I don't care much about gas prices in the US, and they don't either seem eminently relevant to the subjects we discuss on this blog. But Americans do care about them a lot - in fact, it seems to me th ...

Yes, Donald Trump is repulsive! This is less of an opinion than a demonstrable fact, and there are many ways of justifying this statement. One of them is to list the range of profanities and vulgar ...

We unfortunately live at a time when truths and untruths are getting more and more difficult to tell apart. One reason for this developement is the fact that a plethora of variations of untruths are ...

Prior qualitative studies have described subjective experiences during Reiki, yet their quantitative relationship to symptom change has not been examined. This study evaluated whether specific ...

Tomatoes are the major dietary source of lycopene, a carotenoid that crosses the blood-brain barrier and exerts antioxidant and anti-inflammatory effects. However, the impact of tomato consumption on ...

We have discussed ‘detox’ many times before, e.g.: Dozens of people in the US have been poisoned after receiving intravenous (IV) “detox” drips at “wellness clinics”, prompting warnings from the CDC ...

There is a species of high-profile science experts who can explain a confidence interval, denounce a poorly controlled trial and ctitque “peer review” with the weary authority of someone who has ...

Some defenders of homeopathy, chiropractic, naturopathy, various forms of “energy healing” or other types of so-called alternative medicine (SCAM) argue that a practitioner who sincerely believes in ...