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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 to rapid but imperfect solutions, particularly in health and fitness. 9 Marketing companies …
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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 undergraduate-student-curated HSSF exhibits; and (4) prospects for skeptic-activists to adapt the HSSF …
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 information―and misinformation―is all around us, and it can be hard to separate the …
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 understand our biases better than we do. In a commercialist culture, saturated by big …
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 in the July/August 2009 SI) to debunking overblown claims of risks of various …
Antioxidants: The Hype and the Reality Skeptical Inquirer
WEBSubscribe now or log in to read this article. Everyone is talking about antioxidants, but misconceptions abound. For example, I just received an email that described antioxidants as “the ability to soak up toxins in the body.”. One dictionary definition of an antioxidant …
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 Integrative Nutrition (Professional Wellness Alliance n.d.).
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 Randi to a class of college freshmen. Randi gave each student a “detailed horoscope,” …
Faith Healing: Religious Freedom vs. Child Protection
WEBFaith healing is widely practiced by Christian Scientists, Pentecostalists, members of the Church of the First Born, the Followers of Christ, and myriad. smaller sects. Many of these believers reject all medical treatment in favor of prayer, anointing with oils, and …
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 health care. He is working toward a master’s degree in this field.
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 who treasured her clarity, wisdom, wit, insight, intellectual humility, and humanity. Her many …
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 manufacturing procedure would go through nine processes, such as mud …
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 strengthen the evidence base (Chattopadhyay et al. 2022). However, instead of implementing these …
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 suffering an embolic stroke of the cerebellum on January 19 while playing tennis. He …
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 healthcare reform includes yerbateros (herbalists), sobanderos (healers), and taitas (a traditional …
Does Public Water Fluoridation Make Children Less Intelligent
WEBThe bottom line is that high doses of fluoride can be toxic, but the recommended concentration (0.7 mg/L) used in community water fluoridation is not harmful or toxic. Public water fluoridation is not going to decrease your children’s IQs.
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, waved goodbye to a couple he had just dined with and vanished into the night. No credible …
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