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Will Graphology Become Extinct?

19 Jul 2024

Can a pseudoscience ever truly disappear? Over the course of human history, we have made many attempts at explaining the world around us, and while some of these guesses were eventually confirmed...

Rasputin, Phrenology, and Dark Allegations: The Madness of Access Consciousness

12 Jul 2024

How does a person come to believe that we can use telepathy on horses and that schizophrenia is secretly a superpower?

Twisting Facts About Cancer

8 May 2024

Let鈥檚 start with some facts. Antiperspirants, cell phones, root canals or wired bras do not cause cancer. Sugar or dairy products do not 鈥渇eed鈥 the disease. You cannot cure cancer with an alkaline...

Naprapathy Stretches Credulity

2 Feb 2024

Buried in a court document mentioning Joe Mercola was the first reference to naprapathy I had ever seen. Joe Mercola has made a fortune selling dietary supplements and publishing health...

Homeopathy is scientifically implausible

12 Jan 2024

This article was first published in the Montreal Gazette.

Magnesium Supplements for Sleep May Not Work Like a Dream

22 Sep 2023

Everywhere I turn these days, an influencer is trying to sell me magnesium supplements. Apparently, all of us who find it difficult to fall asleep and stay asleep all night are missing the boat....

What鈥檚 Trending in the World of Pseudoscience

15 Sep 2023

Our office鈥檚 mission is to separate sense from nonsense, which may well be a Sisyphean task. There is a lot of pseudoscience鈥攎eaning ideas and interventions that look scientific but that are not...

Dowsing: Dowse It Work?

17 Mar 2023

Desperate times call for desperate measures, I suppose. Although we live in a world driven by technology, we are always one cataclysm away from retreating to magical notions. Climate change is...

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