A company in luxury goods is selling its products with a lot of pseudoscientific nonsense. Celibrities and airliner KLM help promoting it.
Category: Bad Science
Does a green environment lead to less impulsive decisions?
The research led to nice headlines and answers to a desired image, but it is actually rather flimsy and contains errors.
Danish School Experiment with WiFi Routers and Garden Cress, Good Example of Bad Science
The foreign scientists who are enthusiastic about the study are all well known for spreading radiation fear.
Do patients of CAM-trained GPs have 15 percent less healthcare costs? Nope, myth busted!
The study of Kooreman and Baars doesn’t at all show that GPs trained in alternative medicine work more cost efficient, but the authors make us believe so using their press release and other public outings.
Ants Performing Statistical Miracle under GSM Phone Radiation?
A study showed that ants lose the ability of picking up visual and olfactory cues under influence of GSM radiation, but the figures look too good to be true.
The Stapel Fraud Anniversary and the Psychology of Meat
A year ago Diederik Stapel was exposed as a fraud. In the week before this announcement I had been analyzing his meat bastards research.
About the study on effects of the workplace smoking ban in the Netherlands and what is wrong with it
A Dutch study shows a significant decrease of sudden circulatory arrests after implementation of a working place smoking ban, but doesn’t explain the big increase before the ban.