“Why Are Young People Getting Colon Cancer? Weed Killer May Be Linked” was the social media headline that understandably caused quite a stir given that epidemiologists have documented a recent...
The woman talking into the expensive microphone says she didn’t want to do the “regular stuff,” so she met a doctor whose belief system was “outside the box.”
Cancer plays no favourites. It can strike the young, the old, the poor, the rich. When three-year old Lukas Walton, the grandson of Walmart founder Sam Walton, was diagnosed in 1989 with Wilm’s...
Our story starts with “surfactants,” a term derived from “surface active agents.” These are molecules with one end being “hydrophilic”, meaning it is attracted to water, while the other ...
Long before “wellness influencers” honed the art of spreading misinformation on the internet, the public was at the mercy of being befuddled by hoaxes through chain emails. Way back in the 1990s, I...
Fear of the needle is not reserved to the vaccine hesitant; it extends to biopsies as well. In corners of social media where misinformation accumulates, influencers with an axe to grind against...
I’ve been investigating pseudoscientific claims for 13 years now. The word “pseudoscience” means “fake science,” something that superficially looks like science—and is often sold as such—but that...
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