Dr. Steven Novella's appraisal of last week's story about the dangers of chiropractic, especially when applied to the neck
http://www.randi.org/site/index.php/swift-blog/1734-bmj-articles-oppose-spinal-manipulation.html
Info on the damage done by chiropractic pseudoscience, from the What's The Harm? database
http://whatstheharm.net/chiropractic.html
An example of chiroquacktic, here in Minnesota:
http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2012/06/13/chiroquackery-in-morris-minnesota/
Geneticists have condemned the use of genetic testing to support ethnicism (because it sounds nicer to "racism", nowadays, even though it's exactly the same concept)
A Hungarian politician wanted to establish their 'ethnic purity'; more pertinently, they wanted to establish their lack of Jewishness. Yup, you could have guessed they'd be a Christian xenophobe!
Professor Joerg Schmidtke, President of ESHG, said on behalf of the Executive Board: "This is a gross distortion of the values of genetic testing, which is intended to be used to diagnose disease rather than to claim racial purity. In addition, the test proves nothing; it is impossible to deduce someone's origins from testing so few places in the genome. I am sure that clinical geneticists worldwide will join me in condemning this scandalous abuse of a technology that was developed to help the sick, rather than to promote hatred."
http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-european-geneticists-condemn-racial-purity.html
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21428694.600-60-seconds.html
The horrifically fascistic, nationalistic, xenophobic, homophobic, Christianist 'Jobbik' Party
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jobbik
Belief in ghosts. Harmless, right?
'Two teens killed in ghost legend game'
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2012/06/05/Two-teens-killed-in-ghost-legend-game/UPI-55491338925923/
The low-down on how anti-vaccination superstition's going on in Australia (the same as the rest of the world - they're risking millions of lives with their ignorance)
http://scepticsbook.com/2012/02/03/a-lesson-in-do-your-research/
How's this for embarrassing superstition?
The Animal Channel recently aired a program all about... mermaids. And yes, it was a 'factual' programme :D
http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2012/06/10/the-wages-of-pseudoscience/
'Victims In Psychic-Inspired Hoax Sue Police'
http://news.discovery.com/human/psychic-hoax-mass-grave-120612.html
'Measles Outbreak Kills Three Children in Narok' -- they insisted on using herbal 'medicine' instead of real medicine
http://allafrica.com/stories/201206030256.html
Son, 19, died of morphine overdose from 'natural' poppy pod. Natural does not mean 'safe' - it means 'dodgy'
http://thechronicleherald.ca/metro/103756-grieving-dad-warns-of-dangers-of-poppy-seed
The curious case of the Buddhists in the day-time...
'Mysterious Buddhist Retreat in the Desert Ends in a Grisly Death'
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/06/us/mysterious-yoga-retreat-ends-in-a-grisly-death.html?_r=2&pagewanted=all
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