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Category Archives: Skepticism and Pseudoscience
The Pseudoscience of Homeopathy
I am not responsible for any keyboards for those who tried reading this with their morning hot cup of joe! If you’ve never visited xkcd, you should! var __external_use_page_url = “http://ahotcupofjoe.net/2010/07/the-pseudoscience-of-homeopathy/”; var __external_use_page_summary = “The Pseudoscience of Homeopathy”; var __buzrr_style … Continue reading
CVS Pharmacy Sells Water at $13,000.00 per Gallon
And so does Walmart and several other mainstream retailers. Allergy season has hit my family pretty hard this year, my daughter the most. The congestion and post-nasal drip she’s experienced has caused a terrible sounding cough and now she’s experiencing … Continue reading
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Tagged Configuration Management, CVS, CVS/pharmacy, Drinking water, Health, Pharmacy, Tools, Wal-Mart
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Robert J. Braidwood: More Than Just One Man
One cannot study prehistoric archaeology without encountering the name Robert J. Braidwood. An innovator of archaeological method and inquiry, Braidwood pioneered new ways of investigating the prehistoric past. He found an interest in that unique period of human history that … Continue reading
Posted in Archaeology, Skepticism and Pseudoscience
Tagged agriculture, Archaeology, Hunter-gatherer
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If it quacks like a Quack…
The quack, Christopher Maloney, has left two comments on my blog. The first was a copy/paste of an open letter to PZ Myers… I’m not sure why he posted it on my blog. The second was this: Wow, you are … Continue reading
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Tagged Christopher Maloney, Naturopathy, pseudoscience, quack, quackery, skeptic
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Christopher Maloney is a Quack
In the state of Main, where “naturopaths” can call themselves “doctor,” a nut exists that makes the following pseudoscientific claims: Parents waiting for vaccinations can provide their children with black elderberry, which blocks the H1N1 virus. A single garlic capsule … Continue reading
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Mike Adams Pretends to know the Minds of Skeptics
In a recent article on the inter-webs, Mike Adams, self-proclaimed “health ranger” and an editor at NaturalNews.com, pretends to know something about skeptics. Wow. In a word: fail. In his opening paragraphs he says, skeptics” claim to be the sole … Continue reading
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Tagged Dietary supplement, Health, Herbalism, Massage, Medicine, Pharmaceutical drug
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Social Security for illegal immigrants?
Image via Wikipedia There is an email going around in that urban legend fashion so popular with non-thinking and irrational conservatives who regularly drink the Rush Limbaugh / Fox News Kool-Aid that claims to be driving a petition to appeal … Continue reading
FTC Cracking Down on “Complementary Alternative Medicine” Blogs?
If so, this is good news for consumers. Frauds like Kevin Trudeau have been peddling their snake oil to anyone willing to shell out the bucks, often under the ironic guise of being “consumer watchdogs,” protecting consumers from “the establishment” … Continue reading
Scent Dog ID: Science or Pseudoscience?
Image by BL1961 via Flickr I’ve blogged in the past about “Man’s Best Friend” and the archaeological evidence of the domestication of the human by canines (or perhaps I have that reversed). I’m a big fan of dogs and what … Continue reading
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Woo traffic is still traffic
I invite the visitors of Loren’s blog to post here and discuss pseudoscience or what their thoughts are on the Aquatic Ape hypothesis, which is where this all began. I don’t know why Loren picked that as her “quote of the week,” -perhaps she likes the aquatic ape idea. I’d be interested to know why she thinks it holds water (no pun was planned on that). Continue reading
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