All I want for Christmas…
Shopping for Christmas presents is always a challenge. Particularly if you’re one of those kill joy skeptics, kneeling before the alter of Science. With your calloused knees of course, goes that huge...
View ArticleThe Age of Hilarious: Reflections on the growing anti-science movement
When I was a kid, my mum had a sure way of finding out what we meant when describing something as “funny”. “Funny Ha Ha or funny strange?”, she’d ask, and when suitably availed of an answer could turn...
View ArticleAlternatives to medicine continue to sail a wave of misinformation
Every week up to a thousand Australians are dying in the public hospital system alone from adverse reactions to properly prescribed medication and hospital borne infections and medical error. This is...
View ArticleOne ring to rule them all… revisited
On April 2nd 2009 I wrote a post about a scam product claiming to stop snoring by stimulating acupressure points. One ring to rule them all… looked at the AntiSnor “acupressure… modern miracle” that...
View Article‘Wellness Warrior’ Jessica Ainscough dies from cancer
Comparing the eternally positive reflections of Jessica Ainscough with the reality of her recent passing from epithelioid sarcoma just two days ago, one cannot help feel somewhat disturbed. The ABC...
View ArticleDangerous Food Fads
~ Superfood is a marketing term used to describe foods with supposed health benefits ~ The growing uptake of truly ridiculous (and frankly quite dangerous) super food trends continues apace with much...
View ArticleThe importance of critical thinking in discerning reputable sources
The volume of material published and shared by anti-fluoride, anti-vaccine, pro “alternative” health – all which fall under the deceptive catch phrase of “pro-choice” – is notably bereft of critical...
View ArticleSo-called “research” in anti No Jab, No Pay submissions
A casual review of anti-vaccine submissions pertaining to the Social Services Legislation Amendment (No Jab, No Pay) Bill 2015, reveals a striking repetition of unsubstantiated or demonstrably false...
View ArticleAnti-vaccine Zika virus conspiracy fails to surprise
It was an event so impossible to predict it is absent from the highly respected Before It’s News‘ What Did Nostradamus Predict For 2016? Or the Top 10 Nostradamus Predictions for 2016. Yet anti-vaccine...
View ArticleAustralians deserve no-nonsense regulation of chiropractors
Andrew Arnold, the Melbourne based chiropractor whose manipulation of the spine of a two week old infant was described as “deeply disturbing” by the Victorian health minister is presently refraining...
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