Skip to content

Skeptical Science

Promoting Science and Critical Thinking

  • HOME
  • Reference
    • Getting Access to Paywalled Papers
    • Scientific Papers
      • Climate Science
      • Medicine
      • Psychology
  • Critical Thinkers
    • Dragon In My Garage
    • Cargo Cult Science
    • Evolution
  • Essays
    • Losing Faith In Faith – Dan Barker
    • Is Science a Religion? – Richard Dawkins
    • Religious Belief – Charles Darwin
    • A Letter on Religion – H. P. Lovecraft
    • Of miracles – David Hume
    • Bible Teaching – Mark Twain
    • THANK GOODNESS – Daniel C. Dennett
    • Religion Is Absurd – Christopher Hitchens
    • Of miracles – David Hume
    • Can an atheist be a fundamentalist? – AC Grayling
    • Imagine no heaven – Salman Rushdie
    • Why I Am Not A Christian – Bertrand Russell
  • Skeptical Bytes
  • Contact
  • About
  • HELP

scam

Disinformation King – Joseph Mercola

July 14, 2024August 4, 2021 by Dave
Joseph Mercola

Who is the greatest most prolific source of deliberate disinformation that is designed to deceive and manipulate? Joseph Mercola wins Gold

Categories fake news, Fake News, scam, Skepticism, society Tags disinformation, fraud, joseph mercola, misinformation 2 Comments

Solid Proof of a Miracle, an X-Ray – How credible is this?

August 2, 2021 by Dave
Nic Walker explains his miracle and presents proof

Evangelist Nic Walker popped up to present proof of a real miracle. He has X-Rays to verify a cure. Just how credible is this miracle?

(Hint: It’s not)

Categories Critical Thinking, religion, scam, Skepticism Tags miracle, nic walker, X-Ray 1 Comment

Goop cons the gullible with “treatments” for Long Covid

August 12, 2023March 3, 2021 by Dave
goop a very modern snake oil

Long Covid is quite distinctly real. The pseudoscientific nonsense that Goop offers to supposedly alleviate it is not.

Categories scam, Skepticism Tags COVID-19, GOOP, health, scam, snake oil, wellbeing Leave a comment

The SmartDot EMF Protection Scam

June 30, 2024January 20, 2021 by Dave
SmartDot

#SmartDot radiation-protection phone stickers – highly effective at removing money from your wallet … if you are gullible.

Categories scam, Skeptic news, Skepticism, society Tags EMF, scam, smartdot Leave a comment
Newer posts
← Previous Page1 Page2

Categories

Archives

Blogroll

  • Pub Med
  • SGU Forum

Medicine

  • Quack watch

Archives

Categories

Tags

abuse Arctic atheism belief blasphemy catholic christopher hitchens climate Climate Change CO2 conspiracy COVID-19 Creationism cult evolution fake news fundamentalists homeopathy human rights islam Ken Ham law mars NASA NOAA nobel prize Pakistan politics poll religion report right-wing Saudi Arabia science sea ice sea level study trump UK US vaccines violence weird weird religious news wingnut

Tags

abuse Arctic atheism belief blasphemy catholic christopher hitchens climate Climate Change CO2 conspiracy COVID-19 Creationism cult evolution fake news fundamentalists homeopathy human rights islam Ken Ham law mars NASA NOAA nobel prize Pakistan politics poll religion report right-wing Saudi Arabia science sea ice sea level study trump UK US vaccines violence weird weird religious news wingnut
© 2025 Skeptical Science • Built with GeneratePress
Go to mobile version