http://www.nhm.org/birds/guide/pg004.html

Birds have a cooling system. The air sacs around their lungs.

Yawn. Your arguments are boring, simplistic, and unsupportable.

You want to waste your money on overpriced soap, go ahead. There is nothing anyone could say to convince you otherwise.

And I never said anecdotal evidence was worthless. I said “it is worthless for determining what is true or not.” Please read what is written.

This is just silly. “Any mother would tell you a baby needs to be held to thrive. it’s hard to believe but science denied that basic fact. Twelve years ago, a hospital in Chicago ran short of incubators and women volunteers were asked to hold the babies and keep them warm around the clock”

If science denied it, why would a SCIENTIST do the study in the first place? It’s because a scientist was curious and they pursued their curiosity. That’s what science does. It looks for questions that it can’t answer, and finds an answer.

Hummingbirds have more trouble staying warm than cool, more so than any other bird, they definitely don’t need a system. It’s also why they migrate to warm temperatures.
Thanks for the indirect validation Karen, but I think it’s time to close this topic

A “hummingbird cooling system” That would be the legendary cooling system yes.
Lets see you googled hummingbird and picked up the first line of every search. You know how I know, because that’s what I did. I knew birds don’t have cooling systems.
Too bad you didn’t read to find out the cooling system they were talking about was electric and used for aviaries
Birds don’t have “cooling systems” That’s why they take bird baths, it’s why some migrate, as do hummingbirds.

As for anecdotal evidence being worthless. I’m going to mimic your extreme statement by saying that’s stupid. No scientist worth their salt would dismiss anecdotal evidence as worthless. You are I think referring to things like someone saying I rubbed an egg on my head every day for a week and I am cured, when the cure would have happened anyway.
Anecdotal evidence is often what is known before science deems it worthy by finding out the reason, or partial reason for it.

Any mother would tell you a baby needs to be held to thrive.
it’s hard to believe but science denied that basic fact.
Twelve years ago, a hospital in Chicago ran short of incubators and women volunteers were asked to hold the babies and keep them warm around the clock. Guess what?
The babies that were held, did better than those kept in incubators, and the medical profession was so surprised by this that a study was done to find out the reason. That part shouldn’t be surprising, up until the early 1980′s surgery was done on babies without anesthetic.
In some cases it’s because of the risk of the anaesthetic itself,
the other reason given was that babies didn’t feel pain the way adults do. That has been proven false, thanks to the outcries of parents.

Essential oils people used them for centuries as curative. Science deemed it, worthless. Now it’s widely accepted that essential oils are indeed able to disinfect, and have curative powers.

Many psychiatrists will tell you they learn from their patients what works for people, in cases of depression for instance. They’ve also been quoted as saying
“We don’t know why, but it works”
Fire burned people long before science could tell you why.

It’s extremely nieve to think that science is unbiased. When cosmetic companies, and pharmaceutical companies
want a product put on the market, data is forged, studies are ‘rigged’ and it’s killed people. New silver bullet non addictive drugs are coming out all the time.
A few years later cases of rushed and improper studies will come to light, showing that potentially fatal side effects, were swept under the rug, or the studies were done in third world countries where people’s lives are more expendable. ie. Depo Provera

I know you asked Tantrum to site a source, I’m not going to, all one has to do is read, and employ some critical thinking skills.

From Pharmacology and Science.
by H. Richard Adams – 2001 – Medical – 1201 pages
Prior to the 20th century,scientists believed that skin was an impermeable barrier to all substances, except possibly gases

Okay now lets get back to bubble and creams and all things that make us feel lovely.