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88Can turning Google's background black save power? Hardly.
Blackle is a website that utilizes a customized Google search bar. The website asserts that it is exactly like Google except that it uses a black background instead of a light colored background. This first...
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70Homeopathy a pseudo-science? Not
Learn more about BikeFit or is that Bike Fit? Plus, refuting the analogy that homeopathy is a pseudoscience. Want to hear your opinion please.
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76Demystifying Bach Flower Remedies
This is a hub about Bach Flower Remedies (not essential oils). I cite some studies that show they don't have clinically proven track records, but it doesn't hurt to explore them anyway. This is a fun primer to read through before approaching a professional.
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53Religion in Politics: A First Amendment Crusade
A previously posted edition of Unchecked and Unbalanced, posted this past July. I feel it needs to be repeated. I mentioned in the previous edition that things have certainly not changed since the...
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72Astrology Case Study: Cancers On The Cusp of Leo, Keen Psychics Beware!
Note the calm appearance of this zodiacal menace! Greetings horoscope advocates, zodiac zealots and other keen psychics, it is I, Dr. Zoran Benevelynchski, PhD and founding member of the Amateur Evisceration...
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68Leaving the Land of Woo
The Land of Woo is the land where the normal rules of science don't apply, where fantastic cures can be obtained by wiggling toes, where crystals and magnets have properties undetected by science, where anyone who invents a fanciful theory can launch a business selling it to gullible people. Leaving the Land of Woo takes the lid of irrational theories and helps us understand how the real world works.
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68Autism Treatment: Science or Pseudoscience?
Autism is a pervasive developmental disorder which has an impact on the individual’s sensory, social, and cognitive perceptions and abilities. It is characterized mainly by impaired social functioning...
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67Probiotics: Science or Phseudoscience
Probiotics, man's best friends, or worst enemies? With the amount of false claims in the media, it is difficult for one to be certain about what is good, and healthy. Or what are simply a waist of money, and...
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64Phrenology Pseudoscience
A phrenological chart according to Johann Spurzheim. The numbered areas indicate the locations of the organs believed to control particular intellectual and character traits. For example, individuality is controlled by area 22, behind the center of the forehead. Mirthfulness is controlled by area 20, constructiveness by 9, destructiveness by 1, acquisitiveness by 8, cautiousness by 10, self-esteem by 12, and benevolence by 13.
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44Timecube
Gene Ray has a theory: each day is really four simultaneous days in one, and we're too stupid to see it. He dubs this theory TimeCube, because a cube has four sides. Wait. A cube has six sides. Well, whatever....
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