05 Mar Whole Foods: America’s temple of pseudoscience
Americans get riled up about creationists and climate change deniers, but lap up the quasi-religious snake oil at Whole Foods. It’s all pseudoscience — so why are some kinds of pseudoscience more equal than others?...
14 Jun GMO pigs study – more junk science
Here's the latest piece of GMO scaremongering: “Pigs fed a diet of only genetically modified grain showed markedly higher stomach inflammation than pigs who dined on conventional feed, according to a new study by a team of Australian scientists and...
16 Aug Ben Goldacre: Battling bad science
Every day there are news reports of new health advice, but how can you know if they're right? In this entertaining TED lecture, UK doctor, epidemiologist and famous pseudoscience buster, Ben Goldacre, shows, at high speed, the ways evidence can be distorted,...
05 Jul The Strange Case of Global Warming
Global warming, believed by many to be a religion rather than science, seems to have fallen off the public radar, perhaps eclipsed by the obesity pandemic. But the subject got some...