Tuesday, August 28, 2012

Bill Nye the Science Guy: why Creationism isn't appropriate for children

Who doesn't love Bill Nye the Science Guy?! The wacky figure I remember from my formative years in the 90s is still spreading the knowledge and wearing his signature bow-tie.





Wednesday, August 8, 2012

Bad medicine: Dr. Oz continues promoting dodgy "radical cures" and pseudoscience



Doctor Mehmet Oz has become a household name of sorts since Oprah helped him land his own show. In that relatively short period of time, Oz has become one of the worst TV doctors out there, propagating bad information about supposed natural cures for cancer and new age 'medicines' which are said to treat any number of maladies, when they infact, do not. A recent episode entitled, "Dr. Mercola's Radical Cures," is made up entirely of this sort of nonsense, and goes to show why he earned a Pigasus award from JREF for the past two years in a row:
The Media Pigasus Award goes to Dr. Mehmet Oz, who has done such a disservice to his TV viewers by promoting quack medical practices that he is now the first person to win a Pigasus two years in a row. Dr. Oz is a Harvard-educated cardiac physician who, through his syndicated TV show, has promoted faith healing, "energy medicine," and other quack theories that have no scientific basis. Oz has appeared on ABC News to give legitimacy to the claims of Brazilian faith healer “John of God,” who uses old carnival tricks to take money from the seriously ill. He's hosted Ayurvedic guru Yogi Cameron on his show to promote nonsense "tongue examination" as a way of diagnosing health problems. This year, he really went off the deep end. In March 2011, Dr. Oz endorsed "psychic" huckster and past Pigasus winner John Edward, who pretends to talk to dead people. Oz even suggested that bereaved families should visit psychic mediums to receive (faked) messages from their dead relatives as a form of grief counseling.
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