SciXFriday, Medical Science Coup, DIY Courage and UFOs
“Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice." - [Stanford University commencement speech, 2005]” - Steve Jobs Oddsnends - New organ in the Human body: Interstitium. Researchers Theise, Carr-Locke, and Benias submitted their paper to eight different journals (one sending the feedback that a new organ was “not of interest to a general audience”) before finally being accepted by Scientific Reports . “It would change how we understood everything from cancer to acupuncture to inflammation. It was astonishing, almost too good to be true.” Theise expanded, this “interstitium” could explain many of modern medicine’s mysteries, often dismissed by the establishment as either silly or explainable by other phenomena. Take acupuncture, Theise said—that energetic healing jolt may be traced to the interstitium. “There’s something new here,” he said. “No one’s ever seen it before, but it’s been there the whole time.” - Source: The Daily Beast Actually, ...