There is no tooth fairy. There鈥檚 no Easter bunny. There鈥檚 not even a Santa Claus. There are no geese that lay golden eggs. There鈥檚 no golden fleece. And there are no simple ways to lose weight. But...
Somebody is after Procter and Gamble and it is hard to know why. Years ago there was the allegation that the company鈥檚 corporate logo hid a picture of the devil, then sodium lauryl sulfate, a...
You can鈥檛 keep a good quack down for long. They keep resurfacing with irritating frequency. Victoria Knight-McDowell certainly doesn鈥檛 look like a quack. She looks like a pretty elementary school...
If you buy a chemical-free product, you鈥檙e not getting a good deal. You鈥檙e buying nothing. A vacuum. What鈥檚 a vacuum? A space empty of all matter. And what is matter? Anything that has mass and...
Organic farmers are allowed to use a number of pesticides as long as they come from a natural source. Pyrethrum, an extract of chrysanthemum flowers, has long been used to control insects. The...
The best treatment for people prone to swallowing woo is a dose of chemistry. And one of the wooiest ideas out there is the one about alkaline diets curing disease. Gives me a headache. So let鈥檚...
Ear candles are regularly promoted by alternative health suppliers and have been getting quite the hype from the media even though there is no evidence to suggest they have any real benefit. The...
The bizarre tenet of homeopathy is that a substance that causes symptoms in a health person can relieve those symptoms in a sick person as long as it is diluted to an extent that contains almost...
Back in the 1930s a flower merchant with a greenhouse full of carnations got worried when the weather forecast called for extremely cold temperatures. So he placed a kerosene burner in the...
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