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The ShamWow Fallacy or How Placebos Were Redefined

27 Dec 2024

If I told you that an all-natural remedy performed just as well as a placebo in a clinical trial, how would you interpret that?...

The Telepathy Tapes Prove We All Want to Believe

13 Dec 2024

The Telepathy Tapes is a seven-hour podcast series that takes listeners on an incredible journey. Here is a summary of the show. A journalist taps into a community of parents of nonverbal autistic...

Bhattacharya To Decide the Fate of Medical Research

29 Nov 2024

An economist turned pandemic celebrity, who loudly and repeatedly advocated for mass infections with the coronavirus, has been nominated by Donald Trump as the new director of the National...

Kennedy’s Coalition of Quacks Wants to Feed America a Diet of Lies

15 Nov 2024

When America sneezes, the world catches a cold. Donald Trump’s renewed tenancy in the White House, with anti-vaxxer-in-chief Robert F. Kennedy Jr whispering in his ear, promises more than just...

Are Füm’s Essential Oils Safe to Inhale?

1 Nov 2024

“It’s like some… like a wooden cigarette that gives you flavours, but it’s not even a cigarette, you don’t even light it.”

Your Hairdresser Will Heal You Now

20 Sep 2024

My hairdresser brings me to an isolated room. On the sparsely decorated walls, a framed drawing of the head meridians and a yin-yang symbol representing the Chinese body clock, in which different...

If It Sounds Too Good To Be True, It is

28 Aug 2024

There is hardly a week that passes without someone asking my opinion about some video purporting to have found a remedy for some terrible ailment that “Big Pharma doesn’t want you to know about.”...

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