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Fecomagnetism: how Spanish alternative therapists promoted our hoax faeces-based cure-all

Fernando Cervera -
Two bored Spanish students invented a hoax therapy to demonstrate how misleading alt-med could be... then therapists asked if they could sell it.
Alternative Medicine

Health food stores, a danger to public health?

Edzard Ernst -
A Canadian study showed that health food shops were overwhelmingly likely to give misleading advice on cancer - are things any better here?
Homeopathy

How the Society of Homeopaths had their accredited status suspended

Michael Marshall -
After years of anti-vaccine misinformation and bogus claims to cure autism, the Society of Homeopaths has lost its accredited status
Alternative Medicine

Kardecism: the fringe spiritualist doctrine which became the soul of pseudoscience in Brazil

Natália Pasternak, Carlos Orsi -
Kardecism - an 19th century off-shoot of spiritualism - found fertile ground in Brazil, and grew to wholly undermine trust in science and medicine.
Alternative Medicine

The Outbrain drain: why newspaper sites have run thousands of scam ads

Michael Marshall -
The news media is in an income crisis, but the solution cannot be for newspapers to lend their reputations to scams and fakers
Alternative Medicine

Brazilian Congress turns green – not for the environment, but for homeopathy

Natália Pasternak, Carlos Orsi -
Brazil continues to make baffling healthcare decisions, including lighting up the Brazilian congress buildings... in honour of homeopathy
Alternative Medicine

Beyond COVID-19: the issues skeptical activists across Europe are facing

Claire Klingenberg -
COVID-19 is understandably getting all the headlines, but there are plenty more fronts in the pan-European battle against pseudoscience.
Alternative Medicine

Therapy on tap: Thought Field Therapy offers superficial solutions to deep disturbances

Peter Panayi -
Proponents claim remarkable results from Thought Field Therapy and Emotional Freedom Technique, but the evidence tells a different stor
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