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Topic: pseudoscience

Man wearing shorts holding genitals (Getty Images/peakSTOCK)

Tucker's "testicle tanning" quackery

Nicole Karlis
Betadine being poured into a metal vessel (BSIP/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Anti-vaxxers are drinking iodine now

Nicole Karlis
A man with a mouth guard shows a can of ivermectin capsules as he comes out of the pharmacy. (Rodrigo Urzagasti/picture alliance via Getty Images)

We got an ivermectin script in 3 hours

Nicole Karlis
Workers in the hand sanitizer bottling process in AGE do Brasil factory on April 6, 2020, in Vinhedo, Brazil. (Buda Mendes/Getty Images)

COVID pseudoscience suffocating Brazil

Shanna Hanbury, Kiratiana Freelon - Undark
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Survey reveals troubling anti-vaxx rise

Farah Qaiser - Massive Science
(Getty/PhonlamaiPhoto)

Fake science is just as bad as fake news

Chris Impey
In this July 25, 2014 photo, the owner of Stockland Grain Co. in Stockland, Ill., says this small bridge just west of town is widely used by farmers trying to reach the company's elevator. But the little bridge won't handle fully loaded trucks, forcing farmers to make extra trips and spend extra money. The trade groups that represent soybean farmers say bridges like this all across the country need improvement and they're hoping a campaign to focus attention on this critical piece of the transportation infrastructure they rely on will pay off with better bridges and a better understanding among government decision-makers of their importance to farmers. (AP Photo/David Mercer) (AP)

Alt-right soy boy conspiracy

Alex Henderson - Alternet
Jim Carrey; Jenny McCarthy; Rob Schneider (AP/Charles Sykes/Jordan Strauss/Richard Shotwell)

The worst celebrity pseudoscience

Paul Offit
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Jordan Peterson (YouTube/Jordan B Peterson)

Jordan Peterson's moment of fame

Jared Yates Sexton
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"Rabid dog saliva": Hot new remedy?

Keith A. Spencer
Kevin Williamson; Donald Trump (YouTube/AP/Carolyn Kaster/Salon)

Extreme abortion rhetoric fuels violence

Amanda Marcotte
(livespringwater.com)

Why the "raw water" trend is dangerous

Nicole Karlis
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Katie Holmes (Getty/Nicholas Hunt)

Katie Holmes has a "Secret"

Gabriel Bell
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Debunking sexist pseudoscience

Keith A. Spencer
Gwyneth Paltrow (Getty/Slaven Vlasic)

GOOP calls critics "dangerous"

Alessandra Maldonado
(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/g/Steve+Lovegrove'>Steve Lovegrove</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

Incest By Pseudoscience

Amanda Marcotte
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Here comes Shark Week

Lindsay Abrams
(Screenshot, The Dr. Oz Show)

Don't trust Dr. Oz

Lindsay Abrams
Dr. Mehmet C. Oz (AP/Lauren Victoria Burke)

Dr. Oz's Twitter Q&A backfires

Joanna Rothkopf
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