/oss/taxonomy/term/2128/all en /oss/article/critical-thinking-pseudoscience/who-likely-believe-conspiracy-theories <p>Pre-pandemic, the question I would most often get was, “How do I know whom to trust when it comes to health and science information?”</p> <p>Over three years after a new virus began sweeping the globe, the question I hear again and again is, “Why is it that my husband/sister/aunt/father believes in all this conspiratorial nonsense?”</p> Fri, 28 Jul 2023 13:49:24 +0000 Jonathan Jarry M.Sc. 9588 at /oss /oss/article/critical-thinking/yogas-twisted-history-one-answer-conspirituality-puzzle <p>Did Nazis love yoga?</p> Fri, 16 Jun 2023 15:42:57 +0000 Jonathan Jarry M.Sc. 9548 at /oss /oss/article/granola-and-guns-rise-conspirituality <p>I was interviewed by many journalists in 2020 about the pandemic, and the question they kept asking me was some version of, “What exactly is going on here?”</p> <p>They were not clueless about COVID-19. Rather, they were trying to make sense of a strange fraternization they were witnessing in the middle of this public health crisis. Listening to these journalists, beards were being scratched over the phone, voices were hesitant, connections were painfully being enunciated in a sort of disbelief. They were witnessing a phenomenon for which they didn’t have a word.</p> Fri, 07 Oct 2022 10:00:00 +0000 Jonathan Jarry M.Sc. 9253 at /oss /oss/article/pseudoscience/qanons-adrenochrome-quackery <p>“There’s only one source for this stuff, the adrenalin glands from a living human body.” That bit of misinformation found in Hunter. S Thompson’s 1971 psychedelic classic, “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas,” likely planted the seed that grew into one of the most outlandish and repugnant of all conspiracy theories. That would be the ludicrous QAnon claim that Hollywood celebrities and “liberal elite” politicians are kidnapping children to harvest their blood.</p> Thu, 10 Feb 2022 20:17:57 +0000 Joe Schwarcz PhD 9021 at /oss /oss/article/health-and-nutrition-pseudoscience/djokovic-endorsed-who-why <p>I started losing respect for Novak Djokovic when I read about how he had concluded that he should adopt a gluten-free diet, long before the fiasco in Australia. Dr. Igor Cetojovic, a fellow Serb, asked Novak to hold a slice of bread against his stomach with his left hand and stretch out his right arm, which the doctor then attempted to push down. Since he was now able to push it down more easily than in the absence of the bread, he diagnosed gluten sensitivity. Ever since then Djokovic has followed a gluten-free diet and has also eliminated dairy.</p> Thu, 27 Jan 2022 20:23:07 +0000 Joe Schwarcz PhD 9007 at /oss /oss/article/covid-19-health-and-nutrition-pseudoscience/science-vs-joe-rogan <p>“Lot of times, we’re drinking or we’re high, you know, and I say stupid shit.” Coming from a teenager,<a href="https://youtu.be/PloZ-GB9tzA?t=256"> </a><a href="https://youtu.be/PloZ-GB9tzA?t=256">this statement</a> may invoke memories of your own adolescence. But carried by the voice of then-53-year-old Joe Rogan defending his off-the-cuff, on-the-air remarks about COVID vaccines in young adults, it reeks of arrested development.</p> Sat, 20 Nov 2021 09:00:00 +0000 Jonathan Jarry M.Sc. 8927 at /oss /oss/article/covid-19/can-vaccines-make-our-body-magnetic <p>Now I’m even more attracted to the COVID vaccines than I used to be! That’s because I recently learned that they do not only equip us with antibodies against the virus, they also make our bodies magnetic! And we know that magnets can heal, don’t we? So now we should see massive healing of all sorts of diseases as the newly magnetized COVID vaccine recipients spread across the globe.</p> Fri, 11 Jun 2021 16:57:15 +0000 Joe Schwarcz PhD 8759 at /oss /oss/article/videos/cracked-science-22-malearkey-mens-wellness-0 <p></p><div class="media-youtube-video media-element file-default media-youtube-1"> <iframe class="media-youtube-player" id="media-youtube-aijlc2z-d-c" width="640" height="390" title=""Malearkey" for Men's Wellness (CS22)" src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/AIJLc2z_d-c?wmode=opaque&controls=&enablejsapi=1&modestbranding=1&playerapiid=media-youtube-aijlc2z-d-c&origin=https%3A//www.mcgill.ca&rel=0" name=""Malearkey" for Men's Wellness (CS22)" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="">Video of "Malearkey" for Men's Wellness (CS22)</iframe></div> Fri, 30 Nov 2018 18:06:37 +0000 Jonathan Jarry, MSc 7471 at /oss /oss/article/health-technology-reviews/book-review-bad-blood-secrets-and-lies-silicon-valley-startup <hr /> <p class="note"><strong>Take-home message:</strong><br /> -Elizabeth Holmes’ company Theranos tried to create a machine that could do hundreds of medical tests on a single drop of blood<br /> -John Carreyrou’s book Bad Blood reports on the lies and secrecy that allowed so many people to believe the machine was real</p> Thu, 16 Aug 2018 16:09:38 +0000 Jonathan Jarry, MSc 7309 at /oss /oss/article/controversial-science-environment/time-change-climate-about-climate-change <p>When it comes to the science of climate change, what you hear depends on who’s doing the talking</p> Sun, 06 Mar 2016 20:28:04 +0000 Adam Brown PhD 2326 at /oss