How do we make sense of the alt med claim that Big Pharma is just trying to keep people sick for a profit?

Marc Stephens, a lawyer for the infamous Burzynski Clinic, decided that the best way to meet skeptics is with unhinged conspiracy theories and harassment.

Stem cells can become any kind of tissue you might need. Hypothetically. In practice, your body might just attack them as foreign invaders.

A team of researchers drove a robot insane, literally. On purpose. And their findings can shed light on the origins of schizophrenia.

Anti-vaxers are vehemently opposed to a bill that would require doctors to explain how vaccines work on the basis that it would require them to leave their echo chambers and might sway parents on the fence to vaccinate.

Epidemiologists are thinking about trying to stop the spread of HIV with more HIV, but a strain engineered to be harmless to humans.

Placebos are all in the mind, but that doesn't mean they're not extremely powerful.

The two rules of alt med business. One, there's no regulation strict enough for Big Pharma. Two, any regulation, no matter how token, is too onerous for snake oil manufacturers.

According to Mike Adams, homeopathy is superior to actual medicine because it actually doesn't seem to do anything.

The real reason so many alt med practitioners want to work alongside real doctors isn't to help them. It's to profitably ride their coattails.

A new experiment shows that we can give paralyzed patients the ability to move their wheelchairs with their thoughts alone.

Antibiotic resistance is rising and becoming a real threat. But we still have time and methods to fight it.

Instead of helping Africans combat the spread of AIDS, the Catholic Church keeps pouring gasoline on the fire.

Two scientists submit the applications that an opening for a homeopathic doctor deserved...

Good regulation is based on facts and peer-reviewed studies, not scaremongering and chemophobia.