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supplements — 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 […]

What is the Dietary Supplements fuss all about?

This entry was posted in consumer science Skepticism and tagged drugs FDA scam study supplements on October 16, 2018 by Dave

predatory conferences — 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 […]

Bruno and Bob signed up for a predatory conference

This entry was posted in science Skepticism society and tagged conference fraudulent predatory predatory conferences scam on August 15, 2018 by Dave

When writing about an analysis of the report on the Russian Hacking the other day, the following was mentioned … …What we’re seeing in this IP data is a wide range of countries and hosting providers. 15% of the IP addresses are Tor exit nodes. These exit nodes are used by anyone who […]

What the heck is a TOR Exit Node?

This entry was posted in technology and tagged crowdfunded assassinations Exit Node hitmen for hire. scam TOR Urban Legend on January 6, 2017 by Dave

TB Joshua, the Nigeria TV Evangelist, is rather influential and popular. He has over 2.5 million Facebook followers and 500,000 subscribers to his YouTube channel where he has managed to rack up 300 million views, so clearly a few are paying attention to his con act message. He recently claimed that God had […]

TV Preacher TB Joshua covers up his failed “Clinton win” prophecy

This entry was posted in religion and tagged con prophecy scam TB Joshua on November 12, 2016 by Dave

In the age of google those that promote weird or bizarre claims are being challenged as never before because we no longer have to simply accept their word, we can look it up, and this is especially true of the Prosperity gospel. Justifying the Prosperity gospel As I’m sure you are […]

Is the Prosperity gospel fraud?

This entry was posted in consumer People religion Skepticism society and tagged fraud Jesse Duplantis Kenneth Copeland Prosperity Gospel scam on January 2, 2016 by Dave

If you surf the Net with Ad-Block off, you will no doubt at some point spot something like this … For the curious, I found that one on the Christian Post website as a sponsored ad, so it can only lead me to ponder the ethics involved in their willingness to […]

Caveat emptor: Please buy my “How to get instantly rich” scam

This entry was posted in bloggers consumer Skepticism and tagged binary options get rich quick Millionaire Blueprint scam on May 22, 2015 by Dave