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Category Archives: Pseudoscience
4.13.2013
Homeopathic and Natural Dog Supplements – Garlic
When I started back writing for Skeptoid on a regular basis, I asked on my social media accounts what people would like to see me cover. One that had a few votes was Homeopathic treatments for dogs. As I have / read more…
Posted in Alternative Medicine / Health / Nature / Pseudoscience
Tagged in dogs / garlic / herbs / homeopathic / medicine / natural / pets
4.12.2013
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
4.10.2013
Conspiracy Palooza
I always find conspiracy theories to be the most interesting aspect of the information age. The thought process fascinates me. I also love to see how conspiracy thinking breeds conspiracy thinking. There was a national telephone survey questioning 1247 registered US voters on / read more…
Posted in Conspiracy Theories / Pseudoscience / Urban Legends
4.3.2013
Finding Enough Evidence
A student raised her hand in class the other day and asked a simple question: “How do you know when you have enough evidence?”
Posted in Education / Pseudoscience / Science / Uncategorized
Tagged in evidence
3.22.2013
5 Things We Mistakenly Believe About Our Bodies
Let’s examine a few things that are commonly believed about our bodies but aren’t actually true.
Posted in Health / Pseudoscience / Science / Urban Legends
3.16.2013
Anecdotes are never evidence…unless they’re your own.
In general, skeptics understand the importance of making evidence-based decisions. They look for controlled studies that have been properly conducted and insist that they won’t accept anecdotes as evidence. In theory that is best practice, but the reality is it’s downright impossible / read more…
Posted in Pseudoscience / Science
Tagged in anecdotes
3.15.2013
Pseudo Alert! Complimentary and Alternative Medicine (CAM)
Complementary and alternative medicine practices are harmful to society because they take money from cancer patients that they could be using on real cancer treatments that actually work. Doctors spend years in college and medical school and even longer in / read more…
Posted in Alternative Medicine / Health / Pseudoscience / Skeptoid Podcast
Tagged in alternative medicine / complimentary medicine / pseudoscience
3.13.2013
Bee Venom and HIV are we getting stung again?
Bee venom therapy is an alternative medical treatment. Like many alternative treatments it has little plausibility, poor research, and primarily anecdotal evidence. Benefit appears in research only when controls are poor. In well blinded and controlled studies the “effects” disappear. Bee therapy / read more…
Posted in Alternative Medicine / Health / Nature / Pseudoscience
3.12.2013
The Decalogue Stone
A friend of mine recently drew my attention to an article in the online magazine Tablet concerning one of those minor archaeological puzzles that I had once known about and then forgot: an eighty-ton rock in the New Mexico desert, known as / read more…
Posted in Pseudoscience / Uncategorized / Urban Legends
Tagged in Decalogue Stone / Eva and Hobe / New Mexico
3.9.2013
What is Energy?
Today I am putting out a call for some comments. I am currently teaching my physics classes about energy. The term energy can also be, and is often misused by those peddling various pseudoscientific nonsense.
Posted in Energy / Pseudoscience / Science
Tagged in Energy / forms of energy / physics / pseudoscience
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