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If there's one word related to health issues that makes me cringe, it's the word "toxin." This term gets thrown around all...

I swear, sometimes it seems like the universe is listening.  And laughing at me. You may recall from Saturday's post, about people thi...

A few months ago, I wrote a post about a guy who claimed that all you need to do to purge your home of "negative energies" (whatev...

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

Thanks to a friend and loyal reader of Skeptophilia , I now have an even lower opinion of humanity than I did before. It's not the fir...

Ah, the early morning.  All is quiet, so it's time to put on the coffee, look forward to a nice hot cup of joe.  Because there's not...

Given the upsurge of woo-woo alternative medicine in the last thirty years or so, I suppose it was only a matter of time before people begin...

If there's one word related to health issues that makes me cringe, it's the word "toxin." This term gets thrown around a...

It's with a strange twinge of conscience that I'm writing today about an alt-med woo-woo claim that I don't think we should chal...

Following on the heels of my post yesterday regarding how much smarter and saner the conspiracy theorists are than us skeptics, today we wil...

One of the difficulties in identifying woo-woo claims is that they are seldom pure, unadulterated pseudoscience. The reason for this is th...

A friend of mine recently sent me a link about beauty treatments.  She wasn't, I think, trying to give me any sort of unsubtle suggestio...