Jessica Chastain, Please Don't Use Doctors In Your Political War
We get it. The actress hates guns. But please don’t use your high visibility to spread untruths about the medical profession, just to make a political point. Tags: Jessica Chastainwait timeshealth...
View ArticleGovernor Cuomo is a Public Health Enemy
Gov. Andrew Cuomo has signed legislation banning the use of electronic cigarettes indoors. It's a move that ensures his position as being pro-cancer and anti-science. Tags: electronic...
View ArticleStephen Hawking Now a Doomsday Prophet
Dr. Hawking's recent turn toward morbid pessimism is unfortunate. He is saying things that, if they weren't coming from him, most scientists would laugh at. It's sad that such a great physicist and...
View ArticleWith Orrin Hatch Retiring, Alternative Medicine Is Losing Its Biggest Senate...
Alas, the $37 billion dietary supplements industry likely will remain unregulated for the foreseeable future. And with it, the fight against junk science and bogus health claims must soldier on. Tags:...
View ArticleGwyneth Paltrow's Goop Wants You To Try A DIY Coffee Enema
PSA: Despite what Goop advises, please don't shoot coffee up your rectum.
View ArticleZooey Deschanel Wants You To Stop Buying Produce
Actress Zooey Deschanel has a new startup — The Farm Project. In her latest video episode she urges consumers to stop buying produce from the grocery store — unless it's organic.
View ArticlePaul Ehrlich: A New Rant from an Unrepentant Secular Doomsday Prophet
The reason The Population Bomb was so terrible is not that its predictions were wrong; most scientists make incorrect predictions. No, the book is terrible because of how it made people in the...
View ArticleAcademic Freak Show: Univ. of Alberta Honors Anti-GMO Activist David Suzuki
Awarding an honorary doctorate to an anti-GMO activist could only happen in an Orwellian universe. That's where up is down, right is wrong, and the truth is just a matter of opinion. But that's the...
View ArticleNow That The Dr. Oz Show Has Been Canceled, Here Are 5 Favorite Guests I'll Miss
With the cancellation of "The Dr. Oz Show", his alternative medicine audience should not think of it as a time to mourn. but instead should take a moment to celebrate the man who created all their...
View ArticleIf John Oliver Wants To Be Funny About Science Non-Profits, I Can Help Write...
Partisan political commentator John Oliver of HBO's "Last Week Tonight" took some cheap shots at us, at the behest of an anti-science activism group. Here's what happened and how you can help us...
View ArticleCelebrities Vs. Science: Pierce Brosnan Shouldn't Be Hosting The Breakthrough...
Would GlaxoSmithKline hire Robert De Niro to host an award ceremony for vaccine research? Or would Unilever hire Gwyneth Paltrow for awards on food science? Those would be equivalent to what the...
View ArticleRobert F. Kennedy, Jr. is Helping Spread Flu and Cervical Cancer
There's simply no way of knowing what anti-vaxxer RFK, Jr. will say on any given day. One day, he's comparing vaccines to the Holocaust. The next, he's helping spread cervical cancer. Tags: RFK...
View ArticleJeff Bezos' Plan to Colonize Space is Based on Sheer Nonsense
The Amazon tycoon has big plans for space. He envisions a future in which a "trillion" (yes, a trillion!) people live in giant, rotating spaceships like that one from the movie 'Passengers." There are...
View ArticleNothing Grimes Said About Eyeballs or Depression Makes Any Sense
I must be getting old because I don't know who some of these young whippersnappers are anymore. Apparently, a Canadian singer named Grimes (who happens to be dating Elon Musk) is somebody I need to pay...
View ArticleWhat the Hulk? 9/11 Truther Mark Ruffalo Testifies to Congress on Science
The actor, who played the Hulk in The Avengers movie series, spoke on Capitol Hill on an incredibly important public health topic. What expertise does he have in that area? Well, none. But he is a 9/11...
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