Quackery
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1.7KChristian prophet: ‘Trump’s spiritual advisory board should have prophets, not pastors’
This is quite frightening, even for the Trump Administration.
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2.2KChristian ‘prophet’ on prediction that never came true: Arrests of Obama and Clinton ‘already happened in spirit’
Now that one of his predictions failed to come true, Mark Taylor is shifting the goal posts.
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12.4KMother treated her dead son’s strep infection with ‘dandelion tea and oil of oregano’
CALGARY – According to prosecutors, a seven-year-old boy who died from a treatable strep infection three years ago was treated with dandelion...
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27.2K3Former naturopathic doctor: ‘I can no longer deny it — I was a quack’
Britt Marie Hermes is a former naturopathic doctor “trained in the ways of complementary and alternative medicine.” She called in prescriptions and...
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199.9KWoman asks psychics to communicate with her fictional dead sister — and they all make contact
Jackie Hong did a little experiment with a few local psychics in Toronto. She created a fictional sister named “Emily” who’d since...
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19.0KBoy dies after acupuncturist orders his family to stop giving insulin injections for his diabetes
On the advice of his acupuncturist, a 17-year-old boy stopped taking insulin injections to treat his diabetes
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8.3KHere’s a rough guide to spotting junk science articles on the Internet
The skill of sharing reliable info is something that’s hard to teach to a quackery-drenched public.
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6.1KFather launches court case against homeopathic practitioner who convinced son he could cure cancer
A grieving father in Spain is launching a court case against a homeopathic practitioner he says convinced his son that his cancer...
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15.8K3New study: ‘Therapeutic dead-end’ of homeopathy is effective for 0 out of 68 illnesses
A leading academic in evidence-based medicine has declared that homeopathy is a “therapeutic dead-end,” adding that the alternative treatment method is no...
