A Pantomime of Science
A criticism often levied at the quackometer is that it is very broad brush. Fair enough. It is often quite general in what it says, […]
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Quack Word #40: ‘Energy’
Or ‘How to be debunked by a nine year old schoolgirl’ In the special world of the quack, the crank and the pseudo-scientist the word […]
Magnetic Migraine Miracle Madness?
In today’s Daily Mail, Brendan Montague brings us the sensational story that Migraine suffers need not suffer much longer thanks to a wonder device about […]
“Hands-off” Healing of Hedgehogs
Quackery is often accompanied with grand associations with complex science, the harder the better. Usually, quantum theory is the science of choice: it has plenty […]
UK Hospital HR Manager in ‘Near Death Experience’
Let’s recap – ‘Cellular Memory’ – the alleged ability for every cell to retain some sort of energy memory about us that can get passed […]
Heart Transplants and ‘Cellular Memory’
Once again, the bonkers story of how organ transplant patients aquire the behavioural characteristics of their donors has cropped up in the more gullible papers. […]