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A massive new Organic Marketing Report was published yesterday at the AcademicsReview.org site on the marketing of organic foods.

This is a list of topics in which we have found stories where a lack of critical thinking has caused unnecessary harm, death, injury, hospitalizations, major financial loss or other damages.

An interesting testimony on how far proponents of quackeries can go to promote it! This story concerns the UK, but I'm sure we can find similar ones in other European countries, especially those where SCAM are popular.

  En novembre 2012, un communiqué de presse émanant d’un laboratoire de génétique texan (DNA Diagnostics), claironnait avoir séquencé le génome du Sasquatch à partir d’une

"Professor Schlockenmeister, I know that we have to learn about visual perception in your course, but aren't we going to learn anything about extrasensory perception? My high school psychology teacher told us that there was really good scientific evidence for it."

Real science vs. fake science : how can you tell them apart?

Here we go again - facilitated communication (FC) rears its pseudoscientific head again, and (surprise) the HuffPo publishes a completely uncritical article.

A few weeks ago I published at Rationally Speaking a guest post by my former (undergraduate) student Maaneli Derakhshani, who made a case for the scientific status of parapsychology.

Tandis que de nombreux parents choisissent de mettre leurs enfants dans des écoles non-mixtes (garçons ou filles séparés) et que des éléments de preuves anecdotiques pourraient montrer que ces écoles fonctionnement parfaitement.

Distinguishing between science and pseudoscience is problematic