Health

Belle Gibson, BS Nutrition Blogger Busted for Scamming Followers with Fake Brain Cancer

And it gets worse than that. Much Worse. It seems that the most reliable way to make a quick buck these days over social media...

EU Scientists Blast Homeopathy and Alternative Medicine

“There cannot be two kinds of medicine—conventional and alternative. There is only medicine that has been adequately tested and medicine that has not... ” The...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

Bullshit Killed Steve Jobs

Instead of pursuing conventional treatment for his uniquely survivable form of cancer, Steve Jobs pursued "alternative" treatments, and had an alternative outcome: death.

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...

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...

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44 Gabe Pearlman on BJJ and Full Contact Training for a Meaningful Life

Gabe Pearlman is a BJJ Black Belt under one of the first Americans to receive a black belt in the sport, Tim Burrill. We discuss the role training in a full contact style plays in having a meaningful life at all ages, the differences between BJJ gyms, and the value of a BS-free training experience.

43 Dungeons and Dragons and Viruses

Dr. Jason Goldsmith (MD, PhD) and attorney Dante Bradley, join us to discuss the massive drama and BS in the... *checks notes* world of Dungeons and Dragons.

42 Matt Thornton on the Nature and Reality of Violence

Matt Thornton of the Straight Blast Gym is an icon in the martial arts world, and in particular, has been beating the drum about functional training even longer than we have. In this conversation we discuss violence, how it is an unavoidable part of the human experience, and how to ensure good men are better at it than bad.

3 Concepts to Get Your Thought Processes Jacked, not Hi-Jacked

Three concepts to help keep your brain from getting sand kicked in its face.