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The Weekly World News, the supermarket tabloid that once claimed 12 U.S. senators were space aliens, is ending publication this month. But there are enough purveyors of pseudoscience, anti-science, and quackery to keep the following three Web sites in business.
Crank Dot Net* furnishes a taxonomy of crackpot Web sites. Erik Max Francis, a computer programmer in San Jose, California, rates the entries on how far they've strayed from reality. For instance, a page on the possibility that the sun has an unobserved twin merits only a "fringe" classification, whereas a site that dispenses advice on conducting diplomacy with aliens earns the highest ranking.
Volume 317, Number 5839, Issue of 10 August 2007
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Homeopaths, advocates of untested herbal remedies, and credulous reporters who promote them take a beating at British doctor Ben Goldacre's Bad Science blog.
Pharmacologist David Colquhoun of University College London hammers similar targets at DC's Improbable Science.
Although both sites have a British emphasis, the quackery they expose is often international.
Volume 317, Number 5839, Issue of 10 August 2007
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Homeopaths, advocates of untested herbal remedies, and credulous reporters who promote them take a beating at British doctor Ben Goldacre's Bad Science blog.
Pharmacologist David Colquhoun of University College London hammers similar targets at DC's Improbable Science.
Although both sites have a British emphasis, the quackery they expose is often international.
Volume 317, Number 5839, Issue of 10 August 2007
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