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I told myself that I wasn't going to do another political post so soon after Tuesday's, but dammit, my good intentions got blasted t...

In response to a post I did a while back about the tendency of people to believe loony ideas if they're couched in ten-dollar vocabulary...

I've got a medication for you to take.  Here are the ingredients: nux vomica  -- the seed of the plant Strychnos nux-vomica , the natura...

Apparently the most popular fad in alt-med nutrition these days is the so-called "alkaline diet." The idea here is that lots of di...

What is it with people trusting random laypeople over experts? Okay, yeah, I know experts can be wrong, and credentials are not an unshakabl...

Every time I think homeopathy can't get more ridiculous, I turn out to be wrong. I thought they'd plunged to the bottom of the Crazy...

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 ...