#woo
# oddities
Countless influencers claim they use science to make people's lives better, longer, and healthier, for a fee, of course. What they're actually doing is selling magic.
# tech
Once associated with lefty politics, hipsters, and hippies, wellness influencers and their audiences are taking a sudden right wing turn, and social media may be to blame.
# science
An Indian science conference espoused the superiority of Hindu religion and legends over actual facts and history. And it's just a small part of an alarming and accelerating trend...
# evolution
Forget millions of years of evolution and key mutations. Humans apparently owe their existence magic mushrooms from another dimension.
# science
You can answer a homeopath's question but you can't make him read it or understand why he was wrong.
# science
Bottled water, now marked up beyond any reason and sold with meaningless quantum technobabble.
# education
Tim Minchin's skeptical beat poem finally gets the animated treatment it deserves.
# health
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.
# space
A viral social media post claims that life on Earth is far more fragile than it actually is.
# science
There's no pseudoscience or conspiracy Mike Adams isn't willing to defend. His latest cause? Astrology.
# science
Dr. Robert Lanza thinks he's discovered the secret of immortality and it's something very quantum and involving rebooting time loops...
# oddities
What do 9/11 Truther rants have to do with selling supplements? Actually, a lot more than you might think...
# health
Alt med practitioners decided that the one of world's simplest and most famous formulas is their friend because they clearly don't understand it.
# health
A disturbing new trend is invading American discourse: toxic, weaponized positivity and optimism.
# science
Deepak Chopra proudly accepts his title as King of Woo and goes on a spittle flecked tirade against his critics.