Skeptophilia

A friend of mine, a veterinarian in Scotland, has proven to be a wonderful source of topics for Skeptophilia , mostly on health-related issu...

A friend and loyal reader of Skeptophilia  emailed me a couple of days ago. "I think I've figured out why you're such a doubter...

Loony people are hardly a new invention.  Any claims that "people are crazier now than they used to be" generally springs from one...

First, we had a " Quantum Pendant " that was supposed to realign your chakra frequencies (or something like that), but was recalle...

Yesterday I ran into a claim that, even by comparison with most alt-med nonsense, is way out there. The gist of it is that you can fix all ...

Despite the fact that our modern lifestyle has increased our life expectancy to longer than it's ever been in the history of humanity, r...

Since we haven't looked at loopy claims from the alternative health crowd in a while, today we're going to check out a site that tel...

One of the difficulties in detecting spurious claims occurs when the writer (or speaker) mixes fact, and real science, in with spurious bits...

A couple of weeks ago I described how several loyal readers are contributing to my ongoing progress toward insanity by sending me links to b...

I'm sure that by now all of you have heard of the " Paleo Diet ," that claims that the path to better health comes from eating...