This Year's 'Worst Pseudoscience Award' Goes to Anti-Vax Fraud Andrew Wakefield
Reminder: vaccines are fine. Don't be a dumbass and get your kids their jabs.
Reminder: vaccines are fine. Don't be a dumbass and get your kids their jabs.
Around £8 million has been raised for alternative cancer treatments since 2012, and much of that goes toward dubious, possibly dangerous treatments from unscrupulous charlatans.
It's the latest episode to highlight the absurdity of the popular alternative “medicine.”
Hey, maybe this is a joke, meant to rile journalists up. Or maybe it really is symbolic, or an oversight.
“We want to use these methods in order to help select our future champions.”
Like winning an Oscar for scientific illiteracy.
If you think you can prove it, you’ll need a lot more than some hand-waving or philosophical waxing.
A roadmap for life encoded in your very own DNA can be hard to resist. But scientists are sceptical that we’ve decrypted enough about the human genome to turn it into useful personalised lifestyle advice.
In blatant disregard of the UN’s International Court, it continues to slaughter whales by the thousands for bullshit “scientific research” purposes.
He’s still convinced, despite the vociferous criticism, that he’s on to something.
We spent time sifting through the muck to find the most important drivel. This is your A-to-Z guide to bullshit alternative medicine on YouTube.
Two respectable scientists arguing about the meaning (or lack thereof) of bullshit.
He's at it again.
Phrenology is nonsense, of course, but this cornerstone of anthropology is worth understanding, for history's sake.
Water-morphing washing accessories were debunked over a decade ago, but Kickstarter is still a wild west for baseless-claim inventions.
