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Colds - medical advice and bet settling


Medical Advice  

20 members have voted

  1. 1. Can you catch a cold from being cold?

    • Yes
      9
    • No
      11
  2. 2. Can you prevent colds by being mentally and physically tough?

    • Yes
      8
    • No
      5


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Thanks LL. This thread could yield some interesting and new scientific results, which I'll publish in The Lancet as soon as the poll shows I'm right. I'll probably end up being a proper doctor before Rudemedic.

Could you handle the pay cut and longer hours though?
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In the article submitted by rudemedic, Dr Joshi states "Getting a cold from going out in the cold ....is a myth".

You can't get a cold from going out in the cold but there is evidence that going out in the cold makes you more vulnerable to developing a cold.

 

PS I hadn't realised who the author was when I posted the link, he's a bit of an idiot who was obviously asked to write it due to his position at the time.

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In the article submitted by rudemedic, Dr Joshi states "Getting a cold from going out in the cold ....is a myth".

 

I yield to no one in my scientific respect for anyone going by the name of "Dr", but if it's a myth, there's also a massive etymological coincidence - who'd have thunk that the word "cold" as in temperature was entirely unrelated to the word "cold" as in snot and a bit of a headache?

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I think this has run its course (of antibiotics) and the poll never lies. I think you'd best dust off your grovelling breeches, Mr. Gated-Community.

 

It's not scientific till the poll shows the results I want.

 

The community is about to elect its first President, by the way. Watch this space. Real power.

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If being cold gave you a cold, Latics season ticket holders would produce more snot than the rest of the world's population combined.

 

But surely you can also prevent colds by being mentally and physically tough. Like Sherpas, like Latics season ticket holders.

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If being cold gave you a cold, Latics season ticket holders would produce more snot than the rest of the world's population combined.

Touching wood, rubbing a rabbit's foot and holding a lucky horse shoe and four-leafed clover, make it difficult to type whilst not tempting fate, but I can proclaim that I never get a cold.

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Touching wood, rubbing a rabbit's foot and holding a lucky horse shoe and four-leafed clover, make it difficult to type whilst not tempting fate, but I can proclaim that I never get a cold.

 

Mental and physical toughness combined with massive adherence to superstitions is a powerful preventer of diseases of all sorts.

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