One of AMI's more subtle ads The ads exhort readers to face up to their crippling erectile dysfunction issues, restore their confidence, and take charge of their lives. Or put more simply: “Bonk Longer”. But this isn’t just standard-issue inbox spam. Instead the ads are …
[Strictly speaking, this isn't counterknowledge, but it deserves a link. Cross-posted from Telegraph.co.uk] Now this is clever. I’ve just clicked a banner ad (people do, you know) and discovered ComputerTan.com. Watch this: Now visit ComputerTan.com, take up their free trial offer and make sure you sit …
A worrying trend in the NHS at the moment is to offer “catch-all therapies” that claim to help with numerous different ailments. One such therapy that is gaining momentum within several Primary Care Trusts is Human Givens Therapy. It is also endorsed by the usually …
Exposing counterknowledge is often difficult: some snake oil salesmen are really clever con-artists. Others, however, are quite simply lunatics. Peddlars of “radionics” fall squarely into the latter category. According to “The Radionic Association in Oxford, England”, quoted on altered-states.net, radionics is “a method of healing at …
“Women’s orgasm frequency increases with the income of their partner,” according to Dr Thomas Pollet, a psychologist from Newcastle University who was quoted in a Sunday Times story on January 18. Dr Pollet and his co-author Professor Daniel Nettle had a look at data from the …
People who think the U.S. government was complicit in 9/11 or in the JFK assassination sometimes complain that those who dismiss them as “conspiracy theorists” are guilty of inconsistency. For don’t the defenders of the “official story” behind 9/11 themselves believe in a conspiracy, namely …
This is a guest post from a contributor who prefers to remain anonymous. Correspondence should be addressed to the Editor. Creationism is not the only enemy of science in today’s classroom. Within the self proclaimed “fastest growing school movement in the world”, Steiner Waldorf schools …
There is a ghost in the machine. Specifically, in Derby City General Hospital’s X-ray machine, or thereabouts. Staff at the new £334m hospital received an email last week informing them that following multiple sightings of a “cloaked figure dressed in black” senior management had decided to …
The effect of acupuncture on pain relief is so small that it “seems to lack clinical relevance and cannot be clearly distinguished from bias,” a new study shows. Researchers from the Nordic Cochrane Centre in Copenhagen published their results in the BMJ yesterday. The systematic …
Michael Ruppert is an ex-detective with the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD), who claims that he was drummed out of the force in 1978 because he had uncovered evidence of CIA involvement in narcotics trafficking. His proudest boast is that he blocked the Senate’s confirmation …