It’s the #1 most common question I get: My wife, my friend, my mom, my boss, is investing their health or their money in some magical or fraudulent product/scheme/belief. What can I do about it?
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From http://skeptoid.com/episodes/4216
Today we’re going to take a collective look at all the conflicting warnings and exhortations we hear about what we should and shouldn’t eat.
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Today we’re going to let our dreadlocks down and take a rational, science-based perspective on a trend that seems, at face value, like just another nonsense hippie claim from the "anything natural is good, anything modern is immoral" crowd: The idea that we’d all be better off being barefoot. Whether you run marathons or give boardroom presentations, barefoot advocates claim that barefoot, the way we evolved to walk and run, relieves and prevents orthopedic injuries.
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From http://skeptoid.com/episodes/4188
Some very interesting student questions this week.
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