October 27, 2018
Will a Vitamin C Megadose Protect Against the Cold Virus?
Will taking Vitamin C protect against a cold? The average U.S. adult catches between two and four cold viruses each…
Tag: alternative medicine
October 6, 2018
How to Spot Bad Medicine, Pseudoscience, Scams, and Quacks
According to the Skeptic Dictionary, ‘Quackery‘ used to be a pejorative term describing medical charlatanism, that is, health practices or…
September 19, 2018
Beware of Bogus Dietary Supplements
Dietary supplements have been making headlines lately, and not in a good way. The issue of the healthfulness and safety…
September 16, 2018
Pseudoscience and Magical Thinking: What’s the Harm?
What’s The Harm is a website that lists cases where a lack of critical thinking has caused unnecessary harm, death,…
September 14, 2018
Understanding Scale: The Universe, Atoms, and Homeopathy
Numbers, especially the very large and very small, can be deceiving. It’s almost impossible for our brains to compute the…
September 8, 2018
Bioenergotherapy: Healing Hands or Hocus Pocus?
“Bioenergotherapy”– wondering what it is? I’ll let you in the on the secret. “Bioenergotherapy is concerned with correcting energetic perturbations…
