If you are desperate enough, there is someone out there willing to rewrite all of medicine and relieve you of your savings. A former nurse with multiple sclerosis lost over $10,000 in this way,...
Media literacy is not faring well. If we look at OECD countries, most of whom are described as high-income economies, do you know how many of their fifteen-year-olds can distinguish between a fact...
It started with the Helen Keller jokes. You could call it an unfortunate revival. Over forty years ago and following the broadcast of聽The Miracle Worker,聽jokes about Helen Keller became mainstream.
Some of the nutritional advice that flashes across my computer screen every day is outright nonsense, much of it is speckled with smidgens of science that have no practical relevance, and in a few...
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...
When it comes to health matters, scientists rarely make statements that do not begin with 鈥渕ay.鈥� But here is one. Excessive exposure to sunlight causes skin cancer! There鈥檚 no 鈥渕ay鈥� about it. And...
Up until recently, if bacteria were detected in your blood you would be in a world of trouble. Blood was long considered to be sterile, meaning free of viable microorganisms like bacteria. When...
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