Health

Animals, acupuncture and alt-med: the Brazilian penguin being subjected to Enya

The evidence for pill colour impacting placebo effects gets flimsier the more you examine it

The secret to a year-round tan – eating so many carrots you turn orange?

The real-world harm of nutritional misinformation

Does the colour of a pill really influence what kind of placebo effect you’ll experience?

Religion is simply a powerful placebo – offering priests a sense of ritual, but little else

Nobody undergoes egg donation for the money – it is about altruism, not exploitation

Beware of commercial microbiome tests: how at-home testing can mislead consumers