/oss/taxonomy/term/3922/all en /oss/article/pseudoscience/netflixs-afterlife-show-dead-arrival <p>It was the psychomanteum that broke me. In episode 5 of Netflix’s <i>Life After Death with Tyler Henry</i>, the self-professed California medium asks his dad to build him a “psychomanteum.” He explains it’s a practice that dates back to Ancient Greece. What it ends up being is a room in Henry’s house, painted the colour of <i>Doctor Who’s </i>TARDIS, with the pencil scribbles he does to meditate hung up in black frames and acting like windows. Inside the dark room, Henry spends an hour looking into a mirror that’s angled away from him, trying to get impressions from the afterlife.</p> Sat, 19 Mar 2022 08:00:00 +0000 Jonathan Jarry M.Sc. 9052 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/videos/right-chemistry-superstition-spiritualism-and-ideomotor-response <p></p><div class="media-youtube-video media-element file-default media-youtube-1"></div> Mon, 10 Jun 2019 19:51:59 +0000 Joe Schwarcz PhD 7794 at /oss