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Quite awhile back I posted a webcomic by the guys over at Sci-ence! all about “The Red Flags of Quackery” that was a nice little primer on the buzz words and concepts that should warn you that you’re dealing with pseudoscience woo-woo bullshit. Now they’ve gone and put out a new version 2.0 of the comic: . . . → Read More: Sci-ence! updates “The Red Flags of Quackery” to version 2.0. 
I'm right there with you on that one, Chuck. It seems shoving a hose up your ass and flooding your bowels with water doesn’t have any practical health benefits at all. Not only that, but according to the study done at Georgetown University, it could have a number of adverse health effects ranging from minor . . . → Read More: New study concludes that “colonic irrigation” does not work and could be damaging. 
Catherine Ferguson learning that this horse used to be Abraham Lincoln. What are the odds?? Not to suggest that crap like this is why newspapers are dying a slow death, but I’m sure it doesn’t help. It seems you can write into The Jersey Journal for a reading from a “Pet Psychic” who will . . . → Read More: “Pet psychics” now pass as legitimate columnists in supposedly serious newspapers. 
Being an Ann Arbor resident I regularly visit the Ann Arbor.com news website to keep up with what’s happening locally. Generally it’s a pretty decent news source, but I’ve found myself stunned on two different occasions by the advice column for pets because it contained references to “alt-med” woo-woo nonsense that’s usually associated with humans. . . . → Read More: Advice column for pet owners can’t leave out the woo. The advocates of woo-woo in the U.K. have had a bit of a setback: In all the furore over cuts to the NHS, doctors have voted to stop one service all by themselves – and unlike what is expected to follow, this is something we should all celebrate. The British Medical Association (BMA) has voted . . . → Read More: Good news in the U.K. as doctors vote to drop homeopathy funding from the NHS. What’s the harm, the question goes, if herbal supplements don’t actually help cure anything? Well, they could kill you if you’re on certain types of real medications: Researchers are warning that popular herbs and supplements, including St. John’s wort and even garlic and ginger, do not mix well with common heart drugs and can also . . . → Read More: New study warns that herbal supplements and medicines don’t always mix well. If you thought people didn’t believe in faeries anymore, well, you’d be wrong. There’s still plenty of people out there willing to believe in wee-folk living in their gardens. They even have their own annual convention that’s in its ninth year: TWISP, Wash.—In the foothills of the North Cascades, where the veil between dimensions is . . . → Read More: “Fairy and Human Relations Congress” brings out the mildly delusional. In news that will likely fail to dissuade folks who buy into the whole alternative medicine nonsense, the report from the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine says that just about every alternative treatment they tried failed to produce results: Echinacea for colds. Ginkgo biloba for memory. Glucosamine and chondroitin for arthritis. Black cohosh . . . → Read More: Ten years and $2.5 billion shows “alternative” medicines don’t cure jack shit. I’m very big on critical thinking and I try to promote it where I can. So when I stumbled across this video over at Richard Dawkins’ website I knew I had to include it here. Here Be Dragons is a free 40 minute video introduction to critical thinking. It is suitable for general audiences and . . . → Read More: “Here Be Dragons” is a free 40 minute film on critical thinking. Every now and then the makers of quack medical products and other woo-woo snake oil nonsense get a well deserved smack down. The makers of the Q-Ray Ionized Bracelet, which I’ve written about previously here, got one back in September of 2006 when the FTC sued them for fraud and the court ruled in the . . . → Read More: Appeals court upholds ruling blasting Q-Ray Bracelet as “fraud.” |
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