Skeptophilia

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...

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...

Today from the Unintentionally Hilarious Department, we have a paper that made its way into PubMed that has the title, " Pharmacoecono...

One of the things that baffles me about woo-woos is how they never, ever give up. When I'm proven wrong, I usually (1) feel extremely...

It's been a while since we've seen a new salvo from the homeopaths, but I knew this did not mean they'd retreated in disarray.  ...

Because there's no idiotic idea that can't be made even more ridiculous by blending it with another idiotic idea, today we consider ...

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 Cra...

There comes a point when there is absolutely no reason to continue investigating a claim for which there is no evidence (or significant evid...

In today's contribution from the Unintentional Irony Department, we have: a New Jersey pharmaceuticals company has issued a recall of s...

I think I've made my position on GMOs plain enough, but let me just be up front about it right out of the starting gate. There is noth...