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Paranormal Pseudoscience Religion Skepticism/critical thinking

Sean Hannity: Skeptic about “psychic medium” John Edward (not)

Last night, I was sitting on the couch, my laptop, appropriately enough, on my lap creating my paean to Homeopathy Awareness Week in which I had a little fun discussing homeopathic plutonium. Because Homeopathy Awareness week is not yet over, I’ll probably have one more bit of fun at the expense of The One Woo […]

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Complementary and alternative medicine Medicine Quackery

Who knew? There are actual medicines in those “homeopathic” remedies

Will wonders never cease? A recent story about how “homeopathic” Zicam managed to slide through a loophole in which the FDA doesn’t require evidence of efficacy or safety for medicines labeled as homeopathic has been percolating through the blogosphere based on a recent warning that the FDA issued. It turns out that the zinc in […]

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Complementary and alternative medicine Humor Medicine Quackery

Homeopathic plutonium? Now there’s a hot time in the old town tonight!

In keeping with Homeopathy Awareness Week (which still runs until June 21), I can’t resist commenting on this gem of a story that was sent to me the other day. I mean, we’re talking super duper heaving shopping in the very heart of London. It turns out that the Helios Homeopathy Shop right in Covent […]

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Antivaccine nonsense Autism Complementary and alternative medicine Medicine Quackery

More anti-vaccine nonsense from an old friend on (where else?) The Huffington Post

Here we go again. You may have noticed that I’ve been laying off that repository of quackery, autism pseudoscience, and anti-vaccine nonsense, The Huffington Post. I assure you, it’s not because things have gotten much better there. Oh, sure, occasionally someone will try to post something resembling science and rationality, but it’s impossible for so […]

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Cancer Complementary and alternative medicine Medicine Quackery

Danny Hauser’s doing well, and (as usual) Mike Adams is going off the deep end

Last month, a frequent topic of this blog was the case of Daniel Hauser, the 13-year-old boy from Minnesota with Hodgkin’s lymphoma who made the national news for his refusal (and his mother’s support of that refusal) to undergo a second round of chemotherapy. Instead, he wanted to pursue “natural” therapy, including what sounded like […]