The Quackery of Torture
As you can see, I have signed up this blog to the Bloggers Against Torture…
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“Hands-off” Healing of Hedgehogs
Quackery is often accompanied with grand associations with complex science, the harder the better. Usually,…
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The Mineral-Depleted Food Scandal
The news (1, 2, 3, 4, 5) has been full of reports about how our…
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UK Hospital HR Manager in ‘Near Death Experience’
Let's recap - 'Cellular Memory' - the alleged ability for every cell to retain some…
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‘Cellular Memory’ Fails Memory Test
After having an argument on a message board about whether Cellular Memory could really exist…
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Heart Transplants and ‘Cellular Memory’
Once again, the bonkers story of how organ transplant patients aquire the behavioural characteristics of…
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What is Quackery?
Definitions are hard. You could argue that one person's quack is another's health professional. I…
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The Science of Quackometrics
So, how does the Quackometer work?The quackometer counts words in web pages that quacks tend…
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What is the Quackometer?
The quackometer is an experiment to see if it is easy to spot quack web…