SGU listener Ward McCreerty of Southern California has recently made me aware of a scam called FireBurnDoctor.com (FDB). A cursory Google search has revealed that FBD has been on radar of the skeptics for about a year now, but before I went to find out which of my favorite intrepid skeptics or skeptical organizations out [...]
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Dr. Dean Edell has retired from radio broadcasting. His last show was this past Friday, December 10th. Before you knew the names Stephen Barrett or Steven Novella as your go-to sources for skeptical and purely scientific treatment of medical claims, Dr. Dean was there blazing the trail the whole time. For those of you unfortunate enough [...] The journal Nature is reporting that scientists have reversed the aging process in mice. Are you next? There are several factors which contribute to aging, but science has been focusing lately on telomeres — the “bread-ties” on the ends of chromosomes — as the hypothetical Holy Grail. As cells divide, these ties become frayed and [...] A very nice job by Wired Magazine this week in tackling those ridiculous Phiten necklaces that baseball players have been wearing for years. Those necklaces were on full display to tens of millions of viewers at a time as they watched the World Series. No doubt the people who manufacture and sell these lucky charms had [...] |
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