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The Hoxsey Hoax

10 Apr 2017

Gently holding the hand of five year old Kathy Allison, John Haluska walked to the podium in the Pennsylvania State Senate.聽鈥淗ere is a little angel,鈥 he told his colleagues, 鈥渨ho according to...

Chemistry lesson for The Food Babe鈥 and everyone else #15: Cause and Effect

21 Mar 2017

Studies are the heart of science. But which studies do we take to heart? That is becoming more and more of a critical question as studies are being cranked out at a frenetic pace exploring every...

Chemistry lesson for The Food Babe鈥 and everyone else #14: No, silly putty is not hiding in our food

21 Mar 2017

鈥淵ou Won鈥檛 Believe Where Silly Putty Is Hiding In Your Food.鈥 So begins one of the Food Babe鈥檚 attempts to shock us about how the food industry is poisoning us. This time the target of the wild...

Joe Mercola and 鈥淔oods You Should Never Eat.鈥

20 Mar 2017

Joe Mercola is an osteopath who runs a popular health website on which he offers all sorts of advice, mostly questionable. He also sells a huge variety of products ranging from an array of...

I鈥檒l take a pass on autourine therapy

20 Mar 2017

I鈥檝e often expressed skepticism about the plethora of beverages being promoted these days that claim to energize, calm, heal or detox our chemically ravaged bodies. 鈥淒on鈥檛 knock it till you鈥檝e...

Prince Charles Condemns Climate Change Deniers while Hawking Homeopathics

20 Mar 2017

Prince Charles has properly derided global warming deniers, calling them a "headless chicken brigade." He went onto say that it was "baffling that in our modern world we have such blind trust in...

Pine Tar and Scientific Publications

20 Mar 2017

Pine tar has been in the news recently - at least for those who follow baseball.聽 Pine tar is pretty much what it sounds like.聽 It is a sticky substance created by heating pine roots and related...

Instant Noodles

20 Mar 2017

At the turn of the millennium a Japanese poll asked about the best Japanese invention of the previous century. Instant noodles was the answer. Japan as well as China have a long history of eating...

Pills for the Brain

20 Mar 2017

Pop this pill and improve your memory. Swallow that one and reduce your cognitive decline. We see ads for such products all the time and I suspect they will increase as the baby boomers reach...

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