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 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 →
Published on September 26th, 2014 | by Rayne
I’m going to update this list as often as I can to include the Facebook pages, sites and people who promote pseudoscience, conspiracy theories and dangerous quackery. If you see anyone link something from these sites ... Read More →
Published on September 25th, 2014 | by Rayne
One of my Facebook fans linked me to this article (entitled “Rejecting Modern Science“) from a blogger by the name of “Modern Alternative Mama”. The blog is a den of anti-doctor, anti-medicine ideals with a hefty ... Read More →
Published on September 17th, 2014 | by Rayne
Last post I spoke about the various ways in which the Food Babe has constructed her army and positioned herself as an “authority” on the subject of food (and chemistry, science and vaccines in general – ... Read More →
Published on September 9th, 2014 | by Rayne
The more I do research into how Food Babe operates, the more intrigued I become. My first post into the phenomenon that is the Food Babe spoke about some of the tactics I have seen by ... Read More →
Published on September 5th, 2014 | by Rayne
I’ve been thinking about this over the last while ever since discovering Food Babe and her followers. How on earth has she managed to create an entire movement based on Appeals to Nature and fear and ... Read More →
Published on September 4th, 2014 | by Rayne
I’ve wanted to do a post about a particular meme for a while but I accidentally deleted in from my computer. Having to go searching for it around the pseudoscience plague filled corner of the Internet ... Read More →
