by J. Jerrald Hayes | Jan 13, 2017 | Pseudoscience
Over on FaceBook I fucking hate pseudoscience wrote: Decades of studies have not only shown acupuncture to be an elaborate placebo, they’ve also taught us a few other things. We’ve learned that patients report the same relief no matter where you place the...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Jan 11, 2017 | Pseudoscience, Science, Science Denial, The Democrats
I wrote a piece for @NewRepublic begging Democrats to get their shit together, scientifically speaking: https://t.co/LqSvrBjX36 — Eric Armstrong (@themovingarts) January 10, 2017 Are Democrats the Party of Science? Not Really. So, what’s the harm in...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Jan 7, 2017 | Pseudoscience, Science, Science Denial, Skepticism
Evan Bernstein is a co-host of The Skeptics’ Guide to the Universe and The Skeptics Guide 5×5...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Jan 5, 2017 | Alternative Medicine, Pseudoscience
In a nutshell this is why I think is useless nonsense in under 5...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Dec 31, 2016 | Health, Pseudoscience, Science
So I am on FaceBook the other day and I say… Talk about stirring up a hornets nest. All these gluten avoiding friends of mine did not like at all what I was implying. That most people who think they have gluten sensitivity or a gluten intolerance don’t. In...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Dec 22, 2016 | Alternative Medicine, Pseudoscience
The new reigning King of Bullshit Internet Health Memes David Avocado Wolfe isn’t slowing down. This week via FaceBook I stumbled upon one of his more recent pieces of bullshit advice where he is advising and advocation wrapping your joints in cabbage when you...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Nov 21, 2016 | Alternative Medicine, Pseudoscience
It was great when just the other day when we learned… “…all homeopathic drugs will now have to come with a label clearly explaining that “there is no scientific evidence that the product works and [that] the product’s claims are based only on...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Nov 7, 2016 | Alternative Medicine, Pseudoscience
Deepak Chopra likes me! He really, really likes me! (Well, not really…) Orac is currently hiding from the Federation in an undisclosed location (somewhere warm and out of the country, the better to avoid election news after having cast an absentee ballot), where...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Oct 23, 2016 | Pseudoscience
Updated: Top 10 Worst Anti-Science Web Sites The worst offending sites on the Internet for promoting bad misinformation. by Brian Dunning Filed under Alternative Medicine, Conspiracies, Consumer Ripoffs, Health, History & Pseudohistory Skeptoid Podcast #495...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Oct 19, 2016 | Alternative Medicine, Pseudoscience
Nature: Measuring Rat Screams with Hierarchical Micro/Nano-Porous Acupuncture Needles Harriet Hall invented the term Tooth Fairy Science doing research on a phenomenon before establishing that the phenomenon exists. Which describes the bulk of the research done on...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Sep 26, 2016 | Alternative Medicine
How “Traditional Chinese Medicine” Is Pushing Species to Extinction Science shows that most of today’s “traditional Chinese medicine” is simple quackery. But another consequence of the global “traditional medicine” industry...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Sep 26, 2016 | Alternative Medicine
Chairman Mao Invented Traditional Chinese Medicine. But He Didn’t Believe in It. Why did the U.S. Senate unwittingly endorse 1950s Chinese Communist Party propaganda? In case you missed it, Oct. 7-13 was designated Naturopathic Medicine Week, according to a...
