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That Time When an AIDS Conspiracy Magazine Went Out of Business Because the Employees Died of AIDS
The universe may be indifferent to Human suffering, but it’s also unforgiving of Human stupidity…at least it used to be. Modern medicine has done wonders for the survival rate of Human beings, in many cases even going so far as
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Alex Jones Supplements Are Bullshit
In other news, water: wet, frog sexuality: undetermined. Following John Oliver’s segment about Alex Jones and his ridiculous-yet-dangerous nonsense, a hero at Buzzfeed named Charlie Warzel decided to send the supplements Jones hocks on his show–to his army gullible nitwits
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Don’t Get Burned by BS “Eclipse Glasses”
The solar eclipse is happening August 21st and people are cashing in… at the expense of your eyeballs. Without proper eye wear, you can easily damage the sensitive rods and cones of the eyes. And because your retinas have no
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NHS to Stop Paying for Homeopathy
It’s funny how running out of money prioritizes things that actually work. The cash-strapped UK’s National Health Service is looking to save £250m a year, and on the chopping block (finally) are medical treatments that aren’t actually based on evidence,
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Bullshit Killed Steve Jobs
And here you were thinking it was pancreatic cancer… What’s the harm? What’s the harm if someone believes in “alternative medicine”? That’s the question whined by idiots who think there’s nothing wrong with the multi-billion dollar industry selling powdered rhino
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Joe Rogan and SciBabe Team Up to Call BS on Chiropractic Pseudomedicine
Train by day, call BS by night… all day. Over the years, Joe Rogan’s podcast has seen its share of bullshit, and not just by virtue of his long time friendship with conspiracy nutcake–albeit Jiujitsu legend Eddie Bravo. Rogan has
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Vaccines Don’t Cause Autism, But Obese Moms Might
…although to be fair, no data exists to suggest a correlation between obesity and being an anti-vaxxer conspiracy nut. -ED First off, an admin note for our more… cognitively challenged[1] readers who follow us on Facebook: this study was undertaken
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Jocko Podcast Shout-out to Bullshido
Jocko Willink is a retired Navy SEAL, author, and leadership consultant who’s a part of what we like to think of as the “Onnit tribe”; a loose confederation of people in the health and fitness industries that are interlinked with
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Anecdotes Still Aren’t Evidence – Just Because Something “Works For You” Doesn’t Mean it Works
Sorry ’bout your cognitive deficiencies, bro. Melinda Wenner Moyer has gotten a lot of modern day hate mail–irate comments and messages via social media–right out of the gate after launching a column on Self magazine that addresses inaccuracies in health
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