A pretty common trope in modern society is products and diets intended to help your body "detox". The idea behind these things is that our bodies somehow build up toxins over time, making us gradually less healthy, unless we use some product or method to flush them out ( Read more... )

While I was down the coast over the weekend, I happened to be a witness to what I have come to consider to be a fairly typical misinformation spiel by a naturopath.

Naturopaths are strong believers that naturally occurring "stuff" is intrinsically better for you than "stuff" that is "artificial". It's a fundamentally* flawed philosophy, but there' ( Read more... )

There's a great little article by Geoff Gilpin here (warning: PDF) talking about the flaw in the continuing beliefs about "creating your own reality", and "manifesting" things through directed consciousness ( Read more... )

Anyone who thinks that there's no problem with "alternate therapies" should really have a read of this.

Homeopathy kills people.

As reported here, a recent study found that sticking needles in people randomly is pretty much as effective as using "proper" acupuncture ( Read more... )

I hate that phrase. It always pings my bullshit meter whenever I hear it. That's because it is a ridiculous phrase. A skeptic is someone who thinks critically about things and does not believe things without evidence ( Read more... )

6/6/06 has come and gone, and the world continues to burble on unperturbed.

Who'd have guessed it?

I'm not entirely certain, but I think that evolution goes a long way to disproving most psychic powers.

( Here's my thinking... )

The Wedge StrategyWow. These people are seriously saying they want to turn science back by a hundred years and re-do it all with a Christian perspective. Their goal is the destruction of my philosophy. And people wonder why I get annoyed by this stuff ( Read more... )

In the argument between scientists and creationists, the scientists, and we rationalists who trust their intellectual honesty, are at a severe disadvantage ( Read more... )