fraudsters Televangelist fraudster Jim Bakker ordered to pay $156,000 for selling fake Covid cure Mark Frauenfelder
nostrums Florida family indicted for selling toxic industrial bleach as a cure for COVID-19, cancer, Alzheimer's, diabetes, autism, malaria, hepatitis, Parkinson's, herpes, HIV Mark Frauenfelder
quacks "Corona Destroyer Tea" and more than 100 other items on this FDA warning list of fraudulent COVID-19 products David Pescovitz
zillennials Gen Z'ers who aspired to work in the oil industry are feeling very sad about their future prospects Thom Dunn
360 tons of bullshit with Anderson Cooper Anderson Cooper tears MyPillow CEO open like a bag of chips Séamus Bellamy
hydroxychloroquine U.S. Dept. of Veterans Affairs still uses hydroxychloroquine on COVID-19 patients, despite risks of unproven drug Xeni Jardin
the trump organization Trump's biz tweets video of pro golfer John Daly who suggests drinking 1 bottle of vodka daily will 'kill' coronavirus (IT WILL NOT) Xeni Jardin
aggression detection Independent evaluation of "aggression detection" microphones used in schools and hospitals finds them to be worse than useless Cory Doctorow
monstercloud Grifty "information security" companies promised they could decrypt ransomware-locked computers, but they were just quietly paying the ransoms Cory Doctorow
devon cade Philadelphia city council candidate says his secret AI has discovered disqualifying fraud in the nominations of 30 out of 33 candidates Cory Doctorow
homeopathy Gofundme jumpstarts a golden era of snake oil as desperate people raise millions for quack homeopathy cancer "remedies" Cory Doctorow
collaborators This dump of Iphone-cracking tools shows how keeping software defects secret makes everyone less secure Cory Doctorow
snake oil Blackballed by machine learning: how algorithms can destroy your chances of getting a job Cory Doctorow
