Crooked Timber has a great post on using what you think ancestral man ate to argue for various types of fad diets: There seems to be about as much theorising relative to evidence in the discussion of what cavemen ate...
Posted on June 12, 2008 10:20 AM • 4 Comments •
A Christmas present, maybe? Maybe not. A "neurotheology" researcher called Dr Michael Persinger has developed something called the "God Helmet" lined with magnets to help you in your quest: it sounds like typical bad science fodder, but it's much more...
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Posted on March 12, 2008 9:52 AM • 3 Comments •
My rant last Friday about Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) promoted a vigorous discussion, and I am happy about that. That ambivalence about CAM in even the scientific community is an interesting issue in and of itself. Several commenters criticized...
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Posted on February 6, 2008 1:07 PM • 7 Comments •
Complementary and alternative medicine has no business participating in mainstream science or medicine....
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Posted on February 1, 2008 8:51 AM • 13 Comments •
Color me unsurprised. You have no doubt seen the commercials for the herbal penis-enlarging supplement Enzyte. They feature a guy with a weird smile and his grinning wife. The pills themselves come in suspiciously medicinal-looking packaging. (With a picture of...
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Posted on January 31, 2008 11:39 AM • 8 Comments •
If my job was to debunk poorly justified herbal remedies, I would eat well for life. Here is the newest one: stem cell enhancers. As covered in the Scientist: A California company is marketing the latest in dietary supplements, an...
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Posted on May 16, 2007 9:03 AM • 4 Comments •