Exposing Pseudoscience

Is Alternative Medicine Killing Us?  Alternative medicine is prevalent in present society and also largely profitable. This ineffective and costly pseudoscience includes but is not limited to reflexology, magnet therapy, colon irrigation and as described by Penn Jillette “even though it might seem mainstream: chiropractic medicine” (Penn & Teller: Bullshit!). Complementary forms of healing are tempting to desperate or poor people, but alternative medicine is useless and can often time make an illness worse by prolonging actual treatment.     It is shared knowledge that over a century ago people used to practice the barbaric form of medicine called bloodletting which was the method of bleeding someone purposely until the so-called impure blood was drained. People in the 21st century would assume these ass-backwards forms of ineffective healing are in the past, but they’re wrong, DEAD WRONG, because today people have spent billions of dollars on useless shit that will suppos

3 Big Reasons Astrology is Pseudoscience  Astrology: An ancient pseudoscience practiced by modern people.  Astrology has been around for as long as humans noted the stars had patterns (as early as 25,000 years ago) and roughly 2,000 years astrology was in the same scientific category as astronomy. It was a respected science during the same era that people believed in leprechauns, spitting on a wound to disinfect it and psychological disorders were caused by demonic spirits. However, unlike astronomy, astrology hasn't changed much since that era of crack-pot science. While astronomy has accepted scientific discoveries about the universe, such as a round Earth. astrology still clings to the idea that a person's day, week and lifetime can be predicted based upon the position of the stars, moons and planets. For anybody who hasn't heard of astrology it is just as crazy as it sounds, but for those that have been indoctrinated with horoscopes astrology is a legitimate fi