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Finishing up Homeopathy Awareness Week: It’s not just homeopathy, it’s quantum homeopathy!

Homeopathy Awareness Week is almost over, alas. I hope I’ve done a good job at making my readers even more “aware” of just how silly the principles of homeopathy are. To finish up, I thought I’d repost a bit of “classic insolence” from three years ago, because it’s dedicated to one of the most amazing […]

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Complementary and alternative medicine Medicine Quackery

Your Friday Dose of Woo: What’s better than homeopathic plutonium? Homeopathic antimatter, of course!

With Homeopathy Awareness Week rapidly approaching its end, I wondered just what I could do to bring further “awareness” of just how bogus and full of woo the concepts of homeopathy are. True, discussing homeopathic plutonium as a remedy and how homeopaths did “provings” of it the other day was fun, but surely there’s more. […]

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The 113th Meeting of the Skeptics’ Circle

Don’t forget to get your fortnight’s dose of skepticism right here, as The Unincredible Hallq serves up the latest Meeting of the Skeptics’ Circle. It’s another tasty concoction of skepticism, critical thinking, and science. Next up on July 2 will be a newcomer and first time host, Homologous Legs. If you’re a blogger with a […]

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Paranormal Pseudoscience Religion Skepticism/critical thinking

Sean Hannity: Skeptic about “psychic medium” John Edward (not)

Last night, I was sitting on the couch, my laptop, appropriately enough, on my lap creating my paean to Homeopathy Awareness Week in which I had a little fun discussing homeopathic plutonium. Because Homeopathy Awareness week is not yet over, I’ll probably have one more bit of fun at the expense of The One Woo […]

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Complementary and alternative medicine Medicine Quackery

Who knew? There are actual medicines in those “homeopathic” remedies

Will wonders never cease? A recent story about how “homeopathic” Zicam managed to slide through a loophole in which the FDA doesn’t require evidence of efficacy or safety for medicines labeled as homeopathic has been percolating through the blogosphere based on a recent warning that the FDA issued. It turns out that the zinc in […]