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Tag Archives: homeopathy
Naturopaths use deceptive tactics to support pseudoscience
Earlier this year, a new review paper was published claiming to show evidence that naturopathy was effective (Myers et al. 2019). I’m a bit late to the game on this one, but I still want to briefly talk about this … Continue reading
Vaccine injuries and confirmation biases
Humans are remarkably bad at accurately discerning patterns. All of us (skeptics included) are prone to confirmation biases and logical flaws in reasoning. We don’t like to be wrong, and, as a result, we tend to cling to things that … Continue reading
Debunking “The doctors case for homeopathy” by WDDTY: A case study in critically evaluating internet articles
I am very pleased to publish my blog’s first guest post. A reader contacted me a little while ago to see if I would take a look at an essay he had written debunking some of the nonsense that What … Continue reading
Posted in Vaccines/Alternative Medicine
Tagged alternative medicine, anecdotal evidence, Bad arguments, cherry picking, homeopathy
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No, homeopathic remedies can’t “detox” you from exposure to Roundup: Examining Séralini’s latest rat study
One of my main goals for this blog is to help people learn how to evaluate scientific studies. To that end, I have written several posts that dissect papers and explain either why they are robust or why they are … Continue reading
Posted in Nature of Science
Tagged alternative medicine, evaluating evidence, GMOs, homeopathy, peer-reviewed studies, statistics
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Most scientific studies are wrong, but that doesn’t mean what you think it means
When faced with scientific studies that disagree with them, many people are prone to claim that they don’t have to accept those studies because most scientific studies are actually wrong. They generally try to support this claim by either citing … Continue reading
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