Oh, the humanity of it all!

As many of you, gentle readers, no doubt know, many rank idiocies emanating from the world of pseudoscience irritate me to no end. But very...

Holy pseudoscience, Batman! Homeopathy websites (too many to list; I found the material for this post here ) are all gleefully abuzz toda...

Physician and blogger Harriet Hall, MD , once coined an exceptionally apt phrase to describe research in many alternative medicine modaliti...

For a while now, I have been reading an interesting and engagingly written book by young British science journalist and author, Angela Sain...

Heh! Right now I have this stupid grin on my face, because I caught this glaring error in a published paper. Okay, it is a paper on homeopat...

In my last post on Homeopathy , a commentor, Mike Fowler, mentioned an interesting fact: Here in Spain, "Homeopathy" basically mea...

So... here. As promised in Pensées from Moi . Original publishing date: April 27, 2010. Original Title: Placebopathy

So... here. As promised in Pensées from Moi . Original publishing date: April 13, 2010. Original Title: Homeopathy and mouse model

So... here. As promised in Pensées from Moi . Original publishing date: April 13, 2010. Original Title: In which I take on Homeopathy

This great country of ours, India, with its underlying theme of unity in diversity, has a rich cultural heritage of education and knowledge,...

Snake oil comes in various forms and shapes, and its salesmen (perhaps I should use the PC term, 'salespersons') are of various hues...

This past weekend, the New York Times published an article on a study from Stanford University, where the authors apparently found benefit f...

Andrew Pollack is an MIT-trained engineer, who has covered the business and science of biotechnology for the New York Times since 2000. I d...