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Understanding Scale: The Universe, Atoms, and Homeopathy

Relatively Interesting May 3, 2013 1

Numbers, especially the very large and very small, can be deceiving. It’s almost impossible for our brains to compute the immense scale in the fields of astronomy or microbiology. Nevertheless, understanding and being able

9 of the Most Coveted Items on the Black Market

Relatively Interesting June 17, 2012 0

The $10 trillion economy of all the world’s informal markets would be the second-largest in the world (second to the United States), if formally tallied, according to the International Economic Journal. Anything from rhino

Beware of Bogus Dietary Supplements

Relatively Interesting March 1, 2012 1

Dietary supplements have been making headlines lately, and not in a good way. The issue of the healthfulness and safety of many commercial brand dietary supplements continues to crop up as study after study

Pseudoscience and Magical Thinking: What’s the Harm?

Relatively Interesting February 3, 2012 2

What’s The Harm is a website that lists cases where a lack of critical thinking has caused unnecessary harm, death, injury, hospitalization, major financial loss, or other damages. Here are 10 striking examples where

Homeopathic Birth Control: Evessla

Relatively Interesting January 17, 2012 4

This advertisement is a fake*, but it still got my attention. Why? Because I can imagine a scenario where a product like this exists, and where a company would try to use the pseudoscience

The Red Flags of Quackery: A Handy Guide

Relatively Interesting January 14, 2012 2

The folks over at at www.sci-ence.org have put together a fantastic comic highlighting the red flags of quackery. It covers the common logical fallacies that tend to fool consumers. If you come across a

Celebrities and Misinformed Science Claims

Relatively Interesting December 29, 2011 0

Sense About Science is a charitable organization that equips people to make sense of science and evidence. Since 2006, they have reviewed the misinformed science claims that celebrities have made – about diets, cancer,

Just because it’s natural, doesn’t mean it’s safe.

Relatively Interesting November 9, 2011 0

According to the Courier Mail, an Australian news website, more than 200,000 practitioners work in unregistered health fields Australia-wide and complementary medicines generate almost $2 billion a year, but little can be done when

Dietary Supplements: An Infographic Showing Efficacy

Relatively Interesting November 26, 2010 0

The Cochrane Collaboration is an international not-for-profit organisation providing up-to-date information about the effects of health care. Their product is a collection of systematic reviews which are published electronically in successive issues of The

Bioenergotherapy: Healing Hands or Hocus Pocus?

Relatively Interesting November 7, 2010 1

“Bioenergotherapy”– wondering what it is? I’ll let you in the on the secret. “Bioenergotherapy is concerned with correcting energetic perturbations in bioplasma tale, called the aura. Human’s aura contains 7 layers which are responsible