Saturday, January 29, 2011

Water Filtration Scams

You may have remembered this posting on scambusting a while ago ( http://scambusting101.blogspot.com/2010/07/taken-in-by-freebie-tale-from-anonymous.html ). Well it seems like we are not the only ones who have taken notice!
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/windsor/story/2011/01/28/marketplace-tap-water.html
http://www.cbc.ca/marketplace/2011/cleanwaterdirtytricks/

Walmart marketing Homeopathy

http://www.centerforinquiry.net/news/csi_and_cfi_urge_walmart_to_stop_marketing_homeopathic_remedies/

More FaceBook scams

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/21/my-total-facebook-views-scam_n_812410.html

Cure or Con. CBC takes on Homeopathy

CBC Marketplace takes a look at Homeopathy. It's a good in that it lets those uninformed about this scam, but I don't think it's hard enough to make that much of a difference.


http://www.cbc.ca/marketplace/2011/cureorcon/#readcomment

Common Conspiracy Theories

Just a small list of common conspiracy theories. Have fun :)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_conspiracy_theories#Development_of_weapons_technology

Quote

Richard Feynman on science "is what we have learned about how not to fool ourselves."

Wednesday, January 5, 2011

Sleights of Mind

I just finished reading this book. Even as a professional magician I was thoroughly enthrawled with the information it contained. The links to how we are scammed in every day life from psychics, vaccine deniers and ourselves is contained in this book. I highly reccomend it.


http://www.sleightsofmind.com/

Holographic Wristbands

An update on those PowerBalance wristbands. It would appear that they got into a bit of trouble.
http://gizmodo.com/5723577/powerbalance-admits-their-wristbands-are-a-scam

Lots about vaccines

Very interesting blog with some fine debunking going on.

http://www.vaccinetimes.com/

From Kat

From Kat on the Facebook Scambusting page
"Happy New Year! The virus aholes are at it again. If you see a post on your feed which goes like this: It's amazing i can see who deleted me from their friends list on New Year" w/ an http link- DON"T OPEN IT !!! A friend of a friend had his fb page hacked, his pswds changed, including his email, and it crashed his computer."

Teena Marie

While it is unconclusive, I found this line in the article ("But friends said she had stopped taking the drug because of its side effects and had switched to herbal remedies.") and is why I am posting it. In any case, this article does relay the importance of not abandoning certain medicines.


http://www.medpagetoday.com/Neurology/Seizures/24097

Nitrogen Filled Tires

Interesting. Would like to see the actual test papers.


http://www.randi.org/site/index.php/swift-blog/279-nitrogen-filled-tires.html