IT IS SAD to see a newspaper with the pedigree of The Times spouting
the wildest pseudoscience.
An article in the sports section on 20 January discussed that old chestnut
oxygen therapy. Much of it was relatively harmless, if self-evident: “Oxygen is
vital to cell regeneration,” we are told solemnly, and “increasing the level of
oxygen in the body boosts energy levels”.
But then come the statistics. “In the 1800s,” according to the article, “the
atmosphere contained 38 per cent oxygen and 1 per cent carbon dioxide. Today, it
is 19 per cent oxygen and 25 per cent carbon dioxide.”…
