Prince Charles’ Duchy Originals is about to add herbal remedies to its line-up of expensive “organic” products. In partnership with Nelsons, a major homeopathic manufacturer, the creams, pills and tinctures will be sold by Boots and Waitrose, with profits going to The Prince’s Foundation. Charles has long been …
Click here to cast your vote for the most egregious cheerleader for counterknowledge from the past year. The poll closes at 23:59 on Monday, 22 December 2008. The winner will be presented with a certificate and a bottle of snake oil. Happy voting! If you're …
From the New York Times: This year […] Dr. Aaron Carroll and Dr. Rachel Vreeman of the Indiana University School of Medicine, offer six new medical myths for the holiday season. The latest set of myths, published this month in BMJ, are commonly believed by the general …
“The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist.” — Charles Baudelaire The video above is a Public Service Announcement from “Youth For Human Rights International”. Youth For Human Rights certainly seems like a laudable initiative at first glance, …
It is quite unusual for scientific journals to investigate political matters, but this week the respected publication Science ran a discussion on the extent of creationist thinking in Islamic countries. As already discussed by our friends over at the Daily Dish, the report by Salman …
Was the Holocaust inevitable? So asks Patrick Buchanan, unconsciously lending simple, eloquent expression to a theme that recurs throughout his historical articles: that the root causes for the Holocaust are somehow elusive. I will deal with Buchanan’s article in two segments. The first deals with …
An American court ruled this week that an Orthodox Jewish couple could not use tax deductions that Scientologists can use (deductions they obtained by way of a secret 1993 agreement with the Internal Revenue Service). In the case Sklar v. Commissioner of the IRS, Michael …
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“Neverill-Potentate” is “a tonic working on a newly discovered principle to strengthen the immune system, boost energy levels and enhance sexual activity”. Moreover, “the unique properties of Neverill-Potentate… are created by Pathcurve Products using the Pathcurve Vortex Generator.” […] NEVERILL-POTENTATE has been used to help …
Counterknowledge.com has been steadily growing since we began in September 2007. We now have six permanent writers on our team and a number of contributors. We’ve also been deluged with complaints from cultists, quacks and bogus historians. So we’re getting to them. Now we’re looking to expand. …