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Sad to see that University of Westminster has set up Centre for Nutraceuticals to promote the largely fraudulent "wellbeing" industry.
#quackery #nutribollocks #pseudoscience
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University of Westminster celebrates world-first Centre for Nutraceuticals dedicated to vitamin and food supplement innovation 

The article is from a few years ago, but the problem still persists. The Robert Roberson case in Texas is a perfect example. "Everybody knows" that shaken baby syndrome kills kids. But the reality is that the science isn't settled. But it's painfully difficult to break the throttlehold that some things have on the court system.

We Need To Get Junk Science Out of Courtrooms
Forensic pseudoscience introduced into the courtroom has been used to convict and render death on people based on the thinnest of evidence.

Our supermarkets are peddlng a lot of junk food, no doubt, but when Bobby Brainstorm starts talking about "ultraprocessed" he's spewing pseudoscience. Put that creep on mute.

If you remove the light sabres, the telekinesis, and the pseudoscience fiction jibber-jabber, being a Jedi is one of the main fantasies that makes people fall in love with Star Wars. I don't know if it's just a male fantasy, though - choosing the good side against the darkness, showing restraint, selflessness, valour, and acute awareness of the living world. It seems to me it's about knowing right from wrong, be it being a Jedi, a princess, a smuggler, or a Dark Lord of the Sith,…

Why are all the "spiritual" people and other pseudo science quacks always talking about vibrations?
When I meet someone who believes that stuff I often try to ask them what it is that they believe is vibrating, but I've never gotten an answer.
I have a friend like this (I know they believe in astrology and telepathy, probably other things too), but I try to avoid this topic with them because as soon as we talk about anything pseudoscience-related it just turns into a…