Michael H. Cohen (LexBlog Germany)

Acupuncture patients were given “shocks” in one experiment to prove that acupuncture has a physical, not just psychological effect. The shocks were successful: The experiment, conducted by researchers at the Department of Complementary and Integrative Medicine at University of Duisburg-Essen in Germany, looked at brain scans of volunteers who were given mild electric shocks. Firstly they...

Does it sound incredible that our own governments may have tested biological warfare agents on ordinary citizens? This is certainly hard to believe. And yet, it appears that there has been some reporting on this. We are not so far from the Tuskegee syphilis experiments on African-American men, which scandalized biomedical research and brought to...

By day’s end the bears had won, reversing the tide at lunchtime today. Reports Reuters in Credit worries, GM strike weigh on Wall Street: Stocks fell on Monday as financial shares weakened on news that Germany’s largest bank may take a big hit from subprime mortgage investments, while a landmark strike at General Motors raised...

For years, I was unable to hear German spoken in public, without an inner wince. The very language brought up ancestral memories, in the form of images, conversations, narrated recollections, of horror. As a child growing up in the rich religious and cultural education of Judaism, I was more than exposed to knowledge about Nazi...