Religiosity has been linked to a wide range of health outcomes, with evidence for both benefits and harms. Alleged positive effects Many studies have found positive associations between religious ...

People use unproven so-called alternative medicine (SCAM) even when evidence quite clearly indicates that the SCAM in ...

Homeopathy is one of the most widespread alternative methods of treatment in Bulgaria in the last 25-30 years. The aim of the research is to study and analyze the knowledge and attitudes of Bulgarians ...

Although so-called alternative medicine (SCAM) is widely used across the US population, population-level associations with mortality remain understudied. Therefore, this investigation examined ...

As explained in my previous post, plausibility matters. The post was predominantly about biological plausibility - but things can be a little more complex, and it would be foolish to deny the fact ...

Critics of so-called alternative medicine (SCAM) often point out that much of it lacks plausibility. Proponents of SCAM tend to think that this is an irrelevance. So, what is plausibility, and why ...

“Science and pseudoscience diverge particularly sharply in their ethical and moral foundations. While science is built upon principles of honesty, openness, and responsibility, pseudoscience ...

The claim that Elon Musk might be “killing millions” sounds like hyperbolic rhetoric, but it is an entirely predictable mathematical projection of his policy choices. Peer-reviewed global health ...

Internal HHS and CDC communications leaked by the US Senate HELP Committee expose a truly scary crisis of institutional integrity. Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. systematically dismantled ...

The Trump administration is trying to introduce new rules that would put political appointees, rather than career scientists and civil servants, in the decisive role on federal research grants. The ...

A recent paper published in the Lancet was entitled "Wellbeing for people and the planet: how to value everyone and everything on a thriving planet beyond 2030". Here is its abstract: Humanity is ...

I suppose nobody need eplanations what the Epstein files are, or what crimes they depict, or how often Trump is mentioned in them. What many might not know is that even the United Nations (UN) have ...