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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 ...

As a slightly-past-sixty-year-old, it will come as no surprise to you to hear that I'm seeing some gray hair, and a few more laugh lines...

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

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...

Online Critical Thinking course -- free for a short time! This week, we're launching a course called Introduction to Critical Thinking...

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...