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Can Darth Vader Improve Your Winter Mood?

27 Sep 2019

If you saw Darth Vader endorse a product, would you feel the desire to buy it?

Bad Science Lends a Friendly Ear to Ear Seeds

29 Aug 2019

If youā€™re scrolling through Instagram while waiting in line at the grocery store, you might have stumbled upon ear seeds. The photos show close-ups of ears dotted with tiny piercings assembled like...

ThetaHealingĀ®: The Money Youā€™ll Spend Never Existed

1 Aug 2019

It must have looked like they were testing for telepathy. One self-described healer and their patient, sitting face to face, were each wearing what I would describe as a rugby helmet covered in...

Popular Health Guru Sayer Ji Curates the Scientific Literature with His Bachelorā€™s Degree in Philosophy

11 Jul 2019

There is a tool on Sayer Jiā€™s website GreenMedInfo.com that I wish I could recommend. I am sometimes asked by members of the public for a place to go to find scientific papers in order to figure...

The Moral Panic Over Smartphones Takes on Satanic Overtones

27 Jun 2019

It began life as ā€œprominent exostosisā€ and, at the peak of media coverage, British tabloid The Sun was scaring us with ā€œHELL PHONESā€ and many people got the impression that our children were...

Goop Men: Putting a Soul Patch on Well-Off Woo Brand

6 Jun 2019

Gwyneth Paltrowā€™s commonwealth of aspirational feel-goodery is now reaching across the gender aisle with Goop Men. Thereā€™s the good, thereā€™s the bad, and thereā€™s the snugly, like this $28,900...

Quebec Pharmacies Show Signs of Progress on Homeopathy

17 May 2019

If you walk into a Quebec pharmacy and reach the ā€œcold and fluā€ section, you may see a sign youā€™ve never seen before. The green-blue notice will tell you, ā€œdear customerā€, that there is ā€œgenerallyā€...

"Dr." Sebi: What Do We Make of this Non-Doctor?

12 Apr 2019

A self-proclaimed healer who tried to get Michael Jackson off painkillers is back in the news. His chosen name was ā€œDr. Sebiā€, but his real name was Alfredo Bowman and he was not a doctor. The man...

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