Reading Time: 3 minutes Skip the cleanses, alkaline diets and IV vitamin therapy; there’s no evidence they work and plenty of evidence they can be harmful
Tag: Junk Science
The dark side of the Non-GMO Project
Reading Time: 3 minutes Suggesting that food products with the Non-GMO Project label are safer and more nutritious is simply misleading and rests on scrawny scientific evidence
Repressed memory syndrome so much psychobabble
Reading Time: 3 minutes Memory is not a video camera accurately recording our experiences and is easily manipulated
Blowing up climate change
Reading Time: 4 minutes It’s hard to imagine a doomsday scenario with higher stakes, more exaggeration and greater calls for government intervention. It’s just moral panic
Kinsey’s pseudo-science refashioned our sexual behaviour
Reading Time: 4 minutes It took decades to fully expose the deep and systemic problems with the studies. By then it was too late
Miracle healthcare cures rarely stand up to scrutiny
Reading Time: 3 minutes Miracle healthcare cures often remain unfulfilled. Unfortunately, there is a tendency in humans to see only black and white rather than shades of grey
University of Manitoba succumbs to politically correct nonsense
Reading Time: 3 minutes Why is the university pretending indigenous knowledge and science are the equivalent of our written knowledge base? Why are they allowing this farce to unfold?
Vaping, like aspartame, victim of bogus consumer fears
Reading Time: 4 minutes Consumer fears are too often misdirected toward new innovations rather than the known harms they might reduce
Frankenfood follies put world at peril
Reading Time: 4 minutes GMOs may be the only way to avoid catastrophic global water and food shortages
The truth behind breast cancer screening claims
Reading Time: 4 minutes Misinformation about breast cancer screening still a problem