Skeptical Thoughts
21st October 2016
Here are the topics I chose to talk about on RadioLive for the week. Some of them may not have been mentioned on the radio due to a lack of time.
Show
Indonesian "Bigfoot" caught on camera
Categories: Skepticism , Tags: Cryptozoology, Bigfoot
Footage has emerged
from Indonesia that is claimed to be evidence of Indonesia's bigfoot, Orang Pendek. 1 min read, 146 words. Continue Reading...
Chinese Man telling women's futures by touching their breasts!
Categories: Skepticism , Tags: Pseudoscience, Psychic
A Chinese man appears to have invented a novel way
to tell the future. He puts his hand down a woman's top, feels her breast, and presumably uses the information he gleans to work out what is in store for the woman. Of course, by using cold reading a fortune teller 1 min read, 101 words. Continue Reading...
MedSafe has registered over a thousand unproven homeopathic health products as medicines
Categories: Skepticism , Tags: Pseudoscience, Homeopathy
Here's a press release that was sent out recently about a complaint I'd made to the ASA. As a result of the complaint, we uncovered the fact that Medsafe "grandfathered" in over a thousand of Weleda's homeopathic products. Medsafe registered these products as medicines without checking if there was evidence that they work, and despite a general understanding within science that homeopathy is ineffective. All they checked for is that there were no records of the products being unsafe, and given that homeopathy is normally nothing more than sugar pills or sugar water there were unlikely to have been any safety issues.
3 min read, 505 words. Continue Reading...
Rival "health" bracelet sellers in NZ end up in punch-up
Categories: Skepticism , Tags: Pseudoscience, Magnets
An incident at the Hawke's Bay Better Home and Living Show has made the news because it made the courtroom. There were sellers of two different brands of health bracelet at the show, Shuzi and Zenteq.
2 min read, 279 words. Continue Reading...