Published on January 2nd, 2015 | by Rayne
How does one start a movement of people? Quite easy. Firstly you need a topic that isn’t very widely known and introduce it to a population of people who don’t have the training to understand how ... Read More →
Published on December 28th, 2014 | by Rayne
It hasn’t been a very good week for pseudoscience. First, there was the ruling by the Federal High Court of Australia which concluded that “Homeopathy Plus! Pty Ltd (Homeopathy Plus!) and its director, Ms Frances Sheffield, engaged ... Read More →
Published on December 28th, 2014 | by Rayne
The warriors against pseudoscience are well versed in the realm of the Food Babe. I, myself have done a few articles on the phenomenon of the Food Babe. I’ve spoken about the tactics she uses to ... Read More →
Published on December 27th, 2014 | by Rayne
The Bulletproof Diet. I came across this new nasty tasty diet fad recently via a friend of my wife’s. The Bulletproof Diet is like the lovechild of gullibility, laziness and pseudoscience wrapped up in a package designed ... Read More →
Published on December 26th, 2014 | by Rayne
Featured image found from Chow Babe. This month saw the release of a chapter of Food Babe’s new book The Food Babe Way. This chapter which is free on her website discusses alcohol, toxins and you ... Read More →
Published on December 14th, 2014 | by Rayne
My local shopping centre (shopping mall for my American readers) has recently completed a multi-million dollar upgrade. It has opened 100+ new stores (including a my favourite bookstore and new favourite sushi train) which unfortunately includes ... Read More →
Published on December 5th, 2014 | by Rayne
So I woke up this morning to find this in my inbox: I’ve saved this picture in my hate mail folder as “pencil”. Sometimes I take great pleasure in my hate mail but I am a ... Read More →
Published on November 28th, 2014 | by Rayne
No doubt you may have seen the following video circulating around social media recently. A Christian fundamentalist named Megan Fox – a self-proclaimed specialist in “exposing” liberals and scientists (apparently the two are one and the ... Read More →
Published on November 25th, 2014 | by Rayne
I’ve blogged for some time now and in that time I have accumulated a wonderful group of people who are dedicated followers of science, logic and reasoning. We share the same goals (to end pseudoscience and ... Read More →
Published on November 16th, 2014 | by Rayne
As my fellow science warrior readers know, I love learning. Learning kicks arse. It means I get an upgrade in knowledge and a downgrade in bullshit especially if someone corrects me. And today I have learned. ... Read More →
Published on November 16th, 2014 | by Rayne
Some of my readers may have seen this roll around on their Facebook news feeds lately, alongside that bloody Soursop hoax, this “new miracle drink” status has been shitting up my Facebook with its stinky bad ... Read More →
Published on November 11th, 2014 | by Rayne
Because I am a shameless self promoter sharing and caring person, as part of my trip down to the new age pseudoscience convention known as Woofest 2014 (actually the Mind, Body, Spirit festival), I decided that I ... Read More →
Published on November 8th, 2014 | by Rayne
I’ve never really touched on psychics in any of my posts. I’ve never really seen the point. Most reasonable, rational people can tell from the get go that psychics are nothing more than charlatans who are ... Read More →
Published on November 2nd, 2014 | by Rayne
Throughout my time in writing this blog, one thing is clear. You can fuck with pseudoscience and people will love you for it, unless you fuck with their pet pseudoscience, then apparently you’re a bastard. Obviously ... Read More →
Published on October 31st, 2014 | by Rayne
For reasons only known to the small dark arsehole-like part of my brain, I decided that going to the Mind, Body, Spirit festival (AKA Woofest) was a fantastic idea. Because a skeptic among people who believe ... Read More →
Published on October 22nd, 2014 | by Rayne
I was in my local Coles a few months ago, when I spotted magic water in the vitamin isle. I’d actually forgotten about the photos I had taken until recently. Below is a photo of the ... Read More →
Published on October 15th, 2014 | by Rayne
With the launch of Modern Alternative Mama’s new book “A Practical Guide to Children’s Health“, I was sincerely interested in reading what MAM had to say on the subject of children’s health. After reading and debunking ... Read More →
Published on October 14th, 2014 | by Rayne
The Science Babe demonstrates the uselessness of homeopathic “medicine” in the form of taking the entire box at once. If you like some of the things I say – feel free to add me to your ... Read More →
Published on October 2nd, 2014 | by Rayne
Out of all the pseudoscience, anti-science and outright science deniers I have met, anti-vaxxers are by far the most frustrating and disheartening to deal with. Fuelled by scientific illiteracy, conspiracy theories, fear and arrogance – the ... Read More →
Published on October 1st, 2014 | by Rayne
Sometimes I hope pseudoscientists consciously make stuff up to see how gullible people are. I do. I really do. I really hope people like Food Babe and Mike Adams are engaged in the worlds largest trolling ... Read More →
