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Aspartame – Truth vs Fiction
by Steven Novella If you believe everything you read on the internet, then is seems that a chemical found in thousands of products is causing an epidemic of severe neurological and systemic diseases,...
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Could Microchip Laden Drugs Be Used To Invade Our Privacy
… the Federal Drug Administration (FDA) has just given approval to Proteus Digital Health for the use of a tiny microchip to be placed in medication taken orally. The supposed purpose of the microchip...
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Student Questions: Magic Wristbands, Laser Danger, and ManBearPig
Skeptoid answers another round of questions sent in by students all around the world. By Brian Dunning via Skeptoid Read transcript below or listen here Once again we’re taking a week to answer...
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Half Of Americans Believe in Medical Conspiracy Theories
By Rachael Rettner via LiveScience “Do you see what vaccines have done to me?” About half of Americans agree with at least one medical conspiracy theory, a new study suggests. The study surveyed more...
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Medical Conspiracies
By Steven Novella via Science-Based Medicine Anyone publicly writing about issues of science and medicine from a pro-science perspective likely gets many e-mails similar to the ones I see every week....
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Homeopathic Products Recalled for Containing Actual Drugs
Story H/T: The Locke @ Skeptic Wars By Steven Novella via NeuroLogica Blog Homeopathy is bunk. It is 100% pure unadulterated pseudoscience. That is – unless it is adulterated with actual working...
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Pot. Marijuana. Cannabis. Misunderstood Motives.
By Eric Hall via Skeptoid Bob Marley was a regular user of marijuana.Bob Marley died of cancer on May 11, 1981. I have had a regular argument over the years with a family member about both the...
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Essential Oil Claims – The Dangers Keep On Coming
By Eric Hall via Skeptoid Today I am going to focus specifically on one essential oil blog which came to my attention through a Facebook post about making your own “dry shampoo.” Why did I click on it?...
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Earth Day Festival 2014: How was the Woo?
by The Locke via The Soap Box Last Sunday, April 26, I went down to my town’s annual Earth Day Festival to check out everything that was there, just like I do every year. Last year I was appalled by...
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Vaccine adverse events are rare–vast benefits outweigh risks
Via Skeptical Raptor Like all medical procedures, devices and pharmaceuticals, vaccines are not perfect. What matters is that the benefits, not only medically but also economically, outweigh any...
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Aspartame
Via Stuff They Don’t Want You to Know Aspartame is sweeter than sugar and packs less of a caloric punch. Sounds cool, right? So why has aspartame become one of the most controversial food additives in...
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Core Truths: 10 Common GMO Claims Debunked
By Brooke Borel via Popular Science Later this year, the U.S. Department of Agriculture may approve the Arctic Granny and Arctic Golden, the first genetically modified apples to hit the market....
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Drinkable Sunscreen Snakeoil
By Steven Novella via Science-Based Medicine In May, prompted by an uncritical article in the Daily Mail, the internet was buzzing about a company that was offering drinkable sunscreen. This is one of...
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6 Fake Ebola Cures Being Peddled Online
By Matt Novak via gizmodo Throughout history, hucksters have emerged to sell bullshit “cures” for diseases to fearful people. Today these frauds make their home on the internet. And they’re selling...
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What is orgone energy?
By Stuff They Don’t Want You to Know via YouTube Did Wilhelm Reich really discover a new form of energy? If he was just a fraud, then why did the FDA burn all his books?Filed under: Auras, Conspiracy,...
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A Dunning-Kruger manifesto about vaccines and autism
By Orac via Respectful Insolence I’ve frequently written about the “arrogance of ignorance,” a phenomenon that anyone who’s paid attention to what quacks, cranks, or antivaccine activists (but I...
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Does aspartame cause MS?
by Laurie L. Dove via HowStuffWorks For 10 years, Nancy drank diet soda — sometimes as many as four or five a day. Otherwise, she ate and drank in moderation, exercised regularly and got plenty of...
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Conspiracy Rumors Follow Apparent Suicide of ‘Anti-Vaccine’ And Alt-Med...
By Emily Willingham via Forbes “… some of Bradstreet’s supporters were speculating that his death wasn’t a suicide, but a conspiracy.” Jeff Bradstreet, who has been described as a “controversial autism...
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Antibiotics in Beef
By The Feeding Tube via YouTube Read the transcript on YouTubeFiled under: Debunk, Educational, Health, Medical, Myths, Science Tagged: antibiotics, bacteria, Beef, EPA, FDA, preemptive claim,...
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Is Aspartame Safe?
Filed under: Debunk, Educational, Geeky Stuff, Health, Medical, Science Tagged: amino acids, Anxiety, aspartame, Cancer, carcinogen, depression, FDA, Formaldehyde, formic acid, headaches, methanol,...
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