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Forget Glucometers, Use Voodoo Dolls Instead: That's Improbable!

— A weekly report from our friends at Improbable Research.

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A new glucometer? "Each night, they measured their levels of the blood sugar glucose and asked each participant to stick pins in a ."

A new fad diet? Overweight service members "stationed at higher altitude duty locations had a ."

"[W]hat, if anything, special might happen to, in, or with the ?"

Is "" -- and no, that's not when someone sniffs at a mirror -- contagious? Speaking of contagious behaviors, a new study says that .

Here's one kind of thing that people can .

with everything from sawdust to a "water cure," according to an 1899 issue of the Denver Medical Times.

The world may need to prepare for .

That's Improbable! is Ƶ's weekly roundup of clinically, um, relevant finds at , which awards the .