October 19, 2019
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…
Tag: alternative medicine
October 11, 2019
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 28, 2019
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 23, 2019
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…
August 24, 2019
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…
August 6, 2019
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…