pseudo-science Archives - Boing Boing

health Celebrities discover pushing on face makes it less puffy, pay $500 for "lymphatic drainage specialists" to do it Ellsworth Toohey

public health As avian flu spreads, backyard chicken groups share conspiracy theories Jennifer Sandlin
fashion Here's the Piers Morgan vs. Kermit the Frog fashion showdown you never knew you needed Jennifer Sandlin
CIA The CIA's venture capital firm just backed Woolly Mammoth cloning Thom Dunn
CIA TikTok users just re-discovered the CIA's telepathic time travel documents Thom Dunn
Science Climate denial's internal contradictions spring from a need to defend economic doctrine Cory Doctorow
Science When pseudoscience becomes both annoying and boring Maggie Koerth
events Magician Rudy Coby's Magic vs. Science week at Magic Castle in LA Mark Frauenfelder
Science Jimmy Wales tells "energy workers" that Wikipedia won't publish woo, "the work of lunatic charlatans isn't the equivalent of 'true scientific discourse'" Cory Doctorow
Phrenology of Barack Obama's head reveals mind control connection to Nazi Occult, MKULTRA, Satan Xeni Jardin
Science The annotated apocalypse: Anthropologists tackle 2012 Maggie Koerth
Action TSA subjects India's US ambassador to public grope because of her sari Cory Doctorow
Action Security theater tees Cory Doctorow
Science Pseudo-science and airport security Maggie Koerth
Culture Goldwag: Books that inspire me Arthur Goldwag
Science Love of Shopping is Not a Gene: exposing junk science and ideology in Darwinian Psychology Cory Doctorow
Science Anti-vaccine fear versus science Cory Doctorow
Science Can you tell if people are dangerous by looking at their face? Mark Frauenfelder
Compendium of psychological curiosities Mark Frauenfelder
Science advocate destroys global warming/AIDS dismisser Cory Doctorow