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Writing tagged: ‘pseudoscience’

Meanwhile, on another planet…

Bullshit sign spotted in Hebden Bridge

Published 24-Oct-2011
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: alternative medicine, alternative therapy, bullshit, pseudoscience

Insert your own prick joke here

Acupuncture 'helps women have babies'.

Published 21-Sep-2008
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: acupuncture, pseudoscience

The innocent have nothing to fear (except false positives)

Put young children on DNA list, urge police.

Published 16-Mar-2008
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: dna profiling, genetic determinism, police, pseudoscience, scaremongering, science

Regulating quackery

Regulation plans for homeopathy.

Published 06-Jan-2008
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: aromatherapy, homeopathy, pseudoscience, quackery, rixology

They tried to make me go to detox. I said, 'No, no, no!'

Food Standards Agency's chief scientist urges consumers to ditch detox diets.

Published 30-Dec-2007
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: diets, fads, pseudoscience

Double-blimey!

Guardian: 'What's wrong with homeopathy'.

Published 16-Nov-2007
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: alternative medicine, homeopathy, mumbo-jumbo, placebos, pseudoscience

This from the people in charge of our nuclear arsenal

MoD defends psychic powers study

Published 23-Feb-2007
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: pseudoscience

Computer says, 'No'

Paedophiles to undergo lie tests (again).

Published 28-Jan-2007
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: crime, lie detectors, polygraphs, pseudoscience, psychometric tests, statistics

BullshID

Creationism gains foothold in UK schools.

Published 03-Jan-2007
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: blair, intelligent design, pseudoscience, religion

Bless their scatty little minds!

Women dim: official!

Published 27-Aug-2005
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: iq, pseudoscience, psychology, soundbite science, stephen jay gould

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