Healthy skepticism

Healthy skepticism

To wash or not to wash?

The horror story that has spread through the media about the dangers of washing meat, poultry and mushrooms is the result of the illiteracy of Roskachestvo specialists.

11.09.2019

Healthy skepticism

The magic "ring of life"

Who benefits from localization of devices for rapid genetic diagnosis of infectious diseases lifering in Tatarstan?

09.09.2019

Healthy skepticism

Network Killers

They promise to cure cancer with diets, good thoughts and meditation. They are exposed, but the problem remains – they are believed.

24.07.2019

Healthy skepticism

NORI Protocol

Scientifically unconfirmed cancer treatment with a fruit diet, marketed by a self-proclaimed "specialist".

18.07.2019

Healthy skepticism

You can't buy the mind

An international group of experts found no evidence of popular theories about "pumping" the brain with the help of dietary supplements.

02.07.2019

Healthy skepticism

Fortune-telling on gene grounds

This is how medical geneticist Evgeny Ginter responded about the plans of the Ministry of Defense to determine the suitability for service in certain branches of the armed forces by analyzing genes.

10.06.2019

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Cloned Japanese

About three thousand genetically modified children are already in the process of training to work in factories.

03.06.2019

Healthy skepticism

Upside down

There is news on the Internet: "Sensational study: vaccinated against influenza spread flu by 630% more than unvaccinated."

23.04.2019

Healthy skepticism

The Finnish phenomenon

These hot Finnish guys. You don't know exactly what to expect from them. But this was definitely not expected of them. That's right, by the way.

15.04.2019

Healthy skepticism

Too good is also bad

The advice of an amateur of "alternative medicine" and a trip to the sea almost killed a 54-year-old Canadian whose kidneys failed due to an excess of vitamin D.

09.04.2019

Healthy skepticism

A patient without a head

Head transplantation is a favorite subject of science fiction films and scientific news sections.

29.03.2019

Healthy skepticism

Fountain of Optimism

Aubrey de Grey wonders why his confidence in the possibility of living a thousand years is perceived with distrust.

27.03.2019

Healthy skepticism

What is "release activity"?

The journal Antiviral Research has withdrawn two articles by Russian homeopaths about "Anaferon" and "Ergoferon".

01.03.2019

Healthy skepticism

They get mad with fat

Starvation is a new fashion among the richest inhabitants of Silicon Valley. Experts consider such "biohacking" extremely dangerous.

26.02.2019

Healthy skepticism

In the wake of the sensation

Another comment on the news about Israeli British scientists and their breakthrough innovation – a cure for cancer.

15.02.2019

Healthy skepticism

Israeli scientists "put to shame" British

The author summarizes the article about an almost ready-made cancer cure as follows: "the word "nonsense" completely exhausts the sensation."

13.02.2019

Healthy skepticism

Young blood: is it worth it?

According to Professor Mark Siegel of New York University, blood transfusion of young people is not only ineffective, but also dangerous.

07.02.2019

Healthy skepticism

Fake startups

The team of researchers, which includes the famous scientist John Ioannidis, claims that many startups can repeat the fate of Theranos.

01.02.2019

Healthy skepticism

Can we trust them?

The results of DNA analysis in the five companies differed markedly, and 23andMe did not recognize identical twins in the Agro sisters at all.

23.01.2019

Healthy skepticism

Fear Merchants

... like a divergence, it gradates itself along the back and there, inwardly, turns the matter of the question into spiritual electric vortices…

23.11.2018