cause chronic disease.”