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Author Archives: Josh DeWald
MercolaWatch:Desperate Times for Vaccine Safety and Efficacy Denialism
Barbara Loe Fisher guest stars in the Mercola.com article I will be looking at this week. The anti-vaccine folks have cleverly started to use the term “denial” in their rhetoric as the Mercola article is entitled “Desperate Times for Vaccine / read more…
Sympathetic Resonance Technology
When researching one of my previous MercolaWatch articles, I stumbled on a reference to “sympathetic resonance technology” (SRT)*. The study authors may as well have said that the subject wore a Q-Link pendant, as SRT is not really a generic / read more…
Posted in Alternative Medicine / Energy / Health / Pseudoscience
Tagged in qlink / srt / sympathetic resonance
MercolaWatch:Dangerous reasoning about the chickenpox vaccine
In an April article, “Despite Doctor’s Order, School Bans Girl for Not Getting Chickenpox Vaccine”, Mercola is at it again with strange logic which seems to directly contradict the available facts. It seems that like many who are anti-vaccine, the / read more…
MercolaWatch:Supposed “report” comparing GMO and non-GMO corn
While it may appear that I attack every article that Joe Mercola writes, his “newsletter” averages two articles every day except for Sunday (about the same volume as the Skeptoid group blog, except everything is published under his own name). / read more…
Posted in Health / Pseudoscience
Skepticism and me
I was recently asked “Do you really need evidence for everything?” That’s actually a difficult question to answer, but the short answer is “yes, I do”. In practice, I don’t need to look up absolutely everything because I have already / read more…
Posted in Conspiracy Theories / Health / Science
MercolaWatch:On Environmental Factors for Autism — Part 2
This is the second of a two-part response to a recent mercola.com speculating on environmental causes for autism. This part briefly responds to his mention of vaccines, phthalates and gut flora.
Posted in Health / Pseudoscience / Science
Tagged in Autism / mercola / phthalates / vaccines
MercolaWatch:On Environmental Factors for Autism — Part 1
In a recent article by Joe Mercola, he has a list of what he deems to be likely environmental factors for autism (spoiler: he mentions vaccines). Let’s take a look at some of them. NOTE: I have no intent to / read more…
Posted in Alternative Medicine / Health / Pseudoscience
Tagged in Autism / emr / klinghardt / mercola / vaccines
Fact Check:Five Reasons to Buy Organic
I came across a sign entitled “5 Reasons to Buy Organic” at my local grocery store. Some of the reasons struck me as being inaccurate, or at least misleading, so I decided I would take a quick look at the / read more…
Polyphasic sleep:More with less?
It is a cliche that despite all the amazing luxuries, time-savers and other conveniences that we have in modern times, the average person still has little “free” time. The tasks we do seem to magically fill all available time so / read more…
Posted in Health
Tagged in polyphasic / sleep
MercolaWatch:Aspartame and milk
I swear I try really hard to avoid talking about aspartame all the time but it seems to be a lost cause. For the past few weeks, my news feed has been filled with various articles claiming that the food / read more…
Posted in Conspiracy Theories / Health / Urban Legends
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