14 There are very few scientific studies on one of the most critical components of acupuncture: the needle itself.
"There's a lot of scientific studies on this, now, Oprah, that one person who stops smoking actually influences people at four degrees of separation," Northrup says.
Two years ago, the EPA became alarmed by 3M's internal scientific studies on perfluorooctane sulfonate, known as PFOS, including one that resulted in the deaths of all the rat offspring within four days, a striking result for a toxicology experiment.
Experts say there have been limited scientific studies on the biomechanics of amputee runners, especially those missing both legs.
We even run scientific studies on them — and are thinking about re-creating some of those that have gone extinct.
In 1999, John Cassidy reviewed Robert Frank's "Luxury Fever" and David Lykken's "Happiness" and considered recent scientific studies on contentment.
Recently, in the journal Gastroenterology, Wu and his colleagues published a comprehensive review of scientific studies on diet and inflammatory bowel disease.
"As far as the federal government is aware, there are quite a number of scientific studies on the criminological long-term effects of surgical castration".
Scientific studies, on the other hand, were usually given dry acronyms, like Merck's Scandinavian Simvastatin Survival Study, or 4S, published a decade ago.
While there are no known scientific studies on "hero syndrome" crimes, experts say that police officers are involved in such crimes less often than firefighters and security guards.
She has published many scientific studies on the date palm and has devoted 18 years of her life to the subject.
