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Perineum sunning: Real woo, social media clickbait, or both?

perineum sunning

This week,a ridiculous practice called “perineum sunning” (or “butthole sunning”) went viral on social media and the news. It’s so ridiculous a practice that I have to wonder if social media influencers made up for clicks.

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Complementary and alternative medicine History Medicine Physics Pseudoscience Quackery Skepticism/critical thinking

Quackery so powerful that a famous physicist rolls over in his grave

A Tesla Coil. I gurantee that Tesla had no idea how his work would be—shall we say?—appropriated.

Nikola Tesla was a physicist known to dabble in strange ideas, and that’s probably why pseudoscientists have appropriated them to justify quackery and fringe ideas. However, I doubt even Tesla can be used to justify the Tesla Purple Energy Shield and various other “Tesla Purple Energy” products.