A self-described "genius entrepreneur" with a "coronavirus prevention pill" arrested by the FBI ("You take this pill once a day and you cannot contract the virus"). Televangelist Jim Bakker sued by ...

Quackery can be appealing because it's consistent with the American notion of freedom and individuality and resistance to control and dogma. And a major logical failing of the educated – although it's ...

Editor’s Note: Dr. Paul Offit is chief of the division of infectious diseases at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and author of the book “Do You Believe in Magic? The Sense and Nonsense of ...

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Amazon’s websites are hawking a universe of dangerous, pseudoscience health products — from electronic “zappers” that promise to cure HIV to bleach enemas for autism. That’s according to an ...

Thank you for your excellent comments concerning the best-selling book The Secret [“A Little Secret About The Secret” by Julia Rickert, June 1]. I find the amount of positive public response to such a ...

Elisha Perkins was reputed to be able to cure almost any kind of ailment with two small pieces of “magnetized” metal. A couple of centuries ago, his “magnetic tractors” allegedly drew diseases out of ...

A self-described "genius entrepreneur" with a "coronavirus prevention pill" arrested by the FBI ("You take this pill once a day and you cannot contract the virus"). Televangelist Jim Bakker sued by ...