Dan Larhammar recently mentioned an incident from the recent history of homeopathy that was all but forgotten. This motivated me to dig it up. It turns out to be hilarious! In the summer of 1951, Stoc ...

After over 30 years of doing so, I now sometimes feel that debating a homeopath with evidence, logic and reason is futile. You show them some rigorous research - they give you an anecdote about their ...

Many smart people have tried to differentiate science from pseudoscience. Here I try to take a different approach - one that does not attempt a definition but instead explains how the two operate and ...

The German skeptic are at war! Again? Or still? I am honestly not sure. The whole affair has an unmistakably surrealistic 'Life of Brian' quality. “We are the People’s Front of Judea.” “The People’s ...

This study examined the relationship between paranormal beliefs and right-wing ideology in a German quota sample (N = 1,139). We also explored whether individual differences in intuitive versus ...

I often have discussions with fans of this or that so-called alternative medicine (SCAM). After several decades of such disputes, you would think that I know how to best deal with them. Well, you ...

Americans have long complained about the high and rising cost of food. To make matters (far) worse, they now also have to worry about their health. Recent foodborne outbreaks, e.g. a Cyclospora ...

I recently stumbled across a long-forgotten interview* that I gave precisely 20 years ago. It is lengthy and fairly boring - except for its ending. The last question Phin Foster asked me was this: In ...

I just came across this paper entitled “Development of national consensus-based recommendations for history taking, examination and clinical management of infants in chiropractic practice”, and found ...

John Hunter was once one of the most pre-eminent surgeons in Europe. Though he died early in Hahnemann’s life, Hunter was still the dominant intellectual figure in scientific surgery; his ideas shaped ...

A new and surprising partnership between Exeter University and Saudi Arabia has been announced. It was created to deliver an MA in “Applied Security and Strategy” to senior Saudi military officers and ...