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Naprapathy Stretches Credulity

2 Feb 2024

Buried in a court document mentioning Joe Mercola was the first reference to naprapathy I had ever seen. Joe Mercola has made a fortune selling dietary supplements and publishing health...

The Science Journals That Will Publish Anything

26 Jan 2024

When Dr. Anna O. Szust emailed all of these academic journals to join their editorial boards, she did not anticipate that so many of them would approve her application within hours. In fact, she...

Mindfulness Meditation Often Fails the Scientific Test

19 Jan 2024

Mindfulness meditation is primed to save all of us from anxiety and depression, it would seem. It鈥檚 also big business: in 2015, this growing industry made nearly USD 1 billion. The money comes from...

An Ancient Memory Technique Still Puzzles Scientists

12 Jan 2024

Spend enough time watching fictional geniuses on television and you will undoubtedly see the trope of the mind palace. Brainiacs, we are told, have mind palaces, ornate libraries that live solely...

Macropanic Over Nanoplastics?

11 Jan 2024

I keep teasing my analytical chemist colleagues that they are responsible for the anxiety that so many people have about chemicals invading their lives. Hardly a day goes by without some report of...

Vampire facials' body of evidence is anemic

5 Jan 2024

This article was originally posted in the Montreal Gazette.

What a Journal Impact Factor Is and Isn鈥檛

5 Jan 2024

You may have heard of the impact factor. It is a number given to an academic journal (think Nature or The New England Journal of Medicine) which is often erroneously used a proxy for how good the...

Skeletons in the Closet

3 Jan 2024

Dr. David Franklin鈥檚 conscience was bothering him. At first, the job he had secured in 1996 with Parke-Davis, a division of the Warner-Lambert pharmaceutical company, seemed ideal. Armed with a PhD...

Every Christmas, Quirky Science Gets to Shine

22 Dec 2023

What do you call two orthopaedic surgeons reading an electrocardiogram? A double-blind study.

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