Gullibility isn't in the dictionary's Miracle Cures, Health Quackery Articles

Prayer Does Not Heal

Religious faith won't stop you from getting sick and dying.

Stem Cell Fraud

Geeta Shroff claims miraculous healings via stem cell gene therapy.

Da Vinci Code Diet

Leonardo Da Vinci's Golden Ratio and Dan Brown's bestseller are the basis for a new fat loss dieting book.

Magic Herbs Cure Impotence

Men suffering from erectile dysfunction chase after herbal medicines.

Fundamentalism causes AIDS

Religious fundamentalists reject condom use and scientific treatment of people with HIV/AIDS.

Acupuncture = placebo

Chinese Traditional Medical cure is another example of the placebo effect.

The Amazing Magnetic Penis

Using magnetism to cure erectile dysfunction.

Wellness water

Bogus health benefits claimed for bottled water products.

Britney & Kava

Kava drink is an aphrodisiac and helps conception as well as enhances beauty.

Dr. Gene Scott has cancer

Lovable old fraud and television preacher Doctor Gene Scott has prostate cancer and faith didn't heal him.

Macrobiotic Madonna

Pop culture icons to follow the vetegarian Macrobiotic diet that was a fad in the 60s.

Homosexual homeopathy

Homeopath in Brisbane uses homeopathy as a pretext for seducing young men.

Sukyo Mahikari

Japanese religion used to treat cancer patients.

The Hallelujah Diet

Preacher-turned-diet adviser Hallelujah Acres North Carolina

The eternal quest for bigger breasts

Diagnosed with cyclomastopathy when she found it was difficult for her to breathe

Quack doctors in Hell

Medical quacks, bad doctors punished

Ayurvedic buncombe

Gullible Americans take up Ayurvedic medicine

Those amazing miracle supplements

Dietary supplements that claim to give you muscles, shed fat, bogus aphrodisiacs

Oriental elixirs

Oriental potions, lotions, TCM

Deceptive drug trials

Drug trials funded by pharmaceutical companies, loaded to generate the results they need

Bill collector in a bottle

Company claims spray will cause people to pay their bills

Muti: sangomas & inyangas

Traditional African health quackery, superstitious nonsense

Parents consult with fools, baby dies

Baby dies while parents talk to psychic frauds and naturopath quacks

NCCAM: bad science is expensive

NCCAM - taxpayer funded quack health science, junk miracle cures

Raelians claim to reverse aging

Raelian UFO cult makes silly scientific claims

Bottled miracles

Miracle amino acides, supplements, body building magazine trash

Duke MANTRA study: prayer doesn't cure

DUMC MANTRA study of the effect on prayer and healing, health

Snake Oil or Health Tonic?

FDA is often unfair to nutritonal supplement makers

Science and Pseudoscience in Clinical Psychology

Science and Pseudoscience in Clinical Psychology By Scott O. Lilienfeld, Steven Jay Lynn, and Jeffrey M. Lohr (Eds.) Guilford Press, New York. ISBN: 1-57230-282-1

The Lord is my dietician

What would Jesus eat? Nobody will ever know.

Miracle water can make you ill

Mircale water contains bacteria, not a cure

Your breasts are getting bigger & bigger

Breast enlargement by hypnosis

A combination of Weight Watchers, Alcoholics Anonymous, and est

Detox diets for gullible morons dieting.

North Korea cashes in on bogus cure

North Korean government and bogus medical cures.

Breast enlargement quackery

Bogus breast enlargement, fake tit enhancement, boob size fraud.

Human placenta beauty treatment

Human placenta beauty treatment - bogus medicine

Panacea: your own urine

Mucus, saliva, urine to cure SARS or any toxin.

Nutty naturopaths

Chris Mooney writings about naturopaths in Reason online.

Traditional Chinese acupuncture is archaic

Skeptical Inquirer report on acupuncture and Chinese magic.

Pseudoscience and health promotion

Pseudoscience and prevention therapy & therapists.

Herbal Sars cures in China

Chinese seek to cure Sars with turnips, ginger, silkworms, soup, cicada tea.

Anti-vaccination foolishness

Anti-vaccine lobby, anti-vaccination and God.

Urinotherapy

Gullible people drink their own piss: urinotherapy, another bogus miracle cure

Sex leads to 'love' illness

Tindzhaka illness from sleeping with unclean widow.

Boys' urine in high demand - for cooking eggs

Chinese gourmet cooking

Victory for dentistry over superstition

mercury amalgam dental fillings

Curing cancer with magnets

Zoetron Therapy Cancer Scams Magnet Therapy

Planting false memories

Recovered Memory Movement

If for no other reason, you might as well look into urine therapy just in case there ever comes a time on this planet when you can't get any food (or any good food) to eat, or any clean water to drink

Ordinary Tomatoes Do Not Contain Genes, While Genetically Modified Tomatoes Do