Posts about Junk Science as of October 16, 2009

Copper bracelets and magnetic wristbands show no more benefit than non-copper/non-magnetic placebo devices for sufferers of arthritis. For an amusing look at how certain machines have evolved, see The Secret Life of Machines . Raider Nation in terminal decline ? A new biography of Thelonious Monk , reviewed in the New York Times . Video report on Barack Obama’s latest diplomatic coup . Mark October 31st on your calendar — it’s when Islam4UK is planning a rally and march from Parliament to No.

One of the pardners at the ranch here is managing an event in California, and he needed to track down some bottled water for the client. He stumbled across this one, which we Midwesterners found delightfully…er, um…well, I guess the only word we could come up with is “Californian.” H2Om water is billed as “water with intention.” Now, my first impulse is “Hey, that’s great, but I don’t want my water to have any other intention than to hydrate me.” H2Om explains further: H2Om is the world’s first interactive water.

Type the word “diet” into Google, and 281 million results pop up. At least, that’s what the number was when I sat down to write this article. It’s probably more than that already. There’s an entire industry built around weight loss. We’re bombarded with hundreds of diet books every year, each one promising an end to your weight woes. Please, save your money. I’m against the commonly understood idea of dieting—“magic-cure”––because the science doesn’t support it.

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( NaturalNews ) Prepare to have your world rocked. What you’re about to read here will leave you astonished, inspired and outraged all at the same time. You’re about to be treated to some little-known information demonstrating why seasonal flu vaccines are utterly worthless and why their continued promotion is based entirely on fabricated studies and medical mythology. If the whole world knew what you’re about to read here, the vaccine industry would collapse overnight.

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Job MarketFreelancing: A Career Choice of a Lifestyle?: An analysis of what it means to go it alone. Kind of on the “rah rah” side, but does present some solid advantages of ditching 9 to 5. (Among them: You can be there for friends and family when they need you).Economics/GeekonomicsRetail Sales Decrease in September: However, when you subtract the motor vehicle industry, there’s a tiny uptick, which may be an encouraging sign.Too Big to Fail: An in-depth look at the myth that some banks are too

Russia 2010 oil output to fall – Bernstein analysts London (Reuters) – Russian oil output will stagnate in 2010 and begin to decline as mature fields lose production capacity and only one new project comes on line, oil analysts at Bernstein Research said on Wednesday. Russia, now the world’s largest oil producer, pumped 10.01 million barrels per day last month, up 0.4 percent from the 9.97 million bpd produced in August, both record highs, Russian Energy Ministry data released last week showed.

Crazy papers about the destiny A top science journalist in the New York Times has written a bizarre article about a couple of even stranger preprints by famous authors – including an early co-father of string theory – that have argued that a mysterious fate guarantees that any attempt to build the Superconducting Supercollider has to fail, and any other collider similar to the Large Hadron Collider has to break as well in order for us not to find the Higgs boson because the Higgs boson is the God particle and God wants to protect Her own face.