Dr Steven Novella describes how to spot quackery:
Excellent stuff. Add this to your toolkit alongside Sagan’s Baloney Detection Kit.
Article by Kulvinder Singh Matharu – 2012
Science-Based Medicine describes the failure of acupuncture to evidence its claims of efficacy and that, despite this failure, acupuncture is increasingly popular with the general population, seduced by its apparent plausibility and its apparent antiquity.
Article by Kulvinder Singh Matharu – 2012
There comes a time when it’s clear that only the delusional or the deceitful claim evidence for their case when, in reality, said evidence indicates the opposite. Homeopaths and proponents of homeopathy have exhibited such delusional/deceitful behaviours regularly. The Quackometer and Zeno’s Blog describe the most recent of these behaviours:
Article by Kulvinder Singh Matharu – 2012