Goop cons the gullible with “treatments” for Long Covid
Long Covid is quite distinctly real. The pseudoscientific nonsense that Goop offers to supposedly alleviate it is not.
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The SmartDot EMF Protection Scam
#SmartDot radiation-protection phone stickers – highly effective at removing money from your wallet … if you are gullible.
Beware the Cup and Ball scam
Yet again the BBC has been publishing a warning to anybody who will listen about the Cup and Ball scam. It looks like a harmless bit of fun. Some guy has 3 cups on the ground and all you need to do is to bet on which one the ball is under after he has … Read more
The Promotion of BS by UK Charities
The basic concept of a charitable organisation is of course well understood. On a legal level, an officially established body is focused on an activity that is designed to promote social well-being and hence does not exist to make a profit. Their finances are open and public, and often they also have income that comes … Read more
What is the Dietary Supplements fuss all about?
While attending the QEDcon conference in Manchester last weekend, I was approached by one chap who handed me his mobile saying “Oh my God have you see this?“. It was this story from CNN … Nearly 800 dietary supplements sold over the counter from 2007 through 2016 contained unapproved drug ingredients, a new analysis of … Read more
Bruno and Bob signed up for a predatory conference
You are perhaps familiar with the concept of predatory science journals. This is where a supposedly peer-reviewed journal will publish scientific articles, but will in reality publish anything as long as you are willing to pay them a high fee. The range of these runs from those that are simply poor quality all the way … Read more