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The Bitter Pill
Is Saturated Fat Good or Bad?
By Rosemary Stanton
Populist TV, blogs and publications have portrayed saturated fats as healthy rather than dietary villains, but this is an oversimplification as it’s not valid to judge our complex dietary intake by only one component.
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Dodgy Tests and Dodgy Diagnoses
By Bruce Campbell
Lax regulation of complementary treatments is allowing alternative laboratories to peddle expensive and useless diagnostic tests.
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An EEG Only Scratches the Surface of the Brain
By Marko Petrovic
Chiropractors claim that “functional neurology” can treat conditions ranging from epilepsy and Alzheimer’s disease to autism and stroke, but the technology they use isn’t up to the task.
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Is Chemmart’s myDNA Test Right for You?
By Ken Harvey
The promises of genetic tests and treatments may be outstripping the science.
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What The Egg Industry Doesn’t Want You To Know
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The health claims of the egg industry rely on a red herring and a half-truth.
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Smoke, Mirrors and Nanotechnology
By Andrew Stapleton
Alternative health practitioners are quick to offer a variety of untested therapies. Nanotechnology is yet another in the list.
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The Needles Are as Thin as the Evidence
By Marko Petrovic
Practitioners of dry-needling swear by it, yet there is no evidence it will relieve your muscular aches and pains.
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Why People Believe Weird Things 101
By Mark Carter
A new university course is teaching students why normally sensible people believe weird things, and some of the tricks used by pseudoscientific practitioners.
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Does Chronic Fatigue Syndrome have a Neurological Origin?
By Leighton Barnden
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome may result from damage to a small but critical brain structure.
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Pseudoscience in Sport: If It’s Legal It Probably Doesn’t Work
By Marko Petrovic
Elite athletes are prime targets for emerging sham products that promise make-believe effects.
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