Hokum-Balderdash Assay

Two-month old news but I just heard about it. The Carotid Revascularization Endarterectomy vs. Stenting Trial (CREST) was a 9-year, multice...

On the heels of Simon Singh's victory, we have the following assessment of chiropractors' claims on the Internet by Ernst and Gilbe...

Philosopher Michael Ruse isn't exactly a fan of the Four Horsemen even as he is very much against creationism and its current evolution...

The British Chiropractic Association (BCA) has dropped its libel case against Simon Singh. They thought they could intimidate and silence S...

Replace "Dilution Delusion" with "Homeopathy." Yes, folks, homeopaths are actually celebrating awareness of their 200-...

Well, it's about time someone from the inside spoke up and call for The Rat's resignation. It's not just a matter of comman...

Take a cup of consecrated host and another cup of unconsecrated ones. Pour their contents into a jar, put the lid on and mix well. Now ask t...

Yesterday I mentioned Linde et al.'s 2009 Cochrane review and how the authors noted that having needles  anywhere on the skin is as eff...

Michael Specter of the New Yorker talks about how science is essential, how the antiscience sentiment is misplaced. Best line: We run awa...

It's worse than I thought. The problem of publication bias in China is nothing compared to this .  Ghostwriting, plagiarizing or fakin...

In Pricks I posted a list of diseases that according to Chinese herbalist and acupuncturist Shenrong Liu are some of the conditions which t...

What do you call a treatment modality that is effective against a gamut of human diseases including Bell's palsy, arthritis, post stroke...

Watch science comedian Brian Malow here and here . Just an example from his repertoire of bar jokes: Some helium gas drifts into a bar. T...

Nothing new in what follows. Actually the studies I cite below are all over five years old. Just that of late I've been in a discussion ...

Just in: An analysis by Paolo Boffetta et al., ( Fruit and Vegetable Intake and Overall Cancer Risk in the European Prospective Investigatio...

Just learned from Andy Lewis of Quackometer that General Electric had sued Danish radiologist Henrik Thomsen for supposed inuendo concernin...

From Massimo Pigliucci , biologist and philosopher: [Can God make a mountain so heavy he can't move it?] If you answer “yes,” it look...

In Batman whenever the help of the caped crusader is needed the commissioner or chief of police would switch on a huge searchlight which ill...

Alice McCall is a psychologist who I think you may agree needs to have her head examined before she merrily goes off examining others'....

Off topic. But just have to share this.