pseudoscience

Desperate people will do desperate things. And parents of autistic children are desperate.

Without light, there is no life.

Apple cider vinegar has been on my radar since the 1970s, when I was first asked about its purported miraculous properties on my radio show.

Let’s play a guessing game. Name a former surgeon who “moved on” to bigger and better thing$, aka humping questionable dietary supplements. “Better” as in a bigger and better portfolio. Who comes to mind? Dr. Oz, of course, right?

It's no secret that I'm a supplement skeptic [1]. Thanks to a 1994 federal law, the DSHEA [2], companies, some of which are deeply unethical, are able to sell all kinds of crap.

I recently attended a showing of Oscar-nominated short films.

                Ever wondered how a person with zero chemistry knowledge can influence public health? Enter Vani Hari, aka The Food Babe.

If you're not perpetually online in the health space, you may have missed a scuff-up between several science communicators and followers of Vani Hari, aka The Food Babe.

I am blessed with some good friends, some old, some new, but all that rally around when the times get rough. That was not always the case, especially during my more active work years when we collected “friends” through my interactions at work.

The ACSH mission statement is very clear: "To publicly support evidence-based science and medicine and to debunk junk science and exaggerated health scares." Basically, we were founded in 1978 to combat misinformation, long before the advent of "f