One of the more productive ways that the methods of science can be used is to look at the scientific process itself. A “meta-science” study (like a recent one published on brain scans) can help tell ...

Homeopathy is an alternative form of medicine that uses very small doses of harmful substances—which may cause symptoms in a healthy person—to treat those same symptoms in someone who’s ill. Some ...

The FTC is playing whack-a-mole with pseudoscience again, and this time it's targeting homeopathy. Their latest comments contend(Opens in a new window) (PDF) that the ...

It is, I think, evident to anyone reading his comments on my recent post that Dana Ullman adores my little ventures into AI. In order to please Dana even more, I tought of doing another, more focussed ...

There is insufficient evidence to support the use of homeopathy in food producing animals as a way to prevent or treat infectious diseases, reveal findings from a comprehensive review published online ...

Major retail pharmacies are facing legal battles over the practice of placing homeopathic remedies in the medicine aisle with the rest of the pills. While some customers may read “homeopathy” as ...

Well, that took a while. Five years after Ars' Chris Lee pointed out that the authors of a homeopathy paper were doing little more than offering up "magic" as an explanation for their results, the ...

Alternative medicine encompasses a wide range of medical practices and systems from cultures around the world. In the U.S., people use the term to describe practices that are outside mainstream ...