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Homeopathy Bugs Me, But Not The Bugs

20 Mar 2017

鈥淚t鈥檚 natural medicine.鈥 鈥淗erbal remedies.鈥 鈥淚t鈥檚 like鈥cupuncture.鈥 鈥淣o chemicals.鈥 鈥淓nergy healing.鈥 鈥淵ogurt.鈥 Such were the common responses when we asked random people, including physicians,...

鈥淐hinese Restaurant Syndrome鈥

20 Mar 2017

Sometimes beliefs are converted into fact just by repetition. We constantly hear of people who want to avoid monosodium glutamate because of a fear of being struck by 鈥淐hinese Restaurant Syndrome鈥...

Fearsome Yellow

20 Mar 2017

Next time you think of welcoming someone home by tying a yellow ribbon around an old oak tree, you might want to think again. According to a widely circulating report the yellow dye could leave a...

The Depraved Peter Popoff

20 Mar 2017

You never know what you will come across when surfing TV channels late at night, hoping against hope that you will come across a Seinfeld episode you haven鈥檛 seen a hundred times. Last night I was...

How can a pharmacist believe the unbelievable?

20 Mar 2017

How can anyone trained as a pharmacist, with courses in chemistry, biology, and physiology believe that ghostly impressions of molecules imprinted onto sugar can cure disease? Michelle Boisvert, a...

A Tale of Two Bracelets

20 Mar 2017

This is a tale of two bracelets. One brandishes flagrant nonsense, the other flirts with some clever science. We begin with a perplexing question I was asked while wandering through a mall in...

Cheerios Lets Nonsense Triumph Over Sense

20 Mar 2017

General Mills has announced that it is removing genetically modified ingredients from its iconic Cheerios. Now there's a non-newsworthy item that is guaranteed to make for flashy headlines and lead...

Face Creams and Skin Aging

20 Mar 2017

Let鈥檚 face it. Face creams will not 鈥渞eset the skin鈥檚 aging clock.鈥 Nor will they 鈥渞estructure complexion from within,鈥 鈥減rovide repair action to the core of each wrinkle鈥 or 鈥渞eeducate the skin to...

Colourful conman

20 Mar 2017

Let me tell you about Dinshah P. Ghadiali and his Spectro-Chrome.聽聽Dinshah, as he like to be called, was born in India in 1873 and at least by his own account was a remarkable man.聽聽He began school...

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