End of Year Detox – Free Gift Included!
With the end of the year upon us, many of us are feeling the effects of celebratory excesses. The traditional over-indulgence in alcohol and rich foods which can accompany the festive season can leave...
View ArticleWorld Homeopathy Awareness Week – Raising Awareness that Homeopathy is Bulldust!
Well, this week is rather special – it’s World Homeopathy Awareness Week! First, a very brief primer on homeopathy. Homeopathy was founded in 1796 by Samuel Hahnemann, based on his postulation that...
View ArticleWireless Armour: A Pseudoscientific Bunch of Pants
An audio version of this post appears on The Skeptic Zone podcast, episode 290 {permalink}. An article by technology reporter James Billington appeared on news.com.au on the 7th of May 2014, titled,...
View ArticleThe UK Advertising Standards Authority Rules: Wireless Armour Are Pants –...
On The Skeptic Zone Podcast #306 {Permalink}, Evidence, Please provides an update on Wireless Armour. Below are supplemental links and a transcript of the report, which you should really listen to...
View ArticleChemtrails, Chemtrails, Everywhere!
In day to day conversation, I am utterly guilty of discussing chemtrails without a great deal of seriousness. I make terrible jokes – blaming them for any transient minor illness, taking photographs of...
View ArticleCrank Magnetism
Much to the delight of his unashamedly geeky parents, my son Oscar is rather enthusiastic about science. While at five years of age he’s fairly certain that he’s settled on a career in paleontology, he...
View ArticleSherri Tenpenny’s Australian Tour Cancelled #StopTenpenny
The following can also be heard on The Skeptic Zone #328 {Permalink} A couple of weeks ago, I reported on anti-vaccine advocate Sherri Tenpenny’s planned speaking tour of Australia and the...
View ArticleOn Taking Health Advice from Gandhi… World Homeopathy Awareness Week 2015
World Homeopathy Awareness Week (WHAW) is approaching once again, to take place from the 10th to the 16th of April 2015. Last year’s WHAW took place just as the NHMRC’s draft information paper...
View ArticleThe Strange Case of Wilhelm Reich and Orgone Energy Theory
What do Sigmund Freud, English space rock group Hawkwind, and metal filaments encased in resin pyramids have in common? They’re all connected to Wilhelm Reich and his pet theory of Orgone Energy. I...
View ArticleNobody Deserves To Be Lied To
On Twitter last night (or to be honest, very early this morning), I saw a statement which I took umbrage with and would like to address here. “Isn’t pseudoscience just a tax on stupidity?” This was...
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