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The 10:23 campaign had a positive effect in New Zealand. Hopefully the rest of the world will follow suit.

A public mass overdose of homeopathic remedies has forced the New Zealand Council of Homeopaths to admit openly that their products do not contain any "material substances". Council spokeswoman Mary Glaisyer admitted publicly that "there´s ( Read more... )

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Here is a demonstration of homeopathy done by Crispian Jago, well known skeptic. He takes a cup of pee and adds 1 ml of it to 100 ml of water. (It's pointed out that he should have added it to 99 ml of water, but who's counting.) He then adds 1 ml of the new solution to another 100 ml cup of water. He does this 30 times to achieve a "C30" ( Read more... )

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In case it's not very clear, homeopathic "medicine" is pure water that's been imbued with "magic healing properties." The premise is that you take something that causes the problem (e.g. caffeine for sleeplessness), put it in water, and then dilute the shit out of it until there is, sometimes literally, less than one molecule of the given ( Read more... )

Studies Show Alternative Medicine Ineffective

Laura Roma,
Grant Writer
"So my idiot friends who have never been to medical school don't know what they're talking about?"

So, we still don't know the sex of Meatwad. This is the second time we've tried to find out, and hesheit won't open hisherits legs. I grounded himherit for 3 months and said all hisherits stuff would wind up being yellow. We're going back in two weeks for another appointment. Maybe we'll find out then ( Read more... )

My sister in law once asked me why I thought Oprah Winfrey was a douche. I semi-explained that it was due to her promotion of pseudo-science to fill her purse. I recently read an article about Jenny McCarthy and Oprah Winfrey that reminded me of that question. Then I read this BadAstronomy post about a four-week-old child in Australia who died ( Read more... )

QOTD: What is a doctorate in homeopathic medicine? A blank piece of paper taped to your wall? -- PZ Myers

Pigasus Awards for 2008 Written by Phil Plait
Every year, on the appropriate date of April 1, the James Randi Educational Foundation (JREF) gives out the Pigasus Awards, a dubious honor to people or organizations that have done their best in the past year to snuff out science and promote irrationality. The award is named after the beloved mascot ( Read more... )