29 January 2012 by Melany Hamill
Hey there skeptifans. Here are the media Fails and Wins you sent me this week. How can I relieve my baby’s teething pain? This doctor recommends homeopathic drops for teething pain, claiming many babies have benefited from them but more studies need to be done. How many homeopathy studies are enough? There are hundreds of [...]
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15 January 2012 by Melany Hamill
Hey there skeptifans. Vancouver finally got some snow. And not just the light dusting that disappears an hour later, but the kind you can roll up into a snowman. This of course means that we are all trapped inside our houses because we don’t know how to operate in these wild conditions. Luckily the power [...]
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08 January 2012 by Melany Hamill
Hey there skeptifans. I hope you are surviving the winter. The new year is rung in with lots of new woo. Cleanse-crazy We all overeat during the holidays which prompts a lot of articles on losing holiday pounds, and where there is weight loss, there is woo. A slough of holiday detox articles came out [...]
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01 January 2012 by Melany Hamill
Hey there skeptifans. I hope you are having a great holiday season. The Turin Shroud could not have been faked, say scientists Lorne sent in this immense Fail. Don’t you love when headlines like this refer to “scientists” like every scientist the world is on board? Some quacks say the shroud of Turin couldn’t have [...]
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18 December 2011 by Melany Hamill
Hey there skeptifans. Here are the media Fails and Wins you sent me last week. ‘Proof’ that homeopathy doesn’t work Blogger Darwin Harmless sent in this link. It’s a win for reporting that an experiment showed homeopathy did nothing. It’s a fail for putting proof in ironic quotes, and citing a lot of useless anecdotal [...]
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04 December 2011 by Melany Hamill
Hey there skeptifans. Here are the media Fails and Wins you sent me last week. Apple juice calories risky to health Marion sent in this story. You may remember the controversy over toxic levels of arsenic in apple juice stirred up by Dr. Oz. Dr. Oz’s evidence was based on ignorance of the various forms [...]
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27 November 2011 by Melany Hamill
Hey there skeptifans. Here are the media Fails and Wins you sent me last week. A little dose of hemp will cure everything Lorne sent in this link. PZ Myers covered this video on his blog. A group of Canadian folks are selling hemp oil as a cure for everything. It’s your standard woo-woo panacea [...]
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13 November 2011 by Melany Hamill
Hey there skeptifans. Here are the media Fails and Wins you sent me last week. Edzard Ernst on alternative medicine After Steve Jobs death, which we now know may have been hurried due to his decision to choose alternative treatments over evidence based ones, Maclean’s chose to run this Q&A with alternative medicine expert Edzard [...]
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06 November 2011 by Melany Hamill
Bonjour skeptifans. Here are the media Fails and Wins you sent me last week. America’s Toxic Flu shots: 250 times EPA mercury limit Lorne sent in this link. If you have followed the vaccine “controversy”, you are probably familiar with thimerosol. Thimerosol is a preservative used in vaccines, and according to this article it is [...]
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30 October 2011 by Melany Hamill
Howdie skeptifans. Here are the media Fails and Wins you sent me last week. Don’t swallow everything: Alternative medicine David sent in this win from the Vancouver Sun. The article covers an upcoming book “Dr. Joe’s Health Lab” by chemistry PhD Joe Schwarz. The book discusses the chemistry behind health, beauty, and food science while [...]
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