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Weird Amazon Reviews – AudioQuest K2 Terminated Speaker Cable
What do you do when faced with a speaker cable on Amazon that costs $13,000 Easy, you simply give it a review … however not a normal review, but rather one that completely takes the piss out of such an...
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Over 80 percent of Americans support “mandatory labels on foods containing DNA”
Now here is an article I quite enjoyed, the Washington Post reports … A recent survey by the Oklahoma State University Department of Agricultural Economics finds that over 80 percent of Americans...
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Caveat emptor: Please buy my “How to get instantly rich” scam
If you surf the Net with Ad-Block off, you will no doubt at some point spot something like this … For the curious, I found that one on the Christian Post website as a sponsored ad, so it can only lead...
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Top 5 truly Weird Homeopathic remedy categories
With a hint that it was like this from Michael Marshall at QED last April, I ambled on over to Freemans Homeopathic online Pharmacy to see what we have on offer when it comes to Homeopathic remedies....
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Fake Diplomas
While sitting the the cafeteria of a well-known oil company chatting to a few offshore colleagues, one newly arrived chap was explaining that he had just completed training and was now a fully...
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BBC has exposed a fraudulent autism cure
OK, let’s cut to the chase, drinking bleach does not cure autism, because that is essentially what MMS (Miracle Mineral Solution) is, and so when you drink this stuff the vomiting, nausea, and...
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Trading Standards take action on ‘Miracle Mineral Solution’
The Good thinking Society was, like rather a lot of people, more than a little bit concerned that a conference promoting snake oil was being run in Farnham to defraud people desperate for a cure, Now I...
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For some The Flintstones is a documentary
You know that there are people who believe truly crazy things that conflict with everything we actually know, in fact, thanks to the Internet we are awash with all sorts of claims that pop up each day,...
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Truly Bizarre Divorce protest against Gay Marriage … are people really that...
So over at United Media Publishing, we have the following claim … Thousands of Christian couples, some who have been married for decades, have vowed to file for divorce in the wake of the Supreme Court...
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Anti-Gay bakers – the mythology and the facts
Often associated with a controversial issue is a narrative that is not wholly factual, but instead panders to a specific stance, and is popularised because it helps to protect an irrational position....
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Grandmother loses case for getting Magic pills on the NHS
If the NHS discarded evidence-based decision making and instead reverted to dispensing alternatives such as magic as the best possible means to cure those who are ill then you would, I both hope and...
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John Oliver has a quick Update on Pastor John Oliver’s Church
You might, or might not, remember that John Oliver did a segment on the property gospel fraudsters who basically use religious belief as their very own get-rick-quick scam and happily prey upon the...
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Insight into a couple of “Get rick quick” scams
The UK’s Mirror has a rather good article (yes really, the Mirror) that exposes a couple of fraudsters who are conning gullible people. So lets take a quick tour of each in turn. Simon Stepsys – “Buy...
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Claim: Bacon is as bad as smoking and will give you cancer
As I’m sure you are aware, scary sounding headlines (“Processed meats cause cancer“) have been popping up all over the place, and some of it is more than slightly over the top and not warranted by the...
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Tom Hanks slams cancer quacks
Now here is a nice little snippet, my news filter managed to pluck out a gem from amongst all the usual content-free tinsel and glitter of show-biz gossip within the Yahoo Celebrity category that...
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National Geographic & Rupert Murdoch
After being a non-profit for 127 years, the National Geographic magazine abandoned that status and got into bed with Rupert Murdoch. This all happened last September, and at the time was described as...
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Why are some inclined to embrace Bullshit as truth?
We live in a world that is awash with rather a lot of pseudoscientific claims that are pure grade one gold plated Bullshit, and so it is worth thinking about why some are very susceptible to such...
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Is the Prosperity gospel fraud?
In the age of google those that promote weird or bizarre claims are being challenged as never before because we no longer have to simply accept their word, we can look it up, and this is especially...
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Brain Training – Lumosity guilty of bogus claims
Lumosity, a San Francisco based company, has been promoting “Brain Training” that basically consists of games that are supposed to improve your memory, attention, flexibility, speed of processing, and...
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Can Review Skeptic help you to spot a fake Hotel Review?
I’ve come across a fascinating little site named “Review Skeptic”. There they explain … Review Skeptic is based on research at Cornell University that uses machine learning to identify fake hotel...
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