Science in Aggregate: Week 44
I have dug through the Internet this week and uncovered all this science/pop culture goodness. You can find the hundreds …
Tag Archives: pseudoscience
Bill Nye the Science Guy: Pseudoscience
A wonderful episode from one of my favorite shows as a kid: What a fantastic piece of scientific advocacy, not …
Marketers for acai berry products fined for unfounded claims
Internet marketers of acai berry weight-loss pills and colon cleansers will pay $1.5 million to settle charges of deceptive advertising …
The Red Flags of Quackery
Via the very talented comic artists/skeptical activists Sci-ence, I present to you the red flags that everyone who is concerned …
Power Balance Goes Bankrupt
One Down, Many More to Go Remember those balance bracelets I told you about? The ones that celebrities and athletes …
“Balance Bracelets” Debunked by New Research
Wholeheartedly Bogus We have already talked here, here, here, and here about how and why “balance bracelets”, and any of …
Thinking Scientifically
This post can also be found for further reference at the top of every SBL page. Why Do We Need …
The Polygraph Test: Can Science Tell if You Are Lying?
The Claims A polygraph (popularly referred to as a lie detector) measures and records several physiological indices such as blood …
One-Year Anniversary
So one year ago today I started blogging. I have learned so much about science ans society in that time. …
Exposing the Power Balance Con
Where We Stand Even though the purveyors of Power Balance bracelets have already admitted that there is no scientific basis …
Lack of Education Correlated With a Higher Belief in Pseudoscience
It shouldn’t come as a surprise to you that America isn’t the smartest nation. While this is due to a …
The Antioxidant Craze: Do They Work?
“Antioxidants don’t work, but no one wants to hear it.” Simply put, we have no evidence that antioxidants are beneficial …
Now you can spew nonsense like Deepak Chopra!
The problem with pseudoscience is that it takes perfectly intelligible terms and theories like “quantum mechanics” and “energy”, and contorts …
Statistically Significant Posts for April 2011
It’s been a great month for SBL, thanks to you. Are you enjoying the science fact of the day? How …
Ouija Boards: Paranormal Fantasies of the Subconscious
Who doesn’t love a toy that lets you communicate with ghosts? What if it could offer you a window into …
The Signs May Have Changed but Astrology is Still Bogus
With all of the recent uproar about everyone’s astrological signs changing, I thought it would be beneficial to go back …
Balance Bracelets Exposed in Australia
Um…We Made All That Stuff Up… FINALLY! Although I am disappointed that our own FDA no longer has the teeth …
Top Posts of 2010
Well 2010 has come and gone, and I am looking forward to another great year in science and skepticism. Your …
The Difference Between Science and Psuedoscience
Throughout various posts I have zealously rallied against what I have been calling “pseudoscience”. But how do we determine in …
[Follow Up] Another Needle in the Coffin
If you have read my post on the efficacy of acupuncture, then you already know that science considers acupuncture to …
