Can a pseudoscience ever truly disappear? Over the course of human history, we have made many attempts at explaining the world around us, and while some of these guesses were eventually confirmed...
If you want to make a lot of money, all you have to do is come up with an effective treatment for androgenic alopecia. That鈥檚 male pattern baldness. Actually, even a minimally effective product...
The cosmetics industry sells hope by mixing a little chemistry with a hefty dose of hype. Novelty, whether in 鈥渁ctives,鈥� or in packaging, or just fresh flim-flam is what opens wallets. Since...
In June 2007, Mark Hoofnagle and Chris Hoofnagle published an article on ScienceBlogs entitled 鈥淐rank Magnetism.鈥� As far as I can tell, this is the first appearance of this phrase online.
It鈥檚 a story that would make the publishers of the Kama Sutra blush with envy. A 25-year-old graduate student鈥檚 sex drive suddenly surged and his technique apparently improved overnight. 鈥淚 make...
Buried in a court document mentioning Joe Mercola was the first reference to naprapathy I had ever seen. Joe Mercola has made a fortune selling dietary supplements and publishing health...
Our brain controls the production of certain hormones and neurotransmitters such as melatonin, serotonin and dopamine. Simplistically, one can say that 鈥渞est and repair鈥� hormones are activated by a...
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