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How To Use Critical Thinking to Inform Better Health and Fitness

WEB2. Know your Biases. Humans are conditioned for the “quick fix.” When faced with complex decisions, we tend to employ mental shortcuts called heuristics 8 that lead …

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Science and Pseudoscience in Health and Wellness Nick Tiller

WEBIn this talk, Dr. Nick Tiller reframes the health and wellness industry through the critical lens of scientific skepticism, covering health biases, decision making, social …

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Viral BS: Medical Myths and Why We Fall for Them with Seema …

WEBDoes talcum powder cause cancer? Why do some doctors recommend e-cigarettes while other doctors recommend you stay away from them? Health …

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Why We Often Get Risks Wrong Skeptical Inquirer

WEBGeoffrey Kabat devoted his previous book, Hyping Health Risks: Environmental Hazards in Daily Life and the Science of Epidemiology (Columbia University Press 2008, reviewed …

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The Freedom of Speech Does Not Protect Healthcare Grifters

WEBHeather Kokesch Del Castillo was a health coach and nutritionist living and working in California. She obtained a certificate in holistic health coaching from the Institute for …

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Health Street Smarts Fairs Created by University Students to …

WEBIn Part 1, I discussed: (1) my concerns about health fairs; (2) my vision for the Health Street Smarts Fair (HSSF) assignment; (3) some of my favorite …

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Chris A. Hebbern Skeptical Inquirer

WEBChris A. Hebbern is an NSERC Visiting Fellow at Health Canada, researching climate change and temperature- related mortality. He is Chair of the Ottawa Skeptics.

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Ten Health and Wellness Fallacies Every Skeptic Should Know

WEBSubscribe now or log in to read this article. If my recent work as a health and wellness skeptic could be distilled into a single lesson, it would be this: Marketing companies …

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The Best of All Health Care Skeptical Inquirer

WEBEdzard Ernst. Edzard Ernst is emeritus professor, University of Exeter, United Kingdom, and author, most recently, of Don’t Believe What You Think: Arguments for and against …

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Health Street Smarts Fairs Created by University Students to …

WEBThe group designed the exhibit after I showed their class a video segment on astrology from the 1993 broadcast of “Secrets of the Psychics” featuring a visit by James …

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C. A. Porter Skeptical Inquirer

WEBC.A. Porter is a graduate of the University of California at Davis with a degree in cellular biology. Faith in medicine is an important issue to him, especially its impact on American …

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Live Report: Rally to Restore Sanity And/Or Fear, a Plea for Reason

WEBDr. Benjamin Wolozin shares his thoughts and photos from October’s Washington, DC event. John Stewart and Steven Colbert organized the Rally to Restore Sanity on …

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Harriet ‘SkepDoc’ Hall (1945–2023) Skeptical Inquirer

WEBMay/June 2023. Beginning with her first published article in 2003, Harriet Hall, MD, gained a devoted following of scientists, health professionals, and consumers around the world …

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Ayurveda: Ancient Superstition, Not Ancient Wisdom

WEBI frequently get emails asking whether I think a certain treatment is supported by evidence or is quackery. I recently got one from an elderly man who was …

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The CAMphora: Health in a Jar Skeptical Inquirer

WEBI will quote the whole deliciously garbled product description for your enjoyment: Embedded 2200pcs Health-rock Gemstone by specific rules, healthy urn …

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Quack Busters’ Leader William Jarvis Dies at Eighty

WEBWilliam M. London. March 22, 2016. Skepticism has lost one of its most influential and accomplished promoters. Anti-quackery activist William Tyler Jarvis died March 1 after …

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No. 3 Skeptical Inquirer

WEBJoe Nickell. Of missing persons, few are more notoriously unique than New York State Supreme Court Justice Joseph Force Crater, who, on the evening of August 6, 1930, …

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Fix Your Ruptured Disk without Surgery

WEBHarriet Hall. Harriet Hall, MD, a retired Air Force physician and flight surgeon, writes and educates about pseudoscientific and so-called alternative medicine.

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Harriet Hall Stepped Up Skeptical Inquirer

WEBHarriet A. Hall was born in St. Louis, Missouri, on July 2, 1945, and died on January 11, 2023, in Puyallup, Washington. Soon after her death, Richard Saunders replayed a 2007 …

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Rise of Ayurveda: A Dangerous Trend to Decolonize the Scientific …

WEBA recent systematic review of 219 articles evaluating ninety-eight ayurvedic products used in the management of diabetes revealed poor quality of data, hence the need to …

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Colombian Senator Promotes Medical Pseudoscience

WEBLiberal Party Senator Alejandro Carlos Chacón made a right of petition on the necessary profiles for the future health system. The preventive and predictive approach to …

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