Skeptophilia

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 ...

One of the questions I get asked pretty frequently, apropos of my work as a debunker and critic of woo, is "What's the harm?" ...

Illustrating the general principle that there is no idea so stupid that you can't change it so as to make it way stupider, today we spri...

You may recall that a few days ago, I posted about a company that sells beanies and boxer briefs designed to protect you from the supposed i...

Here in the United States we've just gone from Daylight Savings Time back onto Standard Time, and like a lot of us, it's playing hel...

New from the "What The Hell Did You Think  Was Going To Happen?" department, we have: states that have passed "Religious Free...

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...

One of the things that strikes me, both about many purveyors of alt-med bullshit and their customers, is how little effort they exert even t...

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