Empirical Senses
Untangling misunderstandings about the meaning of the word “empirical”.
Tag: Pseudoscience
CFIC’s Best Science Activities of 2021
2021 science – CFIC year in review
The “Scambra”
By Sandra Dunham Online bra sales must be big business judging by the number of social media ads I receive. Recently, I spotted what I thought might be the bra of my dreams. It looked so comfortable that I decided to invest a few minutes to watch their video. Apparently two “women doctors” developed this bra…
The Cost of Bad Science in the Agri-Food Industry
By Sandra Dunham Bayer is set to pay out $10.9 billion to settle a class action lawsuit from thousands of Americans who claim that their non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma was caused by the well known herbicide Roundup. Case mediator, Ken Feinberg, claims that this is the “wise” thing for Bayer to do, rather than “roll the dice in American…
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US to tighten rules on homeopathic “medicines”
Homeopathy product labelling in the United States might finally be held to account by the FTC.