B.C.’s naturopathic college is promising immediate action against practitioners who make false claims and spread anti-vaccination disinformation after finding an “unacceptable” number of violations of its policies.
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Amazon Prime Video is offering dubious conspiracy videos
It won’t surprise you to hear that streaming services are full of documentary-style videos with dodgy claims about aliens or the paranormal. Amazon Prime Video, however, is coming under fire for offering considerably worse. The Telegraph has noticed that the service includes numerous conspiracy videos from widely discredited sources like Alex Jones and David Icke. […]
The right-wing media is pushing a dubious claim about Mueller’s case against Michael Flynn
Jonathan Ernst/Reuters The right-wing media has suggested in recent days that a new court order in the case against former national-security adviser Michael Flynn implies he will be exonerated soon. The judge presiding over the Flynn case, Judge Emmet Sullivan, has issued a similar order in every criminal case he’s overseen since 2009. Legal experts […]
A shadowy Russian tried to lure US officials into falling for dubious ‘kompromat’ on Trump
Thomson Reuters US officials paid a shady Russian $ 100,000 last year to re-acquire stolen NSA cyberweapons. But instead of delivering the hacking tools, the Russian provided unverified and dubious dirt on President Donald Trump. American spies tried to recover the cyberweapons during several meetings. But each time the Russian came back with “kompromat” on […]
Dubious claim of week: Air Force’s “EMP missile” could disable N. Korean ICBMs
Frying computers like a CHAMP? (credit: Boeing) On Monday, NBC Nightly News broadcast a report claiming that White House officials had discussed using an experimental weapon to disrupt or disable a North Korean missile launch. The weapon in question, the product of the US Air Force’s Counter-electronics High-powered Microwave Advanced Missile Project (CHAMP), uses bursts […]
2017 Dubai Motor Show Gallery | Dubious achievements and desert dreams
slide-7158798 Image Credit: Reese Counts Best and worst of the 2017 Dubai Motor Show. We traveled halfway around the world to Dubai to witness the debut of the new 755 horsepower 2019 Chevy Corvette ZR1. While that American monster may have headlined the Dubai Motor Show, it was far from the most interesting vehicle present. […]
Trump’s lawyer offered a dubious explanation for Trump’s bombshell tweet about Michael Flynn
Alex Wong/Getty Images President Donald Trump’s personal defense lawyer, John Dowd, claimed he authored a controversial tweet from Trump’s Twitter account this weekend. The tweet seemed to indicate that Trump was aware, when he fired former national security adviser Michael Flynn in February, that Flynn had lied to the FBI about his Russian contacts. If […]
A Biohacking Startup Is Selling Ketosis-In-A-Bottle, But The Science Is Dubious
Don’t want to fast to try the ultra-trendy, high-fat, low-carb ketogenic diet? A San Francisco startup thinks you should take a shot of its elixir instead — even though the science behind it is dubious, experts say. The supplement company HVMN (that’s Silicon Valley-shorthand for “human”) unveiled its newest product on Monday: HVMN Ketone, a […]
The Fed is putting too much faith in dubious economic models — and American jobs are at stake
AP Images Federal Reserve Vice Chairman Stanley Fischer has a curious parting message as the US central bank’s No. 2 official: Trust us. “I still believe we will have higher inflation,” Fischer told Bloomberg Television in an interview, despite the central bank’s record of having undershot its 2% inflation target for most of the economic […]
Dubious stem cell clinic got hold of smallpox vaccine. FDA just took it away
Enlarge / A syringe of cells prepared for stem cell therapies (credit: Getty | The Washington Post) The Food and Drug Administration just put dubious stem cell clinics on notice. The agency announced plans on Monday for new policies and enforcement efforts to stamp out what it called “unscrupulous actors” peddling unproven, potentially dangerous, and […]
